tzeentch666_at_... wrote:
> >This is friendly discussion, not a version flame. :)
>
> Oh, of course not :) <wink>
>
> <snip me>
>
> >That's funny, because it is the exact kind of argument that I've
> heard from
> >E40K supporters--that the new version is much more like a wargame
> than the
> >old.<
>
> <boggle> What kind of wargame would that be. Playing Epic40K I had
> visions
> of the old GI Joe cartoons dancing through my head. the little blast
> markers
> just made the image clearer. I can't think of a SINGLE 'hard-core'
> wargame
> that plays like Epic40K :)
> Maybe you mean it plays like a boardgame? <ducks>
>
Of the top of my head:Command Decision, Combined Arms, Spearhead,
Striker II, Dirtside II, & Harpoon
Granted in CD/CA blast markers are called "Pin 1/Pin 2" and if you get
enough of them you just die, not can't hit the broad side of the barn,
but more or less the effect is the same.
I will give you that the BM supplied with the game do look a bit
cartoonish, but the FIRST thing I did was haul out my smoke markers from
my micro armor box and away went the cartoons.
--
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Received on Fri Aug 28 1998 - 14:49:46 UTC