RE: [Epic] Land Raiders

From: Andy Skinner <askinner_at_...>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 12:34:57 -0400

> leaves, at most, 21 Land Raiders per company. Now, when creating a Space
> Marine force, do you really think that you would risk half of your supply
> of your best tanks in ONE battle?

This kind of argument doesn't work well, with Space Marine fluff. Any Space
Marine army (just Space Marine, I mean), is risking a large fraction of the
chapter in one battle. :) (But I don't worry too much about fluff. :)

> Sure they have huge tank columns rolling over the enemy,
> but what about those massed troop companies??

They didn't seem to have that in mind so much, with the extra cost of
command for that sort of detachment. (Though I like the
main-force-also-available-for-support idea of IG infantry detachments.)

I'm still using a Space Marine army, plus (occasionally) titans. After much
more painting, I'll start on some IG, and I'm sure I'll use 'em together
sometimes. Unfortunately, the way that seems to make the most sense for
combined SM and IG forces (small number of SM for some specific task) gets
suspicion for being taken for the strategy rating. Oh, well.

(It isn't hard to get the impression that GW likes Space Marines. :)

andy
Received on Fri Jul 10 1998 - 16:34:57 UTC