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Re: CO BrikWars get together
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Mon, 10 Apr 2000 19:02:30 GMT
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Mike,
As the guy with only a handful of space guys, I have some questions about
costing. If looked at practically, Castle-era guys are a lot weaker than
TL4-5, like most of the field will be. As far as I can tell, the rules
assume that all armies are being fielded in the same TL.
Have you guys thought about (or already done, and I missed it) a
conversion factor for mixed genre battles. The simplest mechanism seems to
be a scale of relative values. If we are playing a 300 (TL5) point battle.
Someone who fields TL3 would get to use 300 x 2^2 = 1200 points of TL3.
Granted, this creates some very large forces. However, this seems right.
A small force of space troopers would decimate a similar group of knights.
However, a score of space troopers (without flyers and such) facing a force
of 10,000 knights wouldn't be likely to last long. Before you space-buffs
scoff, think it through. An early medieval cavalry is VERY efficient at
attacking as a group. You'd also be hard pressed to find a TL4 AI which is
anywhere near as effective an automonous control mechanism for a combat
vehicle as a battle-hardened warhorse. I'd expect TL5 to be on-par with
the horse.
What all this blathering amounts to is: (drum-roll...) I really need to
avoid coffee. Anyway...
If (major if), I could scrounge the time to build a well-fortified
castle, a substantial point outlay on defenses and the troops to man them
would create an interesting match against a lower-point TL5 attacker.
Assuming major limits on the number of flyers. Classic castle design makes
some major assumptions about the durability of gravity.
Another way to handle such drastically different TL between groups is to
ignore the fact that I am a lower TL. I field Castle theme pieces, but
call them TL5. Longbows are blurfl-rifles. Crossbows are big-blurfl-
rifles. (Can you tell I haven't read the rules carefully enough yet?) A
Catapault is a cannon. For that matter, I have a large supply of cannons.
A cannon is a TL5 cannon. A dragon is a small-flyer (Like Mike suggested).
A wizards wand is something-neat. Etc...
I have another thought on a force I could field. But I'll keep quiet on
that one for now.
So, after rambling for a possible new record in this thread, how do you
envision handling cross-genre battles, Mike?
Later,
Gino A...
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| (...) You know, I got this same question in e-mail yesterday. I swear I wrote rules to handle cross-TL battles, but for the life of me I can't figure out where I put them in the rules. I'm going to feel like an idiot if it turns out I forgot to (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| (...) They're only a huge waste of points if you try to build something so strong it can't be blown up. We did that on purpose. To put something on the field that can't be blown up is a huge waste of everybody's time. It's fine in real life of (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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