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The Ohio BrikWars have commenced. We met today for about 8 hours.
Loads of fun. We had Drew Lawrence, Adrian Drake and Jeff Christner
fielding TL6 mechs, tanks and troopers against my TL3 keep. Ken (I didn't
catch his last name) joined us as photographer. Carolyn Cheney and
friends dropped in to observe.
We decided to have all of the SpaceMen attack my keep. I was playing
mostly Castle. Backed up by 21 cannons.
I fielded about 1900CP worth of Knights, Archers, Troopers, Scouts,
Cannons and a keep (based on the Royal Knights Castle baseplate). The
combined space forces were 1900-2000CP. 3-4 Mechs, 2 tanks, 2 hover
craft, a bunch of troopers and 30 skeletons.
We felt that the field wouldn't be fair like that so we built two BURP
mountains to form a pass that the attackers would have to funnel through.
We also through several NPCs onto the mountains to keep it interesting.
Thanks Geoff for manning the rock monster which was throwing rocks into
the pass. By the time we built the mountains and fielded all of the
troops, it was around 2:00 before we really got going. We had to vacate
the room by 6:00. So we started packing at 5:30.
We definately fielded way too many troops for our experience level. We
got about 7-8 turns completed.
My opening cannonball shot (3rd turn) took out 5 SpaceTroopers. Yeah!
I held my own as the SpaceMen tried to get through a narrow pass and over
rough terrain.
However, when we had to break, I was already beginning to feel the
effects of attrition on my artillery men. Eventually, the superior
firepower (that is, range) of the TL5 weapons would have won. The
SpaceMen were converging on the RockMonster as we had to quit. He
wouldn't have lasted two more turns. After that distraction was gone, I
would have felt the full brunt of their attack. And it wouldn't have been
pretty. Once those tanks got within range of my keep, it would have been
emtpy fast.
Based on our experience, a 2-1 ratio of CP for each TL difference seems
about right. We'll probably do more cross-TL battles and be able to hone
this.
With my 1900CP and the advantage that NCPs and terrain provided, I'd say
my armie's total battle worth was around 4500-5000CP. The terrain easily
doubled my effectiveness. And the RockMonster was going to take almost
the entire combined force of the SpaceMen to kill quickly. He had ~143AV
(13 Brix of 3d10 rock).
Based on this, I'd say I was about equal to 1200CP of TL5. Which is
consistent with the fact that I was doomed against 1900CP.
Ken took a ton of pictures. Hopefully, we'll have them on the web
soon. I'm sure that everyone will have more to add about our battle. We
had a blast and are already trying to plan a sequel, with much smaller
armies.
We also hashed out some simplified magic rules while gabbing. I'll
probably post those tonight or tomorrow. We came up with an idea for a
truly interesting Wizard.
Later,
Gino A...
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Gino A. Melone writes:
> The Ohio BrikWars have commenced. We met today for about 8 hours.
> Loads of fun. We had Drew Lawrence, Adrian Drake and Jeff Christner
> fielding TL6 mechs, tanks and troopers against my TL3 keep. Ken (I didn't
> catch his last name) joined us as photographer. Carolyn Cheney and
> friends dropped in to observe.
>
> We decided to have all of the SpaceMen attack my keep. I was playing
> mostly Castle. Backed up by 21 cannons.
>
> I fielded about 1900CP worth of Knights, Archers, Troopers, Scouts,
> Cannons and a keep (based on the Royal Knights Castle baseplate). The
> combined space forces were 1900-2000CP. 3-4 Mechs, 2 tanks, 2 hover
> craft, a bunch of troopers and 30 skeletons.
>
> We felt that the field wouldn't be fair like that so we built two BURP
> mountains to form a pass that the attackers would have to funnel through.
> We also through several NPCs onto the mountains to keep it interesting.
> Thanks Geoff for manning the rock monster which was throwing rocks into
> the pass. By the time we built the mountains and fielded all of the
> troops, it was around 2:00 before we really got going. We had to vacate
> the room by 6:00. So we started packing at 5:30.
