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Old August 5th, 2003, 06:33 PM

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Default Re: BaseBrawl!!! Big bats, Hard Balls.

I think we know where Joe98 stands on things...

And I DEFINITELY am interested in Base Brawl!!!
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Old August 5th, 2003, 11:26 PM

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Default Re: BaseBrawl!!! Big bats, Hard Balls.

As for what I'd like it to be...

Well, that's a tough one...

I'd like it to be a baseball game, not too dissimilar from Avalon Hill's old bookshelf baseball games, but with a bit more strategy and chance involved.

I'd also like it to be bloody

What I'm thinking is a sort of "no holds barred" setup in which players are ranked according to a variety of attributes: fielding, batting average, slugging, speed and brawn, for instance, while pitchers are graded on velocity and control. So far, it's pretty much like normal baseball.

The "brawl" part comes in the strategy: pitchers can actually try to hit batters on purpose, and batters can rush the mound. Physically blocking the base paths is perfectly legal, as is tackling. For instance, a runner at second can try to tackle the shortstop to prevent him from making the play on a ball hit his way. Batters will be able to try to hit the ball directly at opposing players in order to take them out. That sort of thing.
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Old August 6th, 2003, 01:28 AM

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Default Re: BaseBrawl!!! Big bats, Hard Balls.

Not familiar with AH's old baseball game, but everything else (partially) highlights BaseBrawl!!! to an eerie degree... As for more strategy and chance, the game is played on a large grid: no abstract decision matrices.

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Old August 6th, 2003, 05:28 PM

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Default Re: BaseBrawl!!! Big bats, Hard Balls.

The old (original) AH game, in a nutshell:

Each team has a 25-man roster (including 7 or 8 pitchers.) Each fielder has a ranking for hitting and fielding, as well as handedness. Each pitcher is listed as either a fastball pitcher or a junk pitcher. The pitcher would select a pitch location, the batter would select a target quadrant, and you look up on a matrix and go from there.

The second edition was a bit more complex than that, with further divisions of quality. Still, it was rather simplistic and completely matrix-based. If the batter correctly guessed which pitch the pitcher was throwing, good things would happen. Otherwise, he's out. I'm not sure I like that model.
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Old August 8th, 2003, 03:22 PM

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Default Re: BaseBrawl!!! Big bats, Hard Balls.

Take the old Blood Bowl, apply the concepts to baseball and you may have something. Some dedicated fans are STILL playing Blood Bowl on the PC.
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Old August 8th, 2003, 06:53 PM

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They must be very, VERY dedicated to still be playing that Version. I've written to GW more than once for the Blood Bowl license to do a new PC Version just to finally put that one to rest (they wanted 100K's of retail sales...)

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Old August 11th, 2003, 06:10 PM

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Sorry to hear that Mike. I'd put my pre-order in for a Blood Bowl remake right now. Here's a Blood Bowl remake/mod link that you might find interesting.

http://www.gonegold.com/ubb/ultimate...=008095#000000
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