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Post by malika on Aug 14, 2005 17:53:58 GMT -5
Another theme for the game that might be very cool. The Japanese were going to have lots of toxin/acid/biological weapons right? What about the Germans? I think they would use specialized forms of nervegas or mustardgas.
But what about biological warfare? Stuff like viral bombs or certain bacteria?
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Post by CommieRabbit on Aug 14, 2005 18:31:33 GMT -5
I'd prefer keeping that stuff for the japanese. Let the german's have their own stuff, because afterall, variety is the spice of life.
Also how exactly is biological warfare going to play a role in a skirmish game? A virus bomb of sorts would probably be dropped on a city or major strategic target, not a squad taking potshots at an enemy one.
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Post by malika on Aug 14, 2005 18:37:29 GMT -5
Let one army have bullets and the other one lasers and another one flying darts Who says the Germans would employ exactly the same chemical weapons as the Japanese? Is this game a skirmish game? So far Ive been contradictory impressions about this, Darkson didnt mind creating a 40k scale game while others want it to be more Necromunda scale...so which one is it going to be? But then again the background doesnt have the reflect the rules...look at Warhammer 40k, look at how weak the Space Marines and their bolters are in the game compared to the background. You could do something that the biological "template" would only hit the units under the template and thus wound/kill only those, not the rest of the table...so perhaps some sort of "local" biological weapon.
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Post by CommieRabbit on Aug 14, 2005 20:48:09 GMT -5
Let one army have bullets and the other one lasers and another one flying darts No, but thanks for completely missing the point. I was talking theme-wise, the japanese have got their chemical stuff and the germans already have their hands full with the whole drugged mutant and genetic manipulation things.
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Post by malika on Aug 15, 2005 6:00:52 GMT -5
But still, doesnt 40k also have something like orbital bombardements, we could just have aircraft bombardements in which you have like different types. (chemicals, biological, napalm and perhaps even nuclear to a small amount)
Give the US napalm, they used it on Japan during the WWII, burning down about 100.000 people
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Post by yellow on Aug 15, 2005 11:05:23 GMT -5
No need it.
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Post by malika on Aug 15, 2005 11:07:39 GMT -5
Okay the bigger stuff is better kept in the background, but some sort of orbital bombardement like thing but then with napalm ;D
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Post by warlordgrubnatz on Aug 15, 2005 14:11:45 GMT -5
"i am atempting to launch a nucleur strike" *rolls 6 to hit" "sucsess" *plants 6m wide blast marker on table" "all dead- i call a draw"
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Post by yellow on Aug 15, 2005 16:32:35 GMT -5
Make love not war ;D Peace! OK, i`m agree, nuclear strike and other types of weapons of mass destruct, including of biological is not successfull for tabletop game of this size. Because we wanna live in peace ;D Therefore it`s must be weapon of selectible destruction. Infected victim must roll a dice for choose a way of his suffering death: instant death, exploding of thousands of virulent spores, blood frenzy or transformation into z...sorry, into white rabbit So, main think: biological weapon must be limited in range and have a many different effects.
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Post by LibrarianBrent on Aug 15, 2005 19:42:32 GMT -5
Give the US napalm, they used it on Japan during the WWII, burning down about 100.000 people I agree with the napalm idea, but your post makes you look like an asshat. "Burning down about 100,000 people"? Napalm is a perfectly legitimate weapon, and that makes it seem like some horror movie thing.
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Post by CommieRabbit on Aug 15, 2005 19:54:59 GMT -5
It's still a disgusting way to die, though. Not that I'm saying it's any worse than any of the other multiple ways to die horribly in a war.
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Post by DarksonArtist on Aug 15, 2005 20:04:45 GMT -5
Asshat? C'mon, man, we need to curb the namecalling.
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Post by DarksonArtist on Aug 15, 2005 20:06:09 GMT -5
And i'm not so sure Napalm is a perfectly legit weapon or it'd still be in use by the military today. And "burning" is a pretty good way of describing what Napalm does to a human body.
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Post by LibrarianBrent on Aug 15, 2005 22:54:28 GMT -5
Okay, well, the death statistics in this case seem kinda odd, and although the verb in question is accurate, it seems pretty confrontantional to me.. Compare something like "The British army shot down over one million people during the war" to "Over one million enemy soldiers were killed by the British military during the war".
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Post by yellow on Aug 16, 2005 0:09:01 GMT -5
Problem is in this edge. "People" and "soldiers" is not same things. The wars is very dirty things, but we do a GAME about war. "War" and "game about war" is not same things. And we do it not because we like the deaths of millions peoples but because we just love a toy soldiers and tabletop games. Say about unnumbered deads to WH40K creators. In WH FB also enough of bloody murdering. But all this victims is abstract. Victims of WW II is real. We try to talk about it so delicate as possible. Man, just understand the difference between real war and game about war.
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