October Review ... what's missing

Ghost of Pariah · Post by **Ghost of Pariah** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 4:44 am

I think that's a fair question. I mean doesn't that violate the Sacred Rule of No Exceptions?
I'm sure it doesn't and a BBRC memeber will be along shortly to tell me why.

Mestari · Post by **Mestari** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 9:49 am

My take on the secret weapons subject here:

http://www.talkbloodbowl.com/phpBB2/vie ... php?t=2266

(edited to fix the links ending tag...)

martynq · Post by **martynq** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 10:51 am

Thom wrote:Everyone has pointed out that Big Guys can't use rerolls, ok, we know that, but WHY NOT? What is really accomplished by preventing them from using the rerolls?

It prevents the Big Guys from being too dominant. If you had a big guy on the team and they could use re-rolls, I suspect you would tend to rely on them more. By not letting them use re-rolls, you have to rely on your standard players first.

Cheers,
Martyn

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 11:32 am

It is also meant to match the game's history.

Big Guys are supposed to be EXTREMELY unreliable players. Not allowing them team re-rolls is one of the best and simplest game mechanics to simulate this.

Galak

Post by **DoubleSkulls** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 12:01 pm

Pariah wrote:I mean doesn't that violate the Sacred Rule of No Exceptions?

Doesn't every single skill represent an exception to the normal game? Why shouldn't "Big Guy" be any different?

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 12:29 pm

Balrog:

Kicking rules here:

viewtopic.php?p=27380#27380

Galak

Mestari · Post by **Mestari** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 4:39 pm

On the Big Guy subject:

Just played a game with my dwarves against halflings. Their ST7 treeman failed two 3-die blocks (two skulls, bothdown and triple skulls), and the other treeman failed one 2-die block (double skulls).
These three events made things a lot easier for me (result 12-3 [kicking rules]) - they had plenty of TRR's, so had they been able to use them for the Big Guys, the second half would've been a lot different! Would've won anyhow, but ending three turns in a TO without doing anything else before that does help the other team...

The no TRR rules balances out the high ST real nicely. An excellent rule.