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 their rout Nerve stat loses half their attacks.That should not adversly affect play time and introduce dimisned capacity, although I agree with Warren in that it’s actually more realistic that in mass ranked warfare combat effectiveness is not significantly diminished at the line of battle, but you are more likely to run if you’ve just seen the four front ranks get cut down.
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 through the use of wavering do allow for a mechanic where if you hit an enemy unit hard, they will be a bit shaken, and won’t be able to really fight back. That can happen if you’ve given just enough damage to almost put them on the ropes, but also if you got immensely lucky.
And for us, that lead to a few of what Warren calls his water cooler moments. The unity which SHOULD have been wiped out, but thanks to a lucky double-1 manageed to get one more round of combat in, fighting to the last heroicially.
Or the grizzled veterans, who through shock and awe recieve a single point of damage, and thanks to a lucky double 6 are wavering, just as you were about to deliver the killing blow. It was these kind of moments we really put under the microscope on the way home, and to try and over-mechanic it out would really change the system, and I’m not sure for the best.
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.
Best game to play on a sleeper train is easy, it has to be Home Raiders
Warren, You can buy mini ultrasonic low voltage water foggers for about a fiver. These are fairly small units you place in ordinary water and are powered by 24 volts. They are very safe and some come with coloured leds. They are often used in lizard tanks etc for humidifiers. I have several which I use on gaming boards.
For example:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Colorful-12-LED-24V-Ultrasonic-Mist-Maker-Fogger-Water-Fountain-Pond-Fog-Machine-/361139789908?hash=item54159be054:g:3dsAAOSwYH5WB6iI
First up congratulations to you Warren. Hope you have a great day mate.
On train journeys there is always Moscow to St Petersburg – you can actually get to Moscow in 3 1/2 so slightly less than Romania. Of course you could always train it all the way back East – or even along the trans-Siberian but you’d get a lot of games in!
I like ‘Big Sticky’ for the mammoth. I’m assuming Justin’s dwarf wouldn’t be spending a lot of time cleaning the fur in certain areas.
As for rules I would certainly change cover in 40K which brings me out of the experience. A simple rule for ruins etc would be you can only claim the cover if your entire base was within the cover which would stop models gaining cover from the slight lip we all have around our buildings – and monstrous creatures toeing cover ridiculously. Any other would only count Infinity style if you were touching it unless the firer had to draw LOS all the way through a ruin and out of the other side. Fairly simple changes but I feel it would stop some of the silliness.
Would love a Backstagers meetup at Salute. I’d be with non backstagers would they be allowed to attend assuming something was setup?
Justins mammoth has got to be called Mr. Snuffleupagus
Monty the Mighty Mammoth
That needs more alliteration…
Good show.
+ 1 for Stag do, Cruise, Train. Bring it on!
Happy Sunday …
Count me in for the mega salute weekend….oh and @warzan congratulations
Mammouth name has to be “Stompy”
Gaming in the gaps… My biggest thing recently was actually at the Team Yankee Boot camp and all those that were there would atest to my grumpiness over this and that was the way side armour shots are determined… in every other historical game I have played the armour is determined by a diagonial cross over the target in Team Yankee and as i understand it Flames of War the armour of the target is determined by a straight line drawn across the front of the target…. this is just the dumbest rule ever and just broke for me what was a pretty good game till that point. The answer I was given at the bootcamp was that it works for FoW players and avoids confusion.
After the boot camp i asked a few gamer friends and they all said that is a stupid rule,,, so my change would be to change Team Yankee so the armour hits are based on a diagonal across the target…. it make sense you know it does
That does seem silly
As for tweaking rules. It’s something I am loathed to just jump in and do as changing one thing usually has a domino effect of altering several others without realising at the time
Saying that the few times we played FoW we used the traditional diagonals for determining armour hits. Maybe we were just going by what we presumed it would be. I have never actually read the rules as there is just way to many of them
would you also reduce the fire arc of the vehicles to a 90 degree arc then?
Mr Trunkikins or Professor Snuggles?
We are both at Salute again this year and are up for meeting everyone again!
Hi. For Justin`s mammoth how about Willy the woolly Mammoth.
happy sunday, as for Justin @dignity Mammoth name Greesy Gilbert or Mammoth Muckworm after content of his poo. I am comming to london friday afternoonso it would be great to see you all guys, but My Mrs stays at home.
