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(...) ...The 'pirate demo' is penciled in at 5ish on friday. Tho we may do it earlier since not much else is penciled in for friday as of yet anyway :-) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wamalug guy ((URL) Guide (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | Re: BirkWars, BrickFest, Some Questions
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(...) That's nothing. I remember when I asked about anyone who might be interested in BrikWars, and no one answered. eric (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: ATTN: Brikfest Space Brikwars Players
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(...) Mike ,I like your idea. I'll try to make 1 prefab base. Some ppl pls reply! We need to get this organized! (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: An Idea
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(...) I had always planned to put all these things on the Brikwars site eventually, but after college, work, and answering megs and megs of Brikwars e-mail I just keep falling further and further behind. Secondly, there are some pretty tight limits (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: ATTN: Brikfest Space Brikwars Players
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(...) A Space Brikwars game is not going to be much fun without (more than a few) buildings, so people should try to bring buildings and scenery if they can - however, Space-age weapons are pretty serious and there's a pretty good chance that your (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: BirkWars, BrickFest, Some Questions
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Man, does anybody remember back in say, January, when fun/gaming never got more than one or two posts every two weeks? Lately I can't even keep up. (...) Yeah, you can make basically anything you want, as long as everybody's still having fun. If (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) For the most part, bases should look cool. It would be good if they have space for some (or many) cannon. I haven't decided how many cannon bases should have, but they should have enough to require a pretty good sized fleet to assualt them. I (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) If I have time this week to breathe between finals (I probably will, I'm such a slacker ;-) I'll try to tinker around with some bases. Whaddaya think a base should have? I haven't quite figured out what role the bases play. (...) How early is (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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Stephen F Roberts wrote in message ... (...) I need to figure out how many cannon I actually need. I may actually have extra cannon. (...) another hull (...) minifigs I could (...) If we go for the campaign game, people start with a class 1 ship. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | Re: ATTN: Brikfest Space Brikwars Players
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i just thought, maybe you can 'set up' a few samll buildings or something, but not full-blown bases. (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Yes, Yes, YYESSSS!!!!!!! I had an idea to have instructions/ability sets for brikwars and the such, and other cool stuff. this is such a great idea! maybe we can make a PBBWG (PBB Wargamer group) or PWLUG or something :) brikwars.org anyone? (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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If there is, I'll be glad to do the layout... That actually, I feel, Is a good idea- instead of scouring the forums/ Jains/ and the brokwars site, you could have an easy centralized resouce to work from. It would be much easier to find events, were (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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Hmm. I was thinking the other day... LDRAW has a centralized resource (ldraw.org, duh) and I was wondering if it would be worth making one for us PBB wargamers? The site could contain the following: - Archive for game systems - archive of battle (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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It's here! I finally got off my rear end and wrote the rules :) Well, okay... I lied. The construction manual (a whole couple pages) isn't done yet. But that's only ten minutes of work. The game book is about six pages long, and has quite a few (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) ...ooh! I want some!! :-) (...) ...Yea, but I wanna patrol around with a class 7 ship :-) and I can salvage another hull from another boat and go class 8... bwahahahahaha!!! the sheer weight of minifigs I could bring to bear would be fun! :-) (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | ATTN: Brikfest Space Brikwars Players
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It came to my attention that we need to organize a bit for the space brikwars at brikfest. Here are some details: 1.How many people are going to play? If you plan on playing , pls reply to this message. 2. Terrain issues: I have a few bits a (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Thanks! I just put up the stats. They are only for the Original Series Robot Masters at this site, though: (auto loading MIDIs, turn your speakers to your preference) (URL)Have you tried playing it yet? Not this exact game, but I have tried a (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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This may not help you gentlemen, because I live in Toronto, but I’ve already got a lager undead contingent. About 50 skeleton warriors (these skeletons aren’t shabby and rag-tag corpse, their fully armed and all wear jet-black capes) comprise the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I'd be up for playing it, too bad we don't live closer together. (I'm in Bellingham, WA right in the middle between Seattle and Vancouver) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Cannon is another thing people need not worry about. I have something like 50 shooting cannon service packs (what can I say, back when I was