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Post by aldarron on Jun 9, 2011 9:05:15 GMT -6
The lack of other combat information for monsters suggests a basic reliance on Chain Mail, should I suppose? For sure. Hmmn. I am not very familiar with the pre- Chain Mail situation, but I imagine you are referring to something along the lines of the Castles & Crusades society newsletter circulating with pre- Chain Mail rules? One thing that occurs to me as well now is how fractions were rounded. Say if you only had one or two figures of light foot versus armoured foot. I guess the easiest thing to do is call it an automatic morale failure! ;D Yeah, Arneson & co. had the Perren & Gygax Mass combat rules from the Domesday letters and the jousting rules. The Fantasy Combat section and I think the Man to man and siege (not too sure about those) weren't available until all was published together as Chainmail in the spring of '71. Arneson seems to have been using the mass combat rules in some fashion for Blackmoor prior to CM publication but that's really unclear. Braunstein - Blackmoor's precursor - apparently simply used opposing dice rolls to resolve combat - I will have to ask Wesely about that.
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Post by Matthew on Jun 9, 2011 18:21:45 GMT -6
For sure. Yeah, Arneson & co. had the Perren & Gygax Mass combat rules from the Domesday letters and the jousting rules. The Fantasy Combat section and I think the Man to man and siege (not too sure about those) weren't available until all was published together as Chainmail in the spring of '71. Arneson seems to have been using the mass combat rules in some fashion for Blackmoor prior to CM publication but that's really unclear. Braunstein - Blackmoor's precursor - apparently simply used opposing dice rolls to resolve combat - I will have to ask Wesely about that. Right, that makes a lot of sense. If the man-to-man tables were not available it would definitely explain a lot about the intended use of the Chain Mail combat system, as well as the Fighting Capability values, though it would seem that the Fantasy Combat Table was still intended to be used with that (by Gygax at least). Seems like a lot of dice to roll for a Hero of Heavy Horse versus Light Foot (4 x 4d6), but I guess that is no different than when playing Chain Mail!
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Post by Matthew on Aug 31, 2012 5:46:46 GMT -6
Another thought today:
Maybe halflings, gnomes, dwarves, and elves, as well as goblins, orcs, hobgoblins and giant orcs are all equipped as "medium foot" adjusted for size and ferocity. That would somewhat explain the hit dice as well.
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