On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Jason Stephensen wrote:
> Just this weekend while I was chatting to fellow club-members while playing
> epic we got on to talking about the new bits from epic97, even the scale of
> the guns. After pointing out that the new titan weapons had a max range of
> 60cm, one guy replied "well at least their getting the scale right now", we
> pointed out that this meant that titan weapons (if the scale is true) which
> are the biggest guns on the battles field can effectively fire 200meters.
> Now that would just be silly.
If you're looking for a little rationalization (I also like some "realism"
in my games) consider that the ranges in Epic are the effective ranges.
Take into account all the smoke, jamming, confusion, and general state of
technology in the 41st millenium perhaps the weapons can fire much farther
than listed, but you're not really going to hit anything until you get
within effective range. Thus weapon systems with extra targeting
capabilities or fire large area effect bombardments (Artillery, Ordinatus)
can get the super long ranges.
Oh, and for the record 5cm in Epic40k = 8" in WH40k.
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Received on Mon Mar 03 1997 - 03:54:09 UTC