chad
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Post by chad on Nov 9, 2017 7:57:18 GMT
Was the latter game done using Fantasy Warriors?
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Post by Timf on Nov 9, 2017 9:30:33 GMT
From the mechanical descriptors, yes.
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Katie
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Post by Katie on Nov 9, 2017 12:25:28 GMT
I think you might be right about the saves.
So the flank charge killing the wraith was based on "figures that don't fight can't be killed" which I THOUGHT was a rule, but can't find... maybe I've got that confused with another system.... It might be a WAB or WECW thing?
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Katie
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Post by Katie on Nov 9, 2017 19:12:15 GMT
S'not MECHANICAL. There's DICE.
Yes, it's Fantasy Warriors.
So, I've been looking at these leadership rules. I think realistically, you need rather more battleleaders & their retinues than we've been using. They can probably sensibly command 3-4 units in a cluster if they have a herald/banner. I think that's actually important when it comes to the undead rules because the undead/constructs are constrained by the animation power but that's countered by not having to do order changes -- the Elves would have either had one less unit OR spent a couple of turns collecting the troops together to give the attack orders...
I'm not saying it wouldn't have saved the Scarecrows who, basically, can't shoot at targets smaller than forests... but it would have balanced up the activation restrictions a bit.
Oh, and animated units CAN threaten. They're not susceptible to it but they're fairly scary it seems.
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Post by rflowings on Nov 9, 2017 23:04:29 GMT
Excellent AAR. Been looking forward to this since Monday, and not in vain. Is there to be one for the DR fracas ? Can it be woven into the narrative of the "Seven nation war". Thandril was, I suspect, sent west to try and gain possession of a magical artefact. Katie's writings have hinted that the Worldpen may be knocking around on the far side of the Verdant Sea so the elves have taken the overland route. Katie, your thoughts? The Worldpen seems pretty important. I did write a summary of the large DR battle... it's at the end of page 3 on this thread and you already liked it Chris! Regarding command radii, I agree that we've more or less winged it on the ratio of command units to fighting troops to date. We can stick more closely to command rules if you wish on the next round. Good to get clarity on the saves. Also the linear obstacles rules look workable, I'm up for them next time we tangle. En avant!
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Katie
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Post by Katie on Nov 10, 2017 0:27:29 GMT
I think the command radius thing hasn't been an issue because both sides have always been the same formulation. (Or, in the case of Rats, just set everyone to "attack" and never change...)
The Worldpen is, as any monk of Profundia-Luthany will tell you, a MYTH. Peasantry chatter. The kind of thing that interests *elves* and rattenfolk, not proper scholars. There isn't even any evidence that the Kirril of the legend was a real person; if he was, he certainly managed to get around. Practically every tavern in the land was somewhere he slept, ate more pies than anyone had ever seen, defended the townsfolk from orken, put down the local revenant, enforcing truth and justice, et cetera. He must have been romping around the countryside into at least his second century...
Most well-read people consider Kirril to actually be a composite of the members of a secret society of Paladins who swore to travel the Llanis Pledges incognito ensuring the people would be in a condition to come together and defend the great passes alongside old Llanis if the need ever arose again. When the Pledges were rebuilt under the many silver crowns half a thousand years ago (eventually, of course, to become Profundia-Luthany, Arscota, Frenna and the various Patria Compacta), their role became unnecessary and they passed into the deepness of time; un-recorded except for a strange quirk that a large number of the paladins of Llanis vanished from the verified historical records in their thirty-third year.
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Post by kaustic on Nov 10, 2017 10:44:18 GMT
Oh yeah . Doh !
More manoeuvrer elements will make things interesting . Might bite info the time budget though.
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Post by Timf on Nov 10, 2017 13:33:52 GMT
The Worldpen is, as any monk of Profundia-Luthany will tell you, a MYTH. Peasantry chatter.<snip> .....</snip> Most well-read people consider Kirril to actually be a composite of the members of a secret society of Paladins who swore to travel the Llanis Pledges incognito ensuring the So what you are saying is that there was more than one Kirril, and ergo that there are in fact many Worldpens. Us rats must hasten to catch them all. Scurry Scurry.
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