Skulldred 2011!

[Delaney]

Hi guys, got a few emails over the Christmas holiday about Skulldred.

I am just working on the new Skulldred release at the moment.  Here is some of the nice stuff....

• Simple one line of text to describe models attributes (clumsy large creature, fast large hero, poor minion, adept shooter w. magic armour)
• Optional element rules allow for rectangular multibased elements to move, and movement tray 'remove casuality' based mass combat.  8 cm frontage used so you can tack 3 large or 4 small square bases onto strips and have a little room for multibasing.  These rules also cover moving large rectangular vehicles or creatures.
• Dice back to normal D6.  Hit dice is how much damage you do, 'to-hit' is how good you are at doing it.  Thus clumsy giant rolls 5 dice and has a 2 in 6 chance to hit on each, or a dependable mighty Halfling lord rolls 2 dice but has a to-hit of 5. 
• Dropped guard mechanic- roll zero hits on an attack, opponent may double his hits.  Thus halfling grunt can, if very, very, very lucky, take down a dragon. 
• Special D6 Action Dice covers stupidity, fear, cunning, initiative and engineering in one mechanic!
• Rules condensed even further.  Book waaaaay smaller! 
• Optional 5 standard base span stick added for faster moving units.
• Special sticker marked D6 Action Dice covers stupidity, fear, cunning, initiative and engineering in one dice roll mechanic.
• Triple span changed to quad span for ranged combat and spell effects
• I promise to not alter the character builder costs at the last moment thus throwing out the examples as in the last release.... doh 

Will post a link here once the new rulebook is up!

Thanks for patience and help- obviously Skulldred is currently running fourth place to my LIFE/WORK/MINIATURE BUSINESS balance - hence quiet forum and blog!

Any other suggestions warmly welcomed as usual!

[phreedh]

Will enjoy. Great summary. Long live brevity!

[Thantsants]

Sounding good - looking forward to playing the latest version at some point... 

Might have to wait till I get my Dwergs painted up though! 

[Christian]

I am still getting stuff together to try this out I'm really excited about the new version though, it's a great set of rules from what I've read.

[Delaney]

Thanx! 

Oh yes, HAVE to do that game soon Christian!

I really feel like putting together a John Blanche inspired, super heavily converted chaos troupe for my force.  I was going to do orcs, but I think you called dibs on that right?

[Christian]

Yeah I've got some Black Orcs and a few others based, just not painted yet I like your idea though. Still, two orc forces bashing away at each other...

[Delaney]

Ork bash off.  Nice!

I add optional gore counter rules, so you can leave puddles of goo when you kill something big time.  You can either place a new one from the pile, or take one from somewhere else on the field.  That would really work for orcs

Skulldred beta 2.0 progress...

Basics, Combat and Movement chapters done.  Currently crunching numbers on character generation.  Yawn.

[Delaney]

So you using round or hex bases for your orcs Christian?

[Christian]

Hex bases! They look quite nice. I'll send you a pic of my guys

[Delaney]

Sweet!