What it is, right now is a collection of house rules and army list, more or less flying
in formation, mainly found at or near http://www.spellbooksoftware.com/e41k
What I have in mind for it...
A full, stand alone set of rules, based on Epic 40,000, much like NetEpic is based on
SM/TL.
What I think need to be changed in E40K.
- Army Lists. This is where most of the current work on E41K has been done. These will be
updated to reflect the Firepower rules, and to be a little more "coherent". As
it stands, due mainly to my interest, the Imperial and Ork forces have the most done to
them. I need some Eldar, Chaos and Trynid players help in this.
- Command and Control/Moral system. This is more a tweak than a full re-write, as it has
more or less all the correct parts as it stands. There are some ideas (stolen from Command
Decision 3, as it happens) that should go a long way toward fixing some of the _weirder_
aspect of the current system, plus reduce the 600 meter general effect. The main thrust of
this is to change, slightly, the turn sequence. The "new" turn sequence would
be:
- Place Orders [note: How and by who orders are placed may under go some changes as well]
- Rally Phase. (remove blast markers etc.)
- Movement phase
- Shooty phases
- Assault phases
- End / Test for Victory phase
Note the important movement of the rally phase to AFTER you have decided what the
detachment is going to do. If they fail to rally or there leader ship checks, well, you
have a problem. This will go a long way towards showing the real "fog of war",
plus cut down on some of the 600 meter general effects. Much more on this later.
- Minor tweaks on movement, mainly in making a "Master" terrain list and some
special cases. Plus some twiddling with the transport rules.
- Very minor tweaks on the shooting phase. More to do with establishing what order what is
done in. As a whole, I feel very little needs to be done with the shooting phases.
Note that exact ranges and speeds of units in the movement and shooting phases may get
changed, but that is more about the army lists than any thing else.
- Assault and Firefight phases. The current ones suck. New rules need to be written. They
should be simple, yet not quite so freaking random.
- Chrome rules. This means things like engineers, flyers, flak, special characters, that
sort of thing.
At any rate this is where it's going. The current plan is to post rules, discuss and
change, then post to the web, much like NetEpic did during it's design days.
The E41K mailing list is at http://www.egroups.com/group/e41k/