I know what @warzan means about holidays on trains. I’ve done the Canadian from Toronto to Vancouver which was 3 and a half days and Sydney to Adelaide on the Pacific in Australia. Some of the best times I’ve had on holiday have been on these journeys. @warzan, it might be worth looking at the website for the Man in Seat 61 (http://www.seat61.com); it’s a travel web site that covers rail journeys across the globe. Games wise, I’d go for small gateway-type games so it’s easy to get strangers to play. A simple of pack of cards have always been great at breaking the ice between strangers and me.
Several ideas spring to mind for Justin’s mammoth. Maybe ‘Fluff’ because that’s what it and warren can have fun asking where he keeps it or ‘Two by Four’ because it can go anywhere like a 4×4 but not quite, it’s as stupid as a block of wood and it suits Justin’s carpentry background.
How did you not mention Mr. Shoulder’s uniforms for gaming enhancements?
Dry ice supplier
http://www.chillistick.com/
I think it is better when the skype window is bigger, also the Mammoth should be called Franky
Mittens the mammoth.. But we are talking about Justin here, so maybe Love Muffin.
Love the KoW/DS mash up!
Never been to Salute, but will look into it!
‘Mouse’ for the mammoth. 🙂
Mammoth called Gertrude.
One complaint mates no full screen available and has not been for a few, saturday full screen available BS not available, and I like me full screen stuff. Great show great content and no bloody KS.
Justin’s Mammoth: Big Furry NOT Big Fury. 🙂
Mammoth: Mr Tinkles
Marmaduke the Mammoth. Or Barry.
Mammoth: Andrew
Colonel pinky
Randall ‘the pincher’ tuskington
On lighting, i’ve been learning how to do wiring/solderng for LED’s but that’s mostly for my SF film projects but the cool thing is the scenery pieces i’ve been wiring up make perfectly good living eldritch horror terrain. I have a fog machine too and I’ve never had any problems with using it in the house, this is the one I use and it looks like it’s price has been cut down too since i bought mine :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Machine-Capacity-Distance-Halloween-Christmas/dp/B00KAPJU6K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1453035314&sr=8-1&keywords=400+watt+fog+machine
On music, I’m always happy to make people custom ambient or industrial soundtracks, so PM me if you are interested in stuff like that.
It should be a name that properly represents Justin unusual taste. Egberta, or Helga something like that.
Yeah! Or Brünnhilde 🙂 or maybe that should be his character name as he rides his mighty war mammoth, Mr stomperson, sweeping his foes before him?
@warzan Best gig i can find at the moment is Udo Dirkschneider on Sun 17th in Norwich.
Happy sunday!
For me the one mechanic that gets on my tits is the newer version of 40k blast markers. Instead of removing the minis actually covered by the marker you remove the minis closer to the firer. So, as a n extreme example of this – Space marine tac squad spread out in a line, Ork missile launcher aims at the squad heavy weapon on the closest end, scatters and hits the guy at the far end of the line and kills him. Do I remove him? No I have to remove the mini my opponent aimed at and missed in the first place!
For me blast markers should follow the same rules as barrage, in that the minis removed start from the centre of the blast, or like the older versions of 40k, removed from under the template……
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand relax…. 🙂
I absolutely love the idea of combining games to make a linked narrative! The idea of a small ‘special forces’ type mission having a direct effect on a larger game happening alongside is really exciting 🙂
It was liquid nitrogen in the girl’s drink:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/19866191/teenagers-stomach-removed-after-drinking-cocktail
I think a gaming cruise sounds better than a gaming train trip.
For @dignity ‘s Mammoth, how about ‘Colin the People Herder’?
On the subject of ‘mutard’: anyone else think it sounds like the sort of name an immature ten year old would come up with? :/
On the Dungeon Saga – KoW mashup idea: sounds a bit like one of the scenarios GW had in the RotK rule book for LotR back in 2004 or so. In it they had a massive battle between the Free Peoples and Sauron’s army outside the Black Gate and on a side board they had Sam and Frodo on Mount Doom with the Hobbits going ‘up’ the mountain path and when they reached the ‘top’ they got ambushed by Gollum and had to fight him off to reach the Crack of Doom do they could throw the Ring in. The game ended when either they destroyed the Ring or when the Good army was wiped out. Not quite the same as it didn’t have an impact on the main battle.
On @dignity ‘s cannon suggestion, I think you’re a bit too quick to dismiss it @warzan – don’t think of it as the war machines arbitrarily turning up, think of it as something like the battle taking place just outside a Dwarf hold or the Dwarves moving them via secret tunnels and the dungeoneering party fighting their way to the gatehouse mechanisms to open the gates or the guardhouse containing the secret switches to open the secret doors and if they reach that and clear the room they’re able to open the gates/hidden doors to allow the war machines to enter play.
