thread: 2006-03-14 : Board Setup in Mechaton
On 2006-03-15, Vincent wrote:
I don't think it matters who sets up the terrain, as long as everybody likes it before the game starts. My choice would be to have everyone build the terrain together - failing that, one person build the terrain beforehand - without knowing what anybody else's army is like. Thus, without knowing who's going to be defending or where; thus, motivated to have equally good-and-bad terrain everywhere.
But, heroic combat? The reason I don't have area effect weapons is because either a) there has to be some fiddly reason why area effect weapons aren't as good for targeting one mech as non-area weapons, or else b) every weapon's going to be area effect, because there's no downside, and that makes extra fiddling at I-shoot-you-time. Either way, too fiddly.
This makes gns go "Area weapons are offset"
by being limited in quantity. Powerful yes, costly yes, but it's dangerous to carry more than a few. Think grenades.