>
> We definately fielded way too many troops for our experience level. We
> got about 7-8 turns completed.
>
> My opening cannonball shot (3rd turn) took out 5 SpaceTroopers. Yeah!
> I held my own as the SpaceMen tried to get through a narrow pass and over
> rough terrain.
>
> However, when we had to break, I was already beginning to feel the
> effects of attrition on my artillery men. Eventually, the superior
> firepower (that is, range) of the TL5 weapons would have won. The
> SpaceMen were converging on the RockMonster as we had to quit. He
> wouldn't have lasted two more turns. After that distraction was gone, I
> would have felt the full brunt of their attack. And it wouldn't have been
> pretty. Once those tanks got within range of my keep, it would have been
> emtpy fast.
>
> Based on our experience, a 2-1 ratio of CP for each TL difference seems
> about right. We'll probably do more cross-TL battles and be able to hone
> this.
>
> With my 1900CP and the advantage that NCPs and terrain provided, I'd say
> my armie's total battle worth was around 4500-5000CP. The terrain easily
> doubled my effectiveness. And the RockMonster was going to take almost
> the entire combined force of the SpaceMen to kill quickly. He had ~143AV
> (13 Brix of 3d10 rock).
>
> Based on this, I'd say I was about equal to 1200CP of TL5. Which is
> consistent with the fact that I was doomed against 1900CP.
>
> Ken took a ton of pictures. Hopefully, we'll have them on the web
> soon. I'm sure that everyone will have more to add about our battle. We
> had a blast and are already trying to plan a sequel, with much smaller
> armies.
>
> We also hashed out some simplified magic rules while gabbing. I'll
> probably post those tonight or tomorrow. We came up with an idea for a
> truly interesting Wizard.
>
> Later,
> Gino A...
Hurray! Pics! I get inspired by the sight of masses of mini-figs running off
to the their doom :)
Groovy stuff
Justin Chilsett
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Gino A. Melone writes:
> The Ohio BrikWars have commenced. We met today for about 8 hours.
> Loads of fun. We had Drew Lawrence, Adrian Drake and Jeff Christner
> fielding TL6 mechs, tanks and troopers against my TL3 keep. Ken (I didn't
> catch his last name) joined us as photographer. Carolyn Cheney and
> friends dropped in to observe.
TL5, actually.
> We decided to have all of the SpaceMen attack my keep. I was playing
> mostly Castle. Backed up by 21 cannons.
>
> I fielded about 1900CP worth of Knights, Archers, Troopers, Scouts,
> Cannons and a keep (based on the Royal Knights Castle baseplate). The
> combined space forces were 1900-2000CP. 3-4 Mechs, 2 tanks, 2 hover
> craft, a bunch of troopers and 30 skeletons.
Drew fielded 3 mecha, a tank, and a jeep, plus troops. Jeff had 2 hoverflyers
and a bunch of troops, and I had a mech, a heavy assault transport, a bunch of
troops, and 50 skeletons. Of course, the skeletons vaporized in a puff of
magic smoke when we decided the battlefield was WAY too crowded.
> We felt that the field wouldn't be fair like that so we built two BURP
> mountains to form a pass that the attackers would have to funnel through.
> We also through several NPCs onto the mountains to keep it interesting.
> Thanks Geoff for manning the rock monster which was throwing rocks into
> the pass. By the time we built the mountains and fielded all of the
> troops, it was around 2:00 before we really got going. We had to vacate
> the room by 6:00. So we started packing at 5:30.
I had plenty of fun vaporizing Jar-Jar's (who populated one of the Burp
mountains). It would've taken 2 or 3 rounds of full on attacks to kill that
darn rock monster too. It's interesting to have to fight against extremely
powerful creatures like that.
>
> We definately fielded way too many troops for our experience level. We
> got about 7-8 turns completed.
It was a combination of armies being too large and discussions of rules. Next
time we should do a lot better, I think. Slightly smaller armies and a better
grasp of gameplay should speed things up nicely.
