Basic Mission Analysis:The various mission tracks show signs of good ideas not properly thought through. Why do you gain bonus points if its raining (making it harder to hit) in a Recon track where there is no Salvage option… so only helping the player? I’ve just done some analysis of the potential WP rewards from each track. This assumes you manage to salvage an average … Continue reading Sword and Dragon – Basic Mission Analysis
Laurie rather enjoyed our BattleTech game on the weekend, and inquired about what he needed to play the game. So, here’s an annotated list, with links to the products on MilSims (click on teh prices): BattleTech Introductory Box Set – $68 – 24 plastic mechs, 2 double-sided maps, quick-start rules, introductory rules, universe book, universe map, 2 quick reference cards. Definitely start with this. Starterbook Sword … Continue reading BattleTech for Laurie
For those uninterested in my BattleTech posts, I’d advise looking elsewhere. This is going to be one of a series of posts looking at the Starterbook: Sword & Dragon campaign from the perspective of someone who is currently playing it, and finding one or two relatively minor problems that need fixing… or just wants to tinker with it a bit. So, here’s the first bit to … Continue reading Sword and Dragon – Maintenance and Updates
Just for those of you who have missed them: Sorenson’s Sabres (Rich & Josh): Mission 1: Recon Mission 2: Supply Run Mission 3: Recon-in-force Mission 4: Supply Run Mission 5: Pursuit (coming soon!) The Fox’s Teeth (Merric & Randy): Mission 1: Recon Mission 2: Supply Run Mission 3: Pursuit Mission 4: Recon (coming soon!) Sword & Dragon Starterbook – product review (from quite a while ago; … Continue reading Sword and Dragon mission logs
I was just reading some excellent blog entries over on the Scrapyard Armory page, and I noticed some discussion of damage to Mech Warriors in the Chaos Campaign (an extension of the Warchest campaign that we use our BattleTech Sword & Dragon campaign). Let’s face it: there aren’t any rules in S&D about damaged warriors. Do they heal? How quickly? My thought is that in future … Continue reading BattleTech: Sword & Dragon notes
Well, I’ve now posted reports of the 7-8 hours of BattleTech we played on the weekend. It was hot, but we had a lot of fun. First Mission: Supply Run – 4 Mechs of Sorenson’s Sabres vs 4 Davion Mechs. Second Mission: Pursuit – 6 Mechs of the Fox’s Teeth vs 8 Kuritan Mechs. The reports include pictures as well as commentary. 🙂 Thanks for … Continue reading More BattleTech reports
It’s the first real week of term for the year, and I’ve just taken my really dedicated boardgame students for their first class. They were wondering when we could start on the first day of schooland now they’ve organised everything. Regular Ad Astra classes won’t start up until about week 4 or so, but we’ve already started. I introduced them to a game they hadn’t played … Continue reading Ad Astraing again
Friday Night saw our brave adventurers investigating rumours of a cult of Iuz in the Free City of Greyhawk, which appears to be led by their one-time-friend. It’s fun to have a PC turn evil, and the players were all very enthusastic to have Adam’s old PC, Archibald, be the villain for the course of this campaign. I’m happy to accomodate that, although it’ll be … Continue reading Boardgames and Roleplaying Weekend
I’m attracted to too many lifestyle gaming hobbies. What’s a lifestyle hobby? It’s a hobby that basically requires you to devote a lot of time to it, over an extended period. D&D is my pre-eminent lifestyle hobby. It’s one I’ve been playing now for (eek!) 28 years or so. That’s quite a chunk of my life, when you think about it. I spend about 16 hours … Continue reading Lifestyle hobbies
I have a bunch of board and card games. How many? Well, my list is over 100 items now (over 200 if you count expansions). Splitting them by broad category, the list goes like this: Ameritheme Arkham Horror Battlestar Galactica Betrayal at House on the Hill Chrononauts Citadels Classic Battletech Cosmic Encounter Descent: Journeys in the Dark Doctor Who: The Game Of Time & Space … Continue reading 100 games
