[Epic] Those Super Heavy weapons - long (winded)

From: Andy Meechan <a.meechan_at_...>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 97 12:53:52 gmt

     
     The case of the Death Ray Imperial Warmachine (I hesitate to use the
     words 'superheavy tank') was to show that it would be nullified by
     only one blast marker. As it was pointed out that the tank also has a
     2FP secondary weapon, i'd just like to add that I was assuming the
     tank would be firing between the secondary weapon range (30cm?) and
     the Death Ray maximum range (45/60cm?).
     
     The point was that the SH weapon doesn't, I believe, get affected by
     blast markers to prevent silly situations like:
     
           Reaver w/3 Death Rays (bear with me here) and 3 blast markers
           cannot fire.
           
           reaver w/3 HWBatteries and 3 blast markers has it's FP reduced
           from 24 to 21 - no big deal.
     
     So why can 3 blast markers affect similar titans in such different
     ways? They can't - SH weapons are unaffected by blast markers.
     
     Another example would be a Land Raider and two Devastator stands which
     have 2 blast markers on them. The detachment would have a FP of 2 (4
     for the devastators -2 for the blast markers), how would you work out
     the Land Raider's firing? Do you allow the BMarkers to be 'absorbed'
     by the detachments FP? Do you penalise the SH weapons seperately (i.e.
     not allow it to fire)?
     
     I believe the LRaider cna fire no matter...
     
     So why am I banging on about this? Well, believe it or not, I need to
     know how the SH weapon is affected because of the potential for rules
     abuse - 11 Land Raiders can wipe out a Reaver in one firing phase, but
     the Titan cannot return the compliment - nor reduce the number of
     shots from the LRaiders under the rules! So please, if you can point
     to the place in the rules where it says SH weapons don't get
     penalised, please do - I can't find them (and don't believe the
     detachment's FP reduction covers them).
     
       o
     -Andy-
     
      
Received on Wed Apr 16 1997 - 12:53:52 UTC