Re: [Epic] Converting Heavy Weapons Troops

From: Thomas Lee Denney <seether_at_...>
Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 11:44:31 -0500

At 08:10 PM 5/5/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Thomas Lee Denney wrote:
>
>> To who ever came up with the idea of taking the heavy bolter from the robot
>> and using it on the older marines, that we all have a ton of, THANKS!!!! I
>> messed around with that stuff today, and with in half an hour I had 12 new
>> troopers with heavy bolters.
>
>A REAL Heavy Bolter is to be found on Chaos Squats. But the conversion,
>cutting it off and sticking it on, would be difficult, to say the least.

Actually that's the regular Squats that have the heavy bolter, but why
mess-up a good Squat when you can disassemble a useless robot. And the one
on the Robot is a real heavy bolter too if you look at them close enough.
 
>> I was wondering one thing about what pieces to put on the stands. I know
>> that when I rebase my stuff, my tac. stands will be all tac. troopers, my
>> heavy stands will only have one heavy piece as opposed to two and my
>> assault stands will only have one assault guy and the rest being tac.s. Do
>> you think this would fly at an event, or would these not be allowed? I
>> really don't care, but am just curious.
>
>Hmmm. In a friendly, Heck yes, no worries. But in an event, I'm sorry,
>but it's unlikely. The Assault stand may be OK, but the others not. This
>is because in E40K the standard seems to be Heavy Weapons = 2 (or more?)
>HWs to a stand, Normal = 0-1 HWs to a stand, so there is the potential
>for confusion.

But are you basing this on the guidelines in the getting started book from
the new Epic 40K, or from some other source? If so I'd like to know where
cause then maybe I'll do it like that. But if it's from the getting stated
book, then I consider the guidelines there to be just that, guidelines,
unless G.W. is going to publish standards for all of the units. Hell, my
old Terminators were only 4 to a stand.
>
>> One more thing. On page 34 of Armies, the space marine detachment list has
>> three different types of commanders you can choose from to lead your
>> detachment. I just want to make sure I have this correct. You can either
>> choose one of the stands from the main force to be an HQ and pay 25 points,
>> or you can buy an additional stand that represents the captain for 25
>> points. And on top of that you can also buy a Chaplin in addition to that
>> stuff. Is this correct, or can you only pick one of the three?
>
>Almost.
>
>You can:
>a) Add no special units at 0 cost
>b) Add a Captain, at 25
>c) Add a Chaplain, at 35 or whatever
>d) Add both a Captain and a Chaplain, at 60
>
>But in ALL Cases, you must then add +25 for command points.
>
>So your total cost in each case is a)25, b)50, c)60, d)85

I don't think you can buy all three, can you? I think you have to buy some
form of HQ, which is pay for one of the stands in the detachment to be the
HQ or buy a separate stand, or buy a librarian. I guess what I'm wondering
is if you can buy an HQ and a librarian for the same detachment. I'm
thinking you can only choose one of the three though.


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