Titan - Badlands?

[Christopher John Camfield]

Can anyone give a description of the variant Battlelands, called Badlands,
which was in an issue of The General? I would expect from the name that
those lands provided more drastic modifiers for natives/non-natives, or
simply had more hexes with terrain than the standard ones. Is that so?
--
Chris Camfield - ccam...@freenet.carleton.ca
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[Bruno Wolff III]

From article <582i1t$m...@freenet-news.carleton.ca>, by ab...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Christopher John Camfield):
]
] Can anyone give a description of the variant Battlelands, called Badlands,

] which was in an issue of The General? I would expect from the name that
] those lands provided more drastic modifiers for natives/non-natives, or
] simply had more hexes with terrain than the standard ones. Is that so?
] --

Some of the varient battlelands were a bit extreme in design. The suggestion
of rolling for which terrain to use for each battle can introduce a
lot more variance in the outcomes of battles.

[rr...@pge.com]

In article <582i1t$m...@freenet-news.carleton.ca> ab...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Christopher John Camfield) writes:
>From: ab...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Christopher John Camfield)
>Subject: Titan - Badlands?
>Date: 4 Dec 1996 00:53:17 GMT

>Can anyone give a description of the variant Battlelands, called Badlands,
>which was in an issue of The General? I would expect from the name that
>those lands provided more drastic modifiers for natives/non-natives, or
>simply had more hexes with terrain than the standard ones. Is that so?

The "badlands" were about 12 variant maps for the General. There was one for
each type of terrain except tower & plains, but they added 2 new lands for
plains--Lake and town. Both lands have water--which cannot be entered by
non-fliers and fliers cannot end their movement there. The lake had 3 hexes
in the center for the lake. The Town has a 1 water hex, 1 walled hex, and (I
think) onr forest hex. The variant maps for the other terrain tended to have
more of the special terrain features than the standard maps.

The rules for incorporating them was prior to the start of the battle, simply
roll a die to see whether the original or new map was used.

Richard Irving rr...@pge.com

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[Andrew B. Gross]

In general, they offer more defensible terrain. IMHO, this is a Bad Thing,

since it discourages attacking, making for longer, more boring games.

--
Andrew B. Gross andr...@microsoft.com
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reasoning, and inhibit clarity."

Christopher John Camfield <ab...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in article
<582i1t$m...@freenet-news.carleton.ca>...

>
> Can anyone give a description of the variant Battlelands, called
Badlands,
> which was in an issue of The General? I would expect from the name that
> those lands provided more drastic modifiers for natives/non-natives, or
> simply had more hexes with terrain than the standard ones. Is that so?