All I wanted to do was be a loyal soldier, serve the Imperium, and smite the perfidious Yan Koryani. And then when I do it Phil gets his bra in a twist...Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel
All I wanted to do was be a loyal soldier, serve the Imperium, and smite the perfidious Yan Koryani. And then when I do it Phil gets his bra in a twist...
I don't care if you respect me, just buy my fucking book.
Formerly known as Old Geezer
I don't need an Ignore List, I need a Tongue My Pee Hole list.
The rules can't cure stupid, and the rules can't cure asshole.
I said "Chrine, hold the center," and Chirine held the center.
It's nice to have a command staff you can trust.
I played in one campaign where I was the overall commander and I deliberately chose three new nervous players as my subcommanders.
We were playing Starfleet Battles. It was a 4 scenario tourney, "win best of 4."
I simply didn't allocate any force at all to Scenario 4, figuring that would give my other 3 commanders an instant 1.3:1 advantage.
I crunched numbers mightily (Starfleet Battles is a VERY mathematically rigid game) and told my subcommanders, with great care to show why, "You will win this battle if you simply 'get close and hurt them.' We have the shields and we have the photon torpedoes. You WILL win."
One of the three followed my plan and waxed her opponent royally. The other two decided they "wanted to try something more fun" and got their asses royally waxed and then handed to them in a bucket.
More than once I've thought, in a variety of games, "I wish this was a real war so I could have you taken out and shot."
Like I said, it's nice to have a command staff you can rely on.
I don't care if you respect me, just buy my fucking book.
Formerly known as Old Geezer
I don't need an Ignore List, I need a Tongue My Pee Hole list.
The rules can't cure stupid, and the rules can't cure asshole.
More to the point, why do I as a player care?
I game to pretend-do things I can't do in real life, whether that is lead my lads bravely in the siege of Sunraya or fire up my lightsabre, Force-jump thirty feet straight up, and start lustily smiting battledroids.
Sex is something I can do in real life.
Now, COURTSHIP is interesting. The whole "accidental seducing of Lady Nlel" is marvellous in retrospect. But the actual sex part of it was simply assumed and not played out. Until she told me she was expecting a Little General...
(Sadly, grad school devoured my life shortly thereafter.)
I don't care if you respect me, just buy my fucking book.
Formerly known as Old Geezer
I don't need an Ignore List, I need a Tongue My Pee Hole list.
The rules can't cure stupid, and the rules can't cure asshole.
Did you ever get to play in Phil's game again once grad school was done, and you settled into "real life".
As an aside, what is the current situation on Tekumel. Presumably things did not come to an end with the passing of Firu BaYaker?
Shemek
Not much, really... life takes twists and turns.
As I understand it, messy. :banghead: I don't know a lot, though, and that's on purpose.
I don't care if you respect me, just buy my fucking book.
Formerly known as Old Geezer
I don't need an Ignore List, I need a Tongue My Pee Hole list.
The rules can't cure stupid, and the rules can't cure asshole.
Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Agreed! Somebody once said that the side that wins is the one that makes the least number of mistakes.In the real world the best generals win by finding ways to cheat so I suppose it's apt.
On the other hand there are guys who come up with ways to cheat by setting the terrain up in their favor or building the scenario to cripple their opponent. There's the story of the guy who brought a four foot long hill to his Warhammer games and placed it in his deployment zone so all his missile troops could shoot in two ranks right over his front line troops and his enemies automatically had to suffer the penalty for charging up hill. Of course, GW being GW, they now sell terrain and you pay points to have it in your army list
But I think part of it is just where mainstream society has drifted to. Kids don't just go play ball at the park anymore, they have to be organized into leagues and those are generally hyper competitive. Then you've got the rolling backlash against any competition or grading, especially in schools. There's also the lack of background, I sure spend a lot of time explaining that Games Workshop didn't invent miniatures games, nor indeed Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs.
Liked the story about the guy with his own personal hill. I've gotten my ass chewed out by people who tell me that my battlefields are 'unrealistic' and 'don't follow the rules'. So, I pull out the map I used; the looks on their faces when they realize we're fighting in places like Hastings or Arsuf are priceless - assuming, of course, that they have heard of Harold of Wessex or Richard the Lion-heart. Quite often, they haven't.
And yes, I've seen this myself. The kids are usually miserable, and the parents get pretty rabid. A couple of my cousins are teachers, and they won't go anywhere near these kinds of things after a teacher was assaulted by a parent.
Great! He's a pretty darn decent guy.
The second edition will mostly update the technology of gaming; we've come a long way since then. The basic game mechanics and stats will all stay the same - this new edition will be fully backwards compatible to the original. I am putting in a new armor class, though; back in the day, almost all our battles were inside the Five Empires, armored troops against armored troops. Later on, in Phil's campaign, we started doing a lot more 'frontier' battles, and I need to allow for this in the new rules.
Newer and better naval rules, newer and better siege rules; these were pretty sketchy in the original, as we didn't do much of that and it was sort of assumed that the referee would be able to make snap decisions in game play. We tended to play these kinds of games more as RPGs, actually.
For me, the biggest thing is that with the 'new' publishing technology, I can illustrate the rules with color photos - something we could only dream of, back in Ye Olden Dayes. And all the new figures too!
Oh, he was cranky! You turned a sure thing into a rout. He was grumpy for weeks - about the way he usually was when his beloved New Kingdom Egyptians got thrashed by anybody in any sort of armor...
Thank you, Glorious General! It did get a little lonely out there, but that's why I'm a ranking military magic user. The looks on the faces of the surviving Vridu troops after I vaporized their buddies was worth it.
Ah, those were the days...
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