going to try SGII

I finally got the rules for Stargrunt II.  My sympathies to KR for
having to put up with a distribution system that allows for him to have
lots, while people in some places have trouble finding the games.  (And
thanks for patiently explaining it to me while I waited for either a
store or mailorder to get it in stock.)

My wife agreed to try out the game with me tonight.  I'll definitely be
going for the basics, and I'm sure will leave stuff out.  As I've
mentioned before, I'm going to be trying to do this with GW's epic
minis, mounted individually on washers.  I'm looking forward to having a
battlefield setup in one end of the kitchen table.  :-)  Plus, one box
of plastics goes a long way.  The problem will come when my eyesight
gets too bad to see the things.

About how much should I weight powered armor troopers against regular?

I'm planning to do something like the following.  Note that although I
play GW's epic games (currently Epic 40K), I do not play 40K.  I am
influenced somewhat by what GW says things are, but am not specifically
trying to reproduce their stats.

Space Marines
I guess this would be a platoon.  (Not too familiar with military
terminology, either.)

I'm saying that their boltguns are advanced assault rifles (2, D10), and
that the support weapons are D10 D10.  (Not sure I understand this
yet.)  Heavy PA have storm bolters, which I'm calling (3, D10).

All are slow PA.

Command Squad
Commander (Epic chaplain fig) + 3 marines + 2 support marines
(devastators)
small arms FP 2, I D10	   support (2 of 'em) D10 D10
Leadership 1 or 2, Elite

Light Powered Armor Squad
Sergeant + 3 marines + 1 support marine
small arms FP 2, I D10	   support D10 D10
Leadership 1 or 2, Veteran or Elite

Heavy Powered Armor
3 Terminator marines (hmm, gotta make 1 the sergeant) + 1 robot
small arms FP 3, I D10	   support D8 D10
Leadership 1 or 2, Veteran or Elite

Questions:
Can an individual figure have both a small arm and a support weapon? 
Can he shoot both in an action?  For instance, the robot fig looks like
it has two weapons, and I was going to say it had one support weapon and
one equivalent to the 3, D10 weapon carried by the termies.  Can it add
both to a shot?  I suppose this would be too much for a regular infantry
grunt, and I don't see any special rules for what Powered Armor can
carry.	The Devastator guy seems to be doing all he can to hold his gun
up, so I'm not allowing him to do it.  But can powered armor with
multiple weapons shoot different weapons in one action?

These guys will be facing Imperial Guard epic troops.  I haven't worked
them out yet, but I'm picturing squads of a commander, 2 heavy weapons,
and 5 grunts.  Small arms are 2 D8, support D8 D10.

If the Space marines showed up with the command squad and either two LT
PA squads or one LT PA and one H PA, how many IG squads as shown above
would I need to roughly balance it out?  I'll give them some robots, too
(similar to SM one), maybe 3 in a squad together.

I'm looking forward to adding in the Sentinels some time (size 1
walkers), but not until I've understood the vehicle rules.  I've got
some plastic dreadnoughts that are a good bit bigger than the robots,
and I guess they'll be size 1, too.

thanks,

andy

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Andy Skinner
askinner@avs.com