(TFT) Randomness in WW - warp war is a great game.

[Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca>]

Hi Joe, everyone.
  Warp war is a system where a tiny change can result in a huge 
change in results. For example, changing the relative speed of 
two ships by one can switch you from a Hit +2 to a Miss.

  When you have a chaotic system and two players giving secret
orders, trying to out guess each other, then you DO have 
randomness.

  Now I admit, when in WW I pick a set of tactics and speeds for
my ships and succeed in hitting the enemy hard and have him 
miss me completely, I FEEL like I am a genius who has out
smarted the enemy.  But I don't pretend that it was a luckless
combat system.  I won't argue if you claim that it has less luck 
than most war games that use dice, but it is certainly not luckless.

  If I ever get my new WW game designed, I will use dice, 
simply because they are a hundred times faster than plotting
and writing down each turn of combat.

  I also am tempted to pull out WW again.  For those who have not
looked at my rules, I strongly recommend you do so.  I think that 
they make a good game great, by fixing many of the problems 
that WW runs into if the game goes long.

  Warm regards, Rick.


On 2016-03-18, at 8:01 AM, Joe Hartley wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:53:18 -0400
> De Des <denisdesharnais@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I liked Warp War.  It's no Ogre/GEV, but still a fun game.  Rick Smith has
>> a BGG page on his own house rules:
>> 
>> http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/627066/ricks-warp-war-rules
> 
> WarpWar was a great game.  I spent countless hours playing it years ago.
> I really liked the diceless combat, I was always interested in game 
> mechanics that did not rely on randomness.
> 
> Ogre/GEV is great too, I've been playing that solo lately partly because I
> love seeing the massive kickstarter version set up on my table!
> 
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