looking for people to swap 6716 parts with, I got an offer to get cannon service packs from Italy, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) I don't see that we absolutely need to have sails, however, I'll be bringing my box of sails, so if you make your ship sail ready, we can use some of my sails for the game (I've got a bunch of extra sails from 6057, 6256, 6261, 6262, 6267, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) ...I was just going to 'cheat' and use paper. Simple, effective, and gets the job done :-) (and easier to poke holes in to simulate battle damage!) ...oooh! now there's an idea! have all ships use paper sails so we can use sharp pencils to (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) ...I've got a custom cutter modeled on the 6277 and put together 6274, 6280, 6289 (tho if I have a few minutes this week, I want to expand 6289 to add an extra hull (bwahahaha!!)). I don't have enuf cannon to really load them up correctly, but (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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(...) Well, I've got a lot on my building agenda for this week, but luckily, Pirate ships are on there! I have 8-9 standard hulls that I can build on, plus a *ton* of bow bricks I can use. I'll see what I can throw together. :) However, One thing (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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One more thing - if you're planning on playing, if you could bring a clipboard, that would make it a little easier for you to keep track of your ship papers. I'll be making a bunch of copies of the ship record sheets and will bring sheet protectors (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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I haven't gotten as far on building stuff as I wanted, and we've got a couple local gatherings going on (Martin Legault is down here in Raleigh NC this week). We could especially use some smaller ships, I have built the 4 copies of the cutter from (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | BrickFest June 9 - 11, 2000 Washington DC, USA!!! Last post!!!
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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, 5-Jun-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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| | Re: BirkWars, BrickFest, Some Questions
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(...) ...but lots of fun as they flail randomly and get mowed down by nearly-as-inept first rank soldiers :-) (...) ...Hmmmm that sounds like a great idea for a slimmed down game!!! Oh wait! I already did that on MiniFig Death! (URL) :-) (...) (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) ...details details :-) actually, no one has volunteered to moderate! everyone wants to just play! :-) Maybe u should come too! :-) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wamalug guy ((URL) Guide ((URL) the wildlink (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) You dated yourself by calling it "The Dragon". Heh. They dropped the "The" quite some time ago. eric (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Sweet! I really like your Naginatas. :D eric (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) .... and my victory muhahahahhaaaaaaa ;) -s (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) but my experiences have been that in doing so you lose a deal of the flavor of the game. I personally like to be able to pick up each Brikwarrior in my army and be able to envision his personality and how he likes to perform in battle - the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Yah you have been kind of chicken :-). (...) I have to find time to build a new Mech. My current Mech of ultimate mass distrution is not going to be quite as effective as I use it more and more. Eventually a strategy is going to be found to (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: BirkWars, BrickFest, Some Questions
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(...) That is both my problem and my solution: In past games, I've been too afraid of losing troops to it, and in the future I intend to swarm it (see below). (...) One of my very first ideas for a BrikWars army consisted of nothing but a pilot with (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: BirkWars, BrickFest, Some Questions
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(...) :) (...) Heh- I planned on having them 'genetically engineered'. But i created them mostly on the fact that they're going to be a defenite CP budget, like somewhere around 200-600 (...) immune to rifle fire? thats the point. (...) aw man, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) If you are playing with the rules for different troop types, peasants are bought as Normal People (chapter 8, section 1.1), while soldiers are bought as Troopers (chapter 7, section 1.1). Neither of these chapters are up in HTML yet but you (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | road trips (was: Re: BirkWars, BrickFest, Some Questions)
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FUT .o-t.fun (...) <snip> Oh, yeah, when I was 4 we drove from Kansas to FL, my older sisters and I were constantly playing in the baggage (the back seats folded into it so we had lots of space). That was a good trip, definitely. Somehow, when I was (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oh my god, that would be the greatest BrikWars setting of all time. On one side, a Champion with a chainsaw, a shotgun, and a windmillmobile car, leading a ragtag group of medieval warriors armed with gunpowder bombs in the defense of a (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: BirkWars, BrickFest, Some Questions
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(...) We did a lot of driving when I was young. We took two 5-6 week vacations driving across the US (though the first I was a little too young to remember much). We also took 5-6 weeks driving around Europe. We (me and my sisters) didn't fight too (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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