(Moscovian @ Oct. 20 2006,14:15)

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Wouldn't that unbalance them severely? (Imagine getting 33 attacks at 5+ with three Monoliths!)

(Ilushia @ Oct. 21 2006,05:41)

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From where I stand, as someone who's only seriously played Titans in Epic, but who's watched some of the other races fight Necrons... I'd honestly say that the one bit I'd most like to see changed about the Monolith is making War Engines count as only one enemy for purposes of it's number of attacks. Considering that I've seen a Monolith wind up stuck in against an Ork Mob where in it killed like 3 orks, but got inside range of the Great Gargant (I think it was a Great Gargant anyway) and ended up getting a ton of extra attacks off the gargant which turned the tide, even though it's attack rate against the Orks themselves wasn't enough to seriously damage them. This really doesn't feel right to me. The basis for the +1 per unit in range is that the Monolith has a bunch of small gauss-flayer style weapons set around it which can lash out at all surrounding infantry/tanks effectively laying down massive fire-power. But isn't very good at firing a lot of shots into just one target as much as rapid-firing shots across many targets at once. Effectively it can fire a lot of shots not because it's weapons fire really fast or it has tons of them, but because they have a full 360 field of fire and can effectively bring full-strength shots against EVERY unit in range. Hence, a chance to kill each unit individually.

I'd like to see them restricted to just +1 attack when fighting war engines. But that's just me. I think over all the fact that they're 5+ to hit makes them OK against most enemies... A 'uge Ork formation only has 30 ork bases in it at start... Even if you got all 30 in range you're looking at 10 hits, and that's about the best formation you're likely to find to do that with... Having multiple monoliths supporting you is fine and dandy and hurtful, but you're essentially stranding your monoliths at least for a little while when you do this (Personally I've not seen more then one, occasionally two, monoliths involved in a single fight ever... And it really doesn't strike me as a good way to use the army. Sure there's a good chance to totally obliterate whatever you hit... But what's the point when it takes 3/4 of the mobility of your army to do it?)

(Pipboy @ Oct. 21 2006,17:01)

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Wouldn't it be easier to just note that all the +1 atacks from infantry targets must be applied to the infantry and all the +1 attacks from the WE must be applied to the WE? That way the Necron player still gets to count all his attacks/kills for combat resolution but would prevent the wholesale destruction of an infantry uit who happened to be too close to a friendly WE.