Warcards rant.

[Brett Lang]

Heres a QUERY ?

What happens when a wizard summons a 12HD hydra into the middle of a fray ?

How would you represent such a monster in a warcard/battle scenerio ?


- -----Original Message-----
From: Ryan B. Caveney
To: birthright@MPGN.COM
Date: Thursday, 28 May 1998 19:03
Subject: Re: [BIRTHRIGHT] - Warcards rant.


>
>
>On Wed, 27 May 1998, James Ruhland wrote:
>
>> training and technical-wise. Which is another thing that is somewhat
>> lacking in BR: dudes with the same equipment perform roughly the
>> same/have roughly the same effectiveness, but equipment is far from the
>> most important determining factor when you are considering combat
>> efficiency
>
> Not necessarily. If we adopt the war card = 100 HD/hit rather
>than 200 soldiers, as does the oft-mentioned "Cry Havoc" article from
>Dragon Annual #2, then skill is indeed a major factor. For example, that
>means orog infantry equals human infantry, even though outnumbered 3-1.
>
>> the excellent "How to Make War" books by Dunnigan and. . .darn, the
>> co-author is sliping my mind, and I ain't got time to go dig up the
books.
>
> My copy (1983 revised ed.) lists only Jim Dunnigan (Mr. SPI). But
>yeah, it's a good book, though not really relevant to the topic at hand
>(too much emphasis on modern (i.e., tanks'n'planes'n'nukes) warfare). If
>you want a serious (perhaps *too* mathematical) numerical analysis of war
>in general, try a book Dunnigan recommends, Trevor Dupuy's "Numbers,
>Predictions and War". If you are seriously interested in the history and
>theory of war, I cannot too-highly recommend Hans Delbrueck. Clausewitz
>and Sun Tzu are also very cogent and relevant, but it can be hard to pick
>the best translation for your needs: both suffer from having become a bit
>too popular lately. =)
>
>--Ryan
>
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[bloebick@juno.com (Benja]

On Fri, 29 May 1998 09:57:53 +0800 "Brett Lang"
writes:
>Heres a QUERY ?
>
>What happens when a wizard summons a 12HD hydra into the middle of a
>fray ?
>
>How would you represent such a monster in a warcard/battle scenerio ?
>

I'd represent it with a sudden retreat of all my forces so the enemy gets
eaten, then come back after its summoning period has expired and it has
gone away. ;)

Benjamin

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[craig@finance.econ.usyd.]

At 06:17 AM 29/5/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>On Fri, 29 May 1998 09:57:53 +0800 "Brett Lang"
> writes:
>>Heres a QUERY ?
>>
>>What happens when a wizard summons a 12HD hydra into the middle of a
>>fray ?
>>
>>How would you represent such a monster in a warcard/battle scenerio ?
>>
>
>I'd represent it with a sudden retreat of all my forces so the enemy gets
>eaten, then come back after its summoning period has expired and it has
>gone away. ;)
>
A wise response I'd say although I Hope that your forces are mostly cavalry
to enable such a strategic withdrawal (retreat).

Craig

[The Olesen`s]

On the subject of what wrong with warcards:

The DM sucks at being a general, the PC regent seems born for it.

The DM is playing Prince Avan. The PC is your "average" regent


In game "real life" who would win (based soley on gerneralship)?

Avan

In this warcard battle who wins?

the average regent



Is this a problem?

Ouch!

Okay, if the DM is really good general, he can try to do worse to meet
his NPC's skill level.
But when a PC's domain is invaded by the Gorgon what player will tone
down his skills to be like his charachter is gerneralship skills?

- --Yet another comment from a DM who still uses that warccard stytem
'casue he's too lazy to try anything else and is a good general.


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What a lovely sword!!!!

Ouch!

[DKEvermore@aol.co]

In a message dated 98-05-31 21:48:33 EDT, you write:

> On the subject of what wrong with warcards:
>
> The DM sucks at being a general, the PC regent seems born for it.
>
> The DM is playing Prince Avan. The PC is your "average" regent
>
>
> In game "real life" who would win (based soley on gerneralship)?
>
> Avan
>
Prince Avan would win every time with or without the war cards because Prince
Avan knows that only a fool would attack without outnumbering the enemy
(preferably at 3 to 1).

- -DKE

[MANTA]

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> What a lovely sword!!!!
>

I´ve improved the hilt.
(Sorry about that Sepsis! Just couldn´t resist.)

MANTA
ip209007@ip.pt

> Ouch!
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