So, I've been a long time fan of Epic and similar scale wargames(Flames of War, for instance), and I have always loved the background of the game(I was mostly a fantasy player, but I did field soem tau and experimented with a lot of other armies). And I've got a bunch of friends who have enjoyed FoW and Warhammer, and I think I'm going to arrange a little event with my local gaming group and run through the basic teaching scenerios in the rule book.
Assaults are kicking me in the tail right now. Well, maybe not, but I have questions! Fortunately, I have diagrams too, so maybe this will be easy!
Ok, in this image, two blue marine formations have single out a single tactical company. The unmarked blue tactical company double-moved, dismounted and fired at the red marines in the building. With the penalty from double moving and targets being in cover, the didn't get many hits, and those were saved. But they put a blast marker on the Red Marines.
Side Question 1: ATSKNF, that marine special rule about blast markers, means that 1 blast marker really doesn't do anything to a marine formation, right? It doesn't suppress a unit, and it doesn't count against the unit in the assault, right?
In any case, the Yellow Company retains the initiative and engage the red marines. They ride up, get droppe out of their rhinos and assault the red marines.
The Red marines could counter-charge, but don't. The dismounted red Tactical marines can't really reach anything with a 5cm move. However, I guess their rhinos could move out to get in range to lend their fire fight to the coming assault.
Side Question: When is an enemy unit "contacted" during counter charges? If enemies end in their Zone of Control?
How do you handle situations where a unit can't get in base to base, but can get into Zone of Control? Do they stop at the edge of ZoC and firefight, do they stop at Zoc and do nothing, do they move closer, but then do nothing?
Anyway, so combat happens simultaneously, right, barring special rules like First Strike? So, in this case, the 6 Tactical marines and the 3 Rhinos can use their firefight to fight. The red Rhinos neither have range, nor line of fire to the assaulting Yellow Company.
Rolling attacks: Do I have to roll attacks individually, or as a unit? Particularly, if some of the defending units are outside of the range for some of the attacking units, does that mean that I have to roll those attacks individually?
Next, Supporting fire: The unmarked blue company can lend supporting fire. Do casualties from this count as inflicted in the assault when working out the result, or do they just kill off models, which could influence outnumbering?
Anyway, I'm looking forward to getting a group of guys to play epic, love it and get hooked.