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(...) ...errrrr... Steve may be coming? As in Steve Jackson? (...) ...I'm all for it! All I've got at the moment are a couple of basic pirate ships, but that'll still be fun! :-) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) I e-mailed Steve over the weekend, and will be sending him an SSAE today to get copies of the GM charts. He also expressed some interest in coming to the Brickfest, though he said his June schedule is tight. Please let me know if we want to (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) Actually, I don't think that would be so bad. You copuld clear out the bunker by poping an mkII missles off a bazooka, and through the window. That would make a few fig unhappy... Pearson (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Airships probably wouldn't fit in too well. The Pirate Game is relatively non-fantastic (though not totally so). (...) Depending on how many players we have, I may be able to supply all the ships. I can almost certainly supply all the (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Definitely colour me there and interested, even if I *can't* use _Gloire_. ;) I can put together other ships on fairly short notice. I'll even give 'em two boats each, so I can kedge around. Oh, and I can bring some snakes if we want to make (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Oooh!! Yes, I'd be interested! Hmmm... I'd have to make some Pirate ships for it... Would Airships (a la Final Fantasy) be okay? ;) We were also thinking of a Medieval/Fantasy Brickwars game. Would there be interest in that as well? Jeff (24 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Would there be an interest in the Pirate Game also? I'd be willing to run that (and can provide plenty of ships). That would be another good round the clock type game. (24 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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I have to agree with Mike here ... when I first read the initial posting, I shuddered at the prospect of a huge game. Our second NELUG game (the one that we finished) took about 4 hours to play to conclusion (11:30 to 5:00, with about an hour for (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) You've got to watch out, a game like this is going to get bogged down by inexperienced players fielding bigger armies than they can handle. What you might want to do is set a 20-30 minute time limit on each player's turn - this will serve to (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) ...They'd have an overwhelming advantage, but specially if we use the divide by points fielded idea, they still wouldn't necessarily come out best. And if we have several target areas spread out by >30", if the player with 200 pts wanted to (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I was thinking of a "Last man standing" kinda thing. Basically, just try to take out all vehicles/troops, and whoever has the most points at the end wins. Points would be equal to the CPs of the enemy units destroyed. I've been thinking about (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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...We were going to do some Brikwars at the East Coast Brikfest (june 9-11, join lugnet.org.us.wamalug for info), Jeff proposed a 'round the clock/continuous game' kind of thing. So I'm posting my initial ideas for how to structure this thing to get (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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This site may be old news to veteran wargamers, but others might not know about it. The Warp Spawn Game site is a site I've visited several times in the past. Here is the URL: (URL) I've used some of the rules on this site in the past, namely Green (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Well, it's mentioned briefly at the tail end of the Rifles section (2.2.2). I don't think there's anything in the Pistols or Lasers section, maybe I'll add those when I'm done moving back down to Los Angeles. (...) Shoot! You just reminded me (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) :D I admit it, I got the idea of the chaingun from Starsiege Tribes... :) The EMP idea was just a general idea I had, though... (...) That sounds interesting! ;) (...) I must've missed this part in the rules. Its in there, right? (...) Well, (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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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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(...) 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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| | Re: NELUG 4/30/00 Brikwars Pics are up.
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Yes, I do have them all developed and in my grubby little claw-like hands - at my apartment, sadly, not here. I will bring them in and scan them tomorrow - there are some good ones in there. I'll post them on Brickshelf, and post the address (...) (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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In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Shaun Sullivan writes: <snip> Wee! Sounds like you guys had a great time! Just wondering, who built that awesome church-like structure that appears at the foreground of this pic? (URL) can't quite make it out... looks like it (...) (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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(...) Did your pics from the last battle ever make it onto the net? I missed them if they did. There were a couple I was looking forward to. I should just buy my own digital camera, eh? Or at least fix the film one I have. 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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These look great, Eric! The set-up and landscaping looks as good as I remember it! Some of these pictures made me chuckle out loud. Just to supply some captions on some of the pics, for those who weren't in attendance: (URL) - it's often been said (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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| | NELUG 4/30/00 Brikwars Pics are up.
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The Pictures for our most recent Brikwars game are up at the NELUG site. Either follow the link on the NELUG Main page. (URL) go directly there using this link. (URL) hope you all like them. There arn't that many close ups. I have a relatively low (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I liii...iiike it. :) Way cool, Mike. (...) Technichally, they are Ken's pictures, as it was his digital camera that did all of the work. *I* don't mind, however. (...) Drew Lawrence (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: BrikWars Links Page
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(...) ...Write ups are on the way (we're just slow sometimes :-) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wamalug guy ((URL) #160 (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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I added a page to the BrikWars site with links to all the sites that have pictures of BrikWars games or other BrikWars-related material at (URL) Right now this includes (in order): 1. Drew Lawrence's coverage of the Ohio builders' game, and the (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | BrikWars in the Catacombs
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Wanted- A handful of players to play a one turn a week, play by email (but photos provided), dungeon hack kind of game, hand wavingly based on the BrikWars* rules. If you're interested (and I'll only take the first 4 or 5 people) email me asayc**. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Can someone explain Brikwars to me??
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(...) The URL for everything BrikWars is: (URL) there and read all about it. FUT lugnet.fun.gaming. eric (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I read it, but it was many, many years ago. About all I remember is how the power armor worked, movement wise, and the dropships. I think I still have a copy somewhere, but its probably still packed up after moving two years ago. Jeff (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | BrikWars in the Catacombs
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All this whoo-ha about BrikWars* I don't know. It's enough to make one want to say something like this. Wanted- A handful of players to play a one turn a week, play by email (but photos provided), dungeon hack kind of game, hand wavingly based on (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming)
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Have you read "Starship Troopers"? Not the craptacular Paul Verhoeven movie, but the Heinlein novel? RAH goes into quite a bit of detail on how his cap troops are in communication with each other; basically the grunts have radios with one channel (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I suppose it depends on exactly how the comm system is set up. I picture individual talk groups for each squad with the capability of squads or larger groups to switch to a common talk group if initiated by a higher authority. That is, one (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I don't know what I was thinking yesterday, I must have been on crack, this collision bit is all wrong. I hope nobody paid any attention. A Battering Ram is a big Club. TL0 CP1 RngCC UR2 Dmg1d6 (Stun to living targets) So, it would do 1d6 (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) 'sides, usually command traffic is encrypted, which the average trooper won't have the eq to decode... (...) I'm not sure it should count as two attacks... I've seen batteries 20 miles apart shoot at the same target, at the very same second... (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) ...:-) I didn't mean theyd turn off their comm, just they'd turn off the command frequency... leave the command frequency to the higher paygrades and all. (...) ...This is more like 'shoot that tank there!!' where all the members of a squad (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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This has been announced previously, and was discussed after the last BrikWars game and at Lizzy's, but: The New England Lego User's Group will be gathering at Brandeis University this coming Saturday (April 29th) to pound each other into the dirt (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) usually the field guys will be on their squad freq, while the squad commander is on both squad freq and command freq... but no one in their right mind will turn off his radio in a battle. Not unless you're looking for a warm place in a body (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) ...They are more complex both beforehand and during, but if the player came up with a 'claw arm' during design, he could equip all his vehicles with them so it wouldn't be as complex during the game. that's the kind of idea I was thinkin of. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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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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| | Re: Inaugural Ohio BrikWars Meeting
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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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| | Re: Inaugural Ohio BrikWars Pictures
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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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| | Re: Inaugural Ohio BrikWars Meeting
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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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| | BrikWars
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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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| | Re: Inaugural Ohio BrikWars Meeting
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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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(...) 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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