Heroscapers
Go Back   Heroscapers


Blogs From The Members of Heroscapers
Random featured blog entry from Sylvano the Wasabus
Sylvano the Wasabus's Avatar

in praise of unbalanced armies

Posted August 31st, 2010 at 10:45 AM by Sylvano the Wasabus
Have you ever fought an unequal fight? It seems everyone is always taking about 500 points against 500, or some such number. Heroscape is a great game and those fights are fun, but some of my very favourite are the unequal point fights.

We have resumed our "big game" again. If you don't know, it's a "long war" game. We have a bulletin board with push pins representing point generating cities and outposts, roads, water, and of course the volcano. We've redesigned it so it's just a hundred squares this time, so it doesn't take such a long time to engage your enemies. Armies move across the board one square at a time (or three on road- if you build roads) and engage and fight for objectives- to take an outpost, or to slow down an invading army, or to occupy troops so they can't redeploy elsewhere. The battles are almost always unbalanced; 300 points versus 500 points, 425 against 295, etc. One of my favourite games (it has gone now into the realm...

All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:01 PM.

Heroscape background footer

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.8
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
User Alert System provided by Advanced User Tagging (Lite) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2024 DragonByte Technologies Ltd.