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2016/05/15 14:37:19
Subject: how have people played suppressing fire?
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Trustworthy Shas'vre
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I was wondering about suppressing fire, I was thinking about instead of firing normally, a unit could instead target an enemy unit within range of its (normal) guns to give them either -1 BS or WS (for each unit using suppressing fire) and force them to move as though through dangerous terrain (testing even if they have move through cover)
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2016/05/15 14:52:12
Subject: Re:how have people played suppressing fire?
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Ferocious Black Templar Castellan
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How does a squad of Guardsmen suppress Chaos Terminators? How does a Terminator suppress a Wraithknight? There's room for the idea, but there's also a lot of potential pitfalls.
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2016/05/15 15:02:01
Subject: Re:how have people played suppressing fire?
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Dakka Veteran
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The Almighty Walrus has a point about pitfalls. there would have to be some built in mechanic for resolving it so that it feels mostly proportional.
Maybe if the total number of wounds scored before taking saves is greater than the actual number of models in the unit, they count as being under suppressing fire?
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2016/05/15 15:16:24
Subject: how have people played suppressing fire?
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Tunneling Trygon
Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland
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Or the model being suppressed can choose to ignore it, risking being shot at in response, a bit like XCOM. Though the suppressing unit would have to get a malus to their shots resulting from this, otherwise aiming to suppress would pretty much always be better.
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2016/05/15 19:45:42
Subject: how have people played suppressing fire?
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Terrifying Rhinox Rider
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I assume all infantry are already suppressed and give them a bonus move in situations when they clearly are not.
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2016/05/15 20:09:15
Subject: how have people played suppressing fire?
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Foxy Wildborne
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Well, you can read through my thing for ideas. It's not really intended as a standalone patch for straight 40k, tho.
https://sites.google.com/site/potica40k/morale-effects
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The old meta is dead and the new meta struggles to be born. Now is the time of munchkins. |
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2016/05/15 20:45:17
Subject: how have people played suppressing fire?
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Hallowed Canoness
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Personally, I'd represent Suppressing Fire by giving units the option to shoot at -1 ballistic skill, but gain the Pinning special rule for that phase.
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