>
> My opening cannonball shot (3rd turn) took out 5 SpaceTroopers. Yeah!
> I held my own as the SpaceMen tried to get through a narrow pass and over
> rough terrain.
That was an amazing shot. The crocodiles loved feasting on the corpses too :)
> However, when we had to break, I was already beginning to feel the
> effects of attrition on my artillery men. Eventually, the superior
> firepower (that is, range) of the TL5 weapons would have won. The
> SpaceMen were converging on the RockMonster as we had to quit. He
> wouldn't have lasted two more turns. After that distraction was gone, I
> would have felt the full brunt of their attack. And it wouldn't have been
> pretty. Once those tanks got within range of my keep, it would have been
> emtpy fast.
Especially since my assault transport (with a MK3 Mortar) never got in range,
due to the terrain and a stupid opening move on my part. I couldn't drive it
over the embankment of the river because it rode too low to the ground, so I
had to take the long way around to the mouth of the river, and never made it.
3 or 4 more turns and my mortar would've been in range, and then his castle
would've been toast!
> Based on our experience, a 2-1 ratio of CP for each TL difference seems
> about right. We'll probably do more cross-TL battles and be able to hone
> this.
>
> With my 1900CP and the advantage that NCPs and terrain provided, I'd say
> my armie's total battle worth was around 4500-5000CP. The terrain easily
> doubled my effectiveness. And the RockMonster was going to take almost
> the entire combined force of the SpaceMen to kill quickly. He had ~143AV
> (13 Brix of 3d10 rock).
>
> Based on this, I'd say I was about equal to 1200CP of TL5. Which is
> consistent with the fact that I was doomed against 1900CP.
>
> Ken took a ton of pictures. Hopefully, we'll have them on the web
> soon. I'm sure that everyone will have more to add about our battle. We
> had a blast and are already trying to plan a sequel, with much smaller
> armies.
>
> We also hashed out some simplified magic rules while gabbing. I'll
> probably post those tonight or tomorrow. We came up with an idea for a
> truly interesting Wizard.
I think we should finetune some Uberwizard and skeleton supplements. We have
some neat ideas regarding skeletons and skeleton heroes.
>
> Later,
> Gino A...
Adrian
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Adrian Drake writes:
> In lugnet.fun.gaming, Gino A. Melone writes:
> > The Ohio BrikWars have commenced. We met today for about 8 hours.
> > Loads of fun. We had Drew Lawrence, Adrian Drake and Jeff Christner
> > fielding TL6 mechs, tanks and troopers against my TL3 keep. Ken (I didn't
> > catch his last name) joined us as photographer. Carolyn Cheney and
> > friends dropped in to observe.
Ken is Jeff Christner's sister's husband. I don't know his last name either.
> >
> > I fielded about 1900CP worth of Knights, Archers, Troopers, Scouts,
> > Cannons and a keep (based on the Royal Knights Castle baseplate). The
> > combined space forces were 1900-2000CP. 3-4 Mechs, 2 tanks, 2 hover
> > craft, a bunch of troopers and 30 skeletons.
>
> Drew fielded 3 mecha, a tank, and a jeep, plus troops.
3 mecha? I only had 2 -- the black Locust and the [mostly] white Raven.
> Jeff had 2 hoverflyers
> and a bunch of troops, and I had a mech, a heavy assault transport, a bunch of
> troops, and 50 skeletons. Of course, the skeletons vaporized in a puff of
> magic smoke when we decided the battlefield was WAY too crowded.
That was so cool. And yes, that one area was WAAAY too crowded.
>
> > We felt that the field wouldn't be fair like that so we built two BURP
> > mountains to form a pass that the attackers would have to funnel through.
> > We also through several NPCs onto the mountains to keep it interesting.
> > Thanks Geoff for manning the rock monster which was throwing rocks into
> > the pass. By the time we built the mountains and fielded all of the
> > troops, it was around 2:00 before we really got going. We had to vacate
> > the room by 6:00. So we started packing at 5:30.
