Re: [Epic] Epic 40k from WD207 (LONG)

From: <oki_at_...>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 11:47:37 +0800

At 01:28 PM 2/28/97 +1000, you wrote:
>>THE TURN
>>Both players get to move and fight in the same turn rather than alternating
>>like WH and WH40K.
>>In each phase, players draw a counter from a mug or cup to see who has the
>>initiative and gets to act first (or second). The cunning part is that
>>although they are only four phases, five counters are placed in the mug -
>>three for the side with the best strategy and two for the other side. As
>>counters are drawn for each phase they are kept out of the mug until the end
>>of the turn, so an early run of the luck in gaining initiative means you
>>won't be getting it later ! (This part I do not quite get it)
>
>So if I understand this correctly, the army with higher strategy (ala 40K)
>could effectively win 3 out of 4 initiatives and is assured of 2. Sounds to
>me the this strategy will be just as important (and silly) as the 40K manner
>of initiative.
>

But the phrase used is "phases" as opposed to "turns". From above one can
interpret it such that a turn consist of 4 phases. But that is just my wild
guess and my "do not quite get it" part :)



>>As well as inflicting casualties, we wanted detachments under fire to be
>>slowed down and disrupted. This is because in real life (and in WH40K) being
>>shot at tends to force troops and even vehicles to stop and seek cover. To
>>cover this we came up with the idea of placing markers to show when
>>detachments are under fire, and as a homage to WH40K we called them blast
>>markers.
>
>Gee and this is from Stargrunt. Suppresion counters = blaster counters. Heck
>they've even taken the leadership check to do things while under fire. And
>just one point, since when in 40K does being shot at affect a figure at all?
>Except for outright killing them, they are unaffected in returning fire.
>
Maybe he is referring to Overwatch. Troops on overwatch must take Ld test
when fired upon, otherwise they will lose their overwatch mode.

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Regards
Oki
Received on Fri Feb 28 1997 - 03:47:37 UTC