I suppose its a way of making the models get intimate with each other, and it keeps melee as a viable alternative to shooting attacks. It's silly to argue with success, but I still feel sad that Rogue Trader (and seemingly every sci-fi or modern skirmish game since then) adopted such an "unrealistic" approach to the range of firearms. If that really was the case cannot be known from this article, but it certainly seems far more healthy than the current regime's attitude.įascinating! There's so much there to discuss. What we have here is a design relationship between the model makers and the rule writers that seems entirely positive and creative. Sob.' However, there is no mention here of the Sales and Marketing boys who have just completed the number crunching and discovered that the forementioned space-nuns are are selling like hot cakes and need extra umphh adding to their stat line as well as an aggressive marketing campaign in White Dwarf liberally peppered with the adjectives 'cool' and 'awesome'. walks in in which his latest cybernetic killer clone-armadilliod lobotomised space-nun and her amazing drone weeble dog, and wants the rules of using it. Just why is it that when you're just about to finish a section, some. The models were influenced by the rules and vice versa. I felt this was appropriate for a game involving fewer models and a greater variety of weapons.'Īgain, Rick discusses that close link between rule development and model design, 'there was only so much modelling time available, so there was no point in having space marines armed with loads of tiny weapons if the figure designers only had time to create a single marine model. All these modifications do make the shooting procedure more complicated than in Warhammer. This was necessary in the case of large weapons, where targets with large wound scored were likely to be engaged. At the same time, I introduced a variable damage roll, allowing some weapons to do more damage than a wound with a single hit. There are weapons that can cut through armour like a hot knife through butter, but then do relatively little damage - the laser for example. In Warhammer this modifier is linked to strength but in Rogue Trader the link was broken. To make weapons more effective, therefore, I introduced an additional modifier to the target's saving throw. Simply increasing a weapon's strength would destroy this balance. 'With the new game (Rogue Trader) I wanted to allow more powerful weapons, but also had to maintain game balance. He needed to rethink that standard strength and damage system used in Warhammer. Another issue Rick had to deal with was the damaged caused by powerful weapons.
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