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Black Death (from 2010) - with Sean Bean
The story could just as well have bin about a group of "adventures" in the warhammer world trying to do some good.

Tonight I was at our local RPG club.
After the games we hang out and I heard a funny story.

One of the guys work at the local store ( a chain of 3 stores and one of two main chains here in Denmark) and another of the guys runs a Distributor who sells bordgame, magic and novels. (and other stuff)
The store buys their GW novels from the Distributor who get them from a publishing company who get them from GW...
But even with two "steps" that need to earn money it is still cheaper for the store than buying them directly from GW... now that is just strange.

Thomas Aagaard, we're talking about 30 Crossbowmen. Where did you see 20?

Guess I thougt: 30crossbowmen in horde formation = 10 wide 3 ranks...(so 20 can fire) but offcause they might as well be 15 wide in two ranks.
 

white headbands... "two damage, Five damage"  Just horrible... (said the "nordic" larper)

Krigslive 8 was last weekend... and one of the main danish newspapers had an article about it on frontpage of their Culture part... another had an online article and  a radioshow reported the results of the battles like a soccermatch. (3-2 to the Vikings over the Christians)

And the on of the larpers invited his mother to come and watch...
This is interesting because she is the minister of education here in Denmark.

The picture is a bit of a cheat.

We where doing a photoshoot for a citybased warhammer larp called "Khypris - year one"

We used the shop since the guy iam organizing the larp with works there and the light is better than what we have at our clubhouse.
(notice that it is completely dark outside)

For years I wanted to take some pictures with some state troops are reading White dwarf or similar... But newer gotten around to do it.

So the idea was a picture of me in a costume reading the army book... but it was sold out. So I ended up with this.


More info about our warhammer battle larps here:
http://warhammer-empire.com/theforum/index.php?topic=38786.msg612785#msg612785

the bow do shot with IDV arrows. (padded arrows)

The guns just say bang.
Rule wise they have to fire in volleys at one enemy unit within 25m.
Everyone in the unit takes 1 point of damage.
Archers worked the same way. fired a volley at a units and everyone lost 1 point.
They had 3 volleys pr. battle.
And then they dropped their handguns and drew their swords and bucklers.

btw, there is something somewhat similar in Sweden called Krigshjärta (www.krigshjarta.com)
Its not warhammer but clearly inspired by it.

Some of us averlanders and stirländers is talking about going to sweeden next year... since we think Krigslive have moved to much to a festival with random bofferfights and not much roleplay... And we go just as much for the roleplay as the fighting.
Offcause this can actually be very different from one camp to the other.
At this krigslive we had lost of cool play in camp.
(and we, the officers had a lot of fun with the Stirland vs Averland conflict when in the officers tent)

Atm, iam focusing on my next larp. Called "Khypris - year one"
(city based larp that takes place in the borderprinces, in 2012 IC - with focus on the cultual conflicts that comes from having new city where men and women from the Empire, Bretonnia, kislev and Tilea live together in a small space in a anarchistic town... do we need a cityguard? what laws do we use? who should rule? and how? monarcy? a merchant republic? an elected prince? feudalism?)

A picture taken this evening...for the fun of it... when we where having a photoshoot for Khypris.

I don't have an opinion about what is best*. In the end it will always be depending on the situation.

And doing math hammer is very very complex and time consuming since you have to consider many combat rounds, magic, all unittypes, is there a general or BSB near, who charged...

But offcause sometimes logic can help you and in some cases its pretty clear what is best.


My point is that I do se the "something" is 1/6 better a lot... but as I pointed out:
Going from 4+ to 3+ is a 16 percent point improvement. But the change of succes is 32% better.
Going from 6+ to 5+ is allso a 16 percentage point improvement. but the change is 100% better.

And if you try to do mathhammer, but don't do the basic math correctly, then you will get the wrong result.


*actually I do, halberdiers is most fluffy for most provinces.

halberds will get 1/6 increased chance of killing

Wrong! very very wrong.

Procentage and procentage points is two very different things.

S3 / S4
% of hits that will wound
T 3 50% / 66%
T4 33% / 50%

So agianst T3 helbards are 32% better than S3
against T4 they are 81% better.
If the target have armour they are even better, compared to S3 attackes.

Going from 4+ to 3+ is a 16 procentage point improvement. But the change of succes is 32% better.
Going from 6+ to 5+ is allso a 16 procentage point improvement. but the change is 100% better

When doing math, you have to do it correctly.

Since the Empire is build on laws and have a justice system based on law(in teory at least). Then the Cult of Verena have a presence in most larger towns.

they are both lefthanded...

Some of the books have things like wages, prices on equipment.

Lasall is one of the systems played in my club. (a club for historical wargaming)

since this follows the official Empire list, you should be able to use it everywhere...
(no special rules for huntmen offcause)

That is why this is 100timer better than adding units to the bretonian list... any homemade units will not be allowed most places.