RE: [Epic] Rampage & a House rule

From: Kelley, Kevin J., JCS <kevin.kelley_at_...>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:30:48 -0400

Why not let the winning player remove the first unit and the loser the
second winnner the third & etc. ?
It occurs to me also that it is possible to have more casualties than units
in contact with the enemy. Not having my rules here..... surely it explains
that?
Kevin

> ----------
> From: Andy Skinner[SMTP:askinner_at_...]
> Sent: Friday, August 21, 1998 11:04 AM
> To: space-marine_at_...
> Subject: RE: [Epic] Rampage & a House rule
>
> > Woudl you apply this alternate unit removal to anti-tank fire, as
> > well? Or do
> > you just roll the handful of dice and the attacker takes all the
> > good stuff off
> > the table?
>
> That suggestion was intended just as a tweak to Elias' proposal for close
> combat removal.
>
> We've always played that AT fire was aimed--we declare shots before
> rolling.
> (By the way, Elias, who posted the suggestion I responded to, is one of my
> usual opponents.) Although I think that rolling dice and picking your own
> targets is the official Epic rule for CC, I've always assumed that AT fire
> had to be declared first. So the ability to pick your targets is a bit
> offset with having to declare them first.
>
> I wouldn't mind combining the methods a bit--I think declaring your
> targets
> and then remembering what you said while you're shooting makes things a
> bit
> slower. I've thought about treating AT shots as throwing one red (or
> other
> non-white color) die for each AT shot along with the FP dice, and treating
> the result as one greater than shown, but otherwise the same as FP: assign
> hits front to back, to the closest target you can hit. (I never really
> specified about blast markers.) Similarly, you could roll a red die for
> each AT shot and use the current 4+ for each red die, and also assign
> those
> hits front to back along with the FP hits.
>
> That restricts your choice of shots, and if there are a large number of
> infantry and you don't have much FP to hit them with, you may spend your
> AT
> shots at infantry rather than tanks. So I'm not crazy about that. We'll
> probably continue to let the firer pick their AT shots, but declare them
> before rolling any.
>
> andy
>
>
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