Re: Mike's Fight For The Cheese

"Barclay, Tom" wrote:

> I'd love to play. As to when: Friday night seemed to be Carabande and
> Pods.... how about Saturday morning?

    I don't have a problem running on Saturday morning.  You're right,
I'd like
to run Pod Racing on Friday night.

> I'm likely to want to run an SG2
> scenario Saturday afternoon or Evening (maybe with Los if he's around)
> although I'm not (at present) seeking the next Carter Island award.
Really,
> I don't care when, I'd just like not to clash, and if Pods are
running, I
> wanna race! And Carabande looked fun. Plus the usual Friday night late
game
> of Nuclear War and Trailer Park Gods. (Just to here Mr. Davis do his
bad
> Southern accent).

    This is why I'm mentioning it on the list so early.  I want to be
able to
have people play in my game without conflicting with their own games.

> As to comments:
> 1) You didn't say it, but I'd only allow one ossifer/NCO able to
reactivate
> units.

    You're right, that was not in the description, but was my intention.
 I
figured that since each player has one squad, it would be self-evident
that
there would be one squad leader.  That was my mistake.	It is, in fact,
not
evident at all. <g>

> 2) I wouldn't allow snipers. Or at least, make a sniper worth 5 normal
guys.

    I was not going to allow snipers.  Just regular troops and PA. 
Although, if
someone can give me a good reason why their government sent along a
sniper with
peacekeeping troops, I might let him trade 5 capacity points for the
sniper.

> 3) I'd count each heavy weapon (GMS/SAW) as an extra half a guy or an
extra
> guy to avoid having someone show up with a squad of 10xSAW.... I like
> (myself) the idea of rolliing Quality + 5d10 when firing....

    The way I think I worded it was each normal trooper is worth 1
capacity
point.	Each APSW is worth 1 capacity point.  Combined, they'd be worth
2 CPs.

> 4) Armour limits? It strikes me that if my Legionaires arrive with
"Enhanced
> Unobtainium Partial Armour" (D10 armour), that's a profound advantage
over
> someone with D6 partial armour.

    That's where the GM selecting leadership, quality, and morale comes
in
handy. <g>  As the "head cheese," I will do my best to make sure that
the game
is cheesy, but fair.

> What you might want to do is ask people to submit to you their squad
lists
> in a usable format so you can review them and decide on balance
yourself.

    Since we're going to be running this event after Friday evening, I
might ask
that all players submit their cheese squad data card NLT midnight on
Friday
night.

> La 5ieme Regiment Etrange Aerospaciale de Les Etats Federal Europa
shall
> send representatives! Vive La Legion! Vive La EFE!
> <Survivors of a Grey Day and the aftermath scenarios>.   My gut
feeling
> <here's an Atkinson moment> is that the FSE ought to have a historical
> advantage when it comes to cheese....

    That's what they keep telling themselves.  BTW, good in character
comments
and actions during the game WILL be rewarded with extra cards.	It
doesn't get
any cheesier than that! <g>

-Mike

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Michael Sarno

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