Vehicle Support

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RurouniQ
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Vehicle Support

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I personally would like to see support for vehicles, ranging from small to large, and I don't just mean like a car on the map. I mean actual usable vehicles that, when you move them, move all the tokens on them as well. Theoretically, you could make it so that multiple tokens can be linked together.

I'm running a game that is basically a sea-faring game, so having a massive boat with a crew on that can be moved all at once would be invaluable.

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Re: Vehicle Support

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RurouniQ wrote:I personally would like to see support for vehicles, ranging from small to large, and I don't just mean like a car on the map. I mean actual usable vehicles that, when you move them, move all the tokens on them as well. Theoretically, you could make it so that multiple tokens can be linked together.

I'm running a game that is basically a sea-faring game, so having a massive boat with a crew on that can be moved all at once would be invaluable.
To some degree, you can do that... whoever is doing the moving must have ownership of all tokens (or the GM must move) and then just select all. I was in a pickup session a few weeks ago where this approach was used to move boats and tokens in them on a swamp lake thing...
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Post by RPTroll »

There is something on the Wall of Features (I think) titled token grouping that does this. It allows you to group tokens into a logically single token for movement. It would also be handy for mass combats. This first came out when people were wanting to move horse and rider as one unit.

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Post by RurouniQ »

Ah yes, drag-select seems to be working well!

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That said, the ability to group tokens together like that is on the roadmap
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Post by mrobviousjosh »

trevor wrote:That said, the ability to group tokens together like that is on the roadmap
And you can support that feature with a contribution to the Wall of Features! ;)

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