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Re: (TFT) Engaging in TFT ---> rats



From: "John Paul Bakshoian" <hailmelee@hotmail.com>

But I'm still thinking that a fast moving massive 2 hex+ object would still have inertia to plow right through two fighters.
 If you've seen 13th Warrior or a score of similar, that's
what they do.  Except maybe to Massed Pikemen.

John,
Cool movie. It was the first book Michael Cryton (sp?) wrote. I read it when I was eight. It was called "Eaters of the dead" It had quite an impression on me. Vikings, Islam, man eating monsters. It's interesting to note how many cultural things from that book made it into the movie. For instance in Islam a dog is considered a very low creature. Also in the early history of the crusades the appearance of the Franks was kind of like a sneak attack. Then there is the scene in the movie where the scout comes back and says how many guards there are. Billy wolf asks "Can we sneak up on them?" The scout answers "They don't keep dogs. Should be easy." I loved the expresison on the Arabs face at this casual comment. But that's off the topic. You were talking about the scenes where the mounted riders went through hoards of people and never stopped their forward momentum. Or more specifically were not engaged. I always see this as a scattered hoard. That is no two individuals in the mob are closer than two HEXES to the next guy. In this kind of spread out irregular formation the horse would just ride around freely. I think its like you aluded to in the last sentence. Massed pikement. That is tight formations. In cases like that the horse is stopped.

I would like to hear the Champions "Pass through Attack" rule.

Well, they're not really suitable for TFT. In champions characters get mutliple attacks per turn. With the "Pass through attack" one could literlly move through a figures HEX and attack them on the way. These supehero's could run through a line of five cops and disarm them all. The "pass through attack."

   David Michael Grouchy II



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