Re: [Epic] Barrage Templates

From: Andy Skinner <askinner_at_...>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 08:31:15 -0500

Philip Troy Routley wrote:
>
> The best way, IMO, to deal with placing templates for barrages and heavy
> barrages (but not mega-cannons, vortex missiles, cruuz missiles, etc - just
> the FP barrages) is to place 1 template for the entire detachment.
<snip>
> Cons: A player who is trying to space his detachment to minimise
> casualties, but estimates poorly and has 2 units within 6 cm does have
> those 2 covered by just 1 template, but by all of them.


This is the part that bugs me, though. If you space your detachments
to account for this, you are putting a lot of effort into defending
against something that should not be a problem. Not allowing templates
to overlap until the detachment is covered is a way to get a better
average density for the target detachment, but then you don't get
the ability to assign your artillery to really blast the clump that
_is_ together.

I still like doing the barrage template firepower separately, but
doing the blast markers along with the rest of the FP. Only things
under a barrage template could be killed by barrages.

andy
askinner_at_...
Received on Mon Jul 28 1997 - 13:31:15 UTC