Ive only been to one meet up and that was the first one where @deaddave may or may not have had a hand in getting lloyd a bit intoxicated. Always said I would attend more but never get round to it. I go to Salute every year so i will pull my finger out this year 🙂
There’s no such as RAI, only RAW, unless the designer is there to tell you what they intended, in which case you should be telling them to make RAI into RAW.
Justin’s mammoth could be called Polarity, the dwarf could then reverse it in front of the inn.
For those in the UK
Haven’t tried it yet but Poundland are selling 3mtr long x 18mm wide rolls of magnetic tape. Let you know when I have but being 18mm wide means it should fit nicely under my 40mm x 20mm bases.
Her name HAS to be …Petunia.
All In think of now us the old water safety videos with Joe and Petunia
Marvin the Morose Mammoth
Happy Sunday!
Just wanted to say: Congratulations to Warren and Andrea!
When he’s right. He’s right. 😎
Now I want to take a train ride somewhere! Thanks for that Warren, as a steam engineer by profession its a bit of a sad truth that almost all of the old steam trains are gone.
Well, a trip to England in order. I’ve watched Chris Barrie’s massive engines and it looks like a lot of the ‘relics’ of decades past are still preserved over there!
Some of the rail trips you can take in India look fantastic. Sadly also get expensive
I’m sure it was mentioned already, but according to Punkapocalyptic, Mutard is mutant and bastard combined.. so more PC? lol…
As for Mammoth names… “Trunkapotamus”… “Trunkasaurus Wrecks”…
And as for Kings of War… I do think it is an interesting convention to not affect the unit strength.. it is a bit unrealistic being an all or nothing set up.. but I think that is what Mantic is going for.. they really (for all their systems… especially the new Deadzone Re-Write which now actually plays in 30-45 minutes but removed some of the “realism” of the original version)… so I think it falls to preference.. you want a large (or small) battle that plays quickly with minimal tracking of stats and wounds.. or you want a more involved game (like Infinity) where a 3 turn game can still take 2 hours because every model has markers they need to reference as they play…
I would love to go on the gaming train. Couldn’t it make a round trip over Europe and people can get on/off whenever they want?
Also, I have never been to Salute and was planning to go there for first time this year…
… I’m in.
Movie in the back ground works quite well (Bolt action – Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers playing relatively quietly in the background).
Narrative / enhancement: Going to play a Commando vs Germans game with resistance fighters held as prisoner as the objective. They need to be freed, can be armed if they occupy a nearby building with all their weapons conveniently stored, but need to make it to the allied board edge to complete the challenge. Alternatively the commandoes need to kill all the Germans to win. The Germans will have a 50 point advantage in the game to spend when the armies are being pointed up.
Thinking of making a minor tweak to Saga rules:
Flank attack means that the defending side cannot decide to use the extra save dice mechanism set out in the game.
I know there is no real flank, and units don’t lock in combat like other games, but if the unit has just fought and you are now clearly attacking on what looks obviously to be their fear or flank it seems implausible that the defending unit constantly run around in circles with their shields forever protecting against the nearest enemy?
To limit the impact on the feel I may add a buffer that if the side attacking the flank has fatigue as they engage that the defensive side can spend the fatigue point on ignoring this tweak to the rules and chose to use the save dice mechanic.
Also adding a campaign element to Saga at home, whereby units surviving from a previous battle (blooded veterans to a man now) can ignore their first combat related fatigue token (not too hard to keep track of and reflecting their lack of wasted energy through poor technique and first battle nervous energy).
Any units replaced after defeat in the last battle enter the field already carrying a fatigue token (due to rushing to support their warlord and arrive at battle in time to fight.)
The loser from the last game rolls one less saga dice on their first battle board phase.
Would love to hear your thoughts Ben. (@brennon)
Justin’s Mammoth
Lady Mammoth names
Mrs Featherstone, Edwina, Justine, Ethel
Male Mammoth names
Ethelred, Cliff, Thumper, Adolf, Attila, Gandhi, Krapfen (German for donut)
Salute stag do / gathering sounds great. Would be great to meet the team and wish Warren well for the wedding.
Great weekender. Happy gaming.
@brennon you could tweak your Saga games with the fatigue tokens. Your seasoned campaigners could say ignore one fatigue per turn maybe even able to embolden nearby friendly units with the same ability when they are close.
