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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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| | Re: BirkWars, BrickFest, Some Questions
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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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(...) Well, our games so far have consisted of people showing up and bringing 300 point armies. Because of this, the number of special guys has been low, because it's difficult to reach the ratio for many special troops inside the 300 point limit! (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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Hey, I just finished up the rules to a simple war game that I made up. These are just the rules, though. I haven't added each character's individual stats, yet. If you want to see those when they come around, check out the Project: Lega Man section (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: BirkWars, BrickFest, Some Questions
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Hey, hope to see you there. I wish I had enough castle figs to make a medival army, but I do not, so i wont be participating in the medival brikwars (unless someone lets me use some ;). Oh yeah, and I got some dice. On another note, I had some (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: BirkWars, BrickFest, Some Questions
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Hi Randy, Check out the brickfest.com homepage, it says BrikWars on it. So I assume (and hope) that it'll be on! :-) I've been getting ready for the medieval BW all day... (counted over 140 'figs, I had no idea I have so much!) HTH, -Shiri 'nother (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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btw, heres what i have built: TROOPERS: 1 squad of SeigeTroopers 1 squad of ImpactSoliders 1 Squad of GyroFootmen VECHILES: 2 HoverBike MarkII 1 L.A.V Light AssaultVechile 1 Mechanix Trux 1 'Centurion' VTOL Fighter 1 Blaster mecha In Progress: (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | BirkWars, BrickFest, Some Questions
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Hey, I was wondering who is going to play BrikWars at BrickFest? I plan on having a SpaceAge (TK5) with some others players, but since I am a JrFOL I dont have enough peices to build terrain(or money to get some:) ), or do I have any dice at the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: New Report on Jain's
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(...) Don't worry about it. Somehow I screwed up the parts update installation, which is why I was unable to find such a basic part. It's fixed now. Now I'm waiting for the X-1 Tie windshield to come out :P (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Help Wanted (Lego Pirates at Dragon*Con)
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Hi! I was wondering if any of y'all were planning on attending Dragon*Con [1] here in Atlanta next month. As you may already know, Steve Jackson will be here to run his Lego Pirate Game [2]. Steve has asked me if I might be able to get volunteers to (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.dixielug, lugnet.announce)
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posted to:lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.fun.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains fut: lugnet.org.us.wamalug What: (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) You can search for parts on partsref (URL). Once you've got the part name and number, you should be able to find it more easily in your software. Like Pearson said, if you're using MLCad, slope bricks are under the Other Parts hierarchy. Steve (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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For any BrikWars fans who might be out there, I made kind of a big change today - Trooper Armor and CP cost have been changed from '5' to 'TekLevel+1 (min 2)', which means that Castle Troopers can now actually be killed by Castle weapons. I haven't (...) (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Try other parts/ S (S for slopes...) Pearson (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I just received communication from Steve about stern chasers. He had them in an early version of the game, but they ended up just being a hassle. So let's not deal with that, but if you don't want to re-build your ship to add another broadside (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I'll have to go throught he rules a bit, i think. The Wraith is a Class 6, two center sections. Therefore, if I remove my redundant broadside cannon I have 6, which includes the 2 stern chasers. I defer to the GM, of course, but we can discuss (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) ...when in doubt read the instructions :-) Well, I'm gonna kill lots of trees and print it all out to read! (paperless office be damned!) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wamalug guy ((URL) Guide ((URL) the (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) Gee, I think just about everyone is willing to GM... (...) Is that a 2 center section ship or larger? Are the stern chasers under the poop deck? The game doesn't particularly deal with stern chasers, but I'd consider allowing a ship to have (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) Sorry I didn't get to this last night... If we do something like the campaign game, we will want many smaller ships, and even if we play the battle game, it will still be nice to have bunches of smaller ships. I will start building some small (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | Re: Pirate Game - I've got the GM charts!
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(...) Not ruled out, but from what he said is unlikely (though I don't think he will be at an already scheduled appearance that weekend from what I have seen or he has mentioned). I've pointed him to the Brickfest web site, so if he is able to make (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) You mentioned the possibility of his participation. Is that ruled out at this point, or are you in close enough communication to know? Chris (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) Dolphin saboteurs? ;) LFB (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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