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Title: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Sensei on November 22, 2009, 12:51:02 am
GOODE EVENING, GENTLEMEN.
That is most certainly the correct spelling of goode.

You may have heard before of a wonderful game called TACTICUS. And it is- a marvelous game played by the world's most famous scholars, rulers, historians, generals, and pioneers since the first ancient breaths of civilization.

But what is it? How can I play? Indeedably, these questions will come in time. But it is not so simple. There are many published rule books, some aging thousands of years old. Before you can truly play, you must understand the base rules (7.1), as penned by Urist Pantsheim in 1274 (although they had existed prior to some extent):

-The objective of TACTICUS was once, primarily, to defeat your enemy (or ally with them and defeat them later. However, as easily winning strategies have become more routine and established, the goal has shifted to defeating your enemy in the most indibutably humiliating and improbable way possible. Players may judge your feats of indubitability on a one-to-ten scale, although this has no official impact.

-TACTICUS is a miniatures game. Each miniature takes up one space, usually (Volume three of TACTICUS: Miniature Care argues the benefits and detractors of resizing miniatures with a hack saw as opposed to allowing for multiple-tile units).

-TACTICUS takes place on a board of equally sized tiles. Any gentleman worth his scotch plays on a real table with real miniatures- but if you are in a hurry, you can abbreviate the board on your computer. When we do so, we will play in a [C0DE] window, and use ASCII tiles similar to those in Slaves to Toeflaw II: Gnoll Establishment (http://bay12games.com/dwarves/) (See Introduction vi, Use of Electronic Computational Apparaticii in TACTICUS, c1990)

-Participating competitors will take their turns in order of Gentlemanly Conduct. You may enter and act at will -indeed, the general with the initiative takes the advantage- but try to give other players a chance to act... unless you have a rule source that states otherwise.

-Units in the game are all accompanied by their own rules, but most can survive being wounded to various degrees and have a number of squares in which they can move in a turn over certain types of terrain, and an attacking ability.

-All actions in TACTICUS must be cited to previously published rules. There are many, many many books, treatises, scrolls, scriptures, files, slates, vinyls and fossils dedicated to discussing the rules of TACTICUS- you probably have some lying around, and you don't even know it. Once a rule has been cited, it need not be explained in full each time it is used.

-TACTICUS is a historian's game of finding rules that suit your fighting style. No proper gentleman would DARE to make up rules by citing books that don't actually exist, or any other such unsporting conduct.


We may now begin, gentlemen. Here is the FIELD OF PLAY.
There is a field, a river, and a cliff. I place an Orc on the field, and give a set of clothing under my command, as stated in Pantsheim 7.1, Chapter six, subsection four, Base Unit Posessions.

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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Duke 2.0 on November 22, 2009, 02:05:52 am
 By the ringing of the feather in my cap I was alerted as to the presence of a new game of Tacticus. I remember the old days well, back when the Ludum Daring ruleset was still in the 1.15c version and the accepted 'Rules of Clothing and Lack Therof' was not yet established. The memories bring my eyes to tears. Then we tried many a time to revive this most noble game, only to fall short of our glory. A dear shame seeing as every game now requires the sacrifice of some small cute animal or several ancient priceless relics. Still, for a good game(Which could last centuries as some of the oldest Tacticus texts show) it is worth the investment. I thank you for allowing me to start this off as the first non-host player.

 
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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Emperor_Jonathan on November 22, 2009, 03:40:27 am
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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Wimdit on November 22, 2009, 04:18:40 am
A game of Tacticus? I believe it is time to bring out the brandy.

Taking advantage of the rules present in Chapter Eight, Section Six of TACTICUS: The Expanded Compendium of Busts, Sculptures and Effigies, which state that any sufficiently damaged statue may be animated and controlled by the first player to claim it, I order the orc statue to jump in the river and conceal itself.

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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Neruz on November 22, 2009, 04:54:00 am
Tacitus! Always wanted to try this.


Recently i located, purely by accident, a book known as TACITUS: AQUATIC ANIMALS AND SODDEN STRAYS According to Chapter Seventeen, titled "Intrusions Into Our Watery Abode" i may place 3 Carp into play in an appropriate location when a Player Controlled and Animated Statue is ordered to enter a suitable body of water.

