MTS playtest and thoughts

[Panzerfaust]

Played our first few games of MTS this week at home and at our local wargames club - certainly the best gladiator system weve tried by far great fun!

However after playing 15 or so combats i do have a few comments/ errata q's.

First the eratta

1. The card for shield is wrong - surley it includes a foreward move as well
2. Provocateur sheet is wrong, they dont have spears - but armed with greatshild, sword and breastplate.
3. On the combat matrix, there is no Kick under a defensive move - should it count as a foreward move?

Now the comments/ house rules we will be working on.

1. Initiative. On a 1d6 means as soon as your inititive drops, you hardly ever wini initiative - we experimented with a 2d6 system - if youve higher initiative, the odds are in your favour, but the underdog still gets the chance to win.
2. Black hexes on the combat matrix - find this no result both frustrating and unrealistic. I appreciate what the system is trying to do here, but for instance up against a character with a spear using "Thrust", any character with shield is going to use "shield" - to move into combat range plus it blocks spear. Although we diddnt try it out last nigh we sugested putting an extra ""very difficult" table with a very small chance of causing damage instead of no effect.

Any thoughts guys?

[Silverpaint68]

I've talk with gladiators this week end (yes, real mens who fight). The Provocator don't have spear but short sword and have a shield, small or great, bnecause the provocator was the first state for gladiators. The variable size of shield is for looking the capacity to fight of the fihter and choose his definitive sort of weapons/shields.

"Kick" is considered as "move forward", it was write on yahoo group once a day

[Panzerfaust]

Well were going to have another session tonight with the house rules and see what happens.....