At 12:07 AM 13/2/97 -0600, you (Allen) wrote:
>>BTW, has anyone on
>> the list used the Titan experience rules? Are they any good or not?
>
>We used them in the campaign we ran last year. I wouldn't use them
>in a non-campaign setting.
>
>They were fun, but didn't make that much difference. What would normally
>happen was that a titan would get an honor, and then your next opponent
>would rather take the chance on throwing the fight rather than letting
>your titan live to get another one. (i.e. I don't care how much it
>costs me, that titan is going to *die*!!) He normally didn't have
>to risk too much; titans just don't have the life expectancy to
>collect more than one honor, and most didn't even live that long.
Too true!
>
>(I got lucky in our fight, Temp. I've never seen a pair of Warhounds
>soak up that much damage and still live, nor have I ever seen an
>entire volley of hits scatter off the template!)
>
>We normally play that when a titan fails a save you roll on the damage
>chart and live with the result. (i.e. two rolls of 1 on the head chart
>quarters your CAF, etc.) I can't imagine the campaign life expectancy
>of a titan using the contrived escalating damage rule we got on the
>Q&A. ("Take at least one level higher on the chart," etc.)
Yeah, I never liked that one myself...
Agro
>Of course,
>since we knew that we were using titan honors, are armies usually took
>a pretty heavy anti-titan loadout.
>
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