Bits and bobs
Dec. 18th, 2005 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
king_pellinorA few odd things from the last week or two:
- LadyofAstolat beat me in another wargame. In this case I was playing the French at Crecy, so I don't feel too bad about it. My army was in two halves: Genoese crossbowmen about whom the rules say (in slightly more words) "cannot attack effectively, exist to be impaled on Enlish arrows and French lances"; and French knights, of whom the rules say "Helpless when unhorsed. Fall off horse if attempt to move or if Englishman looks idly in general direction". I still slaughtered half the English, including the King :-D
- A play on the Island includes a brief morris dance. The reviewer in the local paper was unable to comment on it as the sound of bells has sent him into fits ever since he was traumatised in May, when a morris-man followed him for three miles of the 28-mile Walk The Wight. I've no idea who that could have been :-D
- Mount and Blade is getting better and better, especially since I found a Lord of the Rings mod for it ("The Last Days"). I do like hunting down uruks on the plains of Rohan, and beating up Corsairs and marauding Haradrim. Shame about the hosts coming out of Osgiliath which slaughter me by weight of numbers, but ho hum. The game's level of immersion is good enough to make one almost welcome such moments. Not bad for an early beta version of a game done by two people in their spare time.
- LadyofAstolat beat me in another wargame. In this case I was playing the French at Crecy, so I don't feel too bad about it. My army was in two halves: Genoese crossbowmen about whom the rules say (in slightly more words) "cannot attack effectively, exist to be impaled on Enlish arrows and French lances"; and French knights, of whom the rules say "Helpless when unhorsed. Fall off horse if attempt to move or if Englishman looks idly in general direction". I still slaughtered half the English, including the King :-D
- A play on the Island includes a brief morris dance. The reviewer in the local paper was unable to comment on it as the sound of bells has sent him into fits ever since he was traumatised in May, when a morris-man followed him for three miles of the 28-mile Walk The Wight. I've no idea who that could have been :-D
- Mount and Blade is getting better and better, especially since I found a Lord of the Rings mod for it ("The Last Days"). I do like hunting down uruks on the plains of Rohan, and beating up Corsairs and marauding Haradrim. Shame about the hosts coming out of Osgiliath which slaughter me by weight of numbers, but ho hum. The game's level of immersion is good enough to make one almost welcome such moments. Not bad for an early beta version of a game done by two people in their spare time.
