Re: [Epic] Guard tactics

From: Scott Shupe <shupes_at_...>
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 16:59:48 -0400

Mark A Shieh wrote:
>
> Philip Nixon <philip.nixon_at_nda.n-i.nhs.uk> writes:
> > Take an example where the IG troopers are 45cm away, and the
> > Ogryns are 40cm away, and I have 45cm guns. I shoot a bunch of times,
> [snip]
> >
> > that's why you take a few units of
> > screening troops you don't care about
>
> My example was only to show that Ogryns could not be used as a
> screening troops. In E40k, the screening troops *must* have less
> armor than the unit they are screening (after mods).

        The screening troops do not HAVE to have equal or
lesser armor, they are just less effective otherwise. In
the example of Ogryns & IG heavies (and assuming ogryns have
an armor of 5, I don't know what it actually is), only 1/3
of the enemy shots are going to kill heavies as opposed to
2/3. But obviously, it's better to block all the shots.

Scott
shupes_at_...
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