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So here's a theory I asked myself: when playing Brikwars, is a numerically-superior force of melee attackers superior to a smaller force of ranged-weapon attackers? Boy, did I get the answer.
I've been hitting the collectible minifigs pretty hard (and, armed with the bump-codes, had a pretty profitable trip to TRU today; if only they hadn't been out of series 4, waugh) and decided that six of them would make a pretty decent melee force:
Meet Kyoko, Megan, Renee, Thor, Louis and Jazz. Kyoko is armed with a razor-sharp fan, Megan with a sharpened tennis racket, Renee with two solid lead gourd-shaped rattles, Thor's got the traditional body-cleaving axe, Louis a...well, Louisville Slugger, and Jazz has his pick between the gold-encrusted microphone or the still-holding-onto-the-80s boom box.
Meet the opposing force, the Army guys from Toy Story 3. For our purposes, they're named Able, Baker, Charlie and...Doc. Able and Baker both carry rifles that fire 10" (when you're a minifig, that's a long way), Charlie missed a meeting somewhere and ended up bringing his minesweeper which he can thankfully use a melee weapon, and Doc can both resuscitate fallen comrades with his medical kit, but he can also bash any nearby enemies with it. But he probably won't, as he's an inveterate coward.
"Marv, we're here on the scene of what some are calling a rumble, others a ruckus, others going so far as to call it a dust-up. Will a pair of guns really equalize the field when faced with an oncoming horde of screaming blade-and-blunt swinging lunatics? We'll have the story at ten."
What happened? After-action review in the next post sometimetomorrow. Let's just say a few heroes emerged, and I was...surprised.
I've been hitting the collectible minifigs pretty hard (and, armed with the bump-codes, had a pretty profitable trip to TRU today; if only they hadn't been out of series 4, waugh) and decided that six of them would make a pretty decent melee force:
Meet Kyoko, Megan, Renee, Thor, Louis and Jazz. Kyoko is armed with a razor-sharp fan, Megan with a sharpened tennis racket, Renee with two solid lead gourd-shaped rattles, Thor's got the traditional body-cleaving axe, Louis a...well, Louisville Slugger, and Jazz has his pick between the gold-encrusted microphone or the still-holding-onto-the-80s boom box.
Meet the opposing force, the Army guys from Toy Story 3. For our purposes, they're named Able, Baker, Charlie and...Doc. Able and Baker both carry rifles that fire 10" (when you're a minifig, that's a long way), Charlie missed a meeting somewhere and ended up bringing his minesweeper which he can thankfully use a melee weapon, and Doc can both resuscitate fallen comrades with his medical kit, but he can also bash any nearby enemies with it. But he probably won't, as he's an inveterate coward.
"Marv, we're here on the scene of what some are calling a rumble, others a ruckus, others going so far as to call it a dust-up. Will a pair of guns really equalize the field when faced with an oncoming horde of screaming blade-and-blunt swinging lunatics? We'll have the story at ten."
What happened? After-action review in the next post sometime