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Re: Simple (but fun) Castley Strategy Game(y)
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lugnet.gaming
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Mon, 14 Feb 2000 20:54:58 GMT
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Richard Franks writes:
> Each soldier was stuck on a 2x4 plate - I was the Army of Darkness, so I had
> black of course, and I had quite a few red, so those were the other sides
> colour. The plate was used for balance, but also to stick hit-points onto. For
> some reason I had a large number of red cylinders (80+) so these were used to
> measure hit-points. We were allowed to distribute hitpoints where-ever we
This is great! I have been working on a Lego wargame of my own, and one of my
stumbling blocks (no pun intended) was how to keep track of hit points for
figures. I had been placing my soldiers on plates to keep them in formation
(and to keep them from falling over when on carpet), but I'll have to start
using your simple idea of using red cylinders for hits. Before, I had simply
used a die set next to the figure.
Tony
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| (...) Glad to help! But in all fairness, it was my friends idea - not mine, so I can't claim credit for it :) If you want more than just a few HP per figure, you could use different colours - black equals five red etc. Or something more intuitive, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Simple (but fun) Castley Strategy Game(y)
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| The Setup ---...--- We decided on the theme first - classic good vs evil, this worked well as it allowed me to lead an army of skeletons, zombies and timmies against smiley castle folks. As with all these games - the more space you have the better, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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