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Re: BirkWars, BrickFest, Some Questions
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Mon, 5 Jun 2000 02:55:41 GMT
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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.
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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.
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.
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> 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...
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> 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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