Re: (TFT) TFT and the SCA in your front yard

[mejobo@comcast.net]

I kinda disagree. I've had some experience with this sort of stuff, and although I haven't had a life size battlemap, I think i can give some input.... 


5 seconds is pretty well represented in TFT... its a long time, but so it is in TFT. 


A 4 foot hex being too big... by what standards? Surely not by range or movement... if anything, they are too small for range. 


HTH is clearly what you mean.... Sure, someone can kinda "step into" your hex, but thats not HTH. Its all about imagination.... in TFT you stand in two separate hexes, but within that combat there is lots of stepping and thrusting, which, of course, blurs the hex positions of a figure. HTH is when a figure jumps onto another, knocking him over, and starts struggling on the ground. 


If you don't fall to the ground, by my reasoning, then its not HTH, its still covered by normal combat. Once you do fall to the ground, whether or not you are holding your weapon is somewhat irrelevant- the combat is no longer thrusting and slashing, its grabbing and wrestling. The type of combat is different. 


Obviously, TFT is abstracted.... the above things aren't totally realistic, they are just close enough. But they get the job done and get fairly realistic results.... the Strength as Hitpoints system is a good example. 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: raito@raito.com 
To: tft@brainiac.com 
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 8:20:40 AM 
Subject: Re: (TFT) TFT and the SCA in your front yard 

Quoting Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>: 
> >At 19:36 -0500 8/15/10, Jay wrote: 
> >>I ran into an opportunity this weekend to lay out a quarter sized 
> >>Battle Map in a friends front yard and have some SCA folks pound on each 
> >>other over it. 
> > LOT'S of practical info came off of this little effort. 
> 
> This sounds pretty cool. Wish I'd seen that! 

The first thing you learn is that 5 seconds is a long time. 

The second thing you learn is that a hex is too big. 

The third thing you learn is that it's very difficult to prevent 
someone from entering your hex (i.e. entering HTH). 

And if you do any Fiore, or many other sorts of WMA, you learn that you 
absolutely do not have to drop your weapon when in HTH, nor do you 
automatically fall to the ground. 

So trying for realism within the TFT system is rather pointless. But 
Consistency is just fine, and works. 

Neil Gilmore 
raito@raito.com 
(SCA Duke and Knight) 
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