Re: [OFFICIAL] Salvo Missiles etc.

>I think the problem with GW isn't that they don't get it right at
first, but
>that they screw it up as  they keep adding rules to cover new figures. 
The
>new rules are necessary because GW isn't a game company, they are a
>miniatures
>company, and to get people to buy the new figures, the new figures need
to be
>more powerful -- or at least different -- from what is already out
there.	As
>a result, a ruleset that worked fine when the game comes out has some
many
>new
>parts bolted on to it that it begins to look like Frankenstein's
monster.
>The
>same thing happened, I am told, with 40k -- when Rogue Trader came out,
the
>Adeptus Astartes kicked ass, but by tyhe time the 40k box set came out,
they
>were average at best.

While I have to agree that GW's policy of the next miniature being more
powerful than the last seems prevalent, i used to play the origional
release of 40K.  If I remember right the marines were not truly awesome,
they regularly got a kicking from the Eldar.  It wasn't until GW decided
that 'Marines are Best' that they increase S and T, plus gave marines
extra
HTH and shooting capabilities that marines really began to truly 'Kick
Ass'.  On the other hand the origional rules for Terminators (WD 109 I
think) resulted in unbelievable powerful troops (jump packs, grenades,
tendril sensors, kitchen sinks, you name it the terminators had  it). 
What
the origional 40K did have though, was a greater sense of game balance,
sure some things were odd but a little tweaking and it was a good game.
The second version of 40k, the less said the better for me.

Stuart.

Stuart Murray

Department Of Molecular Genetics
Albert Einstein College Of Medicine
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