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(...) I play a little loose with these rules as well. My standard SpaceMen are equipped with... I think it's Gyro Rifles. Anyway, it's the 4-piece rifle. Well, mine does have 4 peices, but two of those are 1x1 round plates I think the style of the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) At the recent Ohio BrikWars I myself didn't follow the #of elements per weapon rules, although my SpaceMarines only used Gyro weapons. The one piece "megaphone" was a Gyro Pistol, while the "camera" piece was a Gyro Rifle. (...) This is (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) ...BTW: I mean all side by side, not stuck on top of each other... so a MK3 balastik would have 3 1x1 cylinders at the very end side by side (or in whatever configuration the designer wanted). ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Heh. In our first game a pilot got that, and tried to ram my mech with his speeder bike. It didn't work. :D (...) This can be avoided by writing down all the stats and weapons (and stats of the weapons) when you make your army- then you have (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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...We (WAMALUG) had our first test brikwars game saturday and I must say it was fun (specially when the big mecha pilot got enraged and swore death at his attackers :-) _BUT_ (there's always a but in these things)... ...I found the weapons a mess to (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Looks pretty good. It captured the chaos of the mountain pass quite well. Adrian (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) Finished. (URL) me what ya think! Drew Lawrence (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) After conferring with a couple of friends who worked at Blizzard, I need to correct what I said. Most of the employees were fans of the game Warhammer, and many also were really into the game Necromunda. The artists who worked on Warcraft were (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) D'oh! D'oh! D'oh! D'oh! <whaps head against wall> Ah well. We'll make sure that we get *everybody* in the next event. (...) Drew Lawrence (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) We spent about 3 hours doing the terrain alone. (...) Adrian Drake built that. :) (...) Again, Adrian built that one. (...) Jeez, you must really like Adrian Drake or something -- he did the Jar-Jar splatters. (...) Yes, I thought those were (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) was (...) city (...) and (...) referred (...) Chaos. Yes, I seem to remember that one, too. People don't understand how to pronounce the greek CH sound in this country sometimes. The guy from company X is coming today, someone would say, and (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Ahhhh, my brain kept trying to come up with something starting with an S and I kept drawing blanks on the company name. Going down the wrong path. (...) avoid (...) Alliance, (...) Abe's (...) I stand corrected - for one particular product, it (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Didn't know they were ever called Brainstorm. Silicon & Synapse (after creating great games like The Lost Vikings and Rock & Roll Racing) had decided to change their name, mostly because no-one could pronounce synapse. They decided to change (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Castle Wolfenstein was created by Silas S. Warner in 1981 for Muse Software. Muse later created Beyond Castle Wolfenstein in 1984. (...) Actually, the licensing of engines is very common! Why make it easier for someone to compete with your (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) This is partly true, but I would like to clear up some of your nomenclature. You could say that Id created the First Person Shooter (FPS) genre of games when they created Wolfenstein 3D. This is different from an engine, as an engine is a (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) yah yah! I remember copying it (shhh, i was young) sector by sector, since my poor apple][+'s 48k memory couldn't do more than that... :) yay locksmith *grin* :) Dan PS. Hope my age isn't showing ;) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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These are great! Lots of praise to follow: 1) I am amazed by the green-hilly-mountain-forest area of the scenery - it looks amazing! With the trees and use of those huge baseplate mounds and the water ... *drool drool* Landscaping can make the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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Ahh, that's it! I looked up vehicle stats in the Brikwars 2000 tome (I'm slowly making the conversion from version '98), and it all makes sense to me. Under the 2000 guidelines, the halftrack is actually a "huge" treaded vehicle, with base stats of (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Well, if you're going to write it, then I won't bother :) (...) Never fear, Adrian is here! I remembered that (after you left, of course) so I at least have hte 4 of us still there. I'll send it to you (or upload it to the brickshelf archive (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) Wolfenstein was created by....ummmmm....dang....that was so long ago even I forget. I mean the ORIGINAL Castle Wolfenstein (Apple ][). Top down graphics, not first person. But yes, the engine by IDG has been copied many times. These guys (...) (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Always. Still is (my question was rhetorical). Bruce (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Blizzard (originally Silicon and Synapse, then Brainstorm, now Blizzard) was founded by Alan Adham (Allen? I forget). Much of his early contract work was for the company he lived near, Interplay Productions. Interplay has been in Orange County (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Inaugural Ohio BrikWar battle report! (...) Oh shoot! You know what we forgot? The group photo at the end, where it shows the players together. :( Drew Lawrence (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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Well, I'm not sure what my brother-in-law did in regards to uploading the pics of BrikWars to BrickShelf, but something went wrong along the line. Yesterday he gave me copies of all the pics he took on floppy disks along with his password for (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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The way this works is a creative company invents a gaming engine and several others copy it. Classic example Wolfenstein/Doom invented by Idg. These guys invented the 3D shooter engine that was copied by many others. Once software engine is created, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Maybe they're there now. They were in Canada before (where they started). -- Paul Davidson Alex <legowiz@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Ft6nnL.89v@lugnet.com... (...) take, (...) Blizzard (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) Well it does say that you can tow other, smaller vehicles, with a movement penalty equal to that vehicles power rating. (2000 rules 4.1.3 - third from last paragraph) If you treat the Mass Driver MkII as a vehicle in and of itself, you'd only (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Had the tree not obscured my Pilot's vision, I would have just left it there for the duration of the game. (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) WHAT!!!!!!! It was in Irvine???? I live there! When was it there? (...) would (...) Alex Alex (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Get cracking. Start working up the text and we'll work out a way to merge it with the pics. (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) I like this one. (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) 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. (...) Those were a lot of (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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Here's my dilemna - how should I treat a WWII-style howitzer in Brikwars rules? The barrel, from breech to tip, is 16 studs long, and it's simply mounted on a two-wheel chassis with which to be towed by my Sd.kfz 251 Halftrack. When we last played (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) 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.) (...) Yeah! (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) How about OHLUG / ohlug.org ? --Todd (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) 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 (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) Oh, I guess you didn't field the little mecha you showed me before the festivities started. Don't mind me :) (...) of (...) If the bowling pin hadn't been there, it would've been fine though. (...) Right, that was Ken's camera. I believe he's (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) Ken is Jeff Christner's sister's husband. I don't know his last name either. (...) 3 mecha? I only had 2 -- the black Locust and the [mostly] white Raven. (...) That was so cool. And yes, that one area was WAAAY too crowded. (...) I got off my (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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