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Re: BrikWars - Battle Road
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Fri, 11 May 2007 21:23:03 GMT
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In lugnet.gaming.brikwars, Elroy Davis wrote:
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This was our first attempt at using the 2005 squad rules, and was our first
game that was based on an actual event.
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Now hold on! The Treaty of Versailles wasn’t a real event?
How did the squad rules work out for you guys? I notice you used the word
“attempt.”
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Overall, I thought the game was a success. The British acted like British,
and the Colonials acted like Minutemen would have. The moral rules seemed to
work well.
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They’re nice, although I wonder how you could scale them for larger squads. It
doesn’t make as much sense to force a check when a squad of 20 guys loses three.
I’d almost want to see something where you toss a big handful of dice, one for
each guy in the squad, and let them rout individually and abandon the squad.
The number to beat would be however many units had been involuntarily
de-squadded on the previous round - whether from routing, getting knocked off
the squad plate somehow, or the old-fashioned method of getting killed. That
way you could get nice cascade effects of routs that accelerate or decelerate
over a series of turns. Rallying difficulty would be handled by forcing any
unit attempting to join to make a morale check as well.
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Shaun Sullivan has photos of the game
here.
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To me,
this photo right here is the essence of everything BrikWars is about.
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| (...) Oops. I'd forgotten about that one. (...) I thought they worked really well. I was actually hoping for some squad-on-squad combat, but it didn't work out that way. I'd also love to play a larger scale game using squads at some point. Something (...) (18 years ago, 12-May-07, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars, FTX)
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| Over the weekend, members of (URL) NELUG> re-enacted the first battle of the American Revolution. This was the second game for our second Year of BrikWars. Our goal is to have at least six games by the end of the year. The original scenario rules (...) (18 years ago, 16-Apr-07, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.ri, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.org.us.nelug, FTX) !
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