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(...) Thanks! (...) Playing a lot of first-person shooters lately, are we? (Funny thing, you might find this hard to believe, but we've been kicking around an idea to include minifig DeathMatch rules when we expand chapter 10.) For EMP weapons, we (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) There are any number of different ways to do it, depending on the gun, and the attention span of the player building it. Your way is one perfectly good way (this is one of those areas that fits under the 'fudge everything you can get away (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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...Jain's Guide ((URL) the preeminent guide to the fighting men, women and equipment in the sector will gladly accept submissions of field reports, equipment reviews, unit interviews, or system guides. ...In addition to our army of field reporters (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Cool! I just glanced at it, but it looks really good!! :) BTW, have you ever thought of EMP weapons and Chainguns? I think both of these could be valuable additions to the Brikwars arsenal. Jeff (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) ...public corruption? :-) <CHOP> (...) ...Special this week! Buildings 80% off!!! ...Ok, now I have a question and how I handled it during our last game. How do you 'make' a fig portable gun? ...In our last game, I had a Mk II balistik that (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) thanks for the vote of confidence! ...yea... I was thinking of making the weapons mods simple like '+1TH' or cheaper for -1" move... so a force could have unique weapons... but 'encourage' the designer to standardize on one or two weapons for (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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I've put up the HTML version of the first six chapters of BrikWars 2000 for public consumption (books Zero through Two), they're all newfangled and fancified with illustrations and hotlink cross-indexing and all that other good stuff you expect from (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I like this a lot - it avoids all the long game setup and tables referencing that are such a pain. I think that if you add stuff to make the weapons more unique, you'll have to be careful about it - if you add too much detail in that area, (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote in message ... (...) Clearly it (...) I should have mentioned that I asked Steve a question about cannon a few months ago... Oh, I just dug into the exchange and found more info... Here is the response to my first e-mail: (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build, lugnet.gaming)
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...I wish we had gotten more pics, but here's two versions of a battle report from our March Brikwars game for WAMALUG :-) (URL) (click on the battle report for Atrius). (posting it to the site even as I send this) ...you can go back to ignoring me (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Brikwars 4/29/00 Pics are up
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(...) I'm glad you like it! I did make it a bit bigger overall to enable the back to hold a bigger weapon or so it could act as a troop transport. It was designed more for BrikWars utility than realism. :D (...) Yes, I did! Thank you for noticing. (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) It looks cool! Since it looks like a truck more than a jeep, it is probably better scaled to the minifigs than the jeep. I also like the bombed out church in the background. It kinda looks like your work. Did you make it? Fredrik (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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...Ok, well, I commented a week ago about theories I had about BrikWars (motto: "The best damn way to kill minifigs yet!"), so I finally got around to writing them down. Now admittedly, they are incredibly rough and ugly and nearly unreadable, but (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Yes... specifically, the one in this shot (URL) mine, which I mentioned to you earlier. I have to admit that by the time I made the changes I wanted (adding a third set of wheels, using the "spring axles", etc) mine is nowhere near as sturdy (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Looks like you had lots of fun with the Brikwars session. And lots of cool creations present as well. Fredrik (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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oops! Those are from 04/01/00, not 04/29/00. These are NELUG's Brikwars I pics, not NELUG's Brikwars II. Sorry about that! shaun (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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All right, I know we're now going backwards in time, but I scanned in my pics from the 4/29/00 Brikwars event at the Charles River Museum of Industry. Also included are three battle maps, showing the chronology of events, the exchange of fire, and (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: NELUG 4/30/00 Brikwars Pics are up.
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(...) You make me sound so philosophical-like. For the record, what I was actually thinking was "why did I stay out so late last night?" eric (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: NELUG 4/30/00 Brikwars Pics are up.
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That is Eric Joslin's fantastic burned out European-style cathedral. We should all nag him to post pictures of it, because it really is amazing in and of itself. It has statues, balconies, gargoyles, brown pews ... very impressive, even in its (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: NELUG 4/30/00 Brikwars Pics are up.
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(...) That would be me, the guy in the back of the same shot. It was supposed to look like it had been through heavy fire- I wanted to get a "Saving Private Ryan" devastated European village feel for my BrikWars Scenery. There is supposed to be more (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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