GW 40K Off Topic (was: [OFFICIAL] Salvo Missiles etc.)

> At 12:08 PM 8/13/97 -0500, you wrote:

The point system was broken. I remember analysing the costs and finding that
in the average game the Orks could put out more bolter armed troops per point
than the marines. The problem was the cost of the power armour. Sure, it gave
a trooper protection from a vacuum, gases, etc. but in most games that was
never a factor yet the player still had to pay the point cost. You could buy
something like 20% more Orks than marines for the same cost, yet the troops
were almost identical in all other respects (marines had a higher WS, while
Orks had a higher T). My analysis showed that Marines were a bad buy. Instead
of fixing the point costs, they tweaked the stats, thus beginning the upward
spiral.