Re: [Epic] Land raiders

From: Aaron Day <akkala_at_...>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:23:06 -0500

Rick Biesik wrote:
>
> According to the battle bible and core rules the anti tank shots (land
> raider) have the same effect on infantry as on vehicles, granted it could
> be some type of futuristic plasma shell it should not have the same effect
> on infantry as vehicles. Anti tank projectiles (ex.sabot) are generally not
> high explosive, so to wound or injure directly (not shrapnel) any
> personnel would need to take a direct hit (a bit of a waste 1 shell = 1
> casualty ,unless the targeted men stand in a row behind each other). So
> realistically it should not effect armor and walking targets the same.

GW put the Anti-tank shot in the game as a way of converting the old
save modifier from SM/TL to the new FP based system. Several weapons in
SM/TL had such a high save modifier that the armor of the target was
unimportant. This problem migrated from SM/TL which has some a really
unbalanced To Hit/Save system which made SM as vunerable as IG infantry
and gave IG lasguns too great a chance to kill tanks/vehicles.
Received on Fri Jul 10 1998 - 15:23:06 UTC