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Old 01-26-2015, 09:32 AM   #45
Tomsdad
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Brighton
Default Re: Who brings a knife to a gun-fight?

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Originally Posted by borithan View Post
Figure scale=/= ground scale. Well, not in most wargames, and it certainly hasn't been that way in 40k since 1st edition. 2nd edition onwards has not specified any ground scale.
I take the abstraction point, but I thought 1" = 2 yards was still canon?



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Originally Posted by borithan View Post
24" is purely a game abstraction of normal infantry small arms engagement distance, and that wouldn't even be maximum range, just effective range (in 1st edition, for example, projectile weapons could as an optional rule fire up to 10x their maximum range, while energy weapons could fire 5x, just with very little chance of hitting). ...
Really? it's been a long time I'll have to pull my old books out tonight!
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