Re: Those annoying aliens...

On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:

> Well... either you water them down by changing the rules for them, or
you 
> water them down by increasing the points cost for them - if you want
to 
> use the points system at all, of course. Using them as they stand, 
> without changing either, is IMO serious gamesmanship on the Kra'Vak
side 
> if you insist on playing roughly equal cost battles (and, since most 
> around here are brought up with GW, that's pretty common...)

Yes i can see that GW could engender a culture of equal points based
battles. But FT is not a GW product, and in a way is in rebellion
against
that kind of thinking.

Our club is based in WRG ancients (again an equal points battle culture)
and we did have a campaign where the Kra'Vak shredded the NSL fleet that
i
was part of. But also in WRG games we developed a lot of scenario games
and campaigns where you have to fight with unbalenced forces.

And its not to hard to limit Kra'Vak forces to 1/3 of human forces for a
fairer game. I can understand that a GW player would see Kra'Vak as a
cheesy 'army' and just play it to the limit. Personally the only GW game
i
play is Necromunda otherwise im playing WRG DBM or DBR games.

Im not sure what to do with oafs who play gamesmanship, besides beating
them around the ears a bit. I mean it you ever get out here, i'll give
you
a friendly game as long as i get to play Sa'Vasku :)

Cheers
Ian 

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