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[Rules] Blast markers and suppresion with Marines
Chroma
 Post subject: [Rules] Blast markers and suppresion with Marines
PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2009 3:39 pm 
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So, this came up in a Marine vs Tyranids thread:

when I first started playing I didn't play the And They Shall Know No Fear rule correctly. I thought that in a formation of 4 Predators, 2 would be suppressed if I had 4 blast markers. I never thought to apply the BMs front to back and only start doubling them up on (and suppressing) marine units when I had more BMs than the number of units left in the formation. That little change alone really helped out my marine fire power.


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I've been playing it that it takes 2 BM to suppress 1 Marine unit. So when I have 2 BM on a formation, 1 Marine unit is suppressed.

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Nope, you still place BM back to front and don't start doubling up until you have a number of BM greater than the number of units in the formation.

2 BM on a formation with 2 or more units means nothing is suppressed.

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Er... Blast markers aren't "assigned" to units in any way... they "belong" to the the formation.

Normal formation: 1 Blast marker = 1 Unit suppressed.

Marine formation: 1 Blast marker = 0 Units suppressed.
                 2 Blast markers = 1 Unit suppressed.
                 3 Blast markers = 1 Unit suppressed.
                 4 Blast markers = 2 Units suppressed.

And so on.  There's no "assigning one Blast marker" or "doubling up" involved at all.

Seems we've got a debate!

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Dwarf Supreme
 Post subject: [Rules] Blast markers and suppresion with Marines
PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2009 3:49 pm 
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Quote: (Chroma @ 26 May 2009, 10:39 )

Marine formation: 1 Blast marker = 0 Units suppressed.
                 2 Blast markers = 1 Unit suppressed.
                 3 Blast markers = 1 Unit suppressed.
                 4 Blast markers = 2 Units suppressed.

This is how I've thought it worked.

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Evil and Chaos
 Post subject: [Rules] Blast markers and suppresion with Marines
PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2009 3:50 pm 
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I believe Dave is wrong.

The example quoted by Dwarf Supreme above is correct.




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nealhunt
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PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2009 4:07 pm 
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Yep.  BMs aren't "allocated" like hits.  It's just 1/2 the normal number of units suppressed, rounded down.

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