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Joined: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:44 pm Posts: 1891 Location: Katy, Republic of Texas |
I guess it can be a negative, it can also be a spacer that delays needing to make a move until the opponent commits to an action. However, what I would primarily be concerned over is that if you never have a unit on CAP, then you are unable to prevent someone from performing a ground attack on you, unless your AA is really good...which I have been less than impressed by to date. Player-IG with Thunderbolts on CAP. Player-BL takes notice of his own FLAK formation umbrellas. He notices how close the Thunderbolts will need to get in order to get their AA shots in range of the helltallons. Player-BL activates with Helltallons for ground attack vs. IG formation Regimental HQ. He position's his approach and makes sure he keeps his BL Helltallons in such a way that the Thunderbolts will have to enter the Chaos Flak umbrella of 3 shot Obliterator ground formations! The Helltallons do not fire after they've finished their approach... Player IG with thunderbolts now says "CAP!" and approaches for intercept due to CAP, but does not fire... Now, plane movement - resolve, last in, first out... The IG plane was the last thing to move... so it is dealt with FIRST (Thank you CAP)... 1) BL ground flak fires at the Thunderbolts with AA. IF the Thunderbolts survived... 2) BL Helltallon now fires at the Thunderbolts with AA. Now - the IG response... 3) IG Flak fires at the Helltalons Again, if the Helltallons survived (and their are still Thunderbolts around...) 4) Thunderbolts CAP attack on the Helltallons Again, if the Helltallons still survived... 5) Helltallons ground attack vs. the Regimental HQ. In disengagement, both can again be shot down. You'll notice it was the BL player that controlled the field though. It was not the CAP player that controlled the field. The Black Legion player can be very coy about how he sets up his AA and then ground assault causing the CAP to trigger. Therefore, CAP is a very bad proposition in many if not MOST cases. That's my take anyway Honda, |
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Joined: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:44 pm Posts: 1891 Location: Katy, Republic of Texas |
Got it. I'll leave it as is... _________________ Honda "Remember Taros? We do" - 23rd Elysian Drop Regiment |
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Joined: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:44 pm Posts: 1891 Location: Katy, Republic of Texas |
One of the things that gets removed when you play against yourself is the element of surprise. One of the reasons I didn't move the Stompa's up front early is that I was fairly confident that what was up there could handle the Elysians (although in hindsight, that may have been a little assumptive), and that if the Ork Blitz objective was open, I'd drop one of the troops on it. So against someone else, they may have wanted to push the Stompas across the bridge early, which if I played the scenario again I might as well, but then that might have left them a little more stretched out on the road and leave the Blitz open. As the Ork player, things I would have done differently is get everyone on the road and tripled up the road and started fighting "ala Russian" deep into the Elysian side of the board. That might have meant getting the Stompas on the bridge to hold it and leave the mobs to cordon and assault around them. Hard to say, but definitely a fun scenario to play again, which I'll offer to our Ork player once I get my Elysians painted. _________________ Honda "Remember Taros? We do" - 23rd Elysian Drop Regiment |
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Joined: Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:39 pm Posts: 1974 Location: South Yorkshire |
Thats assault hits not combat resolution hits . check this post (jervis' reply is the fifth post) http://forums.specialist-games.com/epic....ID=6661 |
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So... its on its way to making it into the FAQ and is at least in the official FAQ log of entries to be added to the FAQ, Cheers, _________________ Rob |
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Joined: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:44 pm Posts: 1891 Location: Katy, Republic of Texas |
As I am good to go for this Wednesday, why don't you see what kind of Biel Tan list you can put together. Shoot for 3000 points, no aircraft. Does that sound good? @Dysartes Thanx for your feedback. I'll use the big three + SW for primary testing. _________________ Honda "Remember Taros? We do" - 23rd Elysian Drop Regiment |
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