I got off my first [successful] attack at 5:30, either. :(
>
> I had plenty of fun vaporizing Jar-Jar's (who populated one of the Burp
> mountains).
That was cool, how you completely vaporized the first Jar Jar. :) One little
blood smear on the side of the mountain...
> It would've taken 2 or 3 rounds of full on attacks to kill that
> darn rock monster too. It's interesting to have to fight against extremely
> powerful creatures like that.
> > It was a combination of armies being too large and discussions of rules.
> Next
> time we should do a lot better, I think. Slightly smaller armies and a better
> grasp of gameplay should speed things up nicely.
The armies can stay the same size, however -- we just needed more time.
Another 4 hours would have been nice. And yes, a better grasp of gameplay will
make things run much more smoothly.
>
> >
> > My opening cannonball shot (3rd turn) took out 5 SpaceTroopers. Yeah!
> > I held my own as the SpaceMen tried to get through a narrow pass and over
> > rough terrain.
>
> That was an amazing shot. The crocodiles loved feasting on the corpses too :)
That was the first time I got to use my "bucket of blood!"
>
> > However, when we had to break, I was already beginning to feel the
> > effects of attrition on my artillery men. Eventually, the superior
> > firepower (that is, range) of the TL5 weapons would have won. The
> > SpaceMen were converging on the RockMonster as we had to quit. He
> > wouldn't have lasted two more turns. After that distraction was gone, I
> > would have felt the full brunt of their attack. And it wouldn't have been
> > pretty. Once those tanks got within range of my keep, it would have been
> > emtpy fast.
Oh yeah. Your castle would have been full of "blood smears." My one mech, the
black Locust, was tall enough to shoot OVER your castle walls. :) That would
have been tricky, though, as it had lasers as a primary weapon.
>
> >
> > Ken took a ton of pictures. Hopefully, we'll have them on the web
> > soon. I'm sure that everyone will have more to add about our battle. We
> > had a blast and are already trying to plan a sequel, with much smaller
> > armies.
I want to see these pictures myself. That was Ken's digital camera (Not
Adrian's) that did all of the work, right?
Where is Ken going to post the pictures anyway?
Drew Lawrence
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Drew Lawrence writes:
> > Drew fielded 3 mecha, a tank, and a jeep, plus troops.
>
> 3 mecha? I only had 2 -- the black Locust and the [mostly] white Raven.
Oh, I guess you didn't field the little mecha you showed me before the
festivities started. Don't mind me :)
>
> > Jeff had 2 hoverflyers
> > and a bunch of troops, and I had a mech, a heavy assault transport, a bunch • of
> > troops, and 50 skeletons. Of course, the skeletons vaporized in a puff of
> > magic smoke when we decided the battlefield was WAY too crowded.
>
> That was so cool. And yes, that one area was WAAAY too crowded.
If the bowling pin hadn't been there, it would've been fine though.
> I want to see these pictures myself. That was Ken's digital camera (Not
> Adrian's) that did all of the work, right?
>
> Where is Ken going to post the pictures anyway?
Right, that was Ken's camera. I believe he's going to post them on
Brickshelf, and then if I feel like it, I'll pull them down and make a web
page with more information about each picture.
Adrian
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:48:28 GMT, "LegoMasterLuke"
<drew@netpluscom.com> wrote:
> I want to see these pictures myself. That was Ken's digital camera (Not
> Adrian's) that did all of the work, right?
>
> Where is Ken going to post the pictures anyway?
>
>
> Drew Lawrence
Actually Ken has already uploaded the pictures to Brickshelf, but as
of yet they haven't appeared there. I'm not sure if Kevin looks thru
them before allowing others to view them, or perhaps Ken did something
wrong uploading them.
