"Not Quite Another Bughunt - 28/25mm 5PfH/Full Metal Anorak" Topic
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| kmfrye | 26 Mar 2020 4:17 p.m. PST |
The lockdown has taken it's toll: I've started solitaire gaming. But, WoW! These rules are Fun: link Warning, a long blog post, with rather a bit going on… Regards,
Keith F. |
| tmason | 26 Mar 2020 4:49 p.m. PST |
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dragon6  | 26 Mar 2020 8:51 p.m. PST |
Great game AAR. How do you think it would worked as straight 5 Parsecs? And I didn't understand the Bughunt rule? |
| kmfrye | 26 Mar 2020 9:34 p.m. PST |
Thanks Gents. It got a little dramatic in the retelling ;) Dragon 6 – I'm unsure of which Bughunt rule you mean; you might need to quote me where I'm not being clear. Keith F. |
| Raptoruk369 | 27 Mar 2020 3:01 a.m. PST |
Really enjoyed the narrative and the pics, thanks for sharing |
| Von Trinkenessen | 27 Mar 2020 5:22 a.m. PST |
To paraphrase Ripper Jack Scratchard:- a Cutlass don't jam!!
Great AAR love the terrain. |
| dragon6 | 27 Mar 2020 5:31 a.m. PST |
5 Parsecs from Home/Full Metal Anorak/Bughunt
That Bughunt in the rules string |
| kmfrye | 27 Mar 2020 7:10 a.m. PST |
Dragon 6 – The "Bughunt" in the rules string is an expansion title (Bughunt) for Five Parsecs from Home. So I'm using two sets of rules, plus a supplement. 5P as a series offers a Salvage Crew setting, a Police Setting, as well as a Bughunt setting. Mini-characters can be rotated through different campaign settings. As it turns out, it isn't always Bugs in the Bughunt, sometimes it's crazed robots, sometimes it's zombie crew. It keeps the campaign from becoming too repetitive. The actual 5P combat rules mechanics are…fine. They are D6 based and pretty much exchangeable with any system one prefers. That's not a bad thing. The beauty of the game is how it runs the AI, handles individual figures, and places them in a campaign. I hope I've explained it a bit better.
Regards,
Keith F. |
| dragon6 | 27 Mar 2020 3:51 p.m. PST |
Oh absolutely. I see the Robots were the Bugs. I suppose I should have groked that but I did not. I expected Aliens instead of … well… robots. Is it just me or do the Robots look like Maximilian from Disney's Black Hole? |
| kmfrye | 29 Mar 2020 8:17 p.m. PST |
Dragon6: The bots are RAFM's old Traveller line. So…probably you? :) Regards,
Keith F. |
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comes up with the stats and roster for the Rust Devils in his sci-fi campaign.