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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Grek on November 22, 2009, 05:56:48 am
Tacitus. How it haunts me. Who could ever imagine by its innocuous name that that such a trifle could ruin a man? That a kingdom could be won or lost by the vaugeries of its rules? Such a name, simple in its virtues yet beguiling all the same! It hath ruined me once, stipped me of my every honor, my love, my family and verily, even my own life! No more! This time, I play to win.

The ghost of Baron Grek von BreadSyrup accepts the challenge.
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For my first move, I place an upwards facing ramp, as per page 127 of The Complete Tacticus: Volume Seven, Edition Fourteen Point Three.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Armok on November 22, 2009, 09:09:40 am
Tacticus? It was far to long since I played this noble game! How could I do anything but join?

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 As acodrding to the Borgly Tapestries, fifteenth cloth on the north-west wall, I play a Meditating Borgle. And as detailed on the same cloth this gives me a free Totem Pole.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Cthulhu on November 22, 2009, 10:42:42 am
Tacticus was whispered into the ears of Urist Pantsheim by Nyarlathotep, to occupy the minds of gentlemen so they don't accomplish anything of merit.

Naturally, I am a master.

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I place a Metal Magician (Starting equipment guitar, wand, straggly hair, spiky bracers) on the board, citing page 79 of Maestros and Musicians.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 22, 2009, 02:20:15 pm
Qwertyuiopas, dabbling tacticus painter, has arrived to chronicle this epic game in full-colour PNG glory.

(This time, I will write a program to do most of the hard work for me, rather than MSpainting it all)

(But first:

Expect me to make periodic images eventually.)
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Armok on November 22, 2009, 02:23:53 pm
((If those are half as good as I expect them to be, that will make this thing EPIC!  :o ))
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: ToonyMan on November 22, 2009, 02:28:24 pm
There is a sound in my ear, the ear of SOUND.  IT SPEAKS THE CLEAR WHICH HOLDS MY BRROM.  I VEER THE CLIFF TO REEK MY FREAKKKK  My books old so I don't know the new rules so I DON'T HAVE TO FOLLOW THEm

I place a mole in the moutain.

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Oh, I forgot to cite my book, it's right here!
Really, it's HERE (http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Colonel_Sassacre%27s_Daunting_Text_of_Magical_Frivolty_and_Practical_Japery)

EDIT EDIT:

Page 230#$ab:Section 2;Teletale Hindsight-Mole in the Moutain.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 22, 2009, 02:48:08 pm
Quote from: Armok on November 22, 2009, 02:23:53 pm
((If those are half as good as I expect them to be, that will make this thing EPIC!  :o ))

(All it means is making it look like DF, similar to all those other ASCII graphics programs, except supporting all 256^4(RGB+Alpha?? Woah!) colours, and reading DF's old curses_640x300.bmp.
My old MSPaint art ones (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=39308.msg672791#msg672791)
Also, due to the magic of copy-paste from a very similar project, I had a window open in five minutes, and can import, UNCHANGED, the graphics manipulation functions from it. Until I must ,I will use screenshots to record the picture, but if I must, I will write a .bmp writer.)
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Sensei on November 22, 2009, 02:56:19 pm
My Orc attacks the Borgle. While strong, orcs are not renowned for their athleticism.

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Ah, and I should add. In utilicing the 'Darkling' variant of these annals, you will find that the writings within code windows are larger and shall thus enhance your enjoyment noticeably.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: CJ1145 on November 22, 2009, 03:06:08 pm
Ah, jolly goode! Another rousing game of TACTICUS! I remember my last game; a loss, but an enjoyable one. Zombie Jesus has always enjoyed the Xanatos Gambit, and I have yet to find a suitable counter--until TODAY!

As published in the classic collector's volume "TACTICUS And Its Impacts Upon Modern Society" by famed master of game himself, Richard the Lionhearted, I shall begin the multi-turn "Siege of a Thousand Needles". This turn, I may place 1 human unit of my choice on the map (I place a bowman in the north-eastern corner), and each following turn for five turns I may exponentially increase my forces until the fifth turn, where I must place the Human General and four bodyguards. Risky, but terrific fun!