They could have the opposite effect on your opponent, so to represent fear, enemy units could gain fatigue simply for being within Short of such units of great renown.
Good idea – I might have to start implementing that. I really want to create some good tabletops worthy of raiding and then use some kind of campaign system for an attack down the coast of England etc.
BoW Ben
Have a look at Two fat lardies Dux Britanniarum for inspiration on Dark Age campaigns. I’m with you on table tops there are still far too many sterile tables.
Name for the Mammoth”Rod”
Congrats to @warzan and Andrea. Too bad about the “bachelor’s weekend,” though, that’s PROPERLY done over here in Fort Lauderdale or Miami. 😀 Poor Warren might not survive.
@dignity – back in my younger days I used to play TSR’s “Battlesystem,” a rank-and-file game much like Kings of War. The movement system, casualty system, etc, was much more “realistic,” though, to the point where the game sometimes became unplayable. I hear what you’re saying about units “bouncing back” and not taking losses . . . Battlesystem used to address all these issues . . . but again, it sometimes became tough to play (average games could be 3-4 hours for starters). They also had “casualty removal” where individual miniatures would be taken out of the rank and file as the units took damage.
I think these were the kinds of things the designers of Kings of War were deliberately trying to stay away from. Long story short, YES, it’s definitely possible to make these fixes . . . but be careful, it might damage what makes Kings of War special.
The dwaves in the dungeon could find a “balcony” in the dungeon mountain. There will be some skeletons guarding a catapult and depending on how quickly they can destroy them, either the dwarves or the undead could fire it at the main battlefield.
Mr Waddles the Mammoth
Good show guys.
Von @warzan ’s express sounds interesting,
What about fefetrixybell for the mammoth?
Obviously this is Ulga Barbarian Princess Mammoth all grown up; Snorgi. Lets just hope she doesnt come looking for Snorgi and tries to take her mammoth back.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=21454
Snoo snoo (Futurama reference)
Mammoth: “Raquel” after Raquel Welch (One Million Years B.C.)
Why not Tuskticles the mammoth?
Clearly the mammoth’s name is “Yunch” (spelled Eunuch).
Woolly Bully?
Re mammoth name I was going to say bollock (because it’s hairy) but I think Justin has already come up with the perfect name in the show….
Massive Clock. 🙂
For ambience you can’t beat playing a fantasy/ horror RPG by candlelight
Excellent show topics today. Good job!
Fluffy the mammoth!
Cya next week
I’d call the mammoth Shaggy and that would make Justin’s dwarf Lord Scoobert of the Great Do Clan. Shaggy could carry a saddlebag full of Scooby Snacks which would be some kind of buff.
I would Name is Mammoth : Marley as (Bob Marley) for the haire of the Mammoth looks like Bob’s Hairs and also i am sure the Mammoth is not a Straigt one 😉
and good show by the way
Happy Sunday!!
Congrats Warren and Andrea! and the stag ideas sound awesome!
Justins Mammoth should be named either Babar, Cornelius, Pompadour or possibly Troubadour or Truffles
Mammoth names – Stumpy or Grogfoot
I do not like igoyougo turns structure in minis games as :
1) does not feel action movie like enough
2) boring and stupid and your opponent can just walk in the open and shoot your models while you cant react.
So each of my games gets the x-wing rules treatment where you set up orders and then all actions occur simultaneously… It brings a lot more fun too as you have lots of simultaneous events going at the same time, some of which can end up making incredible tales afterwards.
Justin’s Mammoth – Merkin
The desert table sounds great for:
Dust (with flags)
Eden
WWX
Dark Age
Build logs and battle reports please!
Merkin, Merkin! Merkin!!
Blodwin the Mammoth.
She is Welsh, grew up in a valley but taken away to serve the eunuchs (or unches) of an evil drow sorceress, Cleo Pat’Ra, and subsequently rescued from the cruelty of that place by the dwarf Justin, himself a reincarnated former eunuch.
@warzan does that mean you don’t want Anzac bickies sent for Anzac Day (25/04) this year??
The mammoth needs a small sock puppet called Mr Flibble. Besides you cannot give the mammoth just any name, if he’s like Justin, it’ll either ignore you or do what ever it wants. Do you really want to argue with a large, hairy, several tons of weight & a bad attitude pachyderm?
Besides the mammoth name is…..(sounds of furniture breaking, mammoth trumpeting, & screams of terror)!
