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I will be there! I also may have gotten a second to come along as well. If anyone wants to play some 1v1, 2v2, or any v AI X-wing, let me know. I have all of DisruptiveConduct's stuff so no minis necessary.

Looks like Don will make it out with his High Elves. That makes one pair for tomorrow!

Putting out the call for a game tomorrow 10/14 for 9th age! Any location is cool with me

Isn't PinkTaco's paygrade == your Paygrade? I would say you are equals in that respect. So you have some latitude. Think of it this way.... VS and SA are maybe going to remain primary foes. As a VS player, you have to deal with pronouncing the names of the dinosaur targets you want to blow away with your silly artillery guns. You have the same problem as the SA players. Remember that if you use the 8 edition name, your WM automatically misfires and you take a shot of scotch. Make this happen!

kinky... It's a date! Shall I bring my airbrush/compressor? Any other things needed (tools, supplies, snacks)?

The video for the starter set is rad, good production value for a miniatures product. I dont think this starter box really does 9th age rule system any amount of justice tho. Not many strategic options with 1000pts or less of models. I think this box set would need to come with a confined play space and a scenario or two. This is basically the scale of a flank of a normal T9a game. John, if you could, while 2.0 is changing names up, have them change the names of the SA dinosaurs again. The current names are.... lame... Lustria Online has awesome names all picked out, then pinktaco got /ignored or something. Now we have a "Thyrocuttus" which I cannot spell nor pronounce.

4500 Is lame I say!

Sam dumped me this week. I'm down 2 play.

No Alpha-nom-nom this time around. I thought I would play a warlord on foot for probably the first time ever. Yay for Infantry!

Sam and I have a date that day.

5k sounds great. More brave skinks for the cause!

I'm fine with snacking on corsairs. Did you want to play 4.5k of 5k?

Yes! I will be bringing the lizards, as to ensure our armies look as good as the generals . Ill bring an Alpha NomNom-asaur for epic theme.

Yeppers, Sat the 7th was the plan. Be there, or be a 4 - equal length sided polygon joined at right angles.

Looking for a match of t9a anywhere in the Portland/Vancouver area. Hoping for 4.5k or 5k points (preferably 5k). I would also be down to demo a game of T9a for anyone who has not already played it before. My preference is a location that also sells beer.

I really appreciate the GURPS system. Here are a few reasons why. 1) Characters are built on points for stats and skills. This is cool because any character can be really whatever you want. If you dont like the linear character development chutes that systems like D&D put you down, then GURPS is awesome. You can dabble in a little bit of everything, or be super specific. The point cost increases during your higher progression in a single skill, so it rewards diversity in your character, which makes for more interesting play imo. The HUGE improvement I see to it is Advantages/Disadvantages. This is a system by which you choose some perks (like good eyesight, good looks, quit wit, ect.) which cost some of your character development points. Disadvantages are things you can throw on your character (such as hemophobia, alcoholism, blindness) which rewards you with extra points to spend elsewhere. So if you like the idea of a blind monk, then you are rewarded for being blind with a few extra development points, but still have to deal with being blind. Again, this gives far more range for generating flavor in your character, far beyond the confining universe of DnD. You can do this for any system, but it is built into GURPS, so you don't have to haggle it out with the DM as much. 2) Event rolls are normally distributed. This is kind of a statistical nerd thing I love about GURPS. The entire system is on the D6. The skill system (so whether or not you succeed on something) is typically the sum of a 3D6 roll. In contrast, D&D is a single D20. So in D&D you have a 5% chance to roll any value on a D20. This commonly means that just due to slightly poor luck, you end up swinging and missing a lot in combat against a far inferior enemy. In gurps however, if the enemy is inferior to you, there is a diminishing chance that you roll under a particular value (to hit for instance). Since the results of a 3d6 roll are normally distributed (a bell curve) you will most often roll around a value of 10.5, so the MODE and MEAN and MEDIAN of 100 rolls should be like 10 or 11. In contrast in D&D, the MEAN and MEDIAN are 10 or 11, but there is no real MODE (due to a uniform distribution). To me, this better expresses your character's skill (or lack of skill) as it is harder to fail, when you should succeed, and harder to succeed when you should fail. The difference is 3) There are no levels or experience points to my knowledge. Instead, after an adventure you are rewarded development points. You can bank them and save up to improve an attribute, or you can go up in a skill, or do other stuff. I really like this because you actually slowly get better over time, not suddenly become way more awesome because you gained that key level. It also gives you more to do in those long vast expanses between level ups.

So then you really dont lose much in the way of killing power when you take shields. The strength is in the static combat res. The shields simply allow you to survive a bit better.

How did that turn out for the skinks?

I totally agree. I guess I am thinking more of the 50x units of trash, which for valorunbound, is a staple.

I just realized I cant make this event, I have a rafting trip that weekend which I scheduled far outside my limited short term memory. -1 for the good guys :(

Quite true, stubborn and steadfast are the bane of this orc build.

Shields do matter! I think the turn off people have to orcs and shields is that goblins do a great job of dieing in droves to hold your opponent there, the classic "tarpit". Orcs with shields servers a similar purpose to "tarpit" as it provides them no damage causing offensive value. Since orcs have choppas, it is pretty common thinking to do whatever you can to fully capitalize on that special rule. Orcs with shields do not fully capitalize on offensive damage HOWEVER, remember every good front/front clash is as much about offence as it is defense. Fixxer's point is that if you build enough static combat res, which is the number you count up at the end of close combat, so for instance. +1 for charge +3 for ranks +1 for banner +1 for war banner +1 for BSB + whatever for Waagh This amount is a guaranteed (static), regardless of how badly you roll (unless you start losing ranks). The sweet thing about this is that you can crash into a lord or something that has 6 attacks. Even if all 6 attacks generate unsaved wounds and you do nothing in return, you still win the combat and could potentially run that lord down. Shields provide the benefit of making that final combat res gap larger, by denying your opponent from doing significant damage to you. You don't have to kill your opponent, only cause them to flee.

I like Fixxer's approach to looking at the Combat Rez. I watched him make some moves at OFCC which to me looked like suicide, but once he explained the guaranteed CR, it was actually quite brilliant. I am starting to realize that static CR is actually really powerful because you cant fluff it. Also, consider your unit size. If you are running at less than horde formation, you are giving up 33% output, if you are running at a horde size, you are only giving up 25%.

Do the expansion ships come with extra of the other game jazz, such as tokens, dice, damage, ect? Would it be useful to have two sets of maneuver sticks and laser ranges, or is there no pre-measuring in the game? I guess I am thinking if someone wants to sort of throw some maneuver templates down to get a feel for their options before committing to a maneuver choice. But if that is against the rules, then that simplifies the choice.

Has anyone played an opponent that brought something like these? https://www.target.com/p/star-wars-the-force-awakens-micro-machines-deluxe-vehicle-pack-galactic-showdown/-/A-21436446#lnk=sametab I remember thinking these little plastic fighters were expensive as a kid. Economies of scale has caught up with everything else in the world, what happened here?