RE: [Epic] [E40K] Revenant survivability

From: Jeff Schmidt <jschmidt_at_...>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 12:11:59 -0600

>I'd have to say from experiance that 12 hits is closer to the correct
>figure. In one battle where I had a strong suspicion my opponent was
>going to take 2 Revenants, I bought a detachment of 6 Deathstrikes to
>counter them. In the first turn, I prep-barraged them, scored 11 and 13
>hits, he saved all but two on each, and both died. Point for point, I won
>that exchange, but lost the battle anyway. :-/
>

It depends on how you stagger your hits. True, if you pound away in one
salvo with 12 hits, that should do it in on average, since you are assuming
'simultaneous' hits and the holofield dropping early on in the salvo means
nothing to hits later in the salvo.

However, if you take each hit seperately, and not as part of one salvo, it
averages out to 7 hits. Seems that Eldar titans are much better against
massive strikes.

Besides, you cheated -- deathstrikes are not artillery, and therefore
cannot prep bombard. Well OK, maybe you didn't cheat, but you did break
the rules. :)

>--Ken Taborek oberon_at_...
>"Show respect for age. Drink good Scotch for a change."- random fortune
>
>
>
>On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Jeff Schmidt wrote:
>> Anyway, in my experience the Revenant has a survivability of around 7 hits
>> on average, since the penetrating one will usually drop the holofields for
>> you, allowing just one more to make it go boom. Of course, when I'm
>> playing Eldar,I'm usually in the presence of a strange probability field
>> that biases my results to the 'inconvenient' end of the bell curve... ;)

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