Okay, i've got to say it.

Has anyone posting here even looked at Assault Corps lately?

I realize different is different, and there is no monopoly on company-sized armored/ mecha wargaming, but for pete's sake, AC is NEARLY done...after more than 4 years of development.

Please, someone just tell me if there is 0 interest, and i'll put it out of its misery, at least for my part, and move on.

JP

OMFG

SWEEET!

JP

Yes, it is meant for indirect weaponry.

Direct fire area of effect weapon which misses the target would indeed  keep on going until  it hit something.

In practice, we ignore such things.  At the scale of this 'Battlegame' (1cm=1 m),  and even moreso at D:VG scale (!!)  the chances of it hitting something else relevant, within the bounds of play is considered too small to consider.

Such direct fire AOE weapons are handled exactly like other more mundane direct fire; if you miss your intended target, then that's it, move on to the next action.

We don't feel the need to account for every missed rifle round, right?   Well they certainly have to hit something, or land somewhere too.

  Granted an AOE weapon, by its very nature has a larger field of effect, but even still, in most cases the chances of it hitting a tree or something before it flies off the board  --within range of other soldiers is so flukey that its easier to ignore it.  (unless the target is in close terrain, like a city or forest or somesuch, in which case it'll be immediately apparent where a missed round will impact!)

The only way that this wouldn't be true is if the weapon in question was fired at the ground, say, at the 'feet' of the intednded target.

In which case, the same method could be used as for indirect determination.

Of course, this is all just for the sake of conversation.  I'm not advocating  any change in D:VG. 

JP

Yes, another shameless plug...   

But, I too, have always been interested in the dark future of the Terminator setting.

I have recently done up some unit stats for Human Resistance Army, and Skynet's Forces for use with the Assault Corps playtest pack.

Hopefully you'll want to take a look.  The elements are un-tested as yet...hopefully thats about to change.

Let me know if there is interest, and I'll post.

JP

It would seem to me, based on the narration of the book (as quoted a few posts above)  that the bacteria that killed the aliens was one that we, as humans, are now completely immune to, so long a we are living and breathing.

The Aliens had no such bacteria where they came from.  If it's something they had never experienced or imagined, it's likely something they couldn't have had the forethought to prepare for.  They couldn't even discern its existence by studying humanity.

Not unlike people dying of the bubonic plague...they had no clue how it spread, and thus had no effective way to protect themselves from it.

I'd be quite worried about the second impending invasion, now that they know better.  (Or perhaps knowing about the bacteria they might figure Earth is not worth the effort.)

But that's just my pondering on the subject now that you mention it.

JP

That's probably my one major problem with the movie.

I'd much prefer the 'martians'-arrive-and-begin-constructing-their machines version.

The pre-emplaced tripods just makes me scratch my head in frustration.

JP

Its a matter of scope and scale.

Defiance cares about each soldier as an individual weapon system.  As such, the game does justice to that with the required detail.  Best played from a platoon commander's point of view.

Company commanders aren't interested in the individual soldiers (in a tactical manner of speaking, not necesarily a humanitarian one).

Thus, company-sized fights ( 4 platoons on average per side) are a bit out of Defiance: VG s  scope.

It is versatile enough to be player-modified to be faster-playing, and to gloss over some of the individual detail I imagine, making use of genre rules etc, but it'd take some work.  Of course, you'd be missing out on what Defiance does best in favour of shoe-horning it into a new role.

JP