Here is the link to where the pics should appear:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=brickwar
Regarding the actual game, I was quite proud to be the first
casualties of the first Ohio BrikWars event. The hover flyers I
fielded worked well, but were expensive for what they actually did. I
may convert them to some type of wheeled vehicle. Adrian's Spider Mech
was really impressive, I would have liked to see that coming over the
castle walls, but by that time, I'm sure most of my SpaceMen would
have been watching that from their eternal resting place.
A few things that slowed down the game:
1: Too many CP's for our first game.
2: Not being as familiar with the rules as we should have been. This
included not being able to find specific information within the rules,
like how to handle cover and concealment and the penalties to hit
units that have partial cover or concealment. I looked over the rules
again and again, and I haven't found it yet. Also, comprehensive
charts would have been useful listing weapon, vehicle, siege weapon,
building, and trooper types and their stats. Also, penalties for Usage
Ratings and such, i.e. when vehicles are moving, or your target is
under some cover, and other things like other ways to take damage,
from falling, fire, etc., etc. Charts would have made things much,
much easier.
3: Finding out where the missed shots went. Although this had some
interesting, and funny results, I feel it bogged down the game a
little too much. Perhaps this would be something good to keep track of
for thrown weapons so one can retrieve them at a later time. Even then
it should be kept simple, only placing the weapon in the area where it
should have landed.
4: I feel that vehicles turn rates could have been eliminated with
little effect on the game. Perhaps with regular flyers one should have
to keep track of this, but other vehicles, helicopters, tanks, wheeled
vehicles and hoverflyers, this would have little effect when playing
TL5 and above. Most wheeled vehicles and such would have multiple
wheel steering, and their turn rates would be fairly sharp anyway.
I'm sure I'm missing a few things too.
All in all I think it was a good game for our first attempt. My wife
came up with the name BBS, or Buckeye BrikWars Society. Perhaps
something along these lines using the name Buckeye instead of Ohio
might yeild some fun names.
Jeff Christner
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> All in all I think it was a good game for our first attempt. My wife
> came up with the name BBS, or Buckeye BrikWars Society. Perhaps
> something along these lines using the name Buckeye instead of Ohio
> might yeild some fun names.
LUGO - Lego Users Group of Ohio
FOLIO - Friends of Lego In Ohio
BLOC - Buckeye Lego Owner's Club
LUBS - Lego Users of the Buckeye State
(I could keep this up all day)
Adrian
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Adrian Drake writes:
> > All in all I think it was a good game for our first attempt. My wife
> > came up with the name BBS, or Buckeye BrikWars Society. Perhaps
> > something along these lines using the name Buckeye instead of Ohio
> > might yeild some fun names.
>
> LUGO - Lego Users Group of Ohio
How about OHLUG / ohlug.org ?
--Todd
> FOLIO - Friends of Lego In Ohio
> BLOC - Buckeye Lego Owner's Club
> LUBS - Lego Users of the Buckeye State
>
> (I could keep this up all day)
>
> Adrian
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Adrian Drake writes:
> In lugnet.fun.gaming, Drew Lawrence writes:
> > > Drew fielded 3 mecha, a tank, and a jeep, plus troops.
> >
> > 3 mecha? I only had 2 -- the black Locust and the [mostly] white Raven.
>
> Oh, I guess you didn't field the little mecha you showed me before the
> festivities started. Don't mind me :)
That wasn't even a mecha. That was a Terran Marine, from StarCraft. The little
guy was a technic scale Marine, even though it had a minifigure's head in it.
(There is no way to mount a Technic guy's head like you can a minifig's.)
>
> >
> > > Jeff had 2 hoverflyers
> > > and a bunch of troops, and I had a mech, a heavy assault transport, a bunch • of
> > > troops, and 50 skeletons. Of course, the skeletons vaporized in a puff of
> > > magic smoke when we decided the battlefield was WAY too crowded.
> >
> > That was so cool. And yes, that one area was WAAAY too crowded.
>
> If the bowling pin hadn't been there, it would've been fine though.
>
> > I want to see these pictures myself. That was Ken's digital camera (Not
> > Adrian's) that did all of the work, right?
> >
> > Where is Ken going to post the pictures anyway?
