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| ClivetheCelt |
Posted - 01 Mar 2012 : 11:20:46
Anyone have an improvised rule for using a shield of any sort? How would they count against missile fire, i.e. as what sort of cover with regard to Avoiding Harm - and different for firearms vs bows vs thrown objects? For fisticuffs - as an extra defence die roll? Any thoughts? Thanks! |
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| Carvel2 |
Posted - 05 Mar 2012 : 19:38:18
Ey up Big Al 
Aye...SALUTE!
Only a moment away now |
| Big Al |
Posted - 05 Mar 2012 : 15:33:14
Hey up, Carvel! Good to see you on here too! Will see you at Salute next month. |
| Carvel2 |
Posted - 04 Mar 2012 : 22:58:30
Hi Witchy folk!
Clive is building an army of evil which will need seeing off at some point!
We live under the shadow of Pendle so there's lots of opportunity for an anniversary skirmish to remember the local coven |
| ClivetheCelt |
Posted - 04 Mar 2012 : 16:34:59
Ah, forgot God's Own County ... don't think we have the monopoly on witches, though - I've been to Leeds on a Saturday night! And ... don't go on the moors, etc, etc ...
Yes, you're right about the forests, trees on parade at Kielder and Redesdale; I was thinking more burneal forest, the wild wood, the dark behind the trees - though some parts of the FC managed woodland on Longridge Fell near us are very old.
It'd be great to get a "north Pennines" witch scenario together, Terry. I'm in Burnley, my gaming opponent lives nearby, and he'd be up for it, too, I suspect. Are any of you going to Salute? I can't get the time off, but he's going; I'll mention it next week.
Ey up, must go an' feed t'whippet - wheers mi flat cap ... ? |
| Morsleib |
Posted - 04 Mar 2012 : 13:57:45
No problem. I'm from Derby originally but made my home in Nottingham. It's my wife who's the Lancashire lass. Anyway the discussion really was about trying these ladies for witchcraft not their cricketing ability.
Terry |
| Black Sheep |
Posted - 04 Mar 2012 : 11:19:14
Ee By Gum Terry - Between you and me I do suspect some of those grand Lancashire folk do get a little bit jealous of our Yorkshire sporting ability, fine food and modern transportation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VLYpKGVBUg
Grand idea though.
Edit - what edit?  |
| Morsleib |
Posted - 04 Mar 2012 : 09:52:42
Clive,
As soon as I saw these rules I dusted off my wife's ancient copy of Mist over Pendle. I must have last read it about 30-35 years ago! I hadn't twigged the significance of the anniversary though. Maybe we should try and do something through the medium of the game. Sorry Eric we are talking about Lancashire ;-0
Terry |
| Morsleib |
Posted - 04 Mar 2012 : 09:49:47
I think that Drusty is right about the forests. Even what we think of as wild nature is so often at least in part man made.
I have been looking for a suitable rule set for a while. I had been messing about adapting the Warhammer Historical Legends of xxx series but never got round to finishing it.
Terry |
| drusty |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 18:47:38
"..vast tracts of forest..."
I think the forests came later, courtesy of the Forestry Commission. |
| ClivetheCelt |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 17:36:43
Fiend's Fell, the Devil's Beef tub ... gloomy bastles overlooking dark lakes ... vast tracts of forest ... ancient stone circles on wild moors ... what's not to like?
OK, the time of the reivers was bloody and horrible if you lived in the borders, and I'm not romanticising it, but it's ripe for Witchfinder games, I feel. Not to mention that the period is crying out for some decent skirmish rules, though there are many decent ones on the 'net.
BTW, this year is the 400th anniversary of the Lancashire Witch Trials. Mist Over Pendle, anyone? |
| Morsleib |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 14:39:15
Mention of Border Rievers has my ears pricked up! Certainly bucklers and targes were in use then but not the medieval man-at-arms' shield.
Terry
Has tae the riding gane |
| ClivetheCelt |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 11:13:19
It was actually the late Elizabethan/early Stuart period I had in mind, thinking especially about the Borders regions (I have a collection of reivers was intending to use!). Bucklers were in use, as well as small targes. You can understand why talk of a Highland supplement is music to my ears ... |
| Morsleib |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 09:04:52
I don't dislike the idea of a shield in the game as such however i don't think they saw any use in the 17th century. Apart from Scottish bucklers do you know of any examples?
Terry |
| Black Sheep |
Posted - 03 Mar 2012 : 08:25:04
I don't think the idea is over-complicated. It could form a new rule/ command to add to the game as an alternative choice to 'on guard'? Definitely worth looking at and play testing. |
| ClivetheCelt |
Posted - 02 Mar 2012 : 07:32:31
Just a further thought on shield use: maybe a larger shield behind sturdy cover (a solid wall, say) would make the defender nigh-on impregnable, but limit their ability to attack (i.e. cowering behind it, so difficult to hit, but very limited ability to strike back). The other benefit of a larger shield might be in defending against the witches' grenado attack, though the shield could be destroyed in the process. Or is that a bit over-complicated? |
