[Epic] Disrupts Idea

From: Greg Lane <greg_at_...>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 22:49:43 -0500

Some of my 'Epic' friends (truly BIG folk ... sorry!) and I have been
discussing the Disrupts (excessive) points we have touched on here
recently. We like Thane's groups' idea about not deducting from Morale
Points ay BM's in excess of the detachments total MP's. However, we
think this does not entirely cover the effects we would like to
recognize.

Our thought is that the larger the detachment ... more points also means
more MP's, the more BM's it can absorb before the suppression effect
starts to become a dispersion and disorganization effect. We are
thinking that once a detachment has as many BM's on it as necessary to
be equal to its MP's, then additional BM's would be converted to "hits"
or a unit destroyed. Our initial thought is to have every two BM's
convert to 1 hit. However, this could be a different ratio, more
variable and/or possibly race dependent. Our initial thought is that
the Defender would select the unit to be "hit" or destroyed ...
destroyed may be the better term, since we do not see allowing them to
select a unit with a "Save", at least as long as another unit was
available to be hit.

This seems to address the rules problem or 'cheese shop' issue of
excessive BM's causing a victory without combat.

First, what do you think of this idea in general?

Second, who would be willing to do some playtest to see what the correct
ratio of BM's to units destroyed should be and how the rule would work
in general?

Greg
Received on Thu Sep 24 1998 - 03:49:43 UTC