rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

Dogs with Guns

11 messages from 8 participants · 03 March 1998 – 05 March 1998
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Lupus Australis

Has there ever been a ruling forbidding Hell Hounds from using Zip Guns? Just checking. I want to do this in my next deck, and I'm sure someone will be offended by the very notion. Lupus Australis ____ ____ \ \----/ / |()__()| __\ __ /__ / __\()/__ \ |/ \==/ \| | || |

David Gausebeck

>Has there ever been a ruling forbidding Hell Hounds from using Zip Guns? > >Just checking. I want to do this in my next deck, and I'm sure someone >will be offended by the very notion. hehe... I wanna see a hellhound in a flak jacket with an assault rifle and a few grenades :) Or a flamethrower. "What do you mean I'm not a real hellhound? Pilot light, fuel tanks? No damnit, I breathe flame!" Or a bomb. "Go boy. Go fetch the stick at the Elysium. I'll have a big treat for you when you get back."

LSJ

Lupus Australis wrote: > > Has there ever been a ruling forbidding Hell Hounds from using Zip Guns? No. -- L. Scott Johnson (vte...@wizards.com) Official VtES Net.Rep for Wizards of the Coast. (*) - Subject to review by Rules Team

Chris Shorb & Tammy Martin

LSJ - Is the Marijava Ghoul cumulative? I assume so, since it is a retainer like the Raptor, but I am just checking. Chris -- Chris Shorb & Tammy Martin ino...@ix.netcom.com "In fuzzy logic, there's no rule to design or make a model, and that's probably why people don't like fuzzy logic. That's the most important point." -Yuzo Kato

Robert F. Grau

David Gausebeck wrote: > >Has there ever been a ruling forbidding Hell Hounds from using Zip > Guns? > > > >Just checking. I want to do this in my next deck, and I'm sure > someone > >will be offended by the very notion. > > hehe... > I wanna see a hellhound in a flak jacket with an assault rifle and a > few grenades :) > > Or a flamethrower. "What do you mean I'm not a real hellhound? Pilot > > light, fuel tanks? No damnit, I breathe flame!" > > Or a bomb. "Go boy. Go fetch the stick at the Elysium. I'll have a > big treat for you when you get back." Add to that list: A Hellhound with a Hawg, .44 Magnum, IR Goggles, and RPG Launcher. Ouch. Or a Hellhound with a Ghoul Retainer. (one of the few retainers that doesn't require a vamp, at least if the card text is right.) Or the two combined. Double Ouch. This is when "Far Mastery" really sucks, though :) Rob Grau

Michael Beer

Robert F. Grau wrote: > David Gausebeck wrote: > > > >Has there ever been a ruling forbidding Hell Hounds from using Zip > > Guns? > > > > > >Just checking. I want to do this in my next deck, and I'm sure > > someone > > >will be offended by the very notion. > > > No. You don't need an action to equip Hell Hound with a Zip Gun, and he doesn't have card text which denies him the use of weapons. > > hehe... > > I wanna see a hellhound in a flak jacket with an assault rifle and a > > > few grenades :) > > > > Or a flamethrower. "What do you mean I'm not a real hellhound? > Pilot > > > > light, fuel tanks? No damnit, I breathe flame!" > > > > Or a bomb. "Go boy. Go fetch the stick at the Elysium. I'll have > a > > big treat for you when you get back." > Neat ideas. There is only one little problem: Hell Hound can take NO actions (in particular: no equipping actions) and there is no way to equip an ally without letting him take an equip action (You can only redistribute equipment or retainers with Heidelburg Castle on VAMPIRES). But a US-Army deck with Neonates is fun too. Just use a Huntingground to simulate the automatic regeneration. Michael Beer

LSJ

Chris Shorb & Tammy Martin wrote: > > LSJ - > > Is the Marijava Ghoul cumulative? I assume so, since it is a retainer like > the Raptor, but I am just checking. Yes. Everything is cumulative unless it has errata (only Army of Rats has such errata), or the effect is 'set to X' instead of '+X'. [ quoted text not captured ]

SirTemple

> >But a US-Army deck with Neonates is fun too. Just use a Huntingground to >simulate the automatic regeneration. What do you mean by this? Jason

David Gausebeck

>Neat ideas. There is only one little problem: Hell Hound can take NO >actions (in particular: no equipping actions) and there is no way to >equip an ally without letting him take an equip action (You can only >redistribute equipment or retainers with Heidelburg Castle on VAMPIRES). oh, yeah. Forgot the hellhound can't actually do anything. Guess that comes from not looking at one in a few years :) The imagery just isn't as good with something like an arms dealer tho. Much more reasonable, but not as amusing.

John Whelan

In article <34FD1406...@leila.ping.de>, Michael Beer wrote: >Neat ideas. There is only one little problem: Hell Hound can take NO >actions (in particular: no equipping actions) and there is no way to >equip an ally without letting him take an equip action (You can only >redistribute equipment or retainers with Heidelburg Castle on VAMPIRES). Well, one can always hope for expansions. If one were to play with the house rule that "Concealed Weapon" is a disciplineless card (as, evidently, it was originally intended), then Hell Hounds could get weapons. There would still be no way to give them retainers or equipment, however. I'd love to see a Hell Hound with Mr. Winthrop and a Sports Bike. I, for one, see no reason why Hell Hound should be forbidden from having retainers. After all, he's such a nice looking doggie. Does it really matter who's walking whom? [ quoted text not captured ]

Michael Beer

SirTemple wrote: [ quoted text not captured ] It is the name we gave the concept of massive armed weeny combat. I don't want to blame the US-Army. You rely on a horde of (replacable) foot soldiers which are armed with the best high-tech equipment available and shoot all opposition to bits with hideous firepower. The immense costs are paid with Consangineous Boons and Autarkis Persecution (you will need to use Vote Domination tactics, since you really don't want a Peace Treaty to pass. If you fail to push your votes through, you soon feel the cold grip of a financial defecit, just like in the US...) Basically it is a Brujah Anarch design, using this clan's unique abilities concerning equipment and weeny vote power for pool refreshment. Black Cat, Arms Dealer, Al's Army Apparatus, Vast Wealth (for Black Cat) are the core cards for the deck. You make massive use of: 3rd tradition and embrace (for reinforcements) Assault Rifles and SMGs, combined with ammo cards, used with celerity Flack Jackets for protection the brujah allies (all at the bargain price of only 1 pool: they can equip, Arson, Rush when equipped and count as a minion for Autarkis Persecution) It is fairly effective, but only when you can catch your game group in its toes, that is when the other decks are ill-equipped to fight massive long range firepower. And the simulation of regeneration: Hell Hound gains 1 life if he has less then 2 lifes during untap. I found that he is a very useful Ally in a low combat environment and to stop unwilling trespassers bleeding you due to a bleed bounce. Was it that what you wanted to know? Michael Beer