Armored Trains

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Remember what Scotty said in the Star Trek reboot - "Imagine that! It never occurred to me to think of SPACE as the thing that was moving!"

So to simulate a moving train, you just SSR the the train is in perpetual motion, and have all the terrain and units move in relation to it. Each Rph for the player who owns the train, all counters and terrain moves "x" number of hexes in the direction opposite the direction the train is travelling. Thus the train remains in the middle of the map, and the other units move in relation to it.

I'm sure you could fit such an SSR onto one card....
I wonder what the doppler effect would be?
 

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Remember what Scotty said in the Star Trek reboot - "Imagine that! It never occurred to me to think of SPACE as the thing that was moving!"

So to simulate a moving train, you just SSR the the train is in perpetual motion, and have all the terrain and units move in relation to it. Each Rph for the player who owns the train, all counters and terrain moves "x" number of hexes in the direction opposite the direction the train is travelling. Thus the train remains in the middle of the map, and the other units move in relation to it.

I'm sure you could fit such an SSR onto one card....
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A moving train can take hundreds of meters to stop.
I doubt that many partisans ambushed moving trains in a Western's way.
They blew up the rails to wreck the train and sow chaos in the enemy logistics.
Most of the time, trains were protected by soldiers and resistance guys avoided direct confrontation.
But there still may have been situations looking like a good Western movie, and ASL is a good movie simulation, as we all know. ??
If only the partisans had seen Rio Lobo...
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You would need a board setup similar to The Road to Wiltz or longer to use a train in a manner they were actually employed in.
Could this board setup, expanded out to several boards, 8 or more, be done on VASL? This could be pretty cool. A super long Road to Wiltz.

The train rolling along. As one board is about to be crossed the next appears.There may be partisans set up in ambush, but where? Just fantasizing, you know what railroad porno can do!?????
 

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? But sure as hell I would not want to go to sea with an armored train...

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As cargo it would be ok.?

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As cargo it would be ok.?

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As cargo it would be ok.?

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I prefer the "localized time distortion" theory better. Makes the day a little more interesting and tolerable.
 

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I prefer the "localized time distortion" theory better. Makes the day a little more interesting and tolerable.
Well, this brings me to conclude that you are leading a fast life. A very fast one, in fact. If your velocity is high enough, time might indeed get distorted...

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Well, this brings me to conclude that you are leading a fast life. A very fast one, in fact. If your velocity is high enough, time might indeed get distorted...

von Marwitz
Or is everything around him going really sllooowwwlllllyyyy?
 
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