>
> Right, that was Ken's camera. I believe he's going to post them on
> Brickshelf, and then if I feel like it, I'll pull them down and make a web
> page with more information about each picture.
Yeah! A battle report! I'm really good at those. (Hint hint.)
>
> Adrian
Drew Lawrence
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In article <38fb5bea.9637976@lugnet.com>, regult@aol.com wrote:
> from falling, fire, etc., etc. Charts would have made things much,
> much easier.
Agreed. I know that Mike is planning some. I've already started one.
I actually had a simple one at the battle. But, I think I forgot to show
it to anyone. I may email Mike and volunteer to do the charts for BW2000.
> > 3: Finding out where the missed shots went. Although this had some
> interesting, and funny results, I feel it bogged down the game a
> little too much. Perhaps this would be something good to keep track of
> for thrown weapons so one can retrieve them at a later time. Even then
> it should be kept simple, only placing the weapon in the area where it
> should have landed.
Those were a lot of fun, but I should have curbed myself a bit. But, I
still like the tree stunt.
> 4: I feel that vehicles turn rates could have been eliminated with
> little effect on the game. Perhaps with regular flyers one should have
> to keep track of this, but other vehicles, helicopters, tanks, wheeled
> vehicles and hoverflyers, this would have little effect when playing
> TL5 and above. Most wheeled vehicles and such would have multiple
> wheel steering, and their turn rates would be fairly sharp anyway.
I think we can simplify this alot. For the most part, if the model can
do it, its ok. A little common sense and ignore the rules.
I ran through the rules again that night. We were skipping a lot of AV
modifiers. What surprise me the most was when I realized that I probably
would have slaughtered the lot of you if we knew them all. The most
significant were 1. We (at least I) were doing opportunity fire all
wrong. 2. I forgot to account for any of my armor and such for AV. 3.
We (I?) were unaware of the AV bonus for moving targets.
Full speed mounted troops are rather hard to hit. I would have sent in
several waves of knights attacking your biggest units very early. It
certainly would have been a much more interesting battle.
I would like to propose a 1-1 ratio for TL2/3 troops vs TL4/5 troops for
our next meeting. Somehow, I doubt that anyone will object.
Later,
Gino A...
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In article <Ft6E7L.6sC@lugnet.com>, "Adrian Drake" <tremor@apk.net> wrote:
> BLOC - Buckeye Lego Owner's Club
I like this one.
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In article <Ft6HMo.2oz@lugnet.com>, "LegoMasterLuke" <drew@netpluscom.com>
wrote:
> Yeah! A battle report! I'm really good at those. (Hint hint.)
Get cracking. Start working up the text and we'll work out a way to merge
it with the pics.
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 22:52:20 GMT, meloneg@oclc.org (Gino A. Melone)
wrote:
> Those were a lot of fun, but I should have curbed myself a bit. But, I
> still like the tree stunt.
Had the tree not obscured my Pilot's vision, I would have just left it
there for the duration of the game.
> I ran through the rules again that night. We were skipping a lot of AV
> modifiers. What surprise me the most was when I realized that I probably
> would have slaughtered the lot of you if we knew them all. The most
> significant were 1. We (at least I) were doing opportunity fire all
> wrong. 2. I forgot to account for any of my armor and such for AV. 3.
> We (I?) were unaware of the AV bonus for moving targets.
I saw that yesterday about the -2 UR for opportunity fire, that and
you can't have fired on your previous turn, not on the turn you're on
now.
> Full speed mounted troops are rather hard to hit. I would have sent in
> several waves of knights attacking your biggest units very early. It
> certainly would have been a much more interesting battle.
It seems that there are penalties for attacking if you're moving, and
also if the unit you're aiming at is moving. -1 per every 6" adds up,
I agree this would have made the battle much different. Having this in
some type of chart would have made it so that we wouldn't have missed
it.
> I would like to propose a 1-1 ratio for TL2/3 troops vs TL4/5 troops for
> our next meeting. Somehow, I doubt that anyone will object.
