Recent content by docrailgun

I respectfully have to disagree. Einstein may well have had a high Physics skill, but it was his creativity and a different way of looking at the world that made him a brilliant mind. He was in fact "brilliant" (as in being intelligent and being able to extrapolate new ideas from existing data)...

Certainly all these are good ideas. I think what others have been suggesting (and I'm suggesting here) is that there's no need to make them. The scenario you're suggesting is an extreme example caused by a pc gaining too high of a stat... who has EDU 15 in any Traveller game? In a "Classic"...

I would just like to weigh in here. I don't have a huge amount of rules input to add here, other than to suggest that there's not really a good way to model what Supplement Four wants (or even match Classic Traveler's flavor of 'mostly average guys tramping around the galaxy in their Far...

Tangent: Central and South-American illegals would stop crossing the border if people stopped giving them jobs. Most of the people wanting cheap labor aren't the "evil commie liberals". After all, we don't own businesses, do we? We just like to sit around and find ways to hate America, right...

But, you are saying that, if you read what you wrote in the first paragraph. No, I think the problem is that you (and the rest of us) don't understand how MGP has determined the point costs of various units. This is (and was) true of 40K... the same sorts of units don't have the same costs...

The new GURPS (is it still "new"?) is quite good. "Martial Arts" will be out soon, and will really make GURPS 4e combat interesting.

No, it's just that there is no pleasing some people. I see this with every new game that comes out... someone has to step in to "save the game" because if only the idiot game designers would listen to The Game's Savior (TM) everything would be great and the company would sell billions of dollars...

But, what about the people (like me) who can paint, but simply don't have the time to do so? Isn't this game (and the minis) perfect? What about younger gamers who would be laughed out of the game store if they tried to play 40K where they've slapped on some paint to be able to get some figures...

Unfortunately, that's not true. A model can only damage a unit it can see, unless it is firing a weapon that causes damage in a burst. It's certainly easier to do things your way, but it's not supported by the rules.

I'd love to hear the designers' thoughts here... but it's possible that in the near-future of BEvo the US Army is still trying to find a way to be functional after being broken by the lack of training/rearming cycles and constant deployment in Iraq. There may not be any money to replace the...

The standard rules (the rule sheet available on this site, or in each figure box) has all models in the unit shooting at the same fire zone. Then, the highest result is allocated to the nearest unit in the fire zone to the firing unit. The advanced rulebook has an option to allow units to split...

Aren't they pretty much like houses everywhere else in the world?

I have so far: USMC - 2 M1A2s, 2 boxes of Shadows, 1 FOrce Recon box, 3 Infantry boxes PLA - 4 Infantry boxes, 2 Type 99s, an IFV, and a FAV Euros - 5 Warriors, 4 infantry squads, 1 Challenger, and a SAS squad Of course, those are just the MGP units.

It does matter if a particular weapon has LOS. THe shooting rules specifically say that they do "...attack any enemy that it candraw a Line of Sight to and is within range (to the center of the FZ)."

This isn't what the rules say, though. The basic rules say: "Every model with a weapon can use it to attack any enemy that it can draw Line of Sight to and is within range. Range is always measured to the center of the Fire Zone" p. 16 of the advanced rulebook says: "Every model with a...