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PostPosted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 10:50 am 
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Yeah some pre planned titans and let them decide who will fill what roll. That actually sounds like a really fun game night with some friends. Who doesn't want to stride across the field of battle in a battle titan going head to head with enemy titans!


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 7:08 pm 
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The problem with AT, Titans on Titans game, was after you designed your Titans ... it became like an Old West gunslingers' shoot-out, or 19th century naval battle ... once all your Titans were deployed. And usually it was best to fight in urban terrain as already mentioned. Those that wasted point on close combat weapons quickly learned that in almost all cases they never could get close enough to use those weapons. I'd always tell them, in modern times nobody would put a ram on a battleship when they could have heavy cannons, missiles, etc., ie: ranged weapons. Of course if you ever played 40K in the old days, the GW designers had a [silly] predilection for close combat. Why shoot someone when you can run up and hit him over the head with a hi-tech ranged weapon ? It even became dumber(?), when they put claws or a hammer on the Terminators when you could have hi-tech automatic weapons and/or missile launchers instead ... So that all being said, AT was a fun for the kids "soda"[beer] and chips kind of game. Just don't too much high level strategy and tactics ... just a lot of die rolling. Which if that is the kind of game you are looking for, go for it and enjoy ....

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 7:14 pm 
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Oh you heartless swine L4! :gah

That's no way to talk about the game that started it all! Ok, there may be some truth in what you say, but some of us like to keep the rose-tinted spectacles on and enjoy the nostalgia... :D

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 7:44 pm 
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We've conquered the non-trivial task of interstellar travel, crossing the cosmos in vast ships the size of cities containing unimaginable firepower able to destroy entire planets for orbit but we fly down to the ground and fight with chainsaw swords. Suspension of Disbelief :)

of course crap mechanics are just that :)

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:35 pm 
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Legion 4 wrote:
The problem with AT, Titans on Titans game, was after you designed your Titans ... it became like an Old West gunslingers' shoot-out, or 19th century naval battle ... once all your Titans were deployed. And usually it was best to fight in urban terrain as already mentioned. Those that wasted point on close combat weapons quickly learned that in almost all cases they never could get close enough to use those weapons. I'd always tell them, in modern times nobody would put a ram on a battleship when they could have heavy cannons, missiles, etc., ie: ranged weapons. Of course if you ever played 40K in the old days, the GW designers had a [silly] predilection for close combat. Why shoot someone when you can run up and hit him over the head with a hi-tech ranged weapon ? It even became dumber(?), when they put claws or a hammer on the Terminators when you could have hi-tech automatic weapons and/or missile launchers instead ... So that all being said, AT was a fun for the kids "soda"[beer] and chips kind of game. Just don't too much high level strategy and tactics ... just a lot of die rolling. Which if that is the kind of game you are looking for, go for it and enjoy ....

What's with the negative waves, Moriarity? :D

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Oh you heartless swine L4! :gah

That's no way to talk about the game that started it all! Ok, there may be some truth in what you say, but some of us like to keep the rose-tinted spectacles on and enjoy the nostalgia... :D

No rose colored or any other color glasses in my outfit ... :P We see things thru enhanced sight reticles ! I calls'm the way I see'm ... >:D

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jimmyzimms wrote:
We've conquered the non-trivial task of interstellar travel, crossing the cosmos in vast ships the size of cities containing unimaginable firepower able to destroy entire planets for orbit but we fly down to the ground and fight with chainsaw swords. Suspension of Disbelief :)

of course crap mechanics are just that :)

I could only suspend my belief so far ... ;D

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What's with the negative waves, Moriarity? :D

"Kelly: Well Oddball, what do you think?
Oddball: It's a wasted trip baby. Nobody said nothing about locking horns with no Tigers.
Big Joe: Hey look, you just keep them Tigers busy and we'll take care of the rest.
Oddball: The only way I got to keep them Tigers busy is to LET THEM SHOOT HOLES IN ME!
Crapgame: Hey, Oddball, this is your hour of glory. And you're chickening out!
Oddball: To a New Yorker like you, a hero is some type of weird sandwich, not some nut who takes on three Tigers.
Kelly: Nobody's asking you to be a hero.
Oddball: No? Then YOU sit up in that turret baby.
Kelly: No, because you're gonna be up there, baby, and I'll be right outside showing you which way to go.
Oddball: Yeah?
Kelly: Yeah.
Oddball: Crazy... I mean like, so many positive waves... maybe we can't lose, you're on!"



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A favorite movie of mine! Fun fact, ironically those tigers where created on the chassis of three Russian t34 tanks as Hollywood couldn't find the real thing. One of those tigers also had a roll in saving private Ryan as well.


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I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.

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A favorite movie of mine! Fun fact, ironically those tigers where created on the chassis of three Russian t34 tanks as Hollywood couldn't find the real thing. One of those tigers also had a roll in saving private Ryan as well.


Hi!

This is true.

Also there was an episode of Hogans Heroes where they wanted to steal/sabotage a "tiger tank". It was a US grant tank. ;D

Funny how more modern films seems to get actual german tanks and back then they could not.

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Also there was an episode of Hogans Heroes where they wanted to steal/sabotage a "tiger tank". It was a US grant tank. ;D

I thought it was an M7 Priest?

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Yep ... look at the suspension system ... Those Tigers in Kelley's Heroes were T-34s. But I liked the idea of going to the trouble to at least make an very good attempt at making Tigers. Instead of something else with an Iron Cross pianted of it ... like so many other movies did in the past.

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primarch wrote:
Also there was an episode of Hogans Heroes where they wanted to steal/sabotage a "tiger tank". It was a US grant tank. ;D

I thought it was an M7 Priest?


Hi!

Hmm, The thing is I remember it as having the cannon in the front on that limited arc swivel turret which would make it grant, not the howitzer gun on top.

I actually have that collection on DVD. May be worth looking it up again. :)

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Legion 4 wrote:
Which if that is the kind of game you are looking for, go for it and enjoy ....


This is exactly what we are looking for. :)

Your feedback is interesting. Do you think that I should warn the players about the risk of the close assault titans ?

The pre-planned Titans could be a good idea too. I'll think about that option with the co-organizer of the battle.

Merci. :)


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