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Joined: Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:00 pm Posts: 2277 Location: Suffolk, United Kingdom
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Quote (Legion 4 @ 12 2005 July,15:47) | Amen ! ?Not mention the 40k rules are lame and many of the players are "kids into bright shiny things" ! Just my opinion ... I could be wrong ! ? | Hmmm. I've been an avid player of 40k for nearly 6 years. I started on Eldar, went to Chaos, back to Eldar, then on to Space Marines (for which I developed my own chapter with intricate background!). I've started three other armies since then, but keep returning to the Space Marines and adding units.
My approach to 40k has always been very infantry based armies - and yet my IG and SM Epic armies are totally mechanised, loads of tanks!
I appreciate the gripes with 40k. Nowadays I find that Epic captures my imaginiation more than 'normal' 40k anyway. I think that, the bigger 40k gets, it seems less fun. So I've been thinking about adapting the 'Kill Team' rules from the current 40k rulebook and playing 40k as more of a skirmish game, than lined up armies, like it was originally.
I was reading one of the Eisenhorn books recently, and it struck me how cool and cinematic it would be to play a game where a small/single team of elite soldier-types takes on a couple of gangs/platoon/mob of bad guys, led by a big bad villain (and let's face it, 40k is at its most fun when it's played from a narrative rather than competitive perspective).
I've found that, as armies get larger for 40k, certain types of armies always win (e.g. those that get across the board and in to cc fastest). It's hard to have a truly 'balanced' army in 40k, whereas this is VITAL in Epic, one of the things I like most about it, you NEED to take a bit of everything sometimes!
Having said that, I still play 40k, and I will still collect my Space Marines, and generic Inquisition units (I've got a few squads of Storm Troopers, and have some Grey Knights, now putting together a Death Watch Kill Team, and plan to buy some Arco-flagellants & a penitent engine for an Ordo Hereticus twist when I fancy it). And I think there's little debate that some of the 40k miniatures are the best made for ANY wargames!
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