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Re: BrickWars and BrickFest!
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Thu, 24 May 2001 13:16:03 GMT
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...The plans sound good! I was thinking about the skirmish games in particular
as a great way to bring people in. I cant wait to see the big spaceship battle!
That's going to be impressive (make sure we have a combat reporter there to
capture all the action :-)
...The Treasure hunt also sounds like fun. I'll be interested in hearing this
one flesh out :-)
...Stealing an idea from Games Workshop stores, we could design a "micro
skirmish". 2 sides, 2 squads per side (maybe 10 units?). Only have 1 or 2 kinds
of weapons and a dirt simple objective like "Capture a box and hold it for 1
turn". We could prolly get all the important rules that would affect the
skirmish onto one page. If we start the sides just outside of firing range of
the target (maybe 15" or so... 30" total width of field), the whole match really
should only last 4 or 5 turns and take 1/2 an hour or less.
...We could provide the squads, a few pieces of terrain, and a table and it
could be a great intro to the game, and only a minor investment in time. Once
they play the intro, they can be dragged into the rest.
...I've seen Games Workshop do this kind of thing both with TL2 an TL5 settings,
so I'm sure we can adapt it to our situation :-)
"Jason" <jasonrowoldt@yahoo.com> wrote:
> John Kornhaus and I were dicussing this last week.
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> We came up with the following proposal, which is not set in stone yet:
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> 1. At least one fairly big game, probably for more experienced players.
> John's great idea for this was a "spaceship battle". Bascially this would
> mean contructing a large TL5 ship and have one or maybe two people defend
> it, and maybe two people attack it. The idea is to capture the ship. We
> have not discussed the details of the ship design yet, but I'm sure we will
> soon now. This one will require a decent amount of building beforehand.
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> 2. Several smaller "skirmish" games, suited to people who have played maybe
> once, or even not at all. These can be of any tech level, but will probably
> be both "castle" TL2, or "space/fantasy" TL5 games.
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> These two are definates. We also had a few other ideas for games, which were:
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> 3. A "treasure hunt" game, which woudl require a GM. This is a medium size
> game where several different people try to find hidden treasure and get it
> out of an area.
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> 4. A castle siege. As you would expect, this is a great way to get castle
> heads in the game. Mighty armies, catapults, boiling oil, the works.
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> 5. A TL4 World War II or similar combat game. City fighting, most likely.
> Would require lots of destructible buildings to be brought.
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> This is all we have for now. Obviously not all of these are going to
> happen, but the big space ship boarding and the smaller skirmishes are
> definately going to happen at Brickfest.
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>
> ===========
> Jason
> www.brickfilms.com
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>
> In lugnet.events.brickfest, Stephen F. Roberts writes:
> > ...Who is going to help out running the BrickWars games at BrickFest 2001? There
> > is interest both in a Castle/low-tech/fantasy themed battle as well as a
> > space/sci-fi/hi-tech themed event and I want to make sure we talk things through
> > now rather than later so people can get ready.
> >
> > ...Most people will be able to supply their own units, but we may need some
> > "spares" on hand in case anyone forgets them. Also: terrain, spare vehicles,
> > dice, measuring tape, and other miscellaneous items will be needed.
> >
> > ...Someone needs to decide how big the armies will be and what the general
> > themes/missions will be. If there's enough interest, people can run small
> > campaigns. This is going to be a popular draw for some folks, so we want to make
> > sure it goes right :-)
> >
> > ...Don't forget: 20 days left to pre-register and just 50 days left till
> > BrickFest 2001!!! Woohoo!!!!!
> > ---
> > wubwub
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> >
> > BrickFest 2001!
> > The AFOL Community's Premier Fan Run Event!
> > www.brickfest.org
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| John Kornhaus and I were dicussing this last week. We came up with the following proposal, which is not set in stone yet: 1. At least one fairly big game, probably for more experienced players. John's great idea for this was a "spaceship battle". (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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