Re: 40K to SG2

Please check out my conversions, I even did TO&E's  for company sized
units.
They play very well.

http://www.cvzoom.net/~jerrym

Jerry

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom McCarthy <tmcarth@fox.nstn.ca>
To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 10:01 AM
Subject: 40K to SG2

>I've tried a few of these conversions.  Some observations:
>
>1) Try to draw straight line parallels.
>    Assume Stargrunt troops are roughly equivalent to Imperial Guard
(IG
are
>regulars with basic battle dress and FP2 AP D8 rifles).
>   Make Space Marines wear light slow power armour, and Termnators wear
>heavy slow power armour.  Make jump packs fast power armour.  Marines
are
>definitely veterans to the IG regulars.
>   Make vehicles like dreadnoughts, as vehicles.
>
>2) Change the psychology.  Stargrunt is a game decided by its model of
human
>psychology on the battlefield.  Space Marines don't have that same
>psychology.  They aren't pinned, they don't use cover, they are easy to
hit.
>They don't carry wounded, nor do losses particularly phase them.  Play
>around with this.
>Marines also don't have the same command structure; definitely limit
who
can
>transfer actions or you'll have too many chiefs and hyperactive
Indians.
>Maybe no communications; must be within 6".
>
>3) Looks for the loopholes and try to reasonably plug them.  Marines,
for
>example, have no dedicated anti-air weapons or guided missiles in 40K. 
By
>SG2 rules, they can't hit or target any airborne vehicle.  In 40K, they
can.
>Either say they have targeters in their PA to track air targets, or
include
>a few guided missiles in their normal missile launcher kit.
>
>