ANOTHER Wild Animal Suggestion (I know, but Please read)

leblanc13 · Post by **leblanc13** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:32 am

Why do all wild animal suggestions have to either include a 2+ or a 4+ to occur? Why not just split the difference and make it a 3+ for everything? Is there some taboo that I don't know about for using a 3+ to accomplish something?

Really stupid is 4+ or 2+ with a friendly player in base to base.

Bonehead is 2+ or do nothing.

Wild animal is 4+ for anything other than block.

Why not try a 3+ to accomplish anything?

Alesdair · Post by **Alesdair** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:39 am

We've houseruled...

The wild animal must act first (or not at all (no TO)) and is Really stupid, but dosn't have to roll to block.

This has the act first wildness, the need for a handler, and the focus on blocking, which in our opinion is the definiation of a WildAnimal.

Underdog · Post by **Underdog** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:40 pm

Well there is soemthing 'tidier' about 2+ and 4+ for some reason but thats not why I put 2+ in my post. I said 2+ in my concept idea because I didnt want WA's to attack their own team very often but its aways a small as possible threat (though it wouldnt cause a turn over because it would be happening in the opponants turn).

leblanc13 · Post by **leblanc13** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:01 pm

I'm not picking on your entry in specific Underdog. My question pertains to all Big Guy traits and skills. There seems to be an utter lack of usage of the 3+ roll. All of their traits/skills seem to give them either a 2+ roll or a 4+ roll to complete actions.

My question was is there a specific reason why none of the rules that pertain to Big Guys in these situations allow for a 3+ roll?

Munkey · Post by **Munkey** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 11:37 am

GW convention is to use 2, 4 and 6 rolls for things like this, 3 and 5 don't get used unless there is a roll with modifiers involved (dodging & throwing).

There was a post on the NAF forum about this which i'd copy here if I could find it again.

Sixpack595 · Post by **Sixpack595** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 4:11 pm

Or just get rid of WA since no one has come up with a good rule yet.

Dark Lord (retired) · Fri Apr 30, 2004 12:36 am

I'm in favor of scrapping all big guys for the time being.
Then developing new rules not based on these broken ones we have currently.

Every big guy out there is either too crappy or too good. Is there a big guy that anyone would say is balanced? The closest I would say is the troll...but but only for goblins, how many times does a troll actually do anything worthwhile on an orc team?

Munkey · Post by **Munkey** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 11:10 am

Dark Lord wrote:I'm in favor of scrapping all big guys for the time being.
Then developing new rules not based on these broken ones we have currently.

Me too, I really prefer playing in our league without Big Guys.

The trouble is, a) it's very unlikely to happen officially, b) it's hard to make people let go of the current batch of big guy rules.