"Rally Round the King review posted" Topic
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| Who asked this joker | 21 Feb 2011 6:53 p.m. PST |
I've just finished up my RRtK review and have posted it to my blog. Enjoy! link John |
| advocate | 22 Feb 2011 3:44 a.m. PST |
Excellent review – thanks. |
| vtsaogames | 22 Feb 2011 9:42 a.m. PST |
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| rampantlion | 22 Feb 2011 3:25 p.m. PST |
Thanks John, I just bought the rules a couple of weeks ago (pdf). Have not read them yet, but am a fan of Warrior Kings and played it solo several times, which is the reason I bought RRTK. Did you see any substantial differences from Warrior Kings or are you familiar with them? Allen |
| The Beast Rampant | 22 Feb 2011 4:40 p.m. PST |
Thanks, acarhj. I have been on the fence on this one. I am still looking for something to fit this niche, and since Ganesha looks to never get around to releasing their own mass-combat rules, I am thinking of finally picking these up. |
| Who asked this joker | 22 Feb 2011 6:02 p.m. PST |
Did you see any substantial differences from Warrior Kings or are you familiar with them? Not too different. I am familiar with WK but not familiar enough to say exactly what is different. I know that the missile combat system was changed to the 2D6+1 or 2 for the formed units and you could no longer outnumber enemies with missile fire. The game is formatted a lot better than THW earlier work and does include some artwork in the form of line drawings. Andrea from Ganesha Games did most (all?) of those. I am sure there are other differences but going to the Yahoo Group would probably get you the best answer. There is one other thing I just thought of…the reaction tables now fit on a single page front and back. There is another table for for combat movement and magic which fits on a single page front and back as well. Definitly better than the earlier game! John |
| vtsaogames | 22 Feb 2011 7:42 p.m. PST |
How would you compare RRTK with In Death Ground? |
| Who asked this joker | 22 Feb 2011 11:15 p.m. PST |
How would you compare RRTK with In Death Ground? Very different games. IDG has a few similarties to DBA or even Chipco's Days of Knights with respect to combat mechanics but the scope is that of a larger scale game with multi-stand units such as Medieval Warfare (Gore) and Field of Glory (Slitherine). RRtK is more of an element based game where 1 stand is 1 unit. The game mechanics are very different from just about anything out there especially with regard to the reaction system. |
| Shaun Travers | 23 Feb 2011 1:42 p.m. PST |
RE: the differences between Warrior Kings and RRtK – They are not many, John has mentioned the missile change and re-format. The other difference is some the reaction results have been tweaked. e.g. In WK, Melee wanting to charge passing one die would continue to charge+1 hit. in RRtK, this has changed to dual armed halt, rest contnue to charge. Also, although I have not played it, the Campaign rules changed.
Terrain setup changed.
Army lists are a bit different. That's all that I can remember that stick in my head. |
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