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The Setup ---...--- We decided on the theme first - classic good vs evil, this worked well as it allowed me to lead an army of skeletons, zombies and timmies against smiley castle folks. As with all these games - the more space you have the better, (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) This is great! I have been working on a Lego wargame of my own, and one of my stumbling blocks (no pun intended) was how to keep track of hit points for figures. I had been placing my soldiers on plates to keep them in formation (and to keep (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Glad to help! But in all fairness, it was my friends idea - not mine, so I can't claim credit for it :) If you want more than just a few HP per figure, you could use different colours - black equals five red etc. Or something more intuitive, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) That is true, but "human" mini-figs have a maximum of 4 hits in my game rules, so one piece/hit would be fine. Just yesterday, I updated my web page that gives a sort of "sneak peek" into my game rules (I'm afraid it's a bit too long to fit (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) You mean (URL)? Yeah, maybe a little link from that page to /lugnet/fun/gaming/ would make sense? Certainly as 'gaming' seems to suggest all forms of gaming, not just computer games. Richard (24 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I couldn't find any of the rules! Only two pages of cool magic info.. love those staffs though! The rules that we made up were very simple, mainly because that made it easier to remember them, as we thought of them as we went along.. but I'd (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) You found everything. I haven't posted any of the actual rule set. While designing, I've been making a bunch of creations and mostly wanted to show some off. =] (...) When designing a game, there is always the dilemma of 'rule simplicity' vs. (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) rules, (...) I like the rules you made up, Richard, especially the HP idea. Seems like Tony's ideas (they appear briefly on his magic users page) are gonna turn out cool as well. (...) CW is in planning now. The point of it (check out (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Agreed :) What would be nice is to have a series of look-up cards graded by completeness level. For example, when attacking a figure on horseback, does the attacker attack the horse, or the rider? (Lev 1) Assune that you are attacking the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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