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    1. steely eyed missile mack‏ @jaidatruck 26 Sep 2020

      steely eyed missile mack Retweeted eigenrobot

      This account always gives me pause. Sure, it's a great story, but the continued insistence on metric measurements in the description is weird. 40k's never been played in metric, always imperial measurements - the stated numbers are also wrong when converted to imperial.https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1309726784934432768 …

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    2. steely eyed missile mack‏ @jaidatruck 26 Sep 2020

      Scout can't set up within - correctly converted - either 22cm of enemy units that can't see him, or 45 cm or enemies that can draw line of sight. Also, 'can't set up within 5cm' is... wrong, too. You can't end a move within 1" of an enemy, or 2.54cm.

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    3. steely eyed missile mack‏ @jaidatruck 26 Sep 2020

      I'm not picking it apart to claim it's not real. I've seen variations on this tale and these photos for years; I'm sure there's truth to the tale. It's just so, so weird that someone would swap the measurements in the story to metric and then get every single one of them wrong.

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    4. steely eyed missile mack‏ @jaidatruck 26 Sep 2020

      Even if you were explaining it to someone who hadn't played 40k, why bother with measurements? You can explain it perfectly well without just making numbers up. Anyway, 40k is a terrible tournament game, completely impossible to balance and driven by miniature sales.

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Sep 2020
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      Oh fascinating. Thanks for this, I'm now very curious how the legend evolved.

      10:07 AM - 26 Sep 2020
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        2. steely eyed missile mack‏ @jaidatruck 26 Sep 2020
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          It's an interesting bit of wargaming history! I'm fairly sure the core of the story is true, I'm just fascinated by how it's evolved into this re-telling.

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 26 Sep 2020
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          Here's a more-authoritative-sounding version https://twitter.com/icze4lionV2/status/1310035270041993217?s=19 …

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