Re: [Epic] How to deal with artillery

From: Lorenzo Canapicchi <lcanapic_at_...>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:43:36 +0100

Adam R Blitzer wrote:
>
> Fellow Epic players,
> My usual opponent plays a force consisting of a space
> marine/Imperial Guard Mix. He basically uses the tanks and infantry of
> marines with the artillery and leviathan of the guard. He has taken an
> artillery company to count as his IG company which makes the force legal
> (I think- We don't have a copy of Armies of the Imperium). I play an
> Orcish Horde and am having a lot of trouble dealing with his artillery.
> It seems that dragsta shields are the only chance that I have of even
> hoping to avoid having all of my units blown up but I don't want to be
> cheesy by taking a ton of them. Does anyone have some strategies for
> dealing with artillery? I usually try to rush him which works with mixed
> sucess. My force has Goffs and a Kult to charge, Death Skulls with Land
> Raiders to Advance, and Bad Moonz with braincrushas and weirdboys to fire
> from a distance (this is usually his primary target).

I don't play orks, but some of my friends do someting like fielding lot
(LOT)
of infantry troops, placing command units so as to avoid direct barrages
(really annoyng), I don't know if this is legal, but they say works,
specially
if you are planning to use Gazzy.
 

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