Re: Big Battles

On Tue, 31 Oct 1995, lewis pulsipher wrote:

>      Curiosity:  what's the largest ship-to-ship battle you've run or
>      participated in?  I don't mean a War Captain's Companion battle where
>      you're using shortcut combat rules, I mean one using the original
>      rules and accounting for each character or crewman individually.
>
>      The biggest I've played in is four ships, total 158 tons; biggest I've
>      run is four ships, 170 tons.  My young (and extreme) friend plans a
>      battle with a dozen ships or more, lord knows how many tons.  Might be
>      a problem here...
>
>      Lew Pulsipher
>

In a Spelljammer adventure that my brother ran, we had a combat with four
ships on our side - 1 Man O War, 1 Triop, 2 Hammerships - versus four
Vodoni warships, I think they were 40 tons each, as part of the Under the
Dark Fist SJ TSR adventure with some small modifications to fit in with
his adventure. That was a logistical nightmare, especially when we
boarded them after sending over a crazy kender handler.

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