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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Wimdit on November 22, 2009, 03:34:09 pm
Egads! The devilfish have appeared!

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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Emperor_Jonathan on November 22, 2009, 03:50:48 pm
Another Wagon! I summon this as in the Tacticus Compendium - Invasions of inanimate objects. Wagon chapter.

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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Armok on November 22, 2009, 04:09:34 pm
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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Neruz on November 22, 2009, 05:43:57 pm
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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: ToonyMan on November 22, 2009, 05:59:42 pm
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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 22, 2009, 06:59:52 pm
Update: display stuff done, first pizza done, second in oven. Just need to write actual editing controls, and then be happy. Then write saving and loading between turns.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Sensei on November 22, 2009, 07:04:15 pm
According to Dikran Tahta's paper, Energy, Matter, Convection and Tiles, page 3, paragraph 12, it is asserted that the removal of cliff tiles creates a surplus of 'stones' which proceed to occupy the floor tile as an item(s). This good for my plans. My Orc proceeds to collect all of them.

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Of course, Pantsheim's resplendently famous auxiliary text TACTICUSAL FORETHOUGHT dictates that I, having clearly formed a strategy which will take three or more turns to execute, must emit an evil laugh. Ahem.

MUAHAHAHAHA-AHAHAHAHA!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7edeOEuXdMU)
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 22, 2009, 07:38:33 pm
Update on the existance of a map:
About ~50 tiles into mapping, I realized that the grass would be too hard to realistically redraw each time, so I wrote in saving and loading.

Colours must still be done through hex-editing or MSpaint post-processing, because, though saving and loading supports them, I don't have an editor feature for it.

Also, for anyone to actually use it in the future, it uses the mouse for almost everything. Edting is done through click and drag to "paint" a tile, and character selection is done through holding shift to show the font, and clicking the desired character. It reads from a bitmap, and should support any image, as well as potential future expansion for more than a 256 character set.

But for now, I shall create a monochrome version. Then bother with colours later.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 22, 2009, 07:49:16 pm
(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5279/12264630.png)

Did I ever mention how much I dislike grass?

I will replace the burning holes in reality and start adding colour, but that won't stop me hating every moment of it.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Neruz on November 22, 2009, 07:50:48 pm
DEAR GOD THE GRASS IS ON FIRE!

I see you have invoked Rule 66 from Tacticus: Armageddon, Ragnarok and other Apocalypses.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Neruz on November 22, 2009, 07:53:39 pm
Unfortunately Sensei, Chapter 9, Section 4, Paragraph 6 of Tactical Tombs, Part III states quite clearly that the defilement of a tomb by orc or orcine creatures will cause a neutral undead of appropriate nature to rise from an appropriate location.

In this case, the occupant of the sarcophagus arises as a Mummy and assaults your Orc!


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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 22, 2009, 08:16:05 pm
(http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/3057/25642416.png)

(Still working on colour, but enjoy!)
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 22, 2009, 08:57:33 pm
I hate writing grass.

However, colouring it? It was almost as fun as if I had a custom floodfill that recognised all grass as the same!

(http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/5848/25486325.png)

Now, I need some help: Colours for anything white.

Here is the colour matrix, tuned to DF's (Thanks, DF wiki!), with about twice as many combinations, as I don't think certain colours could be used for backgrounds.

(http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/363/colours.png)


Edit: for those interested, here (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jyz53yzktzh) is the program, source code and latest map included. The only missing feature is map resizing. Edit colours by holding control, otherwise edit characters. Hold shift to access the character/colour selection screen, depending if control is held. Load with L, save with S, everything else is mouse control: click and optionally drag to draw either the colour or the character.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Duke 2.0 on November 22, 2009, 10:37:30 pm
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 It appears that in order to properly begin this game I must start the downward spiral of madness. Thus I bring in a third wagon. This evokes the Law of Groups and Hordes from the Pantsheim Ruleset Sixteenth edition chapter 43B page 4-52 article five. The rule states that once three of any creatures/objects/entities/similar things are within the playfield they are subject to universal rules that apply to groups and hordes. With a third wagon it is considered part of the wagon horde, and thus all actions made by wagons have multipliers based on how many wagons are in play.
 I also have a kobold on this wagon, thus allowing me the various kobold rules when it comes to reproduction.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Emperor_Jonathan on November 22, 2009, 11:20:21 pm
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Under Chapter 6, Appearance rules, of the Tacticus Compendium: Inanimate Objects I summon another wagon, a dwarven wagon, next to the cliff.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Sensei on November 22, 2009, 11:25:22 pm
Whatever happened to ASCIIdraw?
...my Orc attacks the posthumous manifestation with it bare fists! I roll a D20... scoring a 3.

