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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Adrian Drake writes:
> In lugnet.fun.gaming, Gino A. Melone writes:
> > The Ohio BrikWars have commenced. We met today for about 8 hours.
> > Loads of fun. We had Drew Lawrence, Adrian Drake and Jeff Christner
> > fielding TL6 mechs, tanks and troopers against my TL3 keep. Ken (I didn't
> > catch his last name) joined us as photographer. Carolyn Cheney and
> > friends dropped in to observe.
Ken is Jeff Christner's sister's husband. I don't know his last name either.
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> > I fielded about 1900CP worth of Knights, Archers, Troopers, Scouts,
> > Cannons and a keep (based on the Royal Knights Castle baseplate). The
> > combined space forces were 1900-2000CP. 3-4 Mechs, 2 tanks, 2 hover
> > craft, a bunch of troopers and 30 skeletons.
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> Drew fielded 3 mecha, a tank, and a jeep, plus troops.
3 mecha? I only had 2 -- the black Locust and the [mostly] white Raven.
> Jeff had 2 hoverflyers
> and a bunch of troops, and I had a mech, a heavy assault transport, a bunch of
> troops, and 50 skeletons. Of course, the skeletons vaporized in a puff of
> magic smoke when we decided the battlefield was WAY too crowded.
That was so cool. And yes, that one area was WAAAY too crowded.
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> > We felt that the field wouldn't be fair like that so we built two BURP
> > mountains to form a pass that the attackers would have to funnel through.
> > We also through several NPCs onto the mountains to keep it interesting.
> > Thanks Geoff for manning the rock monster which was throwing rocks into
> > the pass. By the time we built the mountains and fielded all of the
> > troops, it was around 2:00 before we really got going. We had to vacate
> > the room by 6:00. So we started packing at 5:30.
I got off my first [successful] attack at 5:30, either. :(
>
> I had plenty of fun vaporizing Jar-Jar's (who populated one of the Burp
> mountains).
That was cool, how you completely vaporized the first Jar Jar. :) One little
blood smear on the side of the mountain...
> It would've taken 2 or 3 rounds of full on attacks to kill that
> darn rock monster too. It's interesting to have to fight against extremely
> powerful creatures like that.
> > It was a combination of armies being too large and discussions of rules.
> Next
> time we should do a lot better, I think. Slightly smaller armies and a better
> grasp of gameplay should speed things up nicely.
The armies can stay the same size, however -- we just needed more time.
Another 4 hours would have been nice. And yes, a better grasp of gameplay will
make things run much more smoothly.
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> >
> > My opening cannonball shot (3rd turn) took out 5 SpaceTroopers. Yeah!
> > I held my own as the SpaceMen tried to get through a narrow pass and over
> > rough terrain.
>
> That was an amazing shot. The crocodiles loved feasting on the corpses too :)
That was the first time I got to use my "bucket of blood!"
>
> > However, when we had to break, I was already beginning to feel the
> > effects of attrition on my artillery men. Eventually, the superior
> > firepower (that is, range) of the TL5 weapons would have won. The
> > SpaceMen were converging on the RockMonster as we had to quit. He
> > wouldn't have lasted two more turns. After that distraction was gone, I
> > would have felt the full brunt of their attack. And it wouldn't have been
> > pretty. Once those tanks got within range of my keep, it would have been
> > emtpy fast.
Oh yeah. Your castle would have been full of "blood smears." My one mech, the
black Locust, was tall enough to shoot OVER your castle walls. :) That would
have been tricky, though, as it had lasers as a primary weapon.
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> >
> > Ken took a ton of pictures. Hopefully, we'll have them on the web
> > soon. I'm sure that everyone will have more to add about our battle. We
> > had a blast and are already trying to plan a sequel, with much smaller
> > armies.
I want to see these pictures myself. That was Ken's digital camera (Not
Adrian's) that did all of the work, right?
Where is Ken going to post the pictures anyway?
Drew Lawrence
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| (...) Oh, I guess you didn't field the little mecha you showed me before the festivities started. Don't mind me :) (...) of (...) If the bowling pin hadn't been there, it would've been fine though. (...) Right, that was Ken's camera. I believe he's (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| (...) Actually Ken has already uploaded the pictures to Brickshelf, but as of yet they haven't appeared there. I'm not sure if Kevin looks thru them before allowing others to view them, or perhaps Ken did something wrong uploading them. Here is the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| (...) TL5, actually. (...) Drew fielded 3 mecha, a tank, and a jeep, plus troops. Jeff had 2 hoverflyers and a bunch of troops, and I had a mech, a heavy assault transport, a bunch of troops, and 50 skeletons. Of course, the skeletons vaporized in a (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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