Re: [Epic] Another Epic40K vs NetEpic post :)

From: Mike Looney IONet <mlooney_at_...>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 12:27:29 -0500

J. Michael Looney wrote:

> 2) Pattons "Drive Across France" averaged about 15 Km a day. That was
> thought of as "lightning fast". That works out to, hmm about 150 meters per
> CD turn. In CD (and for that matter E40K when you get down to it), your
> speed is more limited by what the other guy is doing than in what the upper
> speed of your tank is.
>
For what it is worth I just looked (I got home and have the CD3 rules
handy), 150 meters a turn would be 3" movement. They slowest tank I
could find (French Lourd 2C, a 70 ton weird thing) has a speed 6" cross
country (hell, horse drawn carts have a speed of 8") Most have speeds
around 20", which, more or less is also what useful AT range is.

> 3) You think SM/TL is a serious wargame? The mind boggles. Even E40K is
> NOT a serious wargame. GW could not write a serious wargame on a bet. Let
> me rephrase that, GW would not write a serious wargame because serious
> wargamers are not their target. They write games to sell figures, not write
> games. In CD there are more German "units" than there are in all of the
> E40K universe combined.
Received on Fri Aug 28 1998 - 17:27:29 UTC