On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, James Flowers wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> Here's a couple of interesting situations we've come up with in the new
> E40K.
>
> MOVEMENT
> (Note: An 8x4' table is 244x122cm) Under March orders a detachment of
> Assault Marines in Rhinos could, at least as far as I can see in the
> rules, March 85cm (30cm tripled, less 5 for unloading) in the Rhinos,
> then move a further 55cm (10cm doubled for J/Packs, tripled for marching,
> less 5 for unloading), for a total of 140cm! Is this correct? Or are the
> +/- 5cm load/unload penalties applied to the unit's SPEED (it says
> MOVEMENT in the rulebook), for a total of 120cm (25cmx3+15cmx3)?
>
> It's not a major as Marching troops are vulnerable to return fire, but an
> interesting quirk we think.
You also cannot pass within 10cm of any enemy troops... and you can't use
cover and you get one worse column on the FP/hit dice table. Sure you
can go far, but why??!?
> Here's another one...
>
> FIREFIGHT/CLOSE COMBAT
> (Example: A unit with zero (0) Firepower is firefought by a unit with 1
> Firepower). The unit with 1 Firepower gets a modifier of +4 to its
> Firefight roll (Firepower 4+ times better than the target). Is this
> correct? We assume so (its just bad luck to get caught without support).
Yeah sucks to bring knives to a gunfight eh? It's correct.
> Here's another interesting one...
>
> SHOOTING/FIREFIGHT
> Calculating Firepower values you subtract the number of Blast Markers on
> the detachment from the final FP value. If you get to zero (0) or less do
> you treat the attack as having a minimum FP of 1 (the lowest rated on the
> FP table)? Or do you assume that the detachment has suffered so badly
> from supression that their fire is completely ineffective? We opted for
> the latter, but are interested in your comments.
You're blasted to heel and back and have no hope of organizing any kind of
return fire... yep.
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