One of the things that I'm finding increasing dissatisfaction with in my games are the buildings rules. The original rules were designed pretty much with the original Space Marine buildings in mind (the cardboard ones with the plastic rooftops) which are fine but when you start using much larger buildings there are a few problems; I have Battlefield Designs excellent range in mind since I own them but these problems apply equally to the Titan Legions flimsy cardboard efforts.
1) units in buildings - with the original rules you placed your infantry on top of the building, pointing out on a particular side which you declared to your opponent. Simple and effective. But once the buildings gets bigger, do units have to be on an edge or can they hide inside the building, most likely for objective sitting?
2) for the largest buildings one failed save seems too flimsy to bring the whole building down.
3) 5cm move anywhere rule; again, this is fine with smaller sized buildings but when you have buildings which are 20cm+ it becomes problematic.
4) with Epic being a more abstract system, is it fair or realistic to limit a unit to being able to fire out only as many troops as can fit along a building edge? For example, a building may only be wide enough to accommodate 3 stands firing out from one edge but surely a squad of 6 stands would all fire out of the same side by placing themselves on different floors of the building?
So here's what I suggest;
1) units must sit on a building edge unless they are making their way through the structure directly towards enemy forces. They may not deliberately camp to avoid enemy fire.
2) If there is insufficient room to place stands down one edge of the building, you can place as many stands on the building as it can hold and nominate all of those stands to be firing out of a particular edge as required.
3) when a unit expends 5cm to enter a building, it move up to 10cm into the building. Anything further will require additional movement cost as normal. If a unit ends its move inside the building, normal movement will be required the following turn to pass through the building.
4) units which end their move inside a building away from an edge may only be targeted from above by fliers, or barrages which either have a LOS to the unit on the rooftop or are guided by a spotter which has said LOS. Flame template weapons may also be used to attack units concealed within a building
For example; a Devastator unit on charge orders approaches a vast cathedral, using 12cm movement to arrive at the building, spends 5cm to move inside but can move 10cm into the structure but this does not take them to an edge; they use their remaining movement allowance to move 3cm further forward but still are short of a building edge. While away from the edge they are only vulnerable from attacks from fliers, barrage weapons which have a spotter that can see where the unit on the rooftops or flame-effect weapons. Next turn the Devastators use their advance order to move the remaining 7cm to a building edge and can fire / be targeted from/at the building edge as normal.
5) mega-structures can soak up more damage than standard buildings. To represent this, these buildings can survive 2 failed destroys buildings save. A third failed result will result in full collapse as normal. In addition, when such a building fails each of it's first 2 failed saves, all units inside must make a basic save to survive. Units without a save will do so on a roll of 6. Special Weapons like Warp and Vortex missiles will inflict D3 automatic destroys buildings failed saves (meaning a vortex missile can still take even a mega-structure down when it hits. In addiction, the vortex missile will inflict a further failed save for each turn it remains in the building. This damage should be applied after the roll for the vortex in the end phase.
If players think the Vortex D3 failed saves is too harsh, I would be willing to accept it inflicts at least one failed save.
Thoughts?
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