There are now two mummies.

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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Grek on November 23, 2009, 12:30:31 am
This is a highly unorthadox progression! Four wagons and an what appears to be an early version of "SockTable's Extraordinary Pyramid Gambit"
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This calls for a drastic rethinking of my plans. I place a Fluffy Wambler token at the westernmost totem pole, as per page eighteen of chapter one of "A Stumble Bumbler's Guide to Fluffy Wambler use in TACITUS". It is in the Bumble position and has a Pudge Rating of 9, the maximum possible at this point in the game.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 23, 2009, 08:00:51 am
(http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/3586/36776496.png)

(Have image resizing now, fixed unnoticed bug in image load when the new image is larger than the old. It was using the old's side for initialization.)

(Need to do:
-Change character-only edit mode to while alt is held, and with nothing held, use a full overwrite.
-When control and alt are both held, it should change to a persistant clipboard mode, for storage of commonly used characters
-Right-clicking should copy the edit data from the selected tile in either edit or clipboard mode.
)


And, once again, would anyone like to suggest colours?
All that white can't be good...
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: DaPatman on November 23, 2009, 01:53:14 pm
Ah, Tacitus. A game have seen played many times, but sadly I was unable to participate in those games, due to not having enough money to justify buying any of the rulebooks. However, I recently came upon a windfall, and when considering how to spend it, I decided that it was about time I stopped observing and started participating. And so...

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I summon a giant worm at a side of the map that is entirely cliffs, as per Chapter 2, Summoning of A Beginner's Guide to the Use of Tunelling Creatures in TACITUS.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Armok on November 23, 2009, 03:31:03 pm
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Ah! I see more wagons have been played. This gives me an excellent opportunity to do a serial gambit and transform one of my totem poles into a sentient wagon!
As per the Greater Artefact Properties addition of the Gribflkjus rulebook, page 5347 section 7, I get one free trait for my wagon, I chose omnidirectionality.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: LeoLeonardoIII on November 23, 2009, 03:37:00 pm
Good sir, though the Chernobyl Pipedream Gambit is technically legal, it can hardly be considered sportsmanlike. I trust your use of Omnidirectionality is in good taste and you will not avail yourself of Appendix N of Gribflkjus.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Armok on November 23, 2009, 03:41:06 pm
Quote from: LeoLeonardoIII on November 23, 2009, 03:37:00 pm
Good sir, though the Chernobyl Pipedream Gambit is technically legal, it can hardly be considered sportsmanlike. I trust your use of Omnidirectionality is in good taste and you will not avail yourself of Appendix N of Gribflkjus.
:o I would never DREAM of doing that!
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: LeoLeonardoIII on November 23, 2009, 03:43:08 pm
Quite right good sir. I didn't mean to impugn your honor and I withdraw any statement from which you'd draw such inference posthaste.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Emperor_Jonathan on November 23, 2009, 03:54:49 pm
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I bring in a swimming CARP wagon as per Tacticus Compendium - Invasions of inanimate object Chapter 8B: Aquatic Wagons (and Races).
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: LeoLeonardoIII on November 23, 2009, 04:01:53 pm
It was YOU who borrowed that volume from Fartwick's personal library! I sent for him by aero-phone just moments ago to request it!

I see you've employed CARP wagon type A instead of type B (said cart being drawn by carp instead of containing them).
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Neruz on November 23, 2009, 05:48:21 pm
With the arrival of their leaders in Wagon form, my Landwalker Carp will return to the water to serve as a vanguard force as per rule 41 in the 'mutated seafolk' section on page 315 of Taciticals: Plots, Tactics and Schemes for all Creatures. Referring to the same book, but this time the Undead section on page 761, rule 12 dictates that the two Mummies will take up guard posts inside the crypt, ready to pounce on anything that violates their sacred site.

