Alien rules?

> "Hey they found us!"

"We'ren't me Sarge! It was Hudson's farts!"

Okay okay, now we've got that over with:

Is anyone developing rules for really _alien_races, like the "smelling"
bugs in the discussion mentioned?

Would anyone _care_ to?

I'd love to get a set up on USG2WS...

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Jeremy Sadler wheeped:

> Is anyone developing rules for really _alien_races, like

I was just thinking we ought to set another list for Alien Development.

G'day guys,

> Is anyone developing rules for really _alien_races, like the "smelling"
bugs
> in the discussion mentioned?

I've been kicking around a few ideas, but I'm not real strong in the
DS/SG
rules department (being primarily an FTer), but I could suggest make-ups
or
comments on others make-ups if you'd like.

> I was just thinking we ought to set another list for Alien Development.

Well if you set one up, count me in please.

Cheers

Beth

> "Hey they found us!"
bugs
> in the discussion mentioned?

I have a lot of different alien figures, but the ones that I keep returning
to, time and again, are the GW tyranids. Why? Because they are not humanoids.
This is the same reason that I'm fond of the Kryomek figures, and my
Battlelord Arachnids, and even the Ral Partha Psions, but unlike all of them,
I've actually painted most of my tyranids....

One plan involved using the Armorcast exocrine tanks (I've got a pair of them)
as some sort of brain. They would dispatch couriers of various sorts
-- either the 15mm genestealer "familiars" or the Necromunda "Ripper
Jacks"
-- who would deliver orders to the workers (genestealers) and warriors
(termegants) in the form of pheremone packets. The warriors would be given
orders/objectives before the battle began, and the brain could only
change
them by recieving and dispatching couriers -- of which each unit would
have several, constantly moving between them and the brain.

It needs a lot more work to become even marginally functional, but there's the
basic idea.

> Is anyone developing rules for really _alien_races, like the

I'd like to third that. All we need to do is head to Onelist and get one
started....

Excerpts from mail: 20-Oct-99 Re: Alien rules? by John
Crimmins@voicenet.c
> >>I was just thinking we ought to set another list for Alien

Make that four. Not that I have time for this, but oh well....:)

Let's see...from what's been suggested so far, we could look at
-background ideas (societal structure, etc)
-tactical psychology
-strategic psychology
-alternative senses (smell, hearing, sonar/radar, motion detection (for
herbivore-based critters), maybe others - taste and touch don't work too
well, being close-range)
-alternative weapons (mind control, infestation, terror, etc.)
-alternative victory conditions/goals

and there are probably things I've missed, too.

> On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 23:23:53 -0400, John Crimmins writes:

If people want one, I can gen one up on the same server as the regular list.
Digests, archives, etc.

G'day,

> If people want one, I can gen one up on the same server as the regular

Yes please!!! You're so kind!
;)

Beth

> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:58:09 +1000, Beth Fulton writes:

Done.

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