Hi All, What an inspired set of rules! I am a great Battle Cry and Mem 44 player (and soon to be ancients command and colours as well!) but really wanted a...
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ogrefencer
May 7, 2006 5:08 pm
Hi All, I gave the rules a run out today with my 10 year old daughter. What a blast! I do not have a hexed set up yet so I was using 4 inches as being a hex....
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Phil Dutre
phildutre
May 7, 2006 7:13 pm
... Dave, oops, I realized I never answered this! Anyway, if you send the files to me, I can put them on the website of teh group, or you can post them...
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Philip Dutre
phildutre
May 7, 2006 7:24 pm
Hi, I'm really glad you liked the rules. I've been using them myself for more than 2 years now, and have experimented quite a bit with different options and...
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Phil Dutre
phildutre
May 7, 2006 7:32 pm
... No, same set of rules - sort of. I posted my summary sheet in the files section. Phil...
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Phil Dutre
phildutre
May 17, 2006 10:24 am
Here's a game report of a game we tried last night. Also, we used a variant of the activation sequence. Details of the scenario can be found in the files...
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Alan Huyton
alanfrankhuyton
May 17, 2006 4:05 pm
It was a really interesting game. Phil set up a very good scenario which set plenty of problems for the 'human players' (Eddy and I tried to be human) in ...
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Phil Dutre
phildutre
Jul 17, 2006 10:32 am
I added some new photos in the photo Section of a game of TeWapen that was played this weekend (15 July 2006). The game was run by a friend of mine, who wanted...
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Phil Dutre
phildutre
Jul 18, 2006 10:06 am
I posted a new version of the Te Wapen rules. Most of the ideas we have developed and playtested over the past year or so have been included. The most notably...
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kalinin_yuri
Jul 20, 2006 7:04 am
Nice pictures. What kind of Hexes are you using and how big are they? Best regards Yuri...
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Philip Dutre
phildutre
Jul 20, 2006 9:10 am
I'm using the hex-based terrain from kallistra: http://www.kallistra.co.uk/ The hexes measure approx. 10cm from side to side. I've also drawn my own hex-based...
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kalinin_yuri
Jul 21, 2006 7:09 am
Thank you! They offer very nice hexex and terrain, but their shipping costs are too high. ... series you see ... squares, giving ... this, I cut ... fill out...
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Phil Dutre
phildutre
Nov 8, 2006 3:50 pm
Since I didn;t post anything on Te Wapen for a long time, here's a small update on things: - Games are still being played by my group, but lately we have ...
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Dave Ashton
davea_sk1
Dec 29, 2006 11:46 pm
Hi Phil & Everybody. Merry Christmas! I just thought I'd send a quick message to tell you I've finally got around to playing my first games of Te Wapen. I've...
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Philip Dutre
phildutre
Dec 30, 2006 12:59 pm
Dave, Nice to hear you enjoyed the rules! I look forward to seeing your pictures and further thoughts. Te Wapen really is more of an 'engine' that you can tune...
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Dave Ashton
davea_sk1
Dec 30, 2006 10:46 pm
Wow - I've just uploaded about thirty photos. I took more... but I think thirty tells the story well enough! (Phew!). I'll do a full battle report tomorrow....
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Phil Dutre
phildutre
Dec 30, 2006 11:55 pm
... Dave, I like your setup. The 2D paper figures look really nice. One of my plans to set up a game with old-style flat German tinfigures at some point ;-) ...
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Dave Ashton
davea_sk1
Dec 31, 2006 1:07 am
Oooh! Those Hotz mats are very nice, and the price works out at around 28 quid for a 6ft by 4ft mat. That's much better value than the Kallistra terrain. I'm...
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Dave Ashton
davea_sk1
Jan 2, 2007 10:37 pm
Happy New Year Everyone!! Apologies for the delay in posting this: Sunday was much busier than I anticipated, and we had surprise visitors on New Year's Day,...
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Phil Dutre
phildutre
Jan 4, 2007 11:32 am
... We usually play that spell that everything in the hex is affected, so if a wizard would be in the same hex as a unit, he's frozen as well. ... Yeah, I...
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Phil Dutre
phildutre
Jan 4, 2007 11:46 am
... Yes, individual units wandering all around the battlefield can be a problem. We experienced that too when we using the simple activation sequence. That's...
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Dave Ashton
davea_sk1
Jan 5, 2007 8:08 am
That was the one I was the least comfortable about, and could have changed the game entirely. Interesting. Well, now we know! ;o) Thanks for the answer, Phil....
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Dave Ashton
davea_sk1
Jan 5, 2007 8:26 am
... in ... some ... be ... (the ... have ... Yes - I can see how the Hero-based activation would make you keep your units closer together. I would also expect...
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Dave Ashton
davea_sk1
Jan 15, 2007 10:38 pm
Hi Phil! Played my second game on Saturday night with a mate of mine (he missed the first game over Christmas). This time we used v24 of the rules, and tried...
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Philip Dutre
phildutre
Jan 15, 2007 11:19 pm
Hi Dave, To be honest, I'm still experimenting with the activation sequence now and then :-), so just to say that we haven't fully converged to a good solution...
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Dave Ashton
davea_sk1
Jan 16, 2007 8:28 am
(grin) I rarely make a firm decision after just one go at something anyway (Other than playing WHFB...) I'll certainly give it another go and see how I feel...
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Dave Ashton
davea_sk1
Jun 16, 2007 1:44 pm
Hi everyone!! I finally got around to uploading the 'TW-Squished' stuff I've had on my hard drive for ages. Basically, this is a concept I had ever since I...
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Phil Dutre
phildutre
Jul 10, 2007 9:13 am
I removed offending posters and messages. Hopefully things do not get too bad, otherwise I'll activate the feature where joining is only possible after...
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Phil Dutre
phildutre
Aug 13, 2007 6:43 am
... ... which I have now activated. Phil...
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Te_Wapen@yahoogroups....
Sep 24, 2010 12:47 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Te_Wapen group. File : /tewapen.pdf ...
