if it's something dramatic, like holding against waves and waves of enemies, just rolling a single dice could be repetitive. I wouldn't want a 'realistic' simulation, but I would like to have a bit of a story going on, someone leading a charge and breaking a line, and the archers hiding in the woods getting an augment from their Deadly When Stealthy ability, etc. Not a wargame. A war story :D
For example, the delta green story "once more, from the top", narrating the marine raid in innsmouth. It's sobrenatural, it's creepy, it has lots of combats, platoon level and, later on, more personal level.
It's not a simulation, but having this kind of 'organization' makes the story more credible when playing, at least in this kind of story.
Anyway, I like http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=379029 and guess it could be used as a rough guide :)
But any ideas help!
Emi
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:17 AM, David Dunham <david_at_a-sharp.com> wrote:
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> On 20 Nov 2010, at 10:55, Emmanuel Kanter wrote:
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> > but how would I setup the contest between, let's say, 20 elite soldiers
> vs.
> > 100 green soldiers?
> >
> > do I create a "size" trait, or do I add a bonus...? how would you do
> that?
>
> Um, what do those numbers have to do with anything?
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> HeroQuest isn't a military simulator. It's a literature simulator if it's
> any kind of simulation. So think about the sorts of situations you'd be
> dealing with. And don't worry about "realistic" results, worry about
> interesting results.
>
> Both of those units might actually have the same combat value. In a
> heads-up fight, they would each have the same chance of winning.
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> The Elite unit might have more secondary abilities -- heck, you could
> almost have 20 abilities, one contributed by each member.
>
> But tell me which is the players, and I can make it fun for them.
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> David Dunham
> Glorantha/HQ/RQ page: www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html
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