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Hi Winchell! I've been looking at your Nomogram page and came with a headache. I want to make it easy for a player in a SFRPG to calculate how long it would...
John Reiher
kedamono
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Nov 4, 2005
4:54 am
1292
Tricky... For an RPG, I'm assuming that you are limiting things to Brachistochrone trajectories (i.e., constant acceleration to the midpoint, flip over,...
Winchell Chung
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Nov 4, 2005
2:08 pm
1293
... Winchell, you are a mensch! In this case it will be the manly constant thrust drives, though I think the Mass ratio for a nuclear drive will be enormous,...
John Reiher
kedamono
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Nov 4, 2005
3:35 pm
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I'm roughing something out. ... a b c d e a is the distance to the planet d is the current mass of the ship c is sort of a pivot point (it is actually the...
Winchell Chung
nyrathwiz
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Nov 4, 2005
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Oy Winchell, you've just moved from mensch to Übermensch! Yes I can handle Excel spreadsheets just fine. As for scale, I don't see a need for further than 50...
John Reiher
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Nov 4, 2005
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1296
Greetings: Just spotted this on the Yahoo group devoted to Ogre, etc. A Cyberboard for Ogre, GEV, Shockwave, etc. See: <http://www.sirdinglydang.com/> ...for...
Fred Kiesche
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Nov 10, 2005
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1297
From: Fred Kiesche <godel2escher2bach@...> ... The site is crippled. He uses Micro$erf Frontpage to create his pages, and it's not working in KMeleon, a ...
Mike & Carmen
thedugan
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Nov 10, 2005
1:58 pm
1298
FWIW, someone posted a big list of wargames to the " boardwargaming " Yahoo group yesterday - lots of SF stuff, including WarpWar. Don't know the seller, but...
shudson@...
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Nov 15, 2005
3:46 pm
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I have an old copy of Battlefleet Mars for sale. ... From: shudson@... To: WarpWar@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:46 AM Subject:...
Eric Henry
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Nov 15, 2005
3:55 pm
1300
It is still going? I promised Ana Paula I'd make her Queen of the Galaxy for Christmas......
macunaima30
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Nov 17, 2005
2:44 pm
1301
... Yeah, I just got in everybody's orders on Monday and I haven't had a chance to sit down and push the counters around the map since. It should be out in a...
Henry J. Cobb
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Nov 17, 2005
6:43 pm
1302
... I don't need to explore new systems. I let inferior races do that sort of dirty work for me....
macunaima30
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Nov 17, 2005
8:31 pm
1303
Hnefatafl is one of the oldest boardgames, dating back to Viking times. http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/2932 http://www.gamecabinet.com/history/Hnef.html ...
Winchell Chung
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Nov 18, 2005
2:35 pm
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Greetings: "So a quick beer-and-pretzel LENSMAN game can be made by printing a Hnefatafl board on a Hubble starfield photo, and using two kinds of starship...
Fred Kiesche
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Nov 18, 2005
6:00 pm
1305
Hmmmm...not a good sign. The website hasn't been updated in about a year! <http://www.lensmangame.com/index.htm> Fred Kiesche (FPK3) My books are water; those...
Fred Kiesche
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Nov 18, 2005
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1306
... Which is about how long its been since I last heard from the gentleman....
Winchell Chung
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Nov 18, 2005
8:23 pm
1307
This is a tactic I have never playtested but which sounds good on paper: the Drone. This is a PD:1 SS, generally built in groups of at least three and carried...
E Corcoran
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Nov 26, 2005
8:19 pm
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... So you deploy these by warping in your very large battleship to an enemy held system and sitting at speed zero with dropped shields for three turns? -HJC...
Henry J. Cobb
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Nov 26, 2005
8:33 pm
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Possibly. Better would be to use them when the battleship is acting as a fortress, holding a system. Then a big drone cloud would look like a large fleet and...
E Corcoran
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Nov 26, 2005
10:45 pm
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... large ... We've actually worked out an evil scheme that grabs a system and holds it against any reasonable attack. ...
Henry J. Cobb
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Nov 27, 2005
11:48 pm
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To get around that why not change the rules so that the 3 strikes rule only applies to armed ships. But then you'd just put one beam factor on the Slug. So how...
E Corcoran
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Nov 28, 2005
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I have a copy of Holy War that I do not want. I will give it free to a good home that sends a SASE. It was mint when I bought it, except for the plastic bag,...
E Corcoran
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Nov 28, 2005
1:06 am
1313
... rule only ... stay in ... Make sure you look at the current PBeM game rules. http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WarpWar/files/Warp%20War/BPEM%20Campaign/ ...
Henry J. Cobb
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Nov 28, 2005
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I see I've come late to the party. "If after three combat rounds no damage has been inflicted on any of the ships in a combat that wasn't blocked by shields...
E Corcoran
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Nov 30, 2005
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I found this old gag while cleaning out my archives: http://www.projectrho.com/game/BZAP.GIF...
Winchell Chung
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Dec 3, 2005
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Funny stuff! I'm new to the group, but not to WarpWar. I was playing the heck out of this game in High School (late 1980's) and doing a lot of mod's to it. I...
DJDood
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Dec 4, 2005
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... Good for you! Yes, that's me. Thanks for your kind words. I haven't done much artwork recently. http://www.projectrho.com/ ...
Winchell Chung
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Dec 4, 2005
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1318
I'm about to get a SC set that's lacking the cards. In the past I have resisted efforts to convert the system-making to dice-rolling (because the cards are...
brianmccue22312
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Dec 5, 2005
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... http://www.bggfiles.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=4070 This is an Excel sheet I made once that has all the cards, suitable for printing/cutting out (probably...
Caleb N. Diffell
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Dec 5, 2005
12:11 pm
1320
"You may have to be a member of boardgamegeek in order to access the file." Seems to have worked for me no problem. I'll put the link on the group's page on...
Fred Kiesche
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