Re: [Epic] Epic 40K Facts - SH Weapon Fire

From: The Ogre <the.ogre_at_...>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 04:00:52 -0800

Farley, James wrote:
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> >
> >
> >Farley, James wrote:
> >>
> >> "Super heavy weapons can be fired at any target within range, so, for
> >>> example, they can pick out individual targets within a detachment."
> >>>
> >>> [ Page 31 ]
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> >>> This seems to be an exception to the normal closest dies first rule.
> >
> >>That seems a bit powerful and well, cheesy as it were.
> >>What do you think?
> >>As the marines their main tank will no doubt be the Land Raider that can
> >>pick of your rather expensive commanders on a roll of a four or more,
> >>regardless of what armour you have.. That seems not very nice at all.
> >>And the only tactic avaiable to me to stop things like that is hide the
> >>guy, or stay out of range. Which is a bit hard with a 60cm Death Ray....
> >
> >Yes, I think it can be cheese. You can pick off troops that in the old
> >system you could not tell from the rank and file solders. Any kind of
> >special character (or vehicle) will be destroyed first leaving just the
> >cannonfoder left.
> >


There is actually a way to avoid this in the rules :

This is that your units do not block your line of sight.......

Enemy units do...

So SH Weapons _can_ shoot any unit in the detachment, but the thing is,
unless it has a clear line of sight to the commander, or whoever.
So the cheaper units in the front to get in the way still applies for
avoiding SH Weapon fire, which is damn useful thank the godz.

Laterz
Received on Tue Apr 01 1997 - 12:00:52 UTC