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(...) The swivel cannon is always able to target. Without a swivel cannon, your ability to target depends somewhat on the GM's estimation of the angle of broadside, but it tends to be a pretty small arc on either side of the ship (though it is (...) (20 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) They'd also benefit from the fact that they should always be able to aim all cannon at the larger ship, but the larger ship wouldn't always be able to target all of them at the same time. Theoretically the larger ship should benefit from the (...) (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.gaming)
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In lugnet.gaming, Frank Filz wrote: , it's small arms fire that is too effective. (...) You might want to take a look at Flagship Games [Pirates!] They are designed for cast resin ships and 25mm figs, but the cannon count and physical ship size is (...) (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I'll have to have a look at this also. I'm not absolutely wedded to a campaign game with ship upgrades (even in an 8 hour game, they barely come into play). Adding the other aspects of the campaign game (scenario islands and such) would be (...) (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) A lot depends on which way you want to go - role-playing or straight miniatures gaming. With role-playing people can join and leave at their leisure, but it leaves a lot of work and unfocused effort. Essentialy, a bunch of one-on-one (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) The Western theme could be a good game to break the ESPG for a bit. Using my pic from BF2004: (URL) attacking a wagon train or Indians doing a buffalo run, maybe the bad guys doing a bit of rustling: (URL) of these ideas might make a good (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I'll probably end up with RuneQuest since it is at least published. I do dislike the high level I hit he parries problem (though I point out GURPS actually has this problem also). I have found RuneQuest characters to be fairly different, it's (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) BrikWars would not be my system of choice. Actually, I've mostly decided that the AFOL created systems aren't really worth it. None of them really take advantage of the brick (BrikWars does to a minor extent, but then you can disassemble (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) I tend to agree. We tried a couple of things to make BrikWars more brick-centric: a system for minifigures to construct things mid-battle, the Mechanix who can recombine blasted-apart vehicle fragments in new ways, etc. - none of them ever (...) (20 years ago, 9-Oct-04, to lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Mostly true. It is possible for a fleet of small ships to not be able to bring all guns to bear because they block each other, or they are blocked by islands in a busy sea. Correct about the partial damage issue (this also helps damage (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.gaming)
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