Legions Imperialis "Why the game is a mess?"

  I said its totally fucked system. Discord and FB groups rapidly shit themselves. 

            GW switches to inches, range no longer needs to be measured. They screwed AT up with this. A walking machine with battle ship sized weapons cannot shoot across the table, a city, and beyond. The guns on a battleship from WWII hit at 26 miles all day, every day. With no ranges is the problem. All you did was create a smaller larger version or 40K skirmish. The same effect with the change to inches.

            Which makes me happy and very sad. I am sad these individuals never served and have no real world understanding of how shit work. I am sad their math skills are .....don't exist. I am HAPPY for the same reasons. My sweet candy ass is and will be paid gross sums for making the world work as now I am sure the future nerds know less than fuck all. I am sad GW fucked this up so badly. Hell 80% is copied from someone else. How do you fuck that up? I am happy the scaling and new rules will have no effect on the game I love.

       Why metric is used. Other than making a tabletop a playable area. A base equals more dude than visible. It could be 1 to 5 or 1 to 8. It is a command element, not 6 stands and 3 rhinos, its more than what you see. A ZOC concept is applied. A certain sized command element exhibits an area denial. Also the command element occupies a certain amount of table area in relation to the whole table area. The larger the measurement size the larger the table area. 

        A great example is people playing with 40mm or 54 mm dudes. Each one representing 120-240 men. all while playing on a table used for epic.

Ground Scale

        Engage is 30cm. You move 15 and shoot within 15cm, = 30. Which means all effective small arms are full usage is within 30cm, or can reach out to. 

        Our M16s and fighters are ready at the 300m. You have to qualify at 300. The marksman engage out to 600m and snipers reach is, stick your head up. With this in mind 30cm equals 100-200m. Every cm then equals a ground scale of 6.6 meters. Every 5 dudes occupy 16.5 meters of ground (based on 25mm) and extend their zone of control for 33 meters. 

        Meaning if your sweet candy ass enters within 33 meters of them you will meet Jesus. Please understand your side arm a pistol is solid within 21 feet, 7 meters! 5 times the effective application of your pistol is Zone of Control. Which makes a standard issue rifle's range within belief.

       If we take just the Small arms listed as 15cm. A standard infantry weapon at 15cm reach out to 99 meters. Then the calculation of 6.6 meter per cm must be 13.2m per cm. Which corrects the ground pounders normal every day effective weapons platform's fighting range at 200 meters. A Space Marine's rocket launcher is 45cm = 594 meters. That is believable!

Scaling

        Now change all scale to 10-12mm, double in size. The company goes further changing cm to inches, a factor of 2.5. Ground scale goes all out of wack. Base size increases 5mm, 25%. Unless the number of dudes represented increases wickedly, ground scale is ok or no longer a part of the game. Time equal ground scale Vs distance as in all prior editions.

        Your engage range becomes 75cm, small arms 45cm--29, 18 inches respectfully. The game then has little difference between 40K and epic. Your fighting skirmishes, just at a larger scale (platoon level with epic being company or division level).

Terrain

        In Epic we always had a problem with city fighting or creating a city board. That was part of the game that we fought against. As one building was never one building. It was 2 or a small city block. Once you increase to inches a city becomes 1 or 2 buildings. Which would explain the very few buildings one gets out of the current AT terrain boxes.

Legions Imperialis Army list leaked

 

Confirmed the game is in inches. 

I am out. I am not play this shit. I ain't buying fuck all. I ain't TO-ing a motherfucking thing. GW eat a bag of dicks! AdeptiCon and Little Wars, Cold Wars, Fall In can all go find a TO.

This is totally 110% FUBARed. Inches? 

Ground scale changes by a factor of 2.5. There should be no ranges in the game. Every weapon should shot the table. An Abrams tank at 1/300th can shoot form home plate to first base. 

The mini scale also increase by a factor of 1 or 1.3. Yet base size increased by 20% or a factor of 2. Sweet baby jesus! How much smoke was happening when some person approved this shit?

    

Legions Imperialis updates pt IV

         The internet says pre-orders start August 5th. With the game shipping the August 19th.

        And a support box full of dreads, ground assets and not enough to form a detachment or completed more than two upgrades. I will guess its a 30-45 buck box. It would be awesome if its was 15-20 bucks!

Legions Imperialis updates pt III

 

        The latest update shows the Legion minis next to the current Epic dudes at 6mm. They are almost double in size. Legion will be Warmaster or close to Warmaster 12mm?

Epic at 6 Feet Under Epic gaming

 

        6 Feet Under moved. The new location is straight down 30 from my house. Its roughly 50 minutes to get there. All depending on 30. I do take 741 around the backside of the outlets. So I miss most the shit show.

        1st game was my Traitor Guard Vs Kal's Emperor's Children. I went with a bunch of Armored Fist platoon. Those were backed up by the Titans. The Company HQ and Tank Company ran together up the center. I won 2 - 0. T&H & Blitz

        Kal had a drop and Orbital pie plate for me.

       I knew I would take fight abuse in the list. They failed Kal all game. Only laying a BM here and there.

        I advanced slowly up the board keeping everything tight and supporting.

        The one terrible mistake. I get too hungry and gave up a Warhound. The Warhound take take up 2 activations and sucked detachments his way. Still I was down activations to start and giving one away was stupid.

        The drop came down in a bad place or situation. I had no BM, Inspiring, and outnumbered them 2 to 1. So it shot and I eat it.

Game 2

        Eldar is floats and jet bikes does not match up to a punch you in the nuts BAs. I was lucky enough to take the upgraded armor. Otherwise the game would have ended sooner. I broke him shooting turn one. I did not have the staying power for 3 turns. Then it all went side ways. Lost 2-0. DTF & TSNP.

The Road Heavy Rotation part I

 

        People and their vacations. People buying systems. All equals my sweet ass locked up until September. 5-7 weeks in Cali for the punch to the junk. 4 weeks at On. This will suck. But I do have time to prepare. The holiday weekend was a family time thing. I got some priming in before the weekend disapppeared.

    

            Short week after the 4th has me in the Courtyard. The lighting sucks but its 2k a night and double points so......

        I got a new guy with me. Not much got done while baby sitting.

Legions Imperialis updates pt II

 

        New Wolf titans. The originals were resin. We all know how great FW is at pouring resin. There is also the lovely part where their kits never ever line up. Oh and the parts were always warped and or twisted. Then there was getting whatever they used as a release agent off the resin.

        All solved. These are plastic kits. GW's lastest AI kits were easy. 

        I am not and never was a fan of AT. I have all the titans in metal. The chinaforge ones. I never saw the need to go plastic. These I would do. I like the look of them the most.

        From down under a screen shot? Leaked or made up. The prices are in AUS and not dollars, but dam. Ever with the AUS at 61 cents of a dollar. These would be 40-50 a piece. I will throw a flag. 3 super heavies and 6 predators and 2 spartans are all the same price. The numbers are not what I would expect for a detachment of each.

        If the prices are true or close to true. This will be one very expensive game. I would think the small add ons will be 10 to 20 bucks, about half the price shown.

            

        The big problem is any one can be printed for 3-4 cents. All the stls are available and free right now. A printer and liter of resin would be two of these!