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[Golfhaus]

Those of you who have played either Age of Empires or Command and Conquer: Red Alert... admit it - you've staged Great Outdoor Fights before.

I have seen many computers go down under the weight of eight AOE2 combatants with a 200 population limit building 20 villagers and 180 met-at-arms and sending them all into battle at once.

[Hobot]

Actually, there's a college near here who does something like this as a big event, every fall semester: "DeathFest," where they generate a stupidly large number of D&D characters, put them in a big pile, and have people take random characters and slugfest it out, with each player pulling a new character from the pile when their old one gets killed. Last man standing wins. No word on whether there's a barbed-wire-and-skulls enclosure for it, though.

What college might that be?

My first thought is MIT.

[CortJstr]

Those of you who have played either Age of Empires or Command and Conquer: Red Alert... admit it - you've staged Great Outdoor Fights before.

I have seen many computers go down under the weight of eight AOE2 combatants with a 200 population limit building 20 villagers and 180 met-at-arms and sending them all into battle at once.

Tank rush, bitches!

Actually the best way to simulate this would probably be with a mix of 2,990 GI's, Conscripts, and Psi Infantry and 10 Tanyas. The problem would be getting them to in-fight because I think you're only allowed 8 teams at once.

[misterqueue]

Hrm, 1,000 zerglings + 1,000 Marines + 1,000 zealots = Crazy Delicious!

[V-Adore]

What college might that be?

My first thought is MIT.

Hampshire, actually. I was told about this event while sitting on a beaten-down couch in a huge, incongruously hippie/industrial common room, talking with friends-of-friends who were brainstorming for their a capella group. At least three of them appeared to be stoned. I've been lead to understand that I had the quintessential Hampshire Experience.

[dejavroom]

Hrm, 1,000 zerglings + 1,000 Marines + 1,000 zealots = Crazy Delicious!

If I had tiny cans, they'd be yours right now However my jizzfest scenario would involve siege tanks and dragoons.

[doomglobe]

There's a certain point where weaponry too drastically changes the fight. If it was my thing, I would say only bladed, pointed or blunt weapons and with those, no more than 36" including the handle.

It seems a lot like no one brought weapons, except that one cat with the metal pipe. I think that since the fight is essentially for honor, the only weapons you can bring are ones you would not be ashamed to win the fight with. I imagine that there are some dangerous types involved in the fight and it does not seem that there are any genuine rules. I wonder if they eventually build a thunderdome somewhere on the battleground and begin strapping random objects to themselves as is the traditional behavior of post apocalyptic warriors.

[AugustWest]

Nice to see you, Doomglobe.

[sOOp]

The strategy begins, but I am distracted by the cat trying to best his foe by mooning him in the lower part of panel 8.

It appears to be one of those new age fighting styles. He wont last long.

[wombat]

Nice to see you, Doomglobe.

Seconded!

[Hobot]

Hampshire, actually. I was told about this event while sitting on a beaten-down couch in a huge, incongruously hippie/industrial common room, talking with friends-of-friends who were brainstorming for their a capella group. At least three of them appeared to be stoned. I've been lead to understand that I had the quintessential Hampshire Experience.

Hampshire, eh?  I feel as if I should have known that they host such an event, considering I am part of a Consortium with them. 

And yes, that was, in fact, a representative Hampshire visit.  The only thing needed to complete it is an unwashed, dreadlocked, substance-laden orgy.

[Carlos del Vaca]

It seems a lot like no one brought weapons, except that one cat with the metal pipe. I think that since the fight is essentially for honor, the only weapons you can bring are ones you would not be ashamed to win the fight with. I imagine that there are some dangerous types involved in the fight and it does not seem that there are any genuine rules. I wonder if they eventually build a thunderdome somewhere on the battleground and begin strapping random objects to themselves as is the traditional behavior of post apocalyptic warriors.

I don't think you can bring in weapons.  Rather, there is a certain amount of junk lying around the Meadows, and if you can utilize any of it to your advantage, more power to ya.

[doomglobe]

I am pretty sure there are no rules except for 3000 men enter, one man leaves. Bust a deal, face the wheel.
But no way to tell, Onstad hasn't gotten into the rules. All we have to go on is that one picture of the dude with the pipe, and that isn't much. Maybe we should start a thread where we try to figure out the rules of the fight.

Nice to see you, Doomglobe.

Seconded!

Well nice to see you two again also!