RE: [DS] Point System (was RE: In praise of Cottage Industry)

I tend to use points as "money" but I normally work out a scenario or
have
an order of battle in mind for the parent organization so most of my
battles
take the form of "lets draw a battle group from an armored
regiment/brigade
and put it up against a battle group from an infantry battalion".
Sometimes
I don't even work out the points until after the battle is over.

Currently I'm working on a scenario with a GEV force (1er Escadron, 2e
Regiment
Etranger Cavalrie) vs. a Tyranid Swarm or that could be FSE vs. Savasku.
This
is intended to be a test of some morale rules I'm writing for the
Tyranids
but I
also worked out the point cost to give me some idea if the two forces,
neither
of which have been fielded before, are wildly mismatched.

The totals are about 3000 pts vs. 2500 pts so I think they are about
right
provided
the morale doesn't totally skew things. But I'm not trying to balance
this
to
the exact points cost I'm just using this a sanity check.

Chris D-W

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
[mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Jaime Tiampo
Sent: 27 March 2001 20:55
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [DS] Point System (was RE: In praise of Cottage Industry)

"Casquilho, Daniel" wrote:
>	  I agree, but the idea of two people just dropping some minis
on a
> table and playing without any form of points seems odd to many people
in
my
> area. 40k has ingrained into their heads points make balanced games. I
am
> just working with the people I have :-)

I have two words for you, brain, and washing. I  know a good
deprogrammer that could help :) And afterwards you'll even be able to
get them to do your laundry and wash you dishes. :)

As for point systems, I like the idea that you can put so many points
into an army and know how powerful it is but, and here's the big but,
how correct are the points? Mostly they're pretty arbitrary, even in FT
where everything has a set value you always have the arguments that the
points are wrong. I'm a big fan of designing a fleet or army group as
you would in real life (gasp) and then using that as a base. I get a lot
of complaints from the rest of my group here about my huge chain of
command that I have for my SGII company but it's actually laid out as a
company so that it's all pregenerated and I just put platoons on the
board.