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how about a solo sniping game?   Message List  
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Re: [twohourwargames] Re: how about a solo sniping game?

How about doing all of the same, but with someone else's house? Adds
that element of reality...

;-)

Don.

John Paul wrote:
>
> Sniping game
>
> Set up a bunch of large and small mirrors throughout your house, not
> being concerned
> with where they actually point (as long as its not reflecting right
> into a wall).
>
> Light all sorts of candles throughout house, then turn off lights. Put
> on black jersey
> running gear and full face knit cap. Grab your .22 rifle and exit house.
>
> Start of game. Open door and crawl inside and shut door. Crawl around.
> If you see
> someone in the mirror pointing a gun at you, shoot them.
>
> You can substitute a BB gun or perhaps a nerf gun.
>
> er... that was the alternate to the pen/pencil version.
>
> - John Paul
>
> --- In twohourwargames@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:twohourwargames%40yahoogroups.com>, "briansommers777"
> <jbsommers@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > not quite sure how it would work, but I could almost see this as a
> > pen/pencil game - no miniatures needed.
> >
> > maybe a map or something
> >
> > I know Ed could come up with something that would be really exciting
> > and tense
> >
> > just a thought
> > ciao!
> > BS
> >
>
>

--
Don MacVittie

Editorial Director, Wargames @ Nordalia.com (http://wargames.nordalia.com)

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Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:07 am

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not quite sure how it would work, but I could almost see this as a pen/pencil game - no miniatures needed. maybe a map or something I know Ed could come up...
briansommers777
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Jan 12, 2009
8:41 pm

Interesting idea. Sounds like a game I would buy. Wasn't there an old (SPI?) board game called "Sniper"? Cheers, Dale ... From: briansommers777...
Dale C. Blessing
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Jan 12, 2009
10:46 pm

The SPI (and later TSR) game Sniper was a man-to-man scale combat game. ... this as a...
Roland S. Lee
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Jan 13, 2009
12:08 am

Seems to me with just a little work you can make a solo sniper game for yourself. Just set up either a table full of bad guys, or a chart to let you find out...
Jason Lieuallen
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Jan 13, 2009
1:08 am

Actually, this has been done at least once before by Gary Graber over at Minden Games. It was a pen/pencil game....
Roland S. Lee
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Jan 13, 2009
12:08 am

Here's a start. This game appeared in the first issue of a free gaming magazine called Countermoves. ...
Ronald Pehr
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Jan 13, 2009
3:28 pm

Interestingly enough I was speaking to someone about` the NUTS! Pacific Theater book being worked on and it will incorporate elements of that....
az_sunsets73
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Jan 13, 2009
6:24 pm

FNG:UW has Scout Snipers, and yo can play it solo. You'd still need a couple of miniatures for when thing get really hairy, but for the most part you can roam...
darbyeckles
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Jan 13, 2009
8:03 pm

Sniping game Set up a bunch of large and small mirrors throughout your house, not being concerned with where they actually point (as long as its not reflecting...
John Paul
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Jan 14, 2009
12:28 am

How about doing all of the same, but with someone else's house? Adds that element of reality... ;-) Don. ... -- Don MacVittie Editorial Director, Wargames @...
Don MacVittie
oscodadon
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Jan 14, 2009
1:07 am

Yep, look up a local law enforcement members home address and use his house. Wait a minute... there aren't enough gamers as it is, maybe that's a bad idea. ...
Paul Curlin
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