LordGrise
04-08-2012, 09:58 PM
Okies, so it's Sunday night (Hope everyone had a nice Easter Weekend) and it just came to me that this Season of Flyers sounds real nice - but how would it work? Right now flyers are treated as skimmers, unless there's something in the Apocalypse books. If there is, then forgive my ignorance (I was just schooled earlier this week that the Sky Ray box has the Hammerhead weapon sprue included - mine didn't, but I got it a long time ago. Yeah, I only have one.) but here I go:
Imagine that you are writing the general rules for flyers as a brand new category of vehicle. How would they work?
My initial thoughts are these: First, Fliers MUST maintain forward motion, and therefore have a minimum movement. Some fliers have the ability to hover, but even then, they cannot be assaulted unless the assaulting force have some means of getting up to the vehicle or bringing the vehicle down.
Second, Fliers that are transports must touch down in order to disembark pax unless their pax have jump packs or some other means of getting to the ground safely. (Orks would likely get an exception to this rule. ::grin:: ) In the round that they do touch down, they can be assaulted by anyone; they are, after all, on the ground.
Could fliers perform bombing runs? The orcs would likely think so, but they would call it disembarkation (Oi, you lot, gerrout'a mah plane! Tha humies're down there! followed by standing the vehicle on it's tail for a moment and hitting the afterburners) I guess regular (small) blast template so many times, with scatter dice for each one? Maybe plus one on the inches of scatter for each inch of altitude? How would you handle altitude vs range of weapons?
Imagine that you are writing the general rules for flyers as a brand new category of vehicle. How would they work?
My initial thoughts are these: First, Fliers MUST maintain forward motion, and therefore have a minimum movement. Some fliers have the ability to hover, but even then, they cannot be assaulted unless the assaulting force have some means of getting up to the vehicle or bringing the vehicle down.
Second, Fliers that are transports must touch down in order to disembark pax unless their pax have jump packs or some other means of getting to the ground safely. (Orks would likely get an exception to this rule. ::grin:: ) In the round that they do touch down, they can be assaulted by anyone; they are, after all, on the ground.
Could fliers perform bombing runs? The orcs would likely think so, but they would call it disembarkation (Oi, you lot, gerrout'a mah plane! Tha humies're down there! followed by standing the vehicle on it's tail for a moment and hitting the afterburners) I guess regular (small) blast template so many times, with scatter dice for each one? Maybe plus one on the inches of scatter for each inch of altitude? How would you handle altitude vs range of weapons?