>> Yeah, but I think a million points would be a good sized fraction of
>=
> the army's of the imperiom! Thats 142857 guardsman!(squads) 714285
>> act=
ual guardsman! To bad we can't get everyone on the list together,
>> find a=
really large table and do a million point game, we just might
>> have enou=
gh people to do it.
>
>Yeah, but with a sufficiently wide table, you'd need=
either trained mice
>or those sticks they have in casinos to push dice aro=
und. So we'd need
>a table about a mile long. Either that, or we could do=
some convoluted
>donut configuration. Coordination should be painful ("He=
y! Is
>everybody done placing orders yet?") Also, we'd be better off play=
ing
>second edition. A stand of guardsmen was 20 points back then; nowaday=
s
>it's 7.
We could play PBM! We devide the list into sides, everyone des=
igns a
50,000 pt army (we would need to decide the bad guys) and off we go.=
That wouldn't take more than a couple of years/decades. And it's
not movi=
ng that'd kill you, it's the fire phase...
Actually, it'd be kinda cool. =
We could field whole divisions of IG
and entire pre-heresy marine legions (=
alright, the blood angles arrive
this turn, all 10000 of 'em).
>Oh wait--a=
re we playing strictly Guard, or are we including Tech Guard
>and Marines?
=
>
OF COURSE NOT!!!!!! Mixing Tech Guard and Marines into a merely
million=
point army would be increadibly, inconcievably, revoltingly,
"we'll-hunt-y=
ou-down-and-put-a-bullet-in-your-brain-if-you-do",
CHEEEEEEESY!
I'd think =
it would Imperium and Allies against the bad guys! (Imp/tech Guard + Marine=
s +Eldar vs Chaos+Orks with the tyranids thrown in as a wild card.) I wond=
er if this entire list has a million points.
Deploy something like this.
T=
yranid | Allies |Chaos + Ork
The Last Alliance or Battle of the 6 Armi=
es. If we could pull it off I bet we'd get a mention in white dwarf.
(Wish=
I had that many guys. Probably got about 8K for E40K)
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"Your incorrect assumptions are threefold."
"You assume law=
still reigns in the Five Galaxies"
"You assume that we would be bound by p=
recedents and precepts from the last 10 million years."
"But your most inco=
rrect assumption of all is to assume that we care."
-David Brin, Inf=
inity's Shore
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