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Re: Castle wars: teach us, quick!
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lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.pt
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Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:37:08 GMT
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Good points on realism.
In lugnet.castle, Pedro Silva writes:
> I will accept those thoughts as very useful for future games.
> But if we are simulating an assault to "the last stronghold", it is to
> expect a very fierce resistance to attack by the defenders. Especially in
> the context of the Crusades...
> By what I could learn since yesterday from the rules, this will probably be
> our storyline; we have very few castles and troops, so this appears to be a
> more reasonable choice. My *personal* preference to a story would be the
> conquest of Porto in 868, because the city was small at the time and the
> armies involved were too... but then again, *I* will only be watching the
> action. :-)
Hope you ahve a great time! Starting out with not that many troops may be a
good idea. In my experience a battle with two sides of 50 men each, can
easily take as long as a game of monopoly. If one side is defending a castle
of some sort they will be at a great advantage of course and should be
outnumbered significantly for it to be a "fair" battle. Real castles were
designed to beheld by very small forces (under 100 men was not so uncommon)
if need be, against a much larger enemy.
Magnus
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| Good thread. History, Lego, and war. :) Thanks, Magnus, for the advice about starting with a smaller number of troops. I've mentioned designing a new Castle display throughout the year, and had considered planning a possible wargame using whatever (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.pt)
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| (First of all, let me thank once again for everyone's replies; I have started to look at the rules, and hope to be at least somewhat comfortable with the game logic by the time our meeting takes place) (...) Yup, I know the story. The expression (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.pt)
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