Term time, 3 or 4 years?

[leonpoi]

I'm toying with the idea of using 3 year terms rather than 4 year terms in the character generation for tw2000 v2.2 - but I haven't thought it through and would some everyone's opinion. My reasoning for doing this is because I feel a well developed char needs to be able to squeeze out one more term during development. The extra skills would also be useful.

I'm finding that most characters are pretty well developed (and are statistically drafted) after about 4 terms + the war term = 5 terms, after which AGL loss has been tested twice. For 3-year terms age checks would be made at 30 (end of T4) and 36 (end of T6), so these T5 characters get a little break (1 extra skill point, or 2 extra if they push out to T6). Characters are also about 33 (I assume a 18 year start with 3 year terms), which feels a bit better than 37 (we are 20 year gaming veterans who started at 12 )

terms	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
3	21	24(5)	27(4)	30(3)	33(3)	36(2)	39(1)
4	21	25(5)	29(4)	33(3)	37(2)	41(1) 45(1)

[kato13]

T2k13 has 1-4 year terms depending on the term type. Makes a ton more sense than every character being 17,21,25,29,33,37 etc

[leonpoi]

Originally Posted by kato13

T2k13 has 1-4 year terms depending on the term type. Makes a ton more sense than every character being 17,21,25,29,33,37 etc

I agree, and I do own T2k13, however, I'm pretty happy with tw2k v2.2 and am just trying to squeeze some more life out of it until we have a chance to learn the new rules.

[pmulcahy11b]

This is little off-topic, but it occurs to me that almost every troop in T2K can be considered to have been stop-lossed...

[lombardoslegion]

My buddy and I got inspired my 2013 and re did the terms for v2.2. Came out pretty well.

[leonpoi]

Originally Posted by lombardoslegion

My buddy and I got inspired my 2013 and re did the terms for v2.2. Came out pretty well.

Do you have them in a handy form? if so I would love to look at them.

This Excel workbook will show you what I intend - sorry OO users, it uses macros so I couldn't convert easily.
http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.ph...generation.xls

FYI the sheet uses some house-rules (small arms linked to AGL, for eg). If you populate the sheet with careers and change the term length (Q35) you'll see the age and also the attribute losses change for 3 and 4 year terms