[40K] Fiction vs tabletop
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 5:37 pm
I'm wondering how much they really match up.
From the sounds of things the standard imperial flashlights (lasguns) are actually quite potent in the fiction. And it sounds like the smurfs are extra potent.
What I'm wondering is if everything is sort of scaled up together, in a Dragon Ball Z sort of way. Sure the mountains are getting blown up left and right or whatever, but a volly of fire from a squad of 10 lasgun equipped IG at closer range is still expected to take out a single marine and mostly just singe the others that came under fire, a bolter or lasgun can't really threaten a tank from the front, and so on.
In an absolute as opposed to relative sense, the gear of 40K is massively toned down on the tabletop as GW mostly just copy pasted stuff from the Warhammer Fantasy, so using lasguns "feels" a whole lot like shooting bows. But if things scale up together it could just be that you have to be at pretty close range for the weapon to be effective against 40K era threats or somesuch.
From the sounds of things the standard imperial flashlights (lasguns) are actually quite potent in the fiction. And it sounds like the smurfs are extra potent.
What I'm wondering is if everything is sort of scaled up together, in a Dragon Ball Z sort of way. Sure the mountains are getting blown up left and right or whatever, but a volly of fire from a squad of 10 lasgun equipped IG at closer range is still expected to take out a single marine and mostly just singe the others that came under fire, a bolter or lasgun can't really threaten a tank from the front, and so on.
In an absolute as opposed to relative sense, the gear of 40K is massively toned down on the tabletop as GW mostly just copy pasted stuff from the Warhammer Fantasy, so using lasguns "feels" a whole lot like shooting bows. But if things scale up together it could just be that you have to be at pretty close range for the weapon to be effective against 40K era threats or somesuch.