MILL gamette SNIPER

[martin goddard]

I have  put out the first version of SNIPER.
A gamette for MILL 9.
Do let me know if you can be an alpha on this one


thanks

martin

[Wardy64]

Martin
Can Ben and I be in please

D&B

[martin goddard]

You chaps are certainly Alpha
Did you get them??


martin

[Wardy64]

Received with thanks - scope up!

Need to paint my sniper teams, Russian, German face off.

Dave & Ben

[martin goddard]

Sniper vocabulary might include.

"phew"
"mmm"
"grrr"
"ha"
"rrrrrr"
"ahem"
"  "

Specialist equipment would include
Bar of chocolate
Long johns
Wool socks
Hanky
Face shroud
Toffees
Small knife
Chewing tobacco

martin
martin

[Leslie BT]

Dave you just need a pin in a bush!!
Painting sniper figures nah!

[Wardy64]

I have you in my sights Les!

Will use my new 3 inch brush.

Dave

[Smoking gun]

Hello,
I have a couple of questions:

1) Do objects block line of sight? (I assume so.)

2) Does the sniper team move?

I will try to get a game played this coming week.Martin

Best wishes,
Martin Buck

[martin goddard]

No you are pushing my brain Martin.

I think objects should block line of sight.
A the moment the sniper team does not move. Would it be useful  or too compacted?

thanks


martin

[Smoking gun]

Hi,
Moving snipers may well complicate things, I'll know better after I've tried a game. Dummy snipers are another option.

Best wishes,
Martin Buck

[Colonel Kilgore]

We have done some play-testing today. No Lego figures were permanently incapacitated, but the younger members of the family did have a few thoughts (combined within my own below) on how they would like to see the game tweaked:

Main points:
- we found the game played pretty quickly once we had the hang of it - about 10 minutes from start to finish?
- there was very little movement in our games: more target and obstruction movement would make things more interesting
- we didn't feel that the sniper should move: he should stay hidden and reap the benefits / suffer the consequences of where he initially chose to hide
- as pointed out by Martin B below, we need to clarify what the effect of Buildings and Obstructions is in the game
- Obstructions - even if they obstructed anything - serve little purpose being stuck in Column A
- could Obstructions be allowed to move randomly each go (since all are of a potentially mobile nature), as opposed to just when allowed for in section 12?
- if Targets move after a failed zeroing, can more than one of them end up in the same square?
- the winning strategy seemed to be to set up as close as possible to the prime target and keep popping at it: it would be nice if this weren't such an obvious ploy
- rather than playing cooperatively as suggested, we played back-to-back games and tried to improve in each others' scores: this might be suggested as an option?
- this is a good game for quickly understanding the odds of rolling a 5 or 6 on a variable number of dice!

The picky bits:
- page 1, section 2: theatres are mentioned, but no period: I think this is primarily aimed at WW2?
- page 2, section 4: "Target" is used later for both types of target, so it would be helpful to qualify "Targets" in the table here - perhaps as "Normal Targets" as opposed to "Prime Targets"?
- page 2, section 5:
    - the reference to "2/3 D6" is potentially confusing: I suggest we just say "3D6" here.
    - should be "needed" rather than "need"
- page 2, section 6: F is missing from the list of columns
- pages 3 to 5: I'm not a military man (the keyboard is mightier than the Kalashnikov?) but isn't the expression "to zero in on", or "to zero your sights" rather than "to zero a target"?
- page 5, section 12:
    - a score of 3+ allows the swapping of "obstacles": should this read "Obstructions"?
    - should read "scores", not "score" in the second example
    - should read "each", not "reach" in the second line of the table

[martin goddard]

Just the job Simon
Will get to it ,thanks

martin

[Leslie BT]

Simon are these not designed for Vietnam!

[Colonel Kilgore]

Simon are these not designed for Vietnam!

Good point, Les, but not as currently written, it seems.

Simon

[Sean Clark]

Is Sniper still on the cards? Maybe the next but one Mill?