Re: (TFT) Swords & Sails

["Chris Nicole" <chris_nicole@operamail.com>]

Sarge,
My incomplete list of published TFT articles is here:
http://www.loran.karoo.net/tft/articles.txt

The following might be of interest...

Vikings in Melee - TSG #23, Ronald Pehr.
"Fitting Norsemen into TFT" Scenario setup for MELEE, Vikings and Saxons.

It's been a long while since I looked at it, so I can't recall what it includes.
I think I still have the issue (somewhere in the attic) and could scan the article if you can't find a copy of TSG23. It also includes the following TFT articles which might be of interest:

Know Thyself - TSG #23, Brian McCue.
"A personal evaluation system for ITL" Turn players into characters.

Attributes of the Deryni - TSG #23, Neill E. Frzzell.
"More on the Deryni" Gaming notes to follow up TSG #21.

The Valde - TSG #23, Ronald Pehr.
"More Characters for TFT" Empathic demi-human Amazons, MELEE /WIZARD gaming notes.

Regards,

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sgt Hulka" 
To: tft@brainiac.com
Subject: (TFT) Swords & Sails
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 06:24:31 -0800 (PST)


I received my copy of Space Gamer 24 I won on e-bay, which I was 
interested in for its Ships & Swords article. I was slightly 
disappointed that they didn't have actual sailing rules, but also 
felt "validated" that it was really just a series of boarding 
actions using cut-up hex sheets as deck plans, much as I had 
planned to do with Heroscape tiles.

More interesting to me, though, were the scenarios themselves. 
These were published pre-TFT (using the rules for Melee alone), and 
were all "historical light", somewhat like the sample combat 
between Flavius and Wulf in Melee, but much bigger. The final 
scenario is Ceasar's opposed landing on the sands of Britannia, and 
it uses 17 figures for the Roman side.

I was a little bit surprised to see the game being used the way 
David O. Miller uses it, and the way I've been using it lately, as 
a miniatures wargame skirmish system (the article's author even 
recommended 1/72 scale plastic historical models to use in the 
scenarios) instead of a man-to-man ultra tactical RPG system (like 
the Death Test series and the other Microquests).

Are there more published scenarios like these that I've missed?

Finally, David O. Miller, relevant to your 3-D tiles rules, the 
article includes a Roman Merchantman that has a raised cabin that's 
accessible via a ladder. The simple(istic) rule the author 
suggested was that anyone on the raised cabin couldn't attack 
anyone on the deck except with thrown and missile weapons. It took 
a figure's entire movement to go up or down the ladder, and figures 
higher on the ladder were +1 to hit figures lower on the ladder. 
Oddly, I'm not sure it's possible, using the rules provided in the 
article, to even be on the ladder, so it's odd that they included 
that bonus. And for the record I like your more complete rules 
better.

When a figure is pushed off the deck into the water, or off the 
cabin onto the deck below, it saves 3 dice versus Dex to drop prone 
in its current hex, instead. If I remember correctly Advanced Melee 
has its own rule that governs this sort of thing.

Finally, the article included an interesting "Leadership" rule to 
govern morale. Whenever a side's leader falls (including getting 
knocked down or slipping) all figures on his side must roll 3 dice 
versus IQ. Those that fail may only defend until they succeed on a 
save during the plotting phase. Those that roll a 17 or 18 panic, 
dive off the ship, and are removed.
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Chris Nicole
www.loran.karoo.net/



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