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(...) Wow! I hope you're not going to play them all at once! Last time we played a medieval BrikWars game, we stuck to armies of about two dozen each, and it took 20-40 minutes per player turn. I can't imagine how long it would have taken with as (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I'm bringing them all anyhow, for display and stuff, so I'd love to share. They're arranged in three different groups, so it shouldn't be a problem to divide them. What I was wondering is - I was intending to arm my peasants with pitchforks, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Actually they are all about equally effective, except for brooms of course, which you can use to beat a fig into unconsciousness but it takes a long time. Pitchforks can be used as Tridents and do as much damage as swords but take two hands. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) So it's not such a bad idea? <sigh> well, too late now - they're all half- packed... maybe if i have time this week. (...) Too bad... I could really use something like that... (...) Yeah, that makes sense. (...) LOL! Too bad... -Shiri (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) If you're interested, I could use a little trick demonstrated in a game a friend from college wrote which made a trivial way to utilize a normal distribution curve to generate results from mass dice rolling. Of course you still come up against (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) What I forgot to say is, what is going to make them less effective is the fact that they are in the hands of peasants rather than soldiers. Peasants are kind of inept. (...) Of course, having fewer different kinds of weapons to keep track of (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Of course, but it's the attacker's choice whether to use the group roll or not. For any attacks that were especially important, he would still choose to make the rolls individually. He would only choose to use the group roll where it didn't (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) but (...) How would that play into the game? (...) Yeah, it's also easier to make sure I get it all back. :-) (...) Phew! How long would it take you to drive one way? My family and I barely survived a drive across Germany, I doubt we could (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Well, not really (but they did publish stats for them in The Dragon once, ever read "Monty Haul and the German High Command"?), but hey, that was freshmen year in college, and I was still a power gamer (that was also almost 20 years ago...) (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) We did a lot of driving when I was young. We took two 5-6 week vacations driving across the US (though the first I was a little too young to remember much). We also took 5-6 weeks driving around Europe. We (me and my sisters) didn't fight too (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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FUT .o-t.fun (...) <snip> Oh, yeah, when I was 4 we drove from Kansas to FL, my older sisters and I were constantly playing in the baggage (the back seats folded into it so we had lots of space). That was a good trip, definitely. Somehow, when I was (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) If you are playing with the rules for different troop types, peasants are bought as Normal People (chapter 8, section 1.1), while soldiers are bought as Troopers (chapter 7, section 1.1). Neither of these chapters are up in HTML yet but you (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Sweet! I really like your Naginatas. :D eric (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) You dated yourself by calling it "The Dragon". Heh. They dropped the "The" quite some time ago. eric (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) ...but lots of fun as they flail randomly and get mowed down by nearly-as-inept first rank soldiers :-) (...) ...Hmmmm that sounds like a great idea for a slimmed down game!!! Oh wait! I already did that on MiniFig Death! (URL) :-) (...) (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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