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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Frank Filz writes:
> Ok, I've been kicked off my duff by Evil Stevie himself to write my final
> postmortem. We haven't seen any additional comments for a while.
The writeup looks excellent. It really summarises everything
quite well.
One quick comment:
> - Siege mortars (see separate rules Lindsay has proposed - I'll be
> commenting on them also)
Just to get it on the table, as it were, I'm currently in MI
and so both the mortars and the digital camera are in NJ. I'm
not yet very facile with ldraw so I'll have to take a big ol'
mess o' digipix and hope that their simplicity seems obvious. I
ought to be able to take photos tomorrow night or Thursday; if
all want to see them, I'll post the URLs here, else I can email
them straight to Frank/Steve/whomever.
And to address said same Steve Jackson's comment regarding the
siege mortar and pre-sighting a chunk of ocean, I *love* the
diabolical possibilities! ;) The only problem, of course, will
be to find a way to specify a chunk of sea reliably without it
being such common knowledge that the pirates stay away like the
plague! (This is why I didn't include such a possibility, but
who knows...?) In any case, I'm counting on others to serve as
the brake upon my tendency to overenumerate rules in the name
of King Complexity of Accuracia.
best
Lindsay
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Mr L F Braun wrote:
> Just to get it on the table, as it were, I'm currently in MI
> and so both the mortars and the digital camera are in NJ. I'm
> not yet very facile with ldraw so I'll have to take a big ol'
> mess o' digipix and hope that their simplicity seems obvious. I
> ought to be able to take photos tomorrow night or Thursday; if
> all want to see them, I'll post the URLs here, else I can email
> them straight to Frank/Steve/whomever.
Go ahead and upload to Brickshelf. Please do some dissassembly if there
is anything which might not be clear from the final model.
> And to address said same Steve Jackson's comment regarding the
> siege mortar and pre-sighting a chunk of ocean, I *love* the
> diabolical possibilities! ;) The only problem, of course, will
> be to find a way to specify a chunk of sea reliably without it
> being such common knowledge that the pirates stay away like the
> plague! (This is why I didn't include such a possibility, but
> who knows...?) In any case, I'm counting on others to serve as
> the brake upon my tendency to overenumerate rules in the name
> of King Complexity of Accuracia.
At this point, it will be early July before I get a chance to read the
seige mortar rules in depth and comment on them (but I hope Steve will
get a chance to take a look, though his immediate future schedule is
probably almost as busy as mine with Dragoncon next weekend).
As far as pre-sighting a spot, I think the fortress player can have
everyone but the head GM turn away while pointing to a spot (or if the
head GM is playing the fort, he can point out the spot to a group of
players not involved with the fort). Another way would be to write the
spot down on paper (estimating ranges from landmarks - and it would
probably be fair to use a pirate ship as a landmark, you just need to
ask the pirate player to leave a marker where his ship was, pointing in
the direction of the ship - the way you would use this is specifying a
sighting like '12" in front of the Pink Princess', the idea being that
you are assuming the Pink Princess will continue straight for 12".
The seige mortar sighting should be made at the same time initiative 1
ships are plotting movement. I would also allow the seige mortar to take
opportunity fire. Actually, I'd allow any fortress cannon to take
opportunity fire, however, such fire should be limited to a target
within a narrow wedge in the direction the cannon is pointing at the
beginning of the turn (and the fortress owner can turn the cannon during
the initiative 1 movement plotting phase).
The actual effects of opportunity fire could not actually apply until
the cannon shooting phase (in otherwards, if a mast is toppled or the
ship loses enough crew that it is no longer able to be properly handled,
you would't take that into consideration, likewise if a cannon were
destroyed or cannon crew killed, the ship could still fire that cannon).
It might also be worthwhile to allow ships to use opportunity fire. We
had a few situations in the pirate game where ships passed each others
broadsides, but the final positions left a ship not able to bring their
broadside to bear. Unfortunately, this probably adds too much
complexity, and there is something to be said for skilled navigation to
allow avoidance of the enemies broadside.
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Frank Filz writes:
> As far as pre-sighting a spot, I think the fortress player can have
> everyone but the head GM turn away while pointing to a spot (or if the
> head GM is playing the fort, he can point out the spot to a group of
> players not involved with the fort). Another way would be to write the
> spot down on paper (estimating ranges from landmarks - and it would
> probably be fair to use a pirate ship as a landmark, you just need to
> ask the pirate player to leave a marker where his ship was, pointing in
> the direction of the ship - the way you would use this is specifying a
> sighting like '12" in front of the Pink Princess', the idea being that
> you are assuming the Pink Princess will continue straight for 12".
>
> The seige mortar sighting should be made at the same time initiative 1
> ships are plotting movement. I would also allow the seige mortar to take
> opportunity fire. Actually, I'd allow any fortress cannon to take
> opportunity fire, however, such fire should be limited to a target
> within a narrow wedge in the direction the cannon is pointing at the
> beginning of the turn (and the fortress owner can turn the cannon during
> the initiative 1 movement plotting phase).
>
> The actual effects of opportunity fire could not actually apply until
> the cannon shooting phase (in otherwards, if a mast is toppled or the
> ship loses enough crew that it is no longer able to be properly handled,
> you would't take that into consideration, likewise if a cannon were
> destroyed or cannon crew killed, the ship could still fire that cannon).
>
> It might also be worthwhile to allow ships to use opportunity fire. We
> had a few situations in the pirate game where ships passed each others
> broadsides, but the final positions left a ship not able to bring their
> broadside to bear. Unfortunately, this probably adds too much
> complexity, and there is something to be said for skilled navigation to
> allow avoidance of the enemies broadside.
>
> --
> Frank Filz
I like the way the mortars are shaping up. Opportunity fire for a fort really
is an appropriate advantage, as long as normal initiative time between shots
isn't violated, simulating load/reload time.
Sean, the pirate mad
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OK, pics of the Pirate Game Siege Mortar are up:
http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/mortar.html
I'll provide more info if needed, but I'm dead tired right now...just back from
MI. I'm crossposting it to .build given all the questions I had about the things
at Brickfest, but followups will remain in .fun.gaming. Hey, maybe you
non-Pirates folks can find a use for this little whomper too...
best
Lindsay
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