Thanks for the honest reply. I enjoy making up character/faction fluff too (check my sig!), but I get invested in the things I make - I want to see them do stuff, progress. I really enjoyed making the White Shroud, for example, but the coolest thing about it for me was coming up with their grand plan.
I think my style is a bit different to yours, and I think it sounds like the game is going to continue in a vein that I would personally find frustrating. If it does work out and there are future games where the rules have been refined to run quickly and smoothly, I'd be very interested to poke my head back in, but for this game I think I'm going to bow out.
You know, I'm beginning to realize that when I chose to go from being a player to being the GM, I essentially went from being a mere leader of some nation to being God. And it feels good.
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It's been said that a good backstory is like a skirt - it should be long enough to cover everything that needs to be covered, but short enough that it can keep someone's interest. This... is basically the train of a wedding dress.
I am here and would love to play on, in whatever form. If you let it die however, don't make a restart in the same setting. Make something you are excited about and would have enough time to run parallel to your other two games. Or just concentrate on those two. I'd love to see how Shards of War continues and maybe two games with a 1-3 week Turn rate are better than 4 with a 4+ rate.
The EoT sending out a dozen 1 point fleets in different directions was the clincher I think.
Yes, I apologize for that. I realize it's a bit problematic, but, well. What else was I supposed to do? There wasn't much point to intra-Eldar diplomacy, I certainly can't do much with the Chaos that shares our system, and there wasn't anyone else within reach.
“Not a promise, not an oath, or a malediction or a curse,” I said, sounding calm, probably inaudible in the midst of the screaming. “Inevitable. Wasn’t that how she put it? I told them. Warned them.”
-Taylor Hebert. Yes, I'm a proud Skittle.
I'm still here, but upon reflection don't really think a 40K TW is my thing. I usually go for less outright war and more diplomacy, so this doesn't really fit my style, as it is nothing but war. Plus I really just don't find it keeping my interest. I'll probably drop out of this one if it resets in a new form. Just thought I would let you know, rather than just stop posting.
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Yes, I apologize for that. I realize it's a bit problematic, but, well. What else was I supposed to do? There wasn't much point to intra-Eldar diplomacy, I certainly can't do much with the Chaos that shares our system, and there wasn't anyone else within reach.
That doesn't seem like an explanation to me, but then, I have no idea what you actually did.
I just sent some of my forces to the nearby planets, and sent scouts ahead to check there weren't any enemies there.
Wouldn't the first guy flying through your separated fleet mop all your ships up in no time? A strong fleet should be used like a fist or maybe two. But that may just be da Ork in me talking.
“Not a promise, not an oath, or a malediction or a curse,” I said, sounding calm, probably inaudible in the midst of the screaming. “Inevitable. Wasn’t that how she put it? I told them. Warned them.”
-Taylor Hebert. Yes, I'm a proud Skittle.
Yeah, well. Thing is. I couldn't reach anything important, I had no diplomacy to do, and a huge fleet. So, I just sent them all scouting.
Actually I do not have your EoT so it must have gotten lost somewhere. I was referring to a different faction. However the fact that you did it as well just proves my point in that there were too many fleets moving around for me to keep track of without going crazy.
“Not a promise, not an oath, or a malediction or a curse,” I said, sounding calm, probably inaudible in the midst of the screaming. “Inevitable. Wasn’t that how she put it? I told them. Warned them.”
-Taylor Hebert. Yes, I'm a proud Skittle.
Alight that should be all the EoTs back for the people have responded since the roll call. If you haven't gotten EoT back, and you don't respond that you are here by tomorrow then I'm making your faction an NPC. Except Eldan, since I know he's here even if I never got his EoT.
As for the EoTs themselves if you landed on a planet unopposed then you claimed the spaceport there. Any more detailed exploration than that is up to Thelonius.
However I sent these EoTs back as a way of basically moving things along so people had an idea of what to expect. I'm still considering rebooting the game with a more traditional Total War ruleset. I am leaning towards this heavily, but while I would start it again with the same factions I know some people don't want to lose what they've got so far.
So what do people think? Start again or keep going with this game with the modified movement rules?
I'm for continuing with the simplyfied movement. You should also consider limiting the maximum amount of fleets dependant on your navy stat if the simplyfied movement isn't enough. Don't make the limit too restrictive.
“Not a promise, not an oath, or a malediction or a curse,” I said, sounding calm, probably inaudible in the midst of the screaming. “Inevitable. Wasn’t that how she put it? I told them. Warned them.”
-Taylor Hebert. Yes, I'm a proud Skittle.
Wasn't it clear from the beginning that this was much more of a battle strategy game?
Anyway, does Thelonius know that this is continuing and was he already working on and knowing who goes where before we got our EoTs back?
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sacrificing minions: is there any promblem it CAN'T solve?
