From: SimonC@d... (Simon Campbell-Smith)
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 05:02:55 -0500
Subject: Another dumbass Q with dumbass Reply!!
Epic does work very well with DSII. I have myself been overwhelmed by Orcs as my ESU battlegroup fought to the last man. There are of course no official rules to convert Epic to DSII, but there are some posted at various sites (I can't remember which). However with a little imagination you can do it yourself. DSII and FT are there to be altered played with and modified to suit the games you want to play. GZG are not Games Workshop and do not dictate what figures you must buy to match this list and that. If anything I believe that (Please Mike correct me if I am wrong) but GZG have been under pressure to produce there background universe. The Wave gun replaces the dreaded Nova Cannon so loved of power gamers. None of the of the new system unbalances the game badly not even the Kra'vak. I will fly in the face of opinion by saying that a well balanced fleet of the human variety can whip the Kra'Vak. It is just a matter of tactics (Thats another posting folks!). Do go and buy More Thrust the rules are good the background stuff is really interesting! I would like to toss another can of petrol on the fire by saying that in general the GW purist I have met over the years seem to spend more time being rules lawyers than games players! The most vocal arguments at our club are between the GW players. Maybe I am getting old and bigoted myself but perhaps this is what makes this the friendly mailing list that it is! ---------- From: FTGZG-L[SMTP:FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk] Sent: 17 November 1996 20:00 To: FTGZG-L Subject: Re: Another dumbass Q > In message <B0000080256@urza.n-space.com> "Mike Wikan" writes: Sounds good, BUT... Does it make it like Epic, 40k or some other tabletop games in that the ship with the "railgun" or "supah dupah nuclear-kill-eze deathstrike missle" can waste almost any other ship in one round? Could someone (in private email mebbe) give me a rough (v rough; I'm not asking for the rulebook ;-)) idea of how some of these systems work. Especially the railguns. They sound cool. Would my Epic stuff work with the DirtSide II rules? I hear it sometimes does. If it helps, I have an Eldar and Chaos Epic force. > Mike Wikan