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(...) ...lol.... very scary indeed :-) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wamalug guy ((URL) #160 (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I just had a stack of 'em made up for all my different troops and vehicles. Some checking was needed, but not all that much. (...) <gamer geek> Absolutely. Let's assume a SpaceMan is firing at another SpaceMan with penalties and bonuses that (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) ...I had the rules tables on hand, but short of tacking little cards with each squad, it was still hard to remember who went where. It wasn't too bad looking up weapons on the weapons table, but all those little checks added up quickly :-/ (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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Hey guys -- time to maybe move this discussion? (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) You'll hear more about it in the field reports (one for each side :) ) when we finish them, but it was hilarious! Stephen's side damaged my mech twice, the first time halving my movement (from 11 to five), and the second time was when they (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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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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