wellspring wrote:
First, the rules are a bit of a learning curve as it is. Where-ever possible, I urge parsimony. It's better to reuse an existing rule than it is to try to create a new one.
Thank you for saying that. I've become increasingly concerned by the idea of adding yet more rules, as I find it off putting enough myself in spite of not being a newbie, and I was concerned that it would also be off putting to new players.
This whole discussion about Howling Banshees is a severe case of déja vu. I'm getting to the stage where I think that we would all be just better off shrugging our shoulders and recognising that they are not that effective, but just leaving them as they are, because the solutions all have a lot of pitfalls.
The main problem is that FF trumps base to base in assaults, especially for fragile units like Eldar Aspect Warriors. That's inherent within the core rules though, so I'm not at all sure what we can do to fix it. I think that we'll possibly end up causing more problems than we will find solutions.
If anything is to be done with the Howling Banshees, then the only thing that strikes me as appropriate is the MW versus infantry concept. Whether that's balanced or a solution I'm not entirely sure, because I haven't tried it, but it seems to me, from looking through the list of options, to be the best of them without adding more rules.
Regarding everything else, I'm still not convinced about changing the rules for the Cobra. You can see the previous thread for my views on that, while everything else seems to just be a case of debating some minor points changes, which I have no strong feelings about either way.
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