Blood and fire - necessary or useless?

[Maddox]

Use you fire, blood or muzzle blast in battles?

In battle reported-games, i use both. For other playing, i leave off muzzle blasts.
Of course battlefield looks awesome with lots of scrap, bloody minifig torsos and flaming ruins...

[Arkbrik]

Same here. Muzzle blasts are good for indicating firing weapons in battle reports, but unnecessary in normal battles.

[Warhead]

If your taking pictures and want to thrill the audience then Blood and Fire is the way to go.

[Bragallot]

Depends on how I feel. If I want a round over and done with I just put the figs down, if I'm feeling bloody and have a lot of time I try to add some blood / fire effects. I don't have a great supply of useful parts for it though and mostly it's pretty basic even if I use this. At any rate I at least have the fire and blood pieces on standby.

[Zahru II]

I have a handful of TRred bitz for blood, their usage depends on the size of the battle and my mood. But yeah, mostly I only use them to enhance photos for reports.

[james+burgundy]

I might be getting this wrong but it seem like you are following the rules a bit too much Maddox. If you are then please just let lose a bit, make a nice pan of fudge and play a game. The rules are "more like guidelines anyway" they are there to help those who are lacking with the imagination department but not to hold back the imagination.*

Back to topic I use blood and fire all the time it helps has that .. homey feeling.

*if I did just read what you are doing all wrong then just ignore that paragraph. Just trying to help a fellow player here.

[piltogg]

It's kind of just one of those things that wastes time, but can make the difference between a "normal" and an "epic" battle.

[neersighted]

It's kind of just one of those things that wastes time, but can make the difference between a "normal" and an "epic" battle.

Exactly. I use it only if I'm taking photos, but still, it is something that helps to make the battle awesomer

[Atomsk]

I use gratuitous amounts of blood. Fire also, whenever appropriate, although it's a little harder to set up right. Muzzle blasts, on the other hand, I never use. I don't care what the gun looks like WHILE it's shooting, I only care about the damage it does after it shoots.

Once in a while I will do laser beams with transparent antennae, but I really have to be in the mood or shooting close range for a picture to bother.

[Finn_striker]

Usually i like them, because they make legobattles more like real battles.