RE: [Epic] Re: Fliers

From: Crocker, Cyril <ccrocker_at_...>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 16:00:23 -0400

Size & time are not nessessarily to the same scale when it comes to any
turn based game.

-----Original Message-----
From: J Andrew Evans [mailto:m00ebg00_at_...]
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 1998 3:51 AM
To: space-marine_at_...
Subject: Re: [Epic] Re: Fliers


Thane Morgan wrote:

> Beller wrote:
>
> > :
> > Actually since the turns to scale in Epic are all of 12 sec long all
the
> >
> > refule rule represents is teh time it takes to get positioned for
> > another pass
> > :)
> >
> > > Where did you get that number? Considering an assault phase is
> > > supposed
> > > to represent an entire game of 40k, I think you may be incorrect.
> >
> > Me too, think of the speed of Khorne's cute little puppies, on march
> > orders, if the movement phase only lasted 12 secs!
> >
> > - Beller -
> > Faithful servant of the Hive Mind
>
> Lets see, roughly 1 foot per mm (tac marine = 7'). 450 mm = 450 feet
= 150
> yards. Seems pretty reasonable to me; a dog can run 150 yards in 12
sec
> easily. A man would be running 66 yards in 12 sec, which is also
pretty
> reasonable.
>
> Thane

I hate the blow the bubble but whoever started this simply scaled time
as well
as space. The Scale is 1/300 approx and therefore a 1 hour long turn
(in real
time scales down to 12 secs. (which is 1/300 of an hour).

A#
Received on Sun Sep 13 1998 - 20:00:23 UTC