RE: [Epic] Epic 40K Facts

From: Andy Skinner <andy.skinner_at_...>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 97 10:20:00 EST

Temp (quoting me):
>>I have not read it myself, but Paul said that pop-ups
>>only go up as high as "intervening terrain". I asked
>>for clarification, and he said they go up as high as
>>whatever they're hiding behind, and then can see whatever
>>they can see from there.
>
>What if they aren't hiding behind anything? Or should this be
interpreted
>as "just high enouugh to see teh exact target they want, and no higher?"
I don't know (I shouldn't be having this discussion--
I don't really know anything :-), but my guess was that
pop-up was intended for firing above cover you are behind.

Since other people have the game now, I'd appreciate someone
else explaining this. Could be that Paul got it wrong.

Here, I'll reproduce what Paul and I wrote a while ago:
Paul, quoting me, quoting Paul:
>> >Pop-ups do LOS from the top of the intervening terrian.... no more
"see
>> >everything"
>> I don't understand. How high they go depends on how high
>> terrain near them is? If 'S' below is the skimmer, does it
>> pop up just high enough to be a little over the building in
>> front of it? So what it can see depends on how close it and
>> the target are to the terrain (the building)? (Can see T2,
>> but not T1.)
>>
>> *
>> : +--+
>> : | |
>> : | |
>> S | | T1 T2
>> --------------------+ +--------------------------
>
>Yes.

Paul, quoting me:
>On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Andy Skinner wrote:
>
>[pop-up discussion]
>
>> Apparently I _did_ understand. :-) But this is a change, that
>> instead of going up as high as they want, they go just high enough
>> to get over their cover, then see what they can shoot at.
>
>Exactly... you do LOS from the top of the intervening terrain just like
>you normally do LOS for non-pop-ups. Oh, and incedentially all infantry
>and vehicles have 360 fire arcs... in fact you can turn your vehicles in
>place during the shooting phase to line 'em up. War Engines (titan and
>SHV class) cannot rotate, and all weapon systems have fire arcs.

That's as much as I know, or more. :-) So other interpretations
welcome.

andy
andy.skinner_at_...
Received on Thu Mar 27 1997 - 15:20:00 UTC