Re: [Epic] Net Epic

From: Perrin Haley <phaley_at_...>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 16:58:46 -0800

Darn it Peter! You beat me to the reply! ;)

>> I don't think I like your pricing on most of the Eldar Titan weapons. From
>> your pricing scheme, a single phantom Titan armed with nothing except a
>> pulsar already costs substantially more than a phantom does currently armed
>> with 2 pulsars and 2 lascannon wings. While that second phantom is a cheesy
>> arrangement according to most people, that difference in prices is just
>> incredible here. It also seems a little strange that the Lascannon wing
>> costs more than 2 prism cannons, and the missile launcher wing costs the
>> same as one. With prices at these rates I don't think I would ever take wing
>> weapons. Hell, at these prices I don't think I would ever take Eldar
>> Titans, and currently I never play a game without them. I mean c'mon, for
>> the price I currently pay for a phantom titan, under this scheme I can only
>> field the worst possible armed Titan there is for the Eldar: 2 missile wings
>> and 2 power fists. What's up with that?
>
>
>I think you forgot to divide by two the total of weapons purchased:
>
>Example Phantom armed with one pulsar, wing cannon, miisle launcher wing
>and power fist costs 600 points (150 + 100 + 50 +300 =600/2, 300 points
>for the weapons and 300 for the hull). Any standard decent armed phantom
>will cost about the same it always had, the overpowered variant (double
>pulsar and wing lascannon) would cost 750 points (300 + 300 + 150 + 150=
>900/2, 450 plus 300 for the hull 750), which is only 150 points more
>than normal. Of course as I stated in the original posting we could just
>half the points cost and avoid any dividing at the end.
>
>As you can see an averagely armed titan is worth the same as it used to
>only any overpowered version costs more, but not exagerately so (2 Vp's
>more in case of the titan with double everything).
>
>Peter

        Perrin

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