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Yesterday I ran a small pirate game for a couple of my friends. It went pretty good. Each started with a class 2 ship. There were 3 large islands and half a dozen small islands. An imperial base and a neutral base. During the game, each captain (...) (20 years ago, 31-May-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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| | Re: My First Pirate Game GMing
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(...) Whether grape is "too effective" or not as currently written is the subject of much discussion in ESPG circles. I don't think there has been any firm conclusion drawn as of yet. (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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| | Re: My First Pirate Game GMing
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(...) I think it is too effective. I'll be giving it a range of 6" and -2 per 6” thereafter. I want cannon fire to be about ship-to-ship combat and not slaughtering the crew while leaving the ship intact. From what I saw, GS is easily the most (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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| | Give him some prize money! (was: My First ESPG)
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(...) But that's braodly historically accurate. For most countries' fleets/ships/captains the whole point of shooting at an opposing ship was to disable it, board it and force the crew (or what was left of them) to surrender. For example, for the (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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| | Re: Give him some prize money! (was: My First ESPG)
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(...) Well, no. Dismasting a ship was probably the easiest way - the opposing ship couldn't manuever to make an effective broadside while you can. You don't do that with grapeshot. Further, grapeshot was only really effective from close range, and (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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| | Re: Give him some prize money! (was: My First ESPG)
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(...) ship (...) do (...) close (...) could (...) were (...) Within (...) do (...) Most of the debate I had heard in the past was that grape wasn't really worth using in the game. In the past couple games I've run, I have seen some use of grape. (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Give him some prize money! (was: My First ESPG)
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(...) Why don't you modify the rules you use when running a game? It doesn't seem that big of a deal. ~Clangador (20 years ago, 4-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Give him some prize money! (was: My First ESPG)
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"Clangador" <clangador@comcast.net> wrote in message news:HyrtE6.1Isu@lugnet.com... (...) some (...) shot, (...) the (...) are (...) be (...) seem that (...) I've been giving some thought to changing rules. The trouble is care must be taken (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Give him some prize money! (was: My First ESPG)
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(...) That is a problem. But, if you were to develop multiple personalities, you could play a game by yourself and test the rule modifications. ~Clangador (20 years ago, 5-Jun-04, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming)
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