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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Shiri Dori 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.
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.
> 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.
Of course, having fewer different kinds of weapons to keep track of never
hurts. When you have to keep looking up stats for every different kind the
game can start to bog down. When you only have a couple you can just remember
them all and everything goes a lot more smoothly.
> > 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...
You laugh, but I'd do it if I had a spare week - I used to commute between New
York and Portland three or four times a year, it's a great drive and I have a
lot of friends on the east coast I'd like to drop in on unexpectedly.
- Mike Rayhawk.
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Mike Rayhawk writes:
> In lugnet.fun.gaming, Shiri Dori 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.
>
> 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.
How would that play into the game?
> > 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.
>
> Of course, having fewer different kinds of weapons to keep track of never
> hurts. When you have to keep looking up stats for every different kind the
> game can start to bog down. When you only have a couple you can just remember
> them all and everything goes a lot more smoothly.
Yeah, it's also easier to make sure I get it all back. :-)
> > > 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...
>
> You laugh, but I'd do it if I had a spare week - I used to commute between New
> York and Portland three or four times a year, it's a great drive and I have a
> lot of friends on the east coast I'd like to drop in on unexpectedly.
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 manage going across the US.
(But I guess when you're alone, it's easier to not fight over every single
thing... ;-)
-Shiri
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Shiri Dori writes:
> 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 manage going across the US.
> (But I guess when you're alone, it's easier to not fight over every single
> thing... ;-)
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 much, but then that was (mostly) before the enlightened days
of seatbelts (my dad did do something to the front seatbelts in the VW
Sqaureback we took delivery of in Europe for that trip to keep the seatbelt
buzzer from going off) so we were able to move about and play on the floor
(van) or back of the car (VW). I can attest that lying on the floor of a van
behind the drivers seat is a relatively safe place to be in an emergency stop.
The only thing which happened to me when we had an accident on the 2nd cross
country trip is that my younger sister landed on me when she fell off the
seat, I went nowhere (of course had the van rolled, things would have been
worse). We also took numerous shorter trips. On all of these trips, each kid
had their own toys and books (I forget which trip it was for that my parents
made car toy boxes by taking a dishpan and making a nice cover for it with a
hole for a cup - usually to hold a cup of crayons or whatever). We were also
involved in the trip planning (on every major trip, each person got to chose
one sight they absolutely wanted to see).
Driving time across the US is on the order of 50 hours (approximately 3000
miles LA-NYC).
Frank
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Frank Filz writes:
> In lugnet.fun.gaming, Shiri Dori writes:
> > My family and I barely
> > survived a drive across Germany, I doubt we could manage going across the US.
> > (But I guess when you're alone, it's easier to not fight over every single
> > thing... ;-)
>
> 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 much, but then that was (mostly) before the enlightened days
> of seatbelts
<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 13 and my younger sis, 7, driving from Germany (Frankfurt)
to France (Nice <sp>) was much less enjoyable. She and I fight waaaaaay too
much when cramped in small spaces. Putting suitcases beween us did NOT help,
believe me - made it worse. <grin - I still remember how she pinched me from
behind the suitcase. :-) >
-Shiri
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Shiri Dori writes:
> > 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.
>
> How would that play into the game?
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 can still pick up the text versions. Of course you can just buy
all your minifigs as Troopers and save yourself a lot of trouble.
> 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 manage going across the US.
> (But I guess when you're alone, it's easier to not fight over every single
> thing... ;-)
Fastest we ever did it was 3000 miles in 27 hours with only two speeding
tickets. We had to stop doing that when states started making the speeding
laws tougher and they started throwing one or both of us in jail every time
they caught us doing over 100mph. Nowadays we usually make it around 40-45
hours when we don't make detours to waste time in Vegas, Sturgis, or Detroit.
- Mike Rayhawk.
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"Mike Rayhawk" <rayhawk@artcenter.edu> wrote:
> In lugnet.fun.gaming, Shiri Dori 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.
>
> 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.
...but lots of fun as they flail randomly and get mowed down by nearly-as-inept first rank
soldiers :-)
> > 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.
>
> Of course, having fewer different kinds of weapons to keep track of never
> hurts. When you have to keep looking up stats for every different kind the
> game can start to bog down. When you only have a couple you can just remember
> them all and everything goes a lot more smoothly.
...Hmmmm that sounds like a great idea for a slimmed down game!!! Oh wait! I already did
that on MiniFig Death! http://wildlink.com/lego/minifigdeath :-)
> > > 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...
>
> You laugh, but I'd do it if I had a spare week - I used to commute between New
> York and Portland three or four times a year, it's a great drive and I have a
> lot of friends on the east coast I'd like to drop in on unexpectedly.
...You are letting college get in the way of a good time??? :-)
...you can go back to ignoring me now...
wubwub
stephen f roberts
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