Weekender XLBS: Enhancing Your Gaming & Tweaking The Rules
January 17, 2016 by warzan
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Happy Sunday!
Okay quick reply, Justin’s mammoth ‘Harry Mammoth’ to sound like hairy mammoth…lol
Count me in for the gaming train/cruise! Ticket to Ride!!
Justins mammoth name: Tinkles
When it comes to “Enhancements”, I’m with Ben. Always try to pick appropriate music to play. Also with Justin for doing the little RPGing parts for non-RPG games.
Music works, but take them to a location! You can also set-up some theatrics to scare them.
My dad waiting for three players in an old Victorian drainage pipe. One of them pissed himself in fright! Well worth the set-up time and getting a bit wet.
Happy Sunday everyone…x
Surely the only possible name for a mammoth is Manny ala Ice Age.
Justin, that’s why I’ll never play Kings of War. To me that mechanic doesn’t imply that the unit is even fighting each other. The ultimate feeling I get is what’s the point in even having models, you could as easily just have blocks of wood for all the difference combat makes.
Agreed. Justin has brought up a valid point here. It looses any spense of immersion from the combat stage. It spoils what is otherwise a perfect gaming system.
You’re basically playing with scenery…
If anyone enjoys playing that way go for it, it would be incredibly cheap. Personally and I think this is true of most wargamers, not having models, preferably painted up models, leaves a game hollow and largely pointless. However my enjoyment of this game is not affected by nor removing models from a unit. If it’s that important to you, you can remove models as a means to track wounds. My suggestion to any KoW gamer who does still find this a sticking point would be to house rule that any unit whose wounds are equal to or over half… Read more »
Never having foughtin a real medeivalbattle I couldn’t comment onits accuracy, but supposedly units only took casualties in small percentage termsin a battle, even up to Napoleonic times. It was only the advent of industrial technology in the form of machine guns and shells that meant attrition in the form of casalties eroded the fighting power of units. Hence KoW in that sense is historically accurate and is in a tradition that dates back to the earliest wargames such as Kriegspuel, rather than the more fanciful parlour games such as Warhammer which were not based on any semblance of reality.
I mostly play historical games and can’t think of one ( raak and file type games) that uses figure removal anymore. Warhammer is the last game I can think that used it
I feel exactly the opposite way.
Removal of models always takes me out of Warhammer and its ilk, because that’s not how ancient/medieval combat worked.
I think TSHFT does a gaming cruise to Alaska, starting at Seattle. You can win a free ticket, if you win the TSHFT tournament.
happy sunday.
A mammoth this size can only be called ‘Schnitzel’.
On the topic of ‘what would you change’ rules wise. My issue with any ‘you go I go’ game is that you can be desomated before you even get a turn. Why not resolve kills and wounds after both sides have taken a turn, similar to in x-wing where pilots with the same skill value get to attack even if they have been destroyed.
Happy sunday
Is say manny the mammoth
I am interested to know how you would run the side game’s turn times.
Would you play it as part of the battle with two opposing players or have other people running that game?
Whilst I understand where Justin is coming from about the Kings Of War “units remain at the same strength until they’re gone”. I really think it breaks what’s also very great about the game. I’ve just come from a mammoth tournament of 8 games this weekend. Everyone commented how you just could not manage a Warhammer game of the 2000pt scale we were doing in the 2 hour limit we had to be strict on. One of the major reasons they said the game played fast was not having to deal with individual models on a troop unit. They also… Read more »
Like the `mammoth tournament` comment, lol 😉
The Disorientated Express has to play Cards against humanity. You don’t really know people till you’ve seen them chose whether Batman or The Entire Mormon tabernacle Choir made things awkward at a nudist colony.
…if you ever go to see the Mormon tabernacle choir sing then don’t sign the guest book – they will send Mormons to your house as soon as you get home! And afterwards too.
That’s why I always sign as my roomate!
Hmmm … how about for Warrens Kings Of War with Dungeon Saga mashup you take a page out of the Battle Of The Somme, and have Dwarf sappers under the field trying to plant explosives under the undead army. If they fail, it’ll explode under the Dwarf army?
[If you’ve never read about it – do look at tunnelling wars in World War One as part of trying to break the deadlock of trench warfare]
That idea right there is a thing of utter beauty!
I think we will make this happen as a battle report 🙂
Great idea. This is a great book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beneath-Flanders-Fields-Tunnellers-1914-1918/dp/186227357X
Johan who is an expert on it lives beside Polygon Wood in Ypres and has some fascinating stories about the Tunnelling war
Justins Mammoth – Wooly.
Archibald is the name of Justin’s mammoth.
(You’ll notice the word “is” inserted strategically there.)
Happy flocking snowy Sunday!
As mentioned yesterday the Mammoth is called ‘Fitzjustin’
Isn’t ‘Saint John’ pronounced ‘sinjen’?
Zorgon is very Harryhausen… Ideal for 7TV.
A Backstagers Meet Up @ Salute has become compulsory now I’d say 😎
ill be up for the backstager meetup. dont live to far away
Justin’s Mammoth… How about Mrs Mothra
And his name shall be Woolsy Mam
All those evocative railway journeys … got nothing on Birmingham -> Wolverhampton and back every bloody day 😉
Also Unch the mammoth.