Re: [Epic] marine command ?

From: Thomas Lee Denney <seether_at_...>
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 10:52:18 -0500

At 09:21 PM 5/6/97 +1300, you wrote:
>On Tue 06 May, rob wrote:
>> as a newbie i have a coupla of newbie questions.
>> i am talking space marines here.
>> when you choose a unit (stand )to be the detachment hq do you get any
>> special bonuses or do you just pay an extra 25 points for it being the
>> command unit? if there are no bonuses whats the point? discourage small
>> detachments? why not just build the cost in?
>>
>> second question:when you drop pod or thunderhawk a detachment into
>> battle does it matter to chain of command that the supreme hq is more
>> than 30 cm away.
>> how could you possibnly avoid that?
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>You get no bonus for the HQ, unless you upgrade it. The point
>of HQ is that all units have to be within 30cm of their detachent HQ
>at the start of each turn, to be able to move or fire during that turn.

That's at the start of each phase of the turn, not just at the begining of
the turn.
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>If you don't land your HQ in the first wave troops transported by
>Thunderhawks they be out of command the next turn. See adove for
>the effect of being out of command. The troops who are off board
>and are unaffected by their HQ being more 30cm away from them, see
>page 46 of the rules.
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