Re: [Epic] Guard tactics

From: Ken Taborek <oberon_at_...>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 06:41:17 -0400 (EDT)

Any units left as Arty guard basically just sit around, untill they're
attacked by the enemy. If I can get my opponent to ignore my arty by
leaving an infantry screen in front of them, then they've already done
their job! And, this thread was started re: the tactic of splitting a
guard force into seperate units led by the 3 commanders, so they would be
in command.

--Ken Taborek oberon_at_...
"Show respect for age. Drink good Scotch for a change."- random fortune



On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, David Dresser wrote:

> Ken Taborek wrote:
> >
> > Ah, but in this game, simply having a line of troops between the enemy and
> > your arty is good enough to keep them from being close assaulted. So, you
> > fire the rear guard at the assaulting unit, applying your detachment blast
> > markers to the rear guard, leaving your forward unit to fire effectivly.
> > Then, regardless of the outcome of the ensuing close assult/fire fight,
> > you wipe the assaulters with your arty next turn.
> >
> > The cheese comes in when you consider that the rear unit probably hasn't
> > been fired at at all, and they're used to keep the forward unit firing at
> > peak efficiency.
>
> I still don't buy it. There's points worth of units sitting around
> doing nothing, they could be up front adding their firepower to the
> forward unit. It doesn't work until something actually does come in
> range of the rear unit, and you're basically wasting that part of your
> detachment instead of utilizing your entire force.
>
> (and it wouldn't work.. out of command units don't fire)
>
> I think the cheese here is just a side effect of the BMs only being
> subtracted from your FP when you actually fire. Getting to choose to
> fire the longer range units and reduce the shorter ranged ones is imo
> silly.
>
> -Lemm
>
Received on Thu Jun 05 1997 - 10:41:17 UTC