I like Bushido system. Allocating dices to attack or defence. Make duels more exciting. Tired mechanics and ki give lots of deep. And Small board and low model numbers works for me. But I dont like Tengu look :). Good luck with new game. That will be hard work. Cuz market is full. But with CB miniatures and art style, I'm sure something cool we will get. Btw the same scale and proportions like Infinity ? And maybe send some prototypes to influencers.
Personally I’m all for the “Warcrow” to be some absolutely titanic mechanical bird and we’re all fighting in arenas and labyrinthine structures on its back...
Ah, Great A’Tuin. I see you are a person of culture. Going this way would also be great as then there could be different continents to fight on…
Once, but here's the thing. We have played a number of dungeon crawlers over the years, and have learned how to make adjustments and rulings for playability etc. on the fly. It is a Co-op game after all, So we settle on how something should be and get on with the game. We're not going to have rules arguments like would happen in a PVP game. We're all Old School RPGers, which makes a difference in how we view continuing game support etc. The DIY spirit and all that. I realize that people who don't have this sort of experience might want more support. The nice thing is, once you've learned some self-sufficiency, it can never be taken from you.
Thats incredibly condescending. If someone does not want to houserule a game and expects a product “in working order”, you’re essentially saying the issue is with them and their lacking of experience and self-sufficiency… I expect games to have been tested, text to have been proof-read and rules that work. Because that is very much something I also pay for when I buy a game, besides the cost of material production. The same way I’m not ok when a car I bought has an engine problem, even if I were a decent mechanic and could fix it myself. It’s fine if you enjoyed going through it houseruling all the way. But happily stating the game does not need more support because you did it this way is how we end up with a company that can’t write rules if their lives depended on it and their products systematically failing to find a wider audience. Which impacts all of us. If their Warcrow dungeon crawler hits retail as they say it will, either they make some drastic changes in how they do things or they’re in for a nasty surprise, notwithstanding the many “experienced” and “self-sufficient” gamers out there.
I'd be terribly upset to find out that the absurd machetes being given to some hackers lately (say, Jazz and Vareya)... are nothing more than test prints of weapons for the new game.
On the topic of aesthetic, I'm curious if CB is going to go for low or high fantasy, dark or middle ages, renaissance, or something else. Also, I was thinking that the DC will probably be something like 4 or 5 heroes, representing different factions, and then the baddies will be... The bad guy faction, giving us something like 5 to 6 factions to start. I kind of hope the baddies aren't just orcs or undead, and rather something new and a little unexpected but identifiable and relatable to as baddies...
Indeed. The type of fantasy that is chosen could certainly dictate the flavour of game that’s made. I’d be very interested in any baddies that aren’t orcs or undead too. The DC could certainly be a handful of heroes against a smattering of villains which in itself is an intriguing idea and would give us the first factions for the Wargame proper. The DC could also go down the Heroquest or DarkWorld vent with a small group of heroes and a smattering of monsters/bad guys with a big bad at the end. At any rate I’m certainly looking forward to it! As a side note, any Cthulhu style gribbles to fight against are always welcome in my book…
Ah, the Knebelspiess (spelling please, haven’t used German in ten thousand years?) I believe it’s also known as. Could be mistaken, haven’t been to Leeds armoury in forever, need to go back someday soon. It’s similar to a boar spear if memory serves but with larger “spikes” higher up nearer the blade. A very effective pole arm. Edit: unsure but I think it also has an intermedial ridge on the spear blade for support but this could be the boar spear I’m thinking of.
Yup, it's essentially a more militarised version of the boar spear, the guards tend to be triangular and sometimes sharpened, while a boar sprear tends to have a more simple crossbar guard. Of course, many weapons of the era were handmade and could vary from maker to maker, so there are likely crossover examples and misidentifications. The more I learn about weapon nomenclature the more I realise that for every rule there's a half dozen exceptions.
I had no idea that it was also called the knebelspeiss. The bec-de-corbin, the bohemian ear spoon, bill-guisarme, Fauchard-fork, guisarme-voulge, lochaber-axe, and more. Are there any uniquely Spanish pole-arms? IIRC, the godendag was uniquely Dutch/Flemish weapon. It would be nice to see stuff that is not normally found in the Anglo-sphere. Sort of likehow the Aquelarre RPG is very distinct from the usual fare one finds. Lol, calm down. You mis-read my comment very badly. Meh.
The falcata was used by Iberian tribes, we can't say for sure that it was invented in Spain but it was where the Romans first encountered it.
That one’s less of a polearm, and falls more in the machete/kukri/sword continuum. A pretty cool and distinctive historical weapon, however!
And for the half dozen exceptions there are even more rules! But yes, even from the same smith during the same era, a similar weapon could look very different! I remember the bohemian ear spoon due to its odd names in both German and English. To this day I don’t think we know why it was referred to as the bohemian ear spoon. I must look into it further. I’m not sure of a Spanish halberd or polearm but I do know that during certain periods there were particular types of halberd used in the Spanish and French courts. Anyone further in the know than this, please let us know! Indeed. The argument can most certainly be made for it being created at the same time as the Greek Kopis but others think it was brought into Spain by Greek traders. At any rate it is a definitive Spanish weapon and so effective in battle that Hannibal of Carthage prized it and armed his troops with it. Edit: not wishing to derail the thread, I must state that any and all of the aforementioned weapons would be a welcome sight in Warcrow!
Yeah, polearms often seem to be pretty universal in some ways, the idea of putting the sharp bit at the end of a longer stick so you can stab them before they stab you seems to be pretty common.
