Re: (TFT) Swords & Sails

[Sgt Hulka <hulkasgt@yahoo.com>]

I haven't tried your rules yet; I'm still busy painting my toys. But yours are so much more complete than the ones offered below. The scenario I was gonna play was a Viking Longship assaulting a Kogge. The Kogge stands higher in the water, giving it a defensive advantage. Your rules provide a way to model that advantage in a precise way.

I actually like morale rules in a player versus player skirmish game, especially a "warband" (Mordheim) style game where the players are, to some degree, pretending to be the leaders of the warband. I was impressed by the ones offerred in the article...simple, easy to execute, and something we've all seen in movies. And I think you could easily expand the rule slightly with Into the Labyrinth. Maybe it's normally a 4D rule but 3D if the leader has Charisma. Maybe "New Followers" don't ever have to roll. Maybe add a die if the leader is a different race than his followers. And so on.

As long as the number of dice rolled can be calculated and set before the game begins, it maintains its simplicity. Where I think this rule might become too complicated is when different factors in the game itself alters the roll or forces rolls (the good old "once a unit has taken half casualties, make a morale roll...if a unit is in dissaray, it is -1 to morale"...and so forth).

--- On Fri, 3/6/09, David O. Miller <davidomiller@verizon.net> wrote:

> From: David O. Miller <davidomiller@verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: (TFT) Swords & Sails
> To: tft@brainiac.com
> Date: Friday, March 6, 2009, 7:09 AM
> On Mar 6, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Sgt Hulka wrote:
> I'll assume you gave my rule set a spin then? Since we
> last spoke I've been weighing the pros and cons of +1/-1
> per level that you're higher/lower vs a straight +2
> higher/-2 lower rule. At the moment I'm still leaning
> toward the way I have it written. I'd be curious how
> it's been working for you. Even though I've used
> them extensively I still consider my rules to be somewhat in
> the play testing phase.

> > That's interesting. I was never a fan of morale rules
> in a player(s) vs player(s) skirmish game. However in a
> player(s) vs DM game I could see rules like this being
> utilized for the NPCs. I'll have to give this some
> thought.
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