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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 23, 2009, 06:59:50 pm
According the The Beginning Artist's Guide to Illustrating Tacticus, unless corrected by the players, I may choose to interpret aspects of the game for the purposes of art.

By this guideline, I am painting the carp with a diffrent symbol, animating the water, making a colour-assumption on the cave, blackening the unrevealed terrain, and saying that, if the players accept it, the upper corner of land is definately dirt.

As stated, though, undisputed clarifications from the players take presidence over my interpretation, to be corrected in later paintings.

(http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/4871/56091572.png)
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Neruz on November 23, 2009, 07:17:53 pm
Looks good to me. Might i suggest color coding the carp Yellow, the Orcs Green, the Kobolds Brown and the Totems\Wagon Gray?
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 23, 2009, 07:30:34 pm
(http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/9527/18188395.png)

Looking better?
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Neruz on November 23, 2009, 07:45:28 pm
Much improved. The stone walls might look better as gray too, unless someone wishes to invoke Rule 57 of section 31 from Tacitus: Mountains and Molehills which allows a player to define a section of rock as marble if it was not previously defined.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 23, 2009, 07:48:41 pm
All of the rock is undefined, I just tried to influence some of it to have colour. It is up to the players to develop if all of the rock is actually sand/dirt/clay or if it merges into rock in the visible areas, or even if my creative judgement was wrong, and there was no sand in the first place. Similarily, if an ore vein is defined, I could either obscure unrevealed portions of show it all, whatever the players ask for.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Sensei on November 23, 2009, 08:28:17 pm
Oh dear! There's more wooden wagons here than a motorcar trade-in lot! Shoddy ones, too!

...which, however, is fine for my plans. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

As I have already expended my first summoning, I will have to roll my next creature. I'll start from the civilized races table, Pantsheim 7.1, p912.

*3/6* Three...
*7/10* Orcish...
*12/20* Paladins. That's not terribly plausible, is it? Nonetheless, I summon them, and give them armor and swords, as per the pre-designated class equipment, Zeeblebrok revision. I actually have already purchased some orcish paladin figurines from the local fleamarket, but I will represent them here as Ø.

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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 23, 2009, 08:44:19 pm
Quote from: qwertyuiopas on November 23, 2009, 08:00:51 am
(Need to do:
-Change character-only edit mode to while alt is held, and with nothing held, use a full overwrite.
-When control and alt are both held, it should change to a persistant clipboard mode, for storage of commonly used characters
-Right-clicking should copy the edit data from the selected tile in either editclipboard mode.
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text is finished, though I couldn't get alt to work, so I am stuck using Z for the same purpose.

Hmm, can't find the lined O in DF's tiles. I hope you don't mind my substitute.

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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 23, 2009, 09:15:47 pm
The persistant swapSpace is finished.

All it is is an automatically loaded(at start-time) and saved(on exit) file called swap.tac, so if you wanted to resize it, just edit it as a regular file, though save it elsewhere or with a diffrent name until the program is closed, otherwise the autosave-swapSpace-on-exit will overwrite it.

In fact, you could theoretically do all your work in swapSpace, as long as you didn't mind losing the ability to draw only the colour or only the tile, and having to constantly hold control and Z to access it.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tlzyizwzowq (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tlzyizwzowq)


Of course, sorry for stealing some of this space for development of a program, but it should be practically finished, so I don't think I will need to update it again for a while.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Grek on November 23, 2009, 09:51:57 pm
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I roll for bumbling:

[1d10]->[3+0] = 3
[1d10]->[5+0] = 5
[1d10]->[6+0] = 6
[1d10]->[2+0] = 2
[1d10]->[7+0] = 7
[1d10]->[6+0] = 6
[1d10]->[1+0] = 1
[1d10]->[1+0] = 1
[1d10]->[10+0] = 10