Justin’s Mammoth: “Chaffed Willie”
@warzan I mean, I don’t know if it’s been suggested, but I think Justin is a practical guy and would probably name is mammoth ‘slowkisser’
I initially misheard Warren”s suggestion for Justin”s mammoth name, but having thought about it for a while, I think its just fine. “Fellatio” it is then,
And while we are on the subject of double entendres, am I the only one that wants to respond to the statement “Justin’s mammoth” with the question:”Justin’s mammoth what?” (Fnar fnar…)
One game enhancement that I’ve fallen in love with came from the Tropicana setting for the Savage Worlds RPG: The Jukebox. Every player selects 4 songs or pieces of music that reflects their character or warband, army, etc, and adds them to the jukebox. The jukebox is then set to random shuffle. When the jukebox plays a player’s song, that player gets a bonus to rolls throughout the duration of the music. This not only adds to the fun but encourages players to move fast so as to get the most out of their tune!
As a downer, as for using a fog machine, the fog juice can cause an asthmatic reaction. I’d recommend dry ice but instead of just letting the ice evaporate, use it to make home made root beer at the same time.
Philippa the angry mammoth
Happy Sunday! Tuesday!
Great show guys. The Mammoth should be called Battie.
That mammoth totally looks like a Lloyd 🙂
@justin: To light up your houses I suggest to use LED teelights. They are battery powered and fit in every house. Maybe even 15mm, maybe
Hello guys. To smoke your gaming tables there is a much saver way then dry ice. A freind of mine did built a volcano for freebooters once.
You can buy supersonic nebuliser (I guess it is called lik this in english) It is eletcical powered and the Membran will vibrate andafter 1 – 2 minutes the fluid becomes smoke and pours down the volcano.
Looks amazing!
The downside is, that it can condensate. So I guess you have to use a bit of a seal in your houses like shellac.
I think the mammoth should be called pickles. No reason apart from it sounds silly.
I love to house rule games we play. Of course not all my group agree…..
great weekender guys, and really enjoyed the SAGA games against Justin.
Although I do think Justin may be using witchcraft as his dice rolling was shockingly good.
Campaign rules for SAGA could prove fun, but the issue you could run into is taking a simple ruleset and making it overly complicated, the same goes for KoW and trying to add an additional layer of rules. Both systems work well and the elegance of the rulesets is what helps that. But I’m by no means saying house rules for specific things are necessarily bad though.
In a fixed short term SAGA campaign giving bonuses, like additional armour, to units changes their value in terms of ability on the battle field and it could lead to one warband very quickly steamrollering the others. I do like the suggestion about allowing elites to shrug off the first fatigue of a turn, or perhaps allowing the units to activate on different symbols.
We’re talking about doing a SAGA campaign at the Sunday club in the not too distant future, the idea intrigues me, I may talk to Justin, Tony and the others about adding something like this. With a stepped progression and a cap, we don’t want super humans after all, just a better organised and more elite force.
Mammoth names, trail rations, Vlelcher rose booster
Gonna do the baltics this summer – sounds like a dream
Epic stuff guys…… Flossy the woolly mammoth…..?
Some really cool models this week, like the travel games rail/boat show idea.
Justin’s mammoth…..how about “tiny-trunk”?? I am sure warren could find ways to use it against him lol
Enhancement. That makes me always happy.
Like when you got a pre-painted battlefield in a box piece of terrain, and with alittle touches here and there get to look gorgeus.
I think that isn´t exactly what warzan meant to be.
So I will stick in my project of representing fire and smoke properly. Like a burning tank.
But I don´t like cotton, so it´s gonna be tough..and electronic I guess.
Name for the Mammoth: Kranzfred. Awesome name for fluffy animals.
As for the meet-up, we actually thought about going to salute this week, so that would be another incentive to do it.
Always thought Mongomery was a fitting name for a mammoth
Justin’s mammoth should totally be named Susan.
Another very enjoyable episode. I am about to move somewhere with a gaming room. Which wargaming tables are available to those in the UK along the lines that Ben was discussing? So, stable, dedicated spaces for counters and rulebooks, etc. I mainly play 4’x4′ games like Warmachine, but have space for something bigger.
For justins mamooth Will pick, nosey, Bertha or hornie. Kinda cool a battle with a touch of epicness!
space hulk battle report , so hope we get to see the whole thing filmed !
kings of war dungeon saga mash up , you could have it so there is more than one entrance and both sides are racing to get to the weapon or if the dwarf army loses ground the undead can then send in more troops behind the dwarfs in the dungeon
Justin’s mammoth fluffer has a ring to it.
I’ll see you at Salute.