The Lords of Hack is an association of pen and pencil gamers from the South Central Pennsylvania region of the United States. This is our weblog.
Friday, March 30, 2018
Buildings Updates
I've updated the Buildings section of the Krondor Wiki to add my 10 new crappy primitive huts, and my stone church building. More structures for your shopping pleasure.
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Memories
I was looking at a 5e message board and reading a long post about how the weapons table was messed up, especially the spears.
That just gave me a flashback to the old Eric Noah 3rd edition website/forum (The ancestor of the EN World Site), where I put a complaint about the way they handled spears in 3rd edition.
And then Gary Gygax himself posted and called me a putz. (Not in those exact words).
That just gave me a flashback to the old Eric Noah 3rd edition website/forum (The ancestor of the EN World Site), where I put a complaint about the way they handled spears in 3rd edition.
And then Gary Gygax himself posted and called me a putz. (Not in those exact words).
Monday, March 26, 2018
Action Shots: Bard Action in Newport
Flex, Gorgon and Brother Thunder prepare to confront the skeletons
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Victory is Mine, Deus Vult
Saturday I went to the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society(East) winter convention (Cold Wars). I did 2 hours of serious shopping (see Doctor Skull's Workshop for a catalogue of my acquisitions).
Then I played in a miniatures game, The Siege of Acre, about a Crusader assault on the Syrian town of Acre. A British teenager and I were the crusader side, and two other old guys were the Muslims inside.
Our plan was to use our 4 huge siege towers as basically a feint, drawing all their heavy fire, and concentrating their defenses on one end of the wall, while we used ladders to assault a tower on the far end.
My teammate, however pressed home the attack with the siege towers, however, he just couldn't not use them, and pressed them the whole way to the wall, temporarily got some men in, before all 4 towers were destroyed. However, the plan worked pretty well. I put all my knights and billmen on the far right and rushed the tower, climbed it with ladders, cleared it and held it.
Our 3 trebuchets blew open the front gate, and then destroyed a tower next to the one I took, this allowed all our archers to charge forward and rake the courtyard behind it. We finally brke their resistance and won the day, praise God and not our strength for it.
I think the game master found me to be a little annoying. Our side had 3 types of troops: knights, billmen and archers. Every time one of our billmen got killed I would say "Bill, Nooooo!" Every time one of our billmen would do something cool, I would chant "Bill, Bill, Bill."
My knights hold the tower, while billmen hurry to support
Then I played in a miniatures game, The Siege of Acre, about a Crusader assault on the Syrian town of Acre. A British teenager and I were the crusader side, and two other old guys were the Muslims inside.
Our plan was to use our 4 huge siege towers as basically a feint, drawing all their heavy fire, and concentrating their defenses on one end of the wall, while we used ladders to assault a tower on the far end.
My teammate, however pressed home the attack with the siege towers, however, he just couldn't not use them, and pressed them the whole way to the wall, temporarily got some men in, before all 4 towers were destroyed. However, the plan worked pretty well. I put all my knights and billmen on the far right and rushed the tower, climbed it with ladders, cleared it and held it.
Our 3 trebuchets blew open the front gate, and then destroyed a tower next to the one I took, this allowed all our archers to charge forward and rake the courtyard behind it. We finally brke their resistance and won the day, praise God and not our strength for it.
I think the game master found me to be a little annoying. Our side had 3 types of troops: knights, billmen and archers. Every time one of our billmen got killed I would say "Bill, Nooooo!" Every time one of our billmen would do something cool, I would chant "Bill, Bill, Bill."
Above: My half of the line advances toward the wall. My knights and billmen clumped on the right long line of archers in the middle.
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Lords of Hack Website
I've finally getting around to putting the Lords of Hack website back up. I've moved to an Amazon server now, so it will be much cheaper and faster than GoDaddy. There will be some growing pains as I get it back online, but we should have our website back soon.
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