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Re: CO BrikWars get together
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Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:34:41 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.us.oh, Shaun Sullivan writes:
> 
> I agree with Mike here ... when we last played (lo, these two weeks ago ...), • about
> 1/3 of my fielded forces were WWII-era pieces.  I had a Jeep MB with towed • howitzer
> and a German SdKfz 222 armored car running about with the 'mechs and flying • suits.
> I try to keep the WWII stuff as authentic as possible - plain soldier carrying
> pistols or shotguns, and mouted machine guns treated as low-level ballistix - • they
> look like they just stepped out of the North African campaign.  Anyways, the • point
> being, they were just as strategically relevant as anything else, plus they • looked
> great.  Granted, I tried to steer them away from confrontations with huge • lumbering
> harbringers of mechanized death, but that added to the fun, trying to keep • them
> alive without sacrificing their historical perspective.

I saw the pictures of your army in there ... the armored car died :) Those
were cool. I really liked your Jeep, with the black Howitzer..

> So I am all for throwing
> knights in there ... they'll rock at close combat, and open up whole new • dimensions
> to the strategizing - how to herd the enemy into their proximity, without • leaving
> them overly exposed to pot-shots and such.  You have to plan an entire • defensive
> offense, where the knights are protected while trying to get them close to • enemy
> foot soldiers.

Heh heh heh heh. Knights ... evil ... :)

> And, except for the occasional fly-by, my guess is that any
> harriers would concentrate more on the "larger threats".

That was merely an example. I'm not bringing in Harriers, and I don't think
ANYBODY else is even bringing in any flyer of any type... I'm actually
bringing in multiple Mech's.

Here is a loophole in the Vehicle system.... To get a treaded vehicle's cost,
you calculate out the area of the chassis, divide that by ten, and then add
the class number. My Small Mech has a chassis area of 16. Divided by 10, it
comes out to be 1.6, which, when rounded, is 2 CP. Then add the Class Number,
and the entire mech costs 4 cp. (No weapons or pilots added yet.. all in all,
however, it costs about 30 CP.)

> 
> In any case, hope you guys have fun!
> 
> shaun
> 
> Mike Rayhawk wrote:
> 
> > In lugnet.loc.us.oh, Drew Lawrence writes:
> > 
> > > I don't know if I want to tell everybody what I'm bringing as a fighting
> > > force. For instance, if I said I was bringing in a ton of Knights & such,
> > > somebody would probably pay for a bunch of Harriers to kill my Knights from
> > > the safety of the air.
> > 
> > I doubt that anyone would do that, if all you had were a bunch of knights • and
> > somebody decided to butcher you with a bunch of Harriers, then you would • just
> > pack up and go home because there wouldn't even be any point in fighting the
> > battle.  There would be no game, and the person who built all the harriers
> > would be ashamed of themselves for being such a poor sport.  I mean,
> seriously.

At that point, you would start making allies with somebody who had alot of
Gyro Rifles, or somebody which was capable of taking down [tough] air targets.
Who, after all, would NOT want the close up anti-personel backup of the
Knights?

> > 
> > - Mike Rayhawk.
> > 
> >  --------------------------------------------------
> >     Check out the Official BrikWars Home Page at
> >    http://www.teleport.com/~rayhawks/brikwars.htm
> >  --------------------------------------------------

LegoMasterLuke



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(...) Actually, we used a different statistic for Mech's because of that "loophole" because it didn't seem very fair (hopefully Mike will forgive us, unless of course he was the one to suggest it... I don't know-- it wasn't my idea)... We (...) (27 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.oh)

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I agree with Mike here ... when we last played (lo, these two weeks ago ...), about 1/3 of my fielded forces were WWII-era pieces. I had a Jeep MB with towed howitzer and a German SdKfz 222 armored car running about with the 'mechs and flying (...) (27 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.oh)

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