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(...) ...All the troopers would have a helmet comm, but you would still have chain of command and distraction. The average field guy does not want to be distracted with the assorted coordination chatter that would go on at 'command' frequencies, so (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Hi! Sorry I missed this post last week! I hope I'm not too late. (...) The Big Shield only protects the Knight on one side (a 180 degree arc in whichever direction the shield is facing) - if he is attacked from behind, his AV drops to a much (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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I'm trying to organize a Brikwars event in florida- jacksonville to be more specific. I have 2 other people, both with modest collections- but still, are any other posters from the jacksonville/st.augustine area? Thanks Pearson (25 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I see what you mean. (...) Shoot, I really did make that kind of unclear. The text in 1.3 is a holdover from the 1996 rules, when all attacks were cumulative not just for each turn, but for whole rounds. We found that was really hard to keep (...) (25 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Even if I were only playing a game with one opponent, I think that I'd like to have some variable to see who moves and attacks first at the start of every game turn. With the most recent group we had of 4 people, two of my allies went, then (...) (25 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) When we have too many guys on the field to keep track of, we're careful to make sure they always hold their weapons in such a way to indicate whether they are ready to attack, or whether they have just attacked. After firing a ranged weapon, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Well, that's why it's an Optional Rule. (...) Nah, no extra CP's. All communications equipment comes for free. There's no real reason to use Radios if you don't want, I just think it's more fun that way. (...) Well, that's why the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) It's something that takes some getting used to. The important thing is to have a way to tell them apart when you need to, the method isn't really that important. (...) Did you really think so? I'll make a note to put siege weapon ranges up for (...) (25 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I think the NearMiss rules slowed us down, as we just about calculated where every near miss went. We also didn't play this rule correctly for the first part of the game. In most wargames I've played I'm used to a miss is a miss. Granted if (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) The organized attack rules might be good for lower Tech Level games, but at higher levels I would think nearly anybody would be able to organize a combined attack. From the upper end of TL4 and higher I'd say that nearly every soldier would (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Thanks -- I'm glad you liked it. (...) Who doesn't? (...) MY army wasn't that big. (2 mechs, 1 tank, 8 troopers, Medic & Engineer) 307 CPoints all together. Adrian & Jeff both brought 1000+ pts worth of armies... :p (...) Adrian does. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) 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. (...) What would happen to a Mech that was taller then 10" ? Drew (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) ...The pieces thing is a great idea, conceptually, it makes it easy to tell weapons apart without making them all the exact same... It just didn't work rite in practice... (...) ...I wanted to avoid paper as much as possible, mostly in the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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I use two "megaphone" pistol pieces for most of my rifles, you need to stick a 1x1x1 round piece between them so they can fit in both a minifig's hands comfortably though. They look better when the characters are holding them too. Steve (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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Hey, check it out, some wiseguy nominated the BrikWars page as a Cool Lego Site of the Week candidate and no one bothered to tell me. Who would have thought, it must have been a slow week. - Mike Rayhawk. ---...--- Check out the Official BrikWars (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Which rules did you have problems with? I remember somebody was complaining about having to do the NearMiss calculations for every shot - that's one of the rules that we were specifically thinking of when we were writing the introduction and (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) what the (...) Well, the whole 'pieces' thing is just a suggestion, if you have some other way to keep track of which pistol (or any other type of weapon) is which then of course feel free to use it. out the to-hits (...) remember exactly (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) hahaha I popped into the library between classes yesterday to read lugnet, and I hit this link and took a look at the battle report - it was hilarious! The librarians kept threatening to throw me out because I couldn't stop laughing. I (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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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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