>
> Later,
> Gino A...
If we do another major cross level TL battle with a castle, I don't
think it would be fair for me to field my hover flyers. After the game
I realized that all I had to do was climb to an altitide of just under
20", hover over the castle and fire away.
Jeff Christner
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In article <38fb97cc.10198126@lugnet.com>, regult@aol.com wrote:
> If we do another major cross level TL battle with a castle, I don't
> think it would be fair for me to field my hover flyers. After the game
> I realized that all I had to do was climb to an altitide of just under
> 20", hover over the castle and fire away.
I'm not likely to field another keep any time soon. Re-reading the
rules Saturday made me realize that my real strength as a TL2/3 army is in
my ability to field fairly fast and powerful units (mounted knights)
fairly cheaply. For the cost of that flyer and a pilot. I can field 10
or more knights. I can keep you busy trying to herd them while I setup an
attack.
Having said all of that, on an open plain, I'm toast against flyers. If
I can hide behind and under things, I can play my strengths.
Mucho fun.
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> Having said all of that, on an open plain, I'm toast against flyers. If
> I can hide behind and under things, I can play my strengths.
I'll tell a good quick house rule that will solve a lot of your problems - the
thing about medieval cities and landscapes is, they are just always covered in
mist and fog. They went for so many years sometimes between sunny days that
they actually ended up calling them the Dark Ages, from what I understand.
The point of all this is, when running a battle between flyers and knights,
you can claim that there is a thick low-lying fog, such that any unit at an
altitude higher than 10" has zero visibility and can only fire at targets if
there is a Scout targeting them. This forces any flyers that wish to engage
in combat to remain within range of archers and thrown objects (not a big
deal, since it takes a whole bunch of archers to shoot down an A-Wing), and
furthermore if you build nice tall trees, towers, and mountains, it becomes
difficult for the flyers to maneuver at attack alititudes.
Just an idea.
- Mike Rayhawk.
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Check out the Official BrikWars Home Page at
http://www.teleport.com/~rayhawks/brikwars.htm
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Mike Rayhawk writes:
> > Having said all of that, on an open plain, I'm toast against flyers. If
> > I can hide behind and under things, I can play my strengths.
>
> I'll tell a good quick house rule that will solve a lot of your problems - the
> thing about medieval cities and landscapes is, they are just always covered in
> mist and fog. They went for so many years sometimes between sunny days that
> they actually ended up calling them the Dark Ages, from what I understand.
> The point of all this is, when running a battle between flyers and knights,
> you can claim that there is a thick low-lying fog, such that any unit at an
> altitude higher than 10" has zero visibility and can only fire at targets if
> there is a Scout targeting them. This forces any flyers that wish to engage
> in combat to remain within range of archers and thrown objects (not a big
> deal, since it takes a whole bunch of archers to shoot down an A-Wing), and
> furthermore if you build nice tall trees, towers, and mountains, it becomes
> difficult for the flyers to maneuver at attack alititudes.
That is a good idea! That would be PERFECT for cross-TL battles! It would also
provide your Flyers with cover -- they could just dive (or pull up) into the
fog and hide.
>
> Just an idea.
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> - Mike Rayhawk.
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What would happen to a Mech that was taller then 10" ?
Drew Lawrence
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Drew Lawrence writes:
> That is a good idea! That would be PERFECT for cross-TL battles! It would also
> provide your Flyers with cover -- they could just dive (or pull up) into the
> fog and hide.
It wouldn't work for all TLs though - Flyers that had good enough sensors and
instruments to dodge mountains would probably also be able to target enemies
through the fog. The XWing example wouldn't, of course, since even with the
Force as his ally Luke wasn't even able to dodge Dagobah when confused by the
mist.
> What would happen to a Mech that was taller then 10" ?
Depends on how many of his sensors and targeting devices were above the 10"
level. If the pilot's chair is higher than 10" then he'd be in a real pickle.
- Mike Rayhawk.
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