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Re: BirkWars, BrickFest, Some Questions
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lugnet.gaming
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Mon, 5 Jun 2000 01:45:04 GMT
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Mike Rayhawk writes:
> 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. They can be used to disarm opponents. Pickaxes do a little
> more damage than swords but also take two hands. Both pickaxes and tridents
> may get stuck in an opponent and will slow you down on the following turn as
> you try to pull them back out.
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.
> Ha ha I wish! We were playing a game about a month ago with the Shogun's
> Imperial Army vs. the Mountain Bandits and the imperials were similarly
> organized, we kept wishing that we had such a rule. We tried a number of
> different ways to handle group rolls at various points during the game, but
> none of them really worked out very well.
Too bad... I could really use something like that...
> > That would surely save time, but I'm not sure if I'd like that, 'coz I might
> > roll a 1 for the whole army and that would be depressing. :-)
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> I feel the same way. About the only thing we tried that made any sense was,
> if you have a bunch of the same kind of troop attacking with the same kind of
> weapon, make all their Attack Rolls at the same time (for instance, if you
> have 12 guys who need to roll a 3 on 1d6 to hit, roll 12d6 and count how many
> dice come up 3 or higher). When you've counted how many of them hit, the
> defender chooses which of your troops get the good rolls and which ones get
> the bad rolls.
Yeah, that makes sense.
> > BTW, Mike, are you going to be there?
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> I'd love to go, but I can't free up enough time from college to drive out from
> Los Angeles and back.
LOL! Too bad...
-Shiri
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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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| (...) 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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