"Large Monsters" Topic

Going to try out these rules and possibly move into some bigger models. Initially it appears that large monsters can be bested and killed with some good opposed rolls. Am I looking at this wrong or do things like giants and dragons have multiple wounds?

I'm not sure which supplement it is in, but one of them has rules for large, huge, giant, and gargantuan models, that have special rules regarding their durability in-game. It has been a LONG time since I looked at them, so I don't remember the details.

There are some special abilities (like "tough") that can help. However, for this sort of thing I've always thought that working in the concepts from Samurai Robot Battle Royale and Mighty Monsters would be best. In those systems, each part of the monster (or robot) is an entity activated separately (although obviously they have to stay together). So for a dragon, you might have the feet (whch can be activated to walk or to attack with claws), the wings (which can be activated to fly or perhaps to create a wind attack), the head (bite, dragon breath), the tail (tail slap), and the body (which basically just is a damage sink). Mind you, I've not actually run any scenarios to try this, but it seems like it should work conceptually.

Doug

I used some 50% off coupons that I couldn't think of another use for at Michael's for some Safari Toobs of dragons, and have drafted up some coarse notes for using MM in just that way Doug. It's high level stuff (not skirmish), with the lowly humans/demi-humans getting the Puny treatment, but I think it will work well.

Cool – I'll be interested to hear how it plays out. It seems a really elegant way to handle … well … mighty monsters.

Doug

p.s. Somewhere I have a tube of dinosaurs I got off the clearance shelf at Target that someday will gobble my 6mm miniatures in mass quantities.