Anybody up for Vassal games in weekend?
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tneva82 said:JayRaider said:Would love to see a dedicated Vassal Acta site, unfortunately i don't have a clue about how to do it
Hmmm...What sort of features it should have?
If it's nothing overly complicated I might be able to hack something together. Give me some idea of how it should work and I'll see what I can do.
Edit: Just sort of information like when you go into page what you expect to see, what sort of information you would like it to store, what functionality you would like to have...Have few ideas myself but much better if you folks help me design itI'm hardly a good designer...
I'll get back to you on that, i've just woke up. fog in brain! :lol:
Well super squirrel got his introductory game and boy was he unlucky. Quick 3 point raid to introduce him to gaming with vassal. He chose simply 3 batrado which might not have been optimal choise against my EA. I took hyperion, nova, artemis and 2 hermes.
Now game itself wasn't much of interest as for one his ships didn't have weapons to get through interceptors and didn't have time to attempt grouping together before I took ships out. Middle batrado got taken out fast with about ten(or thereabout) crits suffered before the end(I tell you my rolling was insane...). Soon enough another lost front arc for good and -1AD as well(so that ships weapons were nearly useless). Final ship got destroyed by hyperion and artemis(which scored 5 hits and 6-6 critical...) in pretty much one salvo. Then we called it a game.
Totally ridiculously one-sided luck. Could have been otherwise fun game but that dampened it quite a bit. But looking forward to rematch with more even luck this time That luck CAN'T continue forever...(oh and it was just not my good luck but his bad luck at trying to hit something with his weapons in a first place as well...)
Now game itself wasn't much of interest as for one his ships didn't have weapons to get through interceptors and didn't have time to attempt grouping together before I took ships out. Middle batrado got taken out fast with about ten(or thereabout) crits suffered before the end(I tell you my rolling was insane...). Soon enough another lost front arc for good and -1AD as well(so that ships weapons were nearly useless). Final ship got destroyed by hyperion and artemis(which scored 5 hits and 6-6 critical...) in pretty much one salvo. Then we called it a game.
Totally ridiculously one-sided luck. Could have been otherwise fun game but that dampened it quite a bit. But looking forward to rematch with more even luck this time
That luck CAN'T continue forever...(oh and it was just not my good luck but his bad luck at trying to hit something with his weapons in a first place as well...)super squirel
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It was a good game as an introduction game for the online aspect. I wasn't too worried about what fleet I took as I was more concerned with learnign the software.
Man, that random number generator hates me. :lol:
Many thanks to tnev82 for the introduction. I'll take shadows next. :twisted:
Man, that random number generator hates me. :lol:
Many thanks to tnev82 for the introduction. I'll take shadows next. :twisted:
super squirel said:
Yeah. We got pretty much all aspects covered and game went reasonably smoothly(as smoothly as introduction game can go).
And yes the generator hated you. Or maybe I'm blessed today(I have had awesome luck in all games, poker, fumbbl, ACTA, today...).
You'll take shadows, I'll take Vorlons. Classic matchup! :twisted:
Theme of day continued as I took 1pts armageddon vorlon fleet against davesaints minbaris. I had light cruiser and 2 destroyers(opted out of transports as I have doubts wether I get new transport models before tournament). He had 2 Tinashi and 2 Ashitas or something like that.
I screwed up a deployment a bit as I put destroyers in center and light cruiser on right. All fine so far but distance between them was tad too great.
He went for left so had 1 round of shooting freely. Lots of damage to one destroyer for no return fire(stealth...).
Next turn game got pretty much decided. Light cruised APTE'd in range of Tinashi's and opened up(I also won initiave this turn). BOOM! scratch one Tinashi in one shot.
Second Tinashi was unable to do much before destroyer right in it's face before it took Tinashi into skeleton crew. Second destroyer failed stealth.
Next turn light cruiser finished off Tinashi before it got to shoot. Damaged my badly mauled destroyer in process.
Next two turns I came around Ashita's(effectively with come abouts but alas light cruiser failed stealth 2 times in a row). Took out one Ashita quickly with both destroyers and then we called a game.
Would be interesting to know what would have happened if light cruiser had for example failed stealth roll or not blown it up. He was just about to get past front arcs of vorlon ships which is never good...
That shot was extremely decisive. Undamaged Tinashi in one shot. BOOM!
vassal has a tendency to do that unfortunately. one side seems to get crits from every shot, mostly vital ones too whilst othernside fails horribly at everything they do. for eg. you ever see a whitestar hit more than twice with its beam? i managed 6 hits with a 1AD beam against a dargan one game killing it in one shot.
tneva82 said:
Yeah, the losing a Tinashi in one shot hurt. After the 2 Tinashi died, I was in serious trouble as the Ashinta doesn't have the firepower to play with the Vorlons due to the Adaptive Armour. The dice were definately in Tneva82's favor, but it was a fun game. The vassal engine is pretty good, and as it was my first game on Vassal, I hope I didn't slow things down too much. I look forward to a rematch with Tneva. :mrgreen:
Dave
Triggy said:No worries, with the hangover I had after watching Forest beat Yeovil 2-0, I was pretty relieved
LOL! It worked out allright with you then
Wouldn't have been at my best either to be honest. The unplanned game against Davesaint took bit longer than expected.
Now had interesting game against Katadder. Vorlon fleet of cruiser and 2 destroyer vs his white star carrier and 2 WSC-2.
All I can say is OUCH! My EMP pulse was nowhere nearly as effective as I would have needed against those pesky WS fighters, my own shooting was pathetic(I think I got around 20 damage points total caused all game...) and losing first destroyer in one turn and then light cruiser in short order meant for quick game :lol:
Final destroyer tried to escape but those fighters and white stars simply ripped it apart as well.
Have to say ISA is rather nasty foe for Vorlons. Manouverable, those uber nasty white star fighters(I expect white star carrier to be popular choise for 1pts armageddon ISA fleet) and hordes of precise weapons combined with dodge that can help against vorlon beams(helped more so if vorlon can't hit. Light cruiser against white star. 4 hits. Heck in first turn cruiser couldn't kill even SINGLE white star fighter as they were only in range!!!).
Fun game though. But I'm starting to lean toward vorlons for Q-con. Fun little fleet, interesting painting challenge and all I need to buy is armageddon to have up to date fleet list in tournament. Bonus! Wouldn't like to buy SFOS just for one tournament anyway...
