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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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Pirate Game (was Re: big brikwars game..)
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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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (25 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. (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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, (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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, (...) (25 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: (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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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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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(...) 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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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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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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