RE: [Epic] Plasma Anhilator

From: Miller, Chris <CMiller_at_...>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 10:14:02 -0500

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>"Miller, Chris" <CMiller_at_...> writes:
>> ----> "More expensive by a good bit" - 650 vs 600 ain't much difference
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> No, it isn't, but I'm not sure what you're talking about.
>Assuming I haven't been misreading it, 3 Stormhammers costs 500, and 3
>Stormblades costs 650. I'd much rather have 3 Stormhammers, a
>Techmarine, and 5 Sentinels than the Stormblades. (I hope I got those
>points right)
>
------> You may have cause I think I didn't. (and don't go mixing those
marine and IG support cards - besides, I'd already bought a
>techmarine...)
> I mention in another post we use a lot of buildings in our fights.
>Remember that the stormblade gets 2 of those 3+ to hit -4 save mod
>shots (if he's on first fire) which, even given the shorter range, I
>found to be a good deal. With the missiles, for one turn it can unleash
>7 shots at a 3+, all with at least a -1 save mod - good for wasting
>void shields, breaking units in one volley, etc. After that, it still
>has the 2 plasma gun shots plus a battlecannon. If you could position
>all 3 tanks to hit the same unit, that big 3+ volley averages 14 hits -
>shadowswords are looking at 2 hits, stormhammers have 6, etc. After
>that big blast, they're still better than shadowswords if the range is
>50cm or less (2 shots vs 1) but stormhammers are better still.
> I have nothing against sniper units like shadowswords, I used them
>all the time, but sometimes you need a lot of hits, not a few hits with
>big save mods, and they were better at that. My IG was usually
>accompanied by marines and titans, so the superheavies weren't at the
>top of the food chain all the time - they were usually defending an IG
>heavy weapons co and an artillery co, along with some beastmen and
>ogryn. If I wanted to reach out and touch someone, I used a titan or
>some bombards...
> Anyway, we're spilling a lot of ink over units that have warped out
>in the current version. I'll probably just be counting them as the
>"death-ray superheavies" and the missiles hanging all over them -
>"well, those are...uhh...target drones! yeah, target drones..."
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>> but the Stormblades were just handy against Chaos, Orks, Marines pretty
>> much anything I was dealing with at the time. As I mentioned, big tanks
>> had a short life expectancy in our games, so the one-shot firepower
>> wasn't as much of a downside...
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> With the life expectancies you mention, I'm surprised you can
>use them at all! They sound like your opponents can sit there and
>pick them off before they can get in range to do anything. How do you
>kill anything with a 50cm range and no maneuverability?
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>Mark
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>----> Short answer? -You Hide !
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> It was mainly a problem with Magnus the invulnerable shadowsword.
>Shoot him? Play a card. He shoots back - 1 dead superheavy. Annoying.
>The empire just didn' have as many handy psychic weapons to off him
>with as, say, the Eldar. After TL came out and titans cheapened up a
>bit, the situation was a little better, as were playing 8000+ point
>battles and he had plenty more to deal with, but if there wasn't a
>convenient unshielded titan to kill, he'd still pick of a superheavy as
>the next best thing. Also, with lots of buildings, and using them
>mainly defensively, they were good at what I was using them for...
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> Chris Miller
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Received on Fri Jun 06 1997 - 15:14:02 UTC