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Re: Anyone up for a big castle Brickwars over break?
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Fri, 1 Dec 2000 19:49:35 GMT
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Jason Rowoldt writes:
> 1. Nail down a date and place early. A Saturday or Sunday would be best and
> allocate 6-8 hours for it. Maybe after the 1st of the year. My contract ends
> Dec 31st and I will just be killing time before Nepal until Feb.
You're going to want more time than that.
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> 2. Decide on the terrain and rules. I think doing hand to hand combat with
> thousands of troops will take WAAAAAAAAAY too long. I think the guys in Ohio
> and the Aussies both had big Medival BrikWars games recently. Any
> advice/lessons learned guys? If we could get the distingushed mass army
> collector, Marc "Mr. Baltimore" Nelson, to come down we would have plenty of
> troops.
> I think we should use a platoon-as-a-unit type thing or a modified large-scale
> hand-to-hand and arrow ruleset. Any advice Mr. Rayhawk?
The Ohio battle wasn't medieval, it was TL6. There were 2500 CP on each
side. Primarily mecha with a few grunts on one side, and a crapload of
grunts and cheaper weaponry on the other side. We played for 2 days (about
18 hours total) and killed maybe half the troops and 3/4 of the vehicles.
The battle was ended when Gino lost his last large mech.
I don't know about total unit numbers, but I'd say conservatively around
100-150 total things on the field. With only 2 sides, it took close to an
hour and a half to do a complete turn. But Gino and I tend to bicker about
rules, and we had Jedi using the force which really mucks stuff up.
The writeup's on my webpage if you want to refresh your memory on the whole
thing.
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> If we can plan this right we can have the largest medival BrikWars ever. Let's
> get the rules right for pacing (think - no more than 5 attacks each per turn
> and units start out kind of close). I wonder what the largest army ever
> fielded is? If we do this right I can capture the entire event on Studios and
> make a nifty movie of it. Carmina Bruana anyone? :)
Using platoons, where all the troops in each platoon attack a single target
is likely the best method of controlling huge armies (unless you REALLY want
to drive yourself insane.) And make up your own rules. That's part of the fun.
Adrian
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www.brickfrenzy.com
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| Yeah, I'd love to play a giant Medival Brikwars. I don't know about the timing though. We are having a meeting of WAMALUG next weekend (the 9th I think). Planning for that may be short notice. Unfortunately, I go live with a huge system at work over (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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