From: Michael T Miserendino <MTMiserendino@l...>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 8:46:00 -0500
Subject: Ogres, Bolos and things that go bump in the night
Paul, I finally checked the book last night and if want something big, modular is the way to go. You can have a maximum of 4 fire controls which might make you want to limit how large the final vehicle will be and how many weapons to install. Some large multi-mount weapons usually provide more than enough firepower to hurt something. The downside to the large size is losing the entire vehicle on a single boom chit. At my local game store we have experimented with using a modifed boom chit use for large mechs. The first boom chit drawn damages the mech, the second destroys it. I thought about using this with very large vehicles, but as with mechs, it would make them very hard to kill. Personally I agree with Jon regarding mechs. He mentioned in the DSII book that something as big a target as a mech should be easier to hit. I plan to kitbash some Bolos soon and try using sizes 6, 7 and the modular approach to model the different versions. I haven't tried using cybernetic tanks yet and not sure how the no-effect on confidence/reaction will affect the game balance. Has anyone here used cybernetic tanks yet? If so, how did the game go? Mike Michael Miserendino Senior Software Engineer Lincoln Re mtmiserendino@lnc.com > owner-gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU at internet 10/05 12:10 PM >>> Paul, Don't have the DSII book nearby, but I thought 3 FCs were the limit per single vehicle or module on a size 7. If you used a modular vehicle I think you could easily have more, with each weapons module having its own FCs. Not sure you would really need more than three for the Ogres. Mike Michael Miserendino Senior Software Engineer Lincoln Re mtmiserendino@lnc.com > owner-gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU at internet 10/05 4:48 AM >>> Anyone out there got any pre-designs for the range of Ogres. I'd like to use the old Ogre big lead machines in DS2. According to the rules, they can only have 3 Fire Control Systems, does this mean I can only fire 3 of the weapons per turn or fire any combination of the weapons against 3 different targets. Also: Does anyone have any normal vehicles (size 1-5) with more than 1 Fire Control System. The rules don't seem to allow for it but does anyone else do this. Paul Grogan Runestone Games ------- End of Forwarded Message -=- Matthew L. Seidl email: seidl@cs.colorado.edu =-= =-= Graduate Student Project . . . What Project? -=- -=- http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~seidl/Home.html -Morrow Quotes =-= =-= http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~seidl/lawsuit -=- ! ! ! ! ! ! !