Referencing the chart, I find my Stumble Bumbler located just to the left of the orcish paladins and with a +1 to Pudge. I also rolled a 10, which is plainly signifigant to anyone who has ever played with the Stumble Bumbler rulesets.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Neruz on November 23, 2009, 10:50:57 pm
Ah, if i recall correctly, A Stumble Bumbler's Guide to Fluffy Wambler use in TACITUS, chapter 11, section 8, states that a Bumble roll of 10 causes it to stop Bumbling and start Wambling instead, it also gains a bonus to Pudge equal to it's Stumble modifier while it continues to Wamble. Assuming that is a standard Fluffy Wambler that means that it's Pudge is now at +5 (as by default a Fluffy Wambler has +4 to Stumble). If so, those Orcs are in for a very rough time; a Wambling Fluffy Wambler with +5 to Pudge is a very dangerous foe.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Emperor_Jonathan on November 24, 2009, 02:55:48 am
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Oh no, a wagon coming in too fast has rolled! I summon it under Section 4, Special Wounds, of Chapter 3 of The Tacticus Compendium: Wagons.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Neruz on November 24, 2009, 02:59:28 am
Gentlemen, while i enjoy a good wagon fight as much as the next man, i must admit that this is starting to get a little rediculous. While it is not against any rules that i am aware of, do you think we could hold off on adding any more wagons to the table until we've dealt with the ones we have already?
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Emperor_Jonathan on November 24, 2009, 03:02:10 am
You should attack them.

WAGONS ROLL FOREVER ONWARDS

Until they don't have wheels of course.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Neruz on November 24, 2009, 03:03:23 am
I'm afraid all my forces are currently engaged.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Wimdit on November 24, 2009, 03:23:36 am
Aha! You have made a foolish move, Jonathan! In accordance with the ancient scroll Wagons and the Mystic Energies Thereof, which states that whenever seven wagons are present on the field they and anything therein may be consumed in order to empower and enlarge a unit, I order my statue to emerge from beneath the ground and become a colossus! Given the carp already present on the field, the colossus will be represented with an @.

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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Neruz on November 24, 2009, 03:40:24 am
Oh no! According to Carp: Combat and Tactics, the loss of their wagon leader sends them into a berserk rage, attacking the nearest animate thing, which happens to be... actually i think it's the colossus.

The Landwalker Carp charge the Colossus, i roll a 15, an 18 and a 5 for each attack, factoring the +1 bonus for charging, i do believe that according to Tacitus: General Purpose Combat Results, page 113, one Carp tripped over his own mutant flippers and ended up face down in the dirt, one scored a nice ringing hit on the Colossus that did no real damage, and one took it's arm clean off with a karate chop to the thigh.

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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Keita on November 24, 2009, 04:47:00 am
GREETINGS! I have come from the oppisite side of the forums as I heard that there was a TACTICUS game going on.

Hmm, it appears the wagons are dealt with meaning I can't envoke the Dwarf Carpenter Spam rule. Well, I guess I have to summon something. I will be using the book Summoning stuff in TACTICUS: You CAN actualy do that. on page 392 para 5 lines 4-6 it states "You are allowed to roll the inqesitive dice, when rolled it will look around your area and pick something to summon. As it isn't Dwarf Fort related it will not be able to act for a turn as it has been ripped from it's dimension

[1d20] A unit of...
[1d?] ...Mechs from...
[1d6] ...Clan smok Jaguare...
[1d3] ...only two.

RIGHT

I summon two mechs, one a Puma and Owens on the left near the ridge
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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 24, 2009, 07:53:06 am
(http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/4586/55490165.png)

It would be nice to get some specifications on the wall's material type, as well as colours for the colourless.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: LeoLeonardoIII on November 24, 2009, 12:53:53 pm
According to the Wimbledon Hardshrove Compendium Revision XVI Pg 667, the worm tunneling through the rock that has remained immobile for more than three turns can be transmuted into white sand.

That is exactly what I do

There is no need for me to change the board.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Armok on November 24, 2009, 02:59:22 pm
Hey! My wagon!

... wait a moment...
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Also from Wagons and the Mystic Energies Thereof, page 409, under "loose ends", removing one of my totems means that if the other is used, a hammerspace containing the lost  wagons will be created.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: DaPatman on November 24, 2009, 03:20:49 pm
Curse my delay in taking this turn! It appears I shall have to resort to my backup plan much earlier than I had anticipated. This could pose problems for me in the long run.

