tastytaste wrote:I really miss the 10 hour games. Boy I loved taking 1 hour to go through the psychic phase!
Did you play the game with players who didn't speak your language or something? "10 hour games" and "1 Hour psychic turns" screams to me that you simply weren't doing something right. But, that's just a guess.
Things I miss about 2nd ed:
1) Variety. From Movement rates to demons to wargear selection. The game wasn't as genericized as it is now.
2) Sustained Fire dice. Weapons jamming should be a possibility.
3) Grenades that were actually dangerous.
4) Better Mission design.
5) Overwatch. I don't get the comments about Overwatch being a matter of both armies just sitting on Overwatch - it's kinda hard to complete your missions if you did that.
Still, there were plenty of ways to make Overwatch less "reliable", if that's an issue.
6) Lack of
FOW. I appreciate the
FOW, but I also prefer to have a bit more freedom in my army selection.
7) Better cover rules.
8) Save modifiers.
And so on.
Don't get me wrong - I do enjoy 5th ed. But I definitely miss 2nd, and overall, think it was a more characterful and hence fun edition.
-Mort
