Re: [Epic] Eldar tactics

From: <duckrvr_at_...>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 15:25:04 -0600

At 01:34 PM 5/2/97 -0700, you wrote:

>Re: Spirit Hosters
>>If they are "supposedly worthless", then they aren't >_actually_ worthless,
>>and it's not a waste of firepower. I just don't see a slow moving spirit
>>host covering enough terrain to be dangerous to a slow moving Squat force.
>>The distance just isn't closed quickly enough.
>
>I usually use them as a close in FF base. Annoying to the enemy, very
>annoying to the enemy, yet killing them is not worth victory points.

But is not killing them going to give up more vps than you woul dlose by
targeting them instead of something juicier?

I could see that working. I usually use wraithguard to bolster some
scorpions or banshees, and the dreads as fire support (they're not that
good, but they are cheap and disposable).

>Re: Cannons of Khorne
>>>Lose a Titan to that nasty -4 save mod, and you'll stop laughing at them.
>>>I did. Those things, while unpredictable, have the potential to be the
>>>killing blow against a Titan of any army quite easily. That unlimited
>>>range is kinda nice too.

>Yeah, but nothing quite knocks down a building like a Cannon of Khorne.
>That -4 is pretty nasty. Means that I don't get in buildings against Chaos
>much. Between Magnus and the Cannons those things are death traps.

If they can hit. each one has a 1/6 chance of vaporizing, a chance of
scattering off the building, and average of 15/36 hits (call it 1/2) if they
don't do either. Then the building has a 1/3 chance of saving if you do
hit. That comes out to considerably less than a 1/6 chance of killing the
building. With 3 cannons I guess that's an okay chance, but nothing I would
run screaming in fear from.

>>He is decent for a GD (I said he was good), but I don't think he is the
>>best. I would put both the Keeper of Secrets and the Lord of Change above
>>him.
>
>Yeah, I like all three. (decent of course meaning you never see a game
>where he isn't around :P)

Well, I rarely field an army without him, but since I play mostly Tzeench,
and can take a 4000 pt, well rounded, all tzeench army that's no real surprise.

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Received on Thu Apr 03 1997 - 21:25:04 UTC