According to Chapter 23, Transmution of Creatures into Map Features of Creature Transformations in TACITUS, I, as the player who summoned the worm in the first place, may now summon any creature which might reasonably be found near the feature the original creature was transmuted into, namely white sand. This creature may be placed anywhere the original creature could have reached within five turns, provided the creature is capable of standing there. The same chapter states that since the original creature was giant, the new creature must also be giant. I therefore elect to summon a giant crab. According to Chapter 3, Movement of A Beginner's Guide to the Use of Tunelling Creatures in TACITUS, the only spaces i can place it are within the crypt. Since it cannot take any further action this turn, I elect to place it as near to the entrance of the crypt as possible:

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Since I have made no changes to the board containing the wagons, I shall refrain from reposting it.

To qwertyuiopas: I request that my giant crab, along with any units I may subsequently place on the map, be rendered in red, for the simple reason that it is my favourite colour.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Neruz on November 24, 2009, 05:12:07 pm
Fortunately for your Crab, Chapter 17 of Mummies: What They Do states that they will be unconcerned about this animal intruder so long as he doesn't mess anything up.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Duke 2.0 on November 24, 2009, 07:32:36 pm
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 I had hoped to do my turn sooner, but I knew that other players had to do what they did in order to fulfill the requirements of this plan. Namely, that they remove five or more wagons from the field. As these wagons were made under the Kobolds, natures little kleptomaniacs extended ruleset I may choose to cause them to reproduce. I had planned to merely let them reproduce on one side of the field, but seeing as wagons are both removed from the field and not killed I can have every breeding pair produce a wagon offpring.
 Aren't the wagon pups cute?
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Emperor_Jonathan on November 24, 2009, 10:34:50 pm
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Under Tacticus: Aging Chapter 3 Sub-section 4 I increase the aging one wagon so that it grows into a fully-grown wagon.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Sensei on November 24, 2009, 11:01:23 pm
Ah! This is most tintillating! My friend in liverpool has just aeromailed me his book, Curio Tactico Dimensionalis, by Pope Urban I, and my good servant Frumpus has had a most difficult time translating it. But I've at this point discerned, that every hammerspace exists only as an appendage of the real world, and must have a link. If there is not one, it will form summarily. I have a special clockwork mechanism for discerning this, it's based primarily on the phase of the moon relative to Jupiter...

Ah, today it is an interdimensional Trenchcoat, the prodigiously deep pockets of which act as a powerful portal capable of allowing through an object of any size. It exists on both planes, and may only be worn and used by the bearer of a mustache with a shininess of 3 or higher and a curvlitude greater than 1, though anyone can carry it.

Ah, and my Orcish Paladins move befriend the Wambler, as they will need it to defeat the mechs. I summon a Cheesecake (Culinary Creatures in TACTICUS, 1981 print, chapter 7 "The Only Thing Orcs Can Cook Ever") for them to offer him. I roll an (18/20-2) 16 on cheesecake making. The actual diplomacy roll will have to take place on the Wambler's turn, however.

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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Grek on November 25, 2009, 05:20:59 am
As Paladins have the [GOOD] tag on them, they are allies of the Fluffy Wambler. Outside of mating season and stampedes, the orcs have nothing to fear. Now, for the diplomacy roll:
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As you can see, the 11 is well under the 16 of the Cheesecake roll. The Wambler will follow the orcs for 5 turns, at which point it must be fed the cheesecake or else it will Stampede.

The current Pudge Rating, as noted by Neruz, is 10+5 Pudge, bringing it up to Large size. It is also Wambling. Normally I would make a set of Wamble rolls, but it is following the orcs now. Thus, I only need roll for speed:

[1d6]->[2+0] = 2

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PS. I have taken the liberty of consulting the "Collossi Limb and Wind Speeds" table (c. pg. Carp: Combat and Tactics, Appendex 11-G) for Sir Neruz and have placed his arm in the correct location.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Neruz on November 25, 2009, 05:33:26 am
Ah, excellent work Grek, i had forgotten about table and was wondering about how to work out what happened to the arm. Now i must await the return of it's owner so that this conflict may continue.

