Teleport?!

[kiadiwindu]

I have recently gotten back into attacktix about a month ago. I completely forgot about the game for about 4 years. Kind of ashamed that I did. I really love the game and think its wonderful. It seems that I might of missed the glory days.

I am not sure if anyone will actually read this but here goes.

I have been playing some games recently with a new addition of teleporters. At first it comes across as very out of place but as I played a few more games I actually really started to like the new addtion. Lots people like to play with terrain and this is sort of like that (but not really).

Let me explain... I usually play 5x3 which is great and fine but I do enjoy mixing it up a lil bit. So I had the idea of being able to move your figures through a "teleporter" and teleport them across the playing board. How this works is both teams starting lines have a "teleporter" (which is really just a cottonball... Yes imagination is needed roughly 14 tix away. How this works is when your figure touches the teleporter (cottonball) then he gets to pop out at the other teleporter. The teleporters in my games are about a 24 tix advantage in movement. So using the teleporter helps you to get across the board much faster. The catch is that to use the teleporter it takes all of your remaining tix/speed. In example if your jedi knight takes 3 tix to reach the teleporter when he pops out at the other one his move is over.

When playing with teleporters we use the whole table which is much bigger than 5x3. The teleporters dump your figs out in the dead middle of the table (Thats still 3 1/2 feet away from enemies starting line.

I greatly enjoyed playing with teleporters as it made the game more strategic and exciting. My buddy kept sending his guys through the teleporter and I sort of defended the middle and it lead to a great battle ending with my 3 wickets + r2 q5 against his Gold KAM's. Obviously he won but it was a wonderful game.

So my question is what are your thoughts on this? Do you guys think this is "wrong" or to easy to attack your opponent or just to crazy? I would love to know what peoples thoughts are and if you think there is a way to make this better.

Sorry for the book I just wrote ( I went a bit overboard).

Thanks

[Radar]

I had once thought about doing something similar.

I had planned on doing some custom Dr. Who figures and thought it would be cool to make a custom mega that is the TARDIS, which of course stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space.

Anyway, I thought it would be cool to have a teleporting machine. I wanted to use my USB port, but couldn't bring myself to tear it apart.

[kiadiwindu]

Oh man! I just jumped a little in my seat at the thought of custom dr. who figs. That would be a simply awesome idea.

Daleks vs cybermen would be a cool thematic game... but please no rose figures she would just get in the way lol.

Way to think outside the box on that one!

[ionicdesign]

May 15, 2010 8:15:14 GMT -5 kiadiwindu said:

Oh man! I just jumped a little in my seat at the thought of custom dr. who figs. That would be a simply awesome idea.

Daleks vs cybermen would be a cool thematic game... but please no rose figures she would just get in the way lol.

Way to think outside the box on that one!

LOL so a no on Rose, any of the other companions make the cut?

Doctor Who tix would be fun.

[kiadiwindu]

That's a good question. I think several could work out. If you think about it there are so many alien species on that show and almost all of them are "dangerous" and have some kind of weapons.

The ones that stick out in my mind are Daleks, cybermen, clockwork androids, Torchwood people, kay-9 (the dog... thats a stretch), slythene, and of course the doctor with his screwdriver!

If the list went on then I would have to keep rambling off names that most likely everyone has forgotten lol. Since most of the species in doctor who only get one episode it is tough, but I think that basically any race could be put into tix form. Although I do think that the aliens that have reoccurring spotlight in the show are probably a better idea.

I did a quick search for doctor who action figures and it looks like most of them are 5 inches.

[AWOL]

I think the teleporter is a great idea! To make it interesting, perhaps have the teleporters a considerable distance away from the starting areas so that you have to fight to get to them, and then have specialists "manning" the teleporters - basically restricting the teleporters to be in use only if a specialist remains in contact with it. This would mean that teams would be fighting to keep control of the teleporters and they would be active only when a team has control of it (when a specialist is in contact with it).

Lots of very good ideas have been spawned on this forum regarding new and interesting ways to play Attacktix! Keep em coming!

[kiadiwindu]

That is a very cool prospect AWOl. I really like the idea of having a class "manning" teleporters.

I had an idea along the same lines as that. If you are going to play a game with teleporters you have to have a R2-Q5 on your team and he has to be green for you to be able to go through a teleporter on your turn.

It's kind of like how it's up to the little black droid whether your GBG gets 24 tix but in this case it's up to him on whether you can travel across the board.

Just another idea.

[Pac-Man]

or what about transports? like an atat mega that has 2 bullets and a speed of 4,and can fit stormtroopers into him.fhe can fit up to 4 stromies in him and each stormie in him allows him to make an extra attack,or move an extra 2 tix.but! you can use a como of extra 2 tix and extra attacks,but you wont be able to unload the stormiesif you attack with the atat that turn so upon your opponents turn if atat goes down,the stormies are gone too.but if you only use the atat to move (a theoratical 10 tix with all 4 stormies aboard) they can get out of the atat after it has moved.the atat would be 90 points,the atats speacil would be recruit:bring darth vader or 2 stormtroopers into play from your backups. wow..i need to make that!!!!