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Blarg, your post disturbs me. Not what you are saying per se but the air of defeat that hangs over your post. I think you are taking the Demolisher cannon thing waaaaay to personal. I didn't like the results either but I really couldn't come up with a better solution and ultimately the popular vote won out.
I'm not taking the Demolisher Cannon discussion personally, I still maintain my opinion and will continue to do so until someone convinces me otherwise. While you may not have come up with a better solution I feel I was able to, wrote it out in a post that I fealt addressed all of the pertinent issues, and watched as it was ignored and trampled on.
The real problem is that this isn't the first time I have seen this done in the years I have been posting about Epic: Armageddon. I participated in the AMTL list development very heavily, and watched a majority of my suggestions get ignored, twisted, or changed. And look what happened to that list: it has gone nowhere. The AMTL, home of the Imperial titans, the basis of the very beginning of this game 20+ years ago, is a disgusting mess!
My problem is that the Demolisher Cannon Discussion showed to me who is involved and how they are going to operate, and I don't like the situation. I can almost hear Patrick Stewart's voice saying: "We are NetE:A, resistance is futile, prepare to be ignored."
I've been involved with Epic for about 20 years. I've been involved in game development with other game systems. I have a masters of science degree in operations management. I have done exhaustive reading on national strategy, army strategy, tactics, and command. While I may not be top of form in regards to the fine details about Epic: Armageddon or the latest word in the ever-changing background of the 40K universe, I can see everything that is going on and realize that this NetE:A development is going to result in an ugly mess.
I understand that statement may offend some out there, but it is not intended to offend the people involved but the process. Yes, Net 2.0 and collaborative development are supposed to be the next greatest thing in Western society, but for any endeavor to succeed it must have good leadership. I have not seen good leadership regarding Epic:A development since I started posting to the old SG forums, and for that I blame SG/GW. Jervis has been an absent parent and Andy has not been up to the task, through no fault of his own. To complicate matters, effective leadership cannot develop to fill the vacuum because anything coming from some place other than SG/GW will lack the veneer of officialness that the gamers feel that they need.
It's only going to get worse. Epic: Armageddon is effectively dead for GW. Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead. They have cut off new product support for the forseeable future and have put forward a replacement: WH40K Apocalypse - Epic in 28mm scale. SG/GW will not do anything that will aid development of NetE:A because anything Epic will draw customer support and money from WH40K Apocalypse or conflict with GW's intellectual property strategy. If someone out there is holding out hope that anyone from GW is going to do anything that will help NetE:A in any manner I have a suggestion: put down the Kool Aid, back away from the table, and ask a friend to beat you until the pain makes you realize that official support from GW is gone and won't be back.
You want to save Epic: Armageddon? Cut GW out of the picture completely. Take the rules, fix them, strip out & replace any GW-like verbage with some other terms, and make the rules generic for 6mm sci-fi games. Conjure up "fan lists" for the miniatures from DRM, Baccus, GW, and any of the other producers out there. Call the whole thing 6mm Armageddon.
But since none of what I say is going to make an impact, I'll just go back to what I said earlier. I got what I needed for now regarding Epic: Armageddon, so I'm going to go off, put together my own set of corrected rules, put together my own army lists, and try to make it all so that my gaming group likes it. I'll lurk, look for any ideas that are good, post occassionally, and try to stay out of anything you guys do.
You guys have fun.
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