RE: [Epic] New Game Grumbles

From: Andy Skinner <andy.skinner_at_...>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 10:27:00 EST

>Boy, I never thought the Marauder looked particularly Eldarish. Yeah,
it'll
>work, but you get 0 points for style (in my book). Then again, it is
still
>a step above a cardboard counter.
I think it is the only one that doesn't look like a guy in
armor. Maybe I'm guessing the wrong name. But I like the
way it looks--futuristic and sleek. To be honest, I'd rather
it fit my own image of eldar (advanced aliens) than the GW
one. I don't really like the look of the Eldar titans. If
you like those, I could see you wouldn't care for the mech
I chose. Out of the stompers box, I was thinking I liked the
look of the Chaos dreadnaughts (maybe file off the skull)
better than the Eldar ones. As I said, I don't particularly
feel attached to GW's image of them. I'd even like to call
'em something else.

Although I do think I'd enjoy the game better if I thought
a bit more about the setting, I don't care that much whether
it happens to be the GW setting.

The Marauder (again, if I'm using the correct name) does have
three guns--one on each arm and a long barrel on top. I'd
either ignore that or chop off the one on top. That is,
assuming the Eldar scout titans have two weapons--I don't
know. I don't have renegades, and concentrate on marines
myself, with some branching to knights, IG, and Orks. But
the eldar are one of the armies easily customizable to an
advanced civilization in a more generic setting (with DS II
rules, for instance), and could be grouped with some
Renegade Legion tanks. (Any that aren't posing as Full
Thrust space ships, that is.)

andy
Received on Thu Mar 13 1997 - 15:27:00 UTC