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Post by Sean Michael Kelly on Apr 8, 2012 9:01:50 GMT -6
Does anybody have any listing of all of the errata from Chainmail? I have probably the last printing/edition and it stlll has noteworthy amounts of typos. Surely there has to be a list somewhere?
Cooper? I mean, your last name has GOT to be Chainmail, what say you? :-)
I'm loving this game system more and more as I'm using it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2012 9:37:10 GMT -6
Cooper? I mean, you're last name has GOT to be Chainmail, what say you? Yeah, he does have an encyclopedic knowledge of the rules!
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Post by cooper on Apr 8, 2012 17:55:36 GMT -6
Sadly, I have no idea if there is an errata list. Outside of spelling, does anyone know of actual errors? To be honest, everything I learned about CHAINMAIL I learned from the folks here and going back and forth (and sometimes round and round) discussing and debating specific rules and questions I had, or researching a question someone else had that I couldn't answer!
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Post by Sean Michael Kelly on Apr 8, 2012 20:19:06 GMT -6
Well, for example, the projectile table on pg. 11 seems to have a typo on 5-6 "Half armor when both values are "2 - 2" when the pattern seems to imply "1 - 2" I was just curious if there are others. :-)
...and those pesky hyphens on the combat table leading so many to think "-1 dice per men!"
Not really a typo there, just an unfortunate printing.
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Post by jacar on Apr 12, 2012 14:20:16 GMT -6
Mostly what I've seen is the old "What the heck is THAT supposed to mean!" and not so much typos. Mainly it is clarifications for me like how to apply morale bonuses and so forth.
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Post by DungeonDevil on Apr 15, 2012 21:29:15 GMT -6
I've never yet heard of an Errata doc. The d**ned hyphens in the melee table were so frustrating initially I think I went bald pulling out my hair in anguish!
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Post by Sean Michael Kelly on Apr 16, 2012 4:13:25 GMT -6
I've never yet heard of an Errata doc. The d**ned hyphens in the melee table were so frustrating initially I think I went bald pulling out my hair in anguish! You see my head don't you? Once I figured that out, the rest of the mass troop combat fell into place. Still haven't tried the hubris of morale... and as my "Dowel Rod" topic indicates, the cannon rules are still a little syntactically tangled.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2012 12:25:03 GMT -6
I know this is an old thread, and sorry for the thread ressurection, but I suspect that in the Man to Man table, the shield only and leather columns are transposed.
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Post by Malchor on Sept 11, 2022 15:08:55 GMT -6
I know this is an old thread, and sorry for the thread ressurection, but I suspect that in the Man to Man table, the shield only and leather columns are transposed. Oh wow. I can’t unsee that. It goes back to 1e Chainmail. The Chain + Shield column heading looks like it was cut off or something, which was also carried over from edition to edition. The version in The Domeday Book has different armor types, but essentially follows the D&D pattern of armor type, armor type+shield pattern.
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Post by waysoftheearth on Sept 11, 2022 16:37:10 GMT -6
CM certainly has them switched around compared to D&D, but is a typo or was that the intent?
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Post by Mordorandor on Sept 11, 2022 16:42:01 GMT -6
CM certainly has them switched around compared to D&D, but is a typo or was that the intent? I’m under the impression I read somewhere that CM was indeed deliberate, while the change in D&D was also deliberate, to allow for the Shield to add 1 when added to the armor base. Can someone confirm?
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Post by Malchor on Sept 12, 2022 9:45:31 GMT -6
CM certainly has them switched around compared to D&D, but is a typo or was that the intent? Note that it is the person above calling it out as perhaps accidentally transposed. There are valid argument for either order, even in the absence of D&D. In a discussion of errata, swapping them for symmetry with the D&D pattern makes sense, if one was to create a 4th edition or errata sheet. Not to correct a problem, but to add clarity for newer players. As the Judges Guild did with the Ready Ref sheet, where they transposes the two columns. What might me more interesting to ponder (in another thread) is how the pattern of +2 per armor upgrade and +1 for a shield won out over the previous model that allowed the shield alone to have a slight edge. On another note. The column with Chain + Shield, line Chain Mail +, can some explain that one, or is that a mistake that was just repeated?
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