Re: [Epic] The return of Looney Rants!

From: Brett Hollindale <agro_at_...>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 22:09:35 GMT

At 01:30 PM 8/5/97 -0400, you wrote:
>David Lado wrote:
>>
>> >> 5. Plague marines in THWgunships- I land next to you, fart
>> >>(summon plague wind), and half your army dies.
>> >
>> >Yep, I'd be lookin' at limiting my oponants targets if I were you...
>> >Snapfire weapons help, although the invisibilty chaos card will hurt you
>> >badly... (Chaos is like that - scissors, paper, rock, plaguewind!)
>>
>> That's fairly impossible with some armies, particularly orks, which *must*
>> field their infantry companies. Of all the armies in the game, I disliked
>> chaos the most. They were all over-priced units balanced by increadibly
>> cheesy-annoying special powers.
>
> I'd hardly call the chaos cards 'incredibly cheesy.'
>At least half of them are useless or not very powerful, and
>another portion are only useful against certain armies (like
>the morale check cards, totally useless against marines, squats
>or the bugs). A handful are pretty good but hardly show
>stopping.
>
> And over-priced units with random kewl cards is better
>than under-priced units with random kewl cards (tyranids).
>
>> There was no strategy to chaos armies,
>> it was all playing tricky combinations of cards to produce devestating
>> effects.
>
> I don't agree with this at all. But then, I'm a
>chaos player so I must obviously know nothing about strategy,
>correct?


It's a valid point - anyone who thinks there is no strategy to chaos should
play it that way and get whipped a couple a times... It'll probably change
their mind!

Agro


>
>Scott
>shupes_at_...
>
Received on Thu May 08 1997 - 22:09:35 UTC