Until then, i think i shall peruse some books for a way to coax the mummies out of their crypt.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Keita on November 25, 2009, 05:41:39 am
Now then, this is interesting...

I have here a copy of Interdimensions in TACTICUS: Non-scientist edition as the first edition was a lot of mumbo jumbo they had to redo it and dumb it down.

*sips sherry*

On page 90 subsection H para 2 there is a rule 'It sucks to do nothing on a turn, so do something'. This stats "When a player can't move any of there models for whatever reason..." My mechs as they're wondering how they were fighting Inner Sphere mechs one moment then here the next "...May take any model on another field of play to the origanal field that has not moved for a long time and swap it with one of his own."

Therefor take one of the kobold caravan and replace it with an engineer

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I shall now roll on the engineering table in the TACTICUS: Dwarf Core Book that Clearly stats on page 47 para 3 of the Engineers sub-section that if I want the engineer to work on something I have to role against a table to make sure he does what I want him to do and not make a machine that make blinking esayer for example.

Rolls 2D6...

Oh dear, I've rolled the "Surprise Me" option, this could be "Fun"
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 25, 2009, 07:56:25 am
(http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/8353/77390923.png)


I have randomly decided to assign the "rock" actual types, still as placeholder.

Also, someone put a few characters too many to the left of the lower river section.

And too few to the right.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: DaPatman on November 25, 2009, 09:19:44 am
Quote from: qwertyuiopas on November 25, 2009, 07:56:25 am
Also, someone put a few characters too many to the left of the lower river section.

And too few to the right.

I shall fix this momentarily.

Seeing as I now have the advantage, my giant crab attacks the adjacent mummy with its pincers. I roll a d20 and get a 17. According to Chapter 16, Combatting the Undead of Crustacean Combat in TACITUS, this means I have severed an arm.

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           ☺▒                          ▒▒▒
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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Armok on November 25, 2009, 01:36:29 pm
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           ☺▒                          ▒▒▒
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                                         My wagon moves two steps, eat the baby wagon, and with the help of the borgle grow a balista. As per Wagons and the Mystic Energies Thereof page 846.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Neruz on November 25, 2009, 05:58:16 pm
The Mummies respond poorly to your Crab's heinous assault and attack in kind; the first rolls a 11, with a -2 modifier for the lack of arm, which my table from Undeath and Combat: How It Goes says means that the assault is blocked by your crab's thick shell, my second Mummy rolls a natural 20, which, i believe, means that there are now 3 mummies. The Crab mummy will be referenced with a Ç, to show it's rather unique status.

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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Sensei on November 25, 2009, 06:21:33 pm
The orcish palandins, their wambler and cheesecake in tow, assault the Puma!

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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Sensei on November 26, 2009, 11:16:49 pm
Dead already?

My these pages move fast.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 27, 2009, 08:02:30 am
If it's still dead, of even if it's not, when I get some free time, I'll try to revive it with another bit of art.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 28, 2009, 09:34:29 am
(http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/5511/10120248.png)

Once more, I request some colours for the uncoloured.

And do you know how easy it is for me to resize this? It's very easy, so don't be afraid to add more vertical space.
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Myroc on November 28, 2009, 11:44:09 am
As stated in Chapter 37.6, Environmental Features and their Tactical Advantage (Revised Version), after more than twenty turns have been acted out in any game with a river, that river will start to flood whenever more than three amphibian creatures are present on the map and the flood roll (rolled at the beginning of every turn) is less than the floods capacity, that river will expand.

Rolling a d20 yields me with... 6, which is high enough to beat the river's capacity score of 13.

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Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: qwertyuiopas on November 28, 2009, 12:08:13 pm
Just noticed I had missed the ² in the last image, but...

YAY, KILL THAT GRASS(because the grass changes as edits are made, so by killing it all, I can resynchronize my copy with the current set)!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Edit: oops, didn't look at river expansion enough. Corrected two tiles.

(http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/9890/125d.png)
Title: Re: TACTICUS- The Most Tintillating Game
Post by: Armok on November 28, 2009, 04:31:13 pm
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                                         I fire at the dorf.