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(...) Well, not really (but they did publish stats for them in The Dragon once, ever read "Monty Haul and the German High Command"?), but hey, that was freshmen year in college, and I was still a power gamer (that was also almost 20 years ago...) (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) but (...) How would that play into the game? (...) Yeah, it's also easier to make sure I get it all back. :-) (...) Phew! How long would it take you to drive one way? My family and I barely survived a drive across Germany, I doubt we could (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Actually I was thinking more of 'Cthulu'... Just about any POOP makes a good minifig head (with the added bonus that instead of calling them minifigs you can now call them POOP-Heads). Sharks, boulders, clams, motorcycles, chests, and hats all (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Of course, but it's the attacker's choice whether to use the group roll or not. For any attacks that were especially important, he would still choose to make the rolls individually. He would only choose to use the group roll where it didn't (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) What I forgot to say is, what is going to make them less effective is the fact that they are in the hands of peasants rather than soldiers. Peasants are kind of inept. (...) Of course, having fewer different kinds of weapons to keep track of (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Hmmm... anybody played any Rune Quest? Can you say "Walktapus"? Of course the octopus is a little out of scale with the rest of the minifig for that but... Frank (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) If you're interested, I could use a little trick demonstrated in a game a friend from college wrote which made a trivial way to utilize a normal distribution curve to generate results from mass dice rolling. Of course you still come up against (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) So it's not such a bad idea? <sigh> well, too late now - they're all half- packed... maybe if i have time this week. (...) Too bad... I could really use something like that... (...) Yeah, that makes sense. (...) LOL! Too bad... -Shiri (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Actually they are all about equally effective, except for brooms of course, which you can use to beat a fig into unconsciousness but it takes a long time. Pitchforks can be used as Tridents and do as much damage as swords but take two hands. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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"BirkWars"? It sounds like some kind of hippie fight. (...) This guy is tough enough that he would probably get some kind of troop ratio requirement. You'd have to ask whoever is moderating the Brickfest game. Except I don't think anybody is (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) In our game in Portland there were a couple of super-tough vehicles, the trick to taking them down was to have a big swarm of highly mobile little units with no sense whatsoever of self-preservation. You've got to spread them out thinly enough (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I'm bringing them all anyhow, for display and stuff, so I'd love to share. They're arranged in three different groups, so it shouldn't be a problem to divide them. What I was wondering is - I was intending to arm my peasants with pitchforks, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Have you tried playing it yet? - Mike Rayhawk. ---...--- Check out the Official BrikWars Home Page at (URL) ---...--- (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Wow! I hope you're not going to play them all at once! Last time we played a medieval BrikWars game, we stuck to armies of about two dozen each, and it took 20-40 minutes per player turn. I can't imagine how long it would have taken with as (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Depends on how it flies - if it can hover and turn in place (like most hover bikes), then it is a hover flier, if it has to keep moving to stay in the air then it is a flier. If you build your hover bike by just removing the wheels from a (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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hrm - i think these could act as 'Templar Destroyers" if ya think about it.... (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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Oops! I accidenly pressed enter again!!! argh whats wrong with my broswer?????. Here is the complete message >_< TL5 TSA-Trooper (19 CP) Move: 13" Armor: 12 AV Skill: 1d6+4 Enchancements: 4x Moves Fast (4 CP) 3x Thick Hide (3 CP) 2x Unusal Skill (2 (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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Oops! I accidenly pressed enter. Here is the complete message TL5 TSA-Trooper (9 CP) Move: 9" Armor: 7 Skill: 1d6+4 Enchancements: 2x Moves Fast 1x Thick Hide 2x Unusal Skill (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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That Sounds lika a good strategy! I had an idea that a resonable sized amount of heavliy modied troopers like this: TL5 TSA-Trooper (9 CP) Move: 9" Armor: 7 Skill: 1d6+2 Enchancements: (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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