Combat System

[Narek]

Raygun wrote:
>
> Has anybody ever thought of using the D&D Battlesystem to fight battles in BR rather
> than the printed BR combat system? If so spin me a line explaining the conversion
> process so that I can experiment (heretically of course).

Check out Dragon Annual #2 (The article is called "Cry Havoc!").
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[Raygun]

Has anybody ever thought of using the D&D Battlesystem to fight battles in BR rather
than the printed BR combat system? If so spin me a line explaining the conversion
process so that I can experiment (heretically of course).

Raygun

[Frank Deal]

>Trizt wrote:
>>
>> On 09-May-98, Raygun (raygun@ihug.co.nz) wrote about [BIRTHRIGHT] -
Combat
>> System:
>>
>> ->Has anybody ever thought of using the D&D Battlesystem to fight battles
in
>> BR
>> ->rather than the printed BR combat system? If so spin me a line
explaining
>> the
>> ->conversion process so that I can experiment (heretically of course).
>>
>> I haven't thought about D&D Battlesystem, but more about the Runequest
clone
>> 'Drakar och Demoner' battle system, which handles both battlefiled
battles and
>> sieges. Somehow I never have liked ANY of TSR's tries of making
battlerules
>> (haven't checked the minature rules, but I guess they 'suxx' compared to
most
>> other system).
>
>
>As I was saying earlier, check out DBM (De Bellis Multitudinous). Its
>more historical than fantasy, but it has a broad spectrum of units so
>its very easy to use for fantasy, you don't even have to change any
>rules (except for the addition of magic, I still use the cards of battle
>magic for that). If you are interested, I can e-mail you a condensed
>copy.
>


We use DBM in our campaign. Works rather well, fast and detailed. I highly
recommend it.

Frank