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(...) I'm quite surprised no-one did, one of the first thing the players have always done when I ran my games is form into teams (Usually because they see the bigger ships sitting on the tables and know that they will be brought in later...). (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) That's the way I've always played it - however, a ship can be crewed without a loyal pirate but it may go AWOL unless it's a certain distance away from your main ship (I think I used 2 foot - which is my Line-of-Sight for hidden ship (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Hoo, yeah - you need a second GM, Actually, I'm thinking of having about 4 next time I play - an uber-ref (me), a sutler, a combat ref (I can only be in one place at a time!) and a ship ref (in charge of playing imperial and merchant ships) (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I got pretty lucky there what with having blown one cannon up from a good distance, and on the next turn I managed to decrew the other one. I think it's because my gunners got some practice shooting at Guano Island. I will tell you this, I was (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Ya. Official start time WAS 10 AM friday and stuff was going down but it really didn't get rolling till well into the afternoon. You just have to get your job/LEGO balance right! ++Lar (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Request for Pirate Game (snip)...Pictures!
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(...) Yep, haven't had a chance to put them up yet (ask Mike Walsh what my apartment looks like right now...though he did note that it was easier to get into last night than Thursday night). I made an effort (and I think I succeeded) to take at (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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Didn't anyone take any photos? :-( Bruce (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Arggghh!! I be Cap't Luckless from the ship Lucky. My fearless crew decided to attack the Island of the Undead right away and that was a great way to initiate the boys to the cruel world of pirating. After abandoning the first pirate that made (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I think a GM is still a good idea for a fleet game. I'm hoping that if we manage Piratefest that we can still muster 8-10 players. A fleet game though certainly wouldn't require as much GM involvement since there isn't much to do for sailing (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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Hi, First of all, I want to say "Thanks, Frank!" for running the Pirate Game. It's a lot more work than it might look (and it looks like a lot of work already!), and he brought TONS of stuff that was critical for a good game. I had an excellent (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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...I am really trying to work on Jain's Guide more (jains.has.it or www.wildlink.com/lego/jain)! :-) Jain's is intended as a central link out to the best in LEGO Space military hardware and battles, from mecha MOCs to stories about LEGO Spaceships (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Either. (...) That is one of the nice things about the game that it does allow for walk ins. (...) Yea, that was definitely a bummer. I was just wiped by the end of Saturday, and I was also pretty wiped on Sunday plus wanted to relax and do (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Privately or via post? I know I had a lot of fun. It was great that I could just walk in and take the tiller of IMS Revenue Cutter Sally Forth late in the game. I was bitterly disappointed that I was unable to consummate my rape, either on (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.gaming)
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Before I write my big review of the game, I thought I'd again request thoughts on the game. It would also be helpful for folks to post their ship's and captain's names (I did get most of them off the board, but the several folks who left early (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: NELUG Tech Level 2 (medieval) game pictures etc..
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Credit goes to Joe Comeau for the big tree. Isn't the twisting vine-thing cool? I love that too! (and he calls himself a TECHNIC-guy.. pft) ;-) -Suz (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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Wow. Lots of great stuff in there. The buildings are great, but I especially like the tree! What a great idea to use the palm tree trunks as some kind of massive vine growing up around the tree. At least that's what it looks like to me. Nice layout. (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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I put a few pictures up as well.. There are directories for pre-game pictures (between team members), pics of players during the game, and fig's eye view during the game. (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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This isn't quite a formal review in the set review style (this product doesn't have a set number) but hopefully it is of some help to folks. We received the Bionicle card game (First edition, Deck 1 of 3: "Gali / Pohatu" 14.99 from US S@H) on Friday (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.gaming)
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"Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message news:GFuKtB.6pp@lugnet.com... (...) game (...) all my (...) would (...) The (...) For the record, I had a blast as well. I especially enjoyed the pre-game planning and coming up with a story. An (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Honestly, I think this was some of the most fun I've had with a Brikwars game as well. I think the real fun of it was having lots of troop-on-troop combat, rather than vehicle on vehicle, which tends to be a lot less carnagey. Also helping was (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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