Re: Morale, was Re: Low Tech Scenarios

In a message dated 98-05-21 23:49:24 EDT, John wrote:

Wahoo! Finally, the first one to respond to a "name that quote post"!!!

>>I'm not sure of the timing, but I alway thought of the Frystaaters as 
>>proto-Draka, especially since that and other axioms show up in the 
>>appendix of "Marching Through Georgia".
 
> Ja, but not so vicious.
  
Weeellll, we don't really know that. We see Oom Piet (an avowed
socialist!!)
and his merry band, not the hidebound conservatives back home that
exiled him
in the first place. "Draka" who's homeworld make the deepest hole of
Darkest
Africa look like Club Med sounds like a very special Hell. 

>I've given some thought to converting Saurons, Frystaaters, and 
>haBandari over to Stargrunt statistics.  Might be messy, though.  
>Saurons would all be elite, with additional die shifts in hand-to-hand 
>and so forth. . . And movement of 8, 10 for scouts.  And modifiers to 
>wounded rolls.

Yep. I haven't played much SGII (one small game!) so I'm not familiar
with the
rules, but definately resistance to wounds; them Saurons is tuff
bastids!!!
:-)

>John M. Atkinson
>PS--for those of you who havn't read the War World series, you're 
>missing out on some really neato scenario ideas!

Oh, yeah. Hell, the Mercenary and Sparta series with Pournelle and
Stirling
have *loads* of nifty ideas.

Don