Re: [GZG] Measuring was: - Re: Opening a can of worms - for fun. (was: Re: CinematicVs Vector for Dummies Re: Running Full Thrust at a con?

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make up a 5 foot measuring stick for games, one side and edge painted in
foot long segments, and the other side and edge painted in 6 inch
segments (blue and black paint), so instead of getting out a tape, and
fiddling about with that, I would hold the stick above the minatures and
count the range brackets (based on 6 or 12 inch increments) - so in this
case measuring didn't really slow anything down.
Only if you wanted to get the fine range did the tape measure come out,
but for most everything else, the questions were: was it within range,
and if so what bracket (for selecting the target, or for determining
what range it was to the target you already selected.

Robyn Stott

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: martin connell 
  To: gzg-l@minibar.csua.berkeley.edu 
  Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:45 AM
  Subject: Re: [GZG] Opening a can of worms - for fun. (was: Re:
CinematicVs Vector for Dummies Re: Running Full Thrust at a con?

  I don't think there is anything wrong with measuring - certainly in
high tech genres it makes sense. I think it's a game mechanic to achieve
a couple things: 1) keep the game "gamey", it adds some kind of skill
aspect to it 2) keeps things moving (you know someone will want to
premeaasure every relationship on the table every turn) 3) so much
future gaming is actually based on the past where accurate measurement
was not broadly and quickly available. I'm sure there are lots of other
excu... er, reasons. There are games that allow pre-measure. I've read
them but never played them.

  Might be an interestnig SG/FMA action - spend an action to know the
range of everything in your field of fire. Another choice other than
aim.

  Martin
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Indy 
    To: gzg-l@lists.csua.berkeley.edu 
    Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 7:22 PM
    Subject: [GZG] Opening a can of worms - for fun. (was: Re: Cinematic
Vs Vector for Dummies Re: Running Full Thrust at a con?

    Given the latest chattyness of the list, and some of the topics (and
subtopics) brought forth, and my being frustrated after a long-@$$ day
of fighting with a seriously ornery simulator, I thought I'd just drop a
little ortillery into a beehive.

    On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Doug Evans <devans@nebraska.edu>
wrote:

      [...]
      Let them measure.[...]

    So, what is it about all the anti-measuring noise, anyway? I mean,
why deny measuring? This isn't Ancients, after all...

    (oooh, did I just say that out loud?)

    :-D

    Mk

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