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Post by easye on Feb 25, 2021 21:56:57 GMT
Greetings, I was on a different forum, and saw an interesting Victorian Sci-Fi game where they used The Men Who Would Be Kings as the base ruleset and applied the stat lines to Martians and fighting on Mars. I could see using The Men Who Would Be Kings statlines with my 15/18mm models. leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=125664.msg1614295#msg1614295Has anyone thought of playing AQMF themed game with alternate rulesets? If so, which ones? |
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Post by paulnippress on Feb 26, 2021 11:33:20 GMT
I picked up a copy of the Action! Classics book sometime ago, and that is definitely worth a read. With 5E rules popping up all over the place, I'm sure it wouldn't take too much to adventure in the worlds of our esteemed colleague, Mr Scott Washburn.  Personally I have always had a bit of a yearning to role play sometime after the initial invasion, where the Martians rule the Earth, and the Artilleryman wasn't a dreamer... Brave New World. |
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Post by easye on Feb 26, 2021 19:56:41 GMT
I have been working a bit on a skirmish game in that type of setting that is more "survival horror".
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Post by easye on Mar 19, 2021 16:51:29 GMT
Has anyone thought about using a game like Last Days, to build a "survival Horror" theme to a War of the Worlds style game?
The zombies would be replaced by various Lobotons.
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Post by slave2gaming on Mar 19, 2021 17:24:00 GMT
Has anyone thought about using a game like Last Days, to build a "survival Horror" theme to a War of the Worlds style game? The zombies would be replaced by various Lobotons. I actually like that idea. I’ve been trying not to look too much at different systems for my AQMF stuff as I’m waiting on V2, I had thought of both Gruntz and Battletech Alpha Strike. I guess I want an official AQMF rules with the right feel... don’t ask me what that feel is though! 😂 |
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Post by easye on Mar 22, 2021 13:24:52 GMT
Alpha Strike? Interestings. The Tripods could be Mecha, while the humans would just be tanks and troopers..... potential as well.
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Post by slave2gaming on Mar 23, 2021 16:45:56 GMT
Alpha Strike? Interestings. The Tripods could be Mecha, while the humans would just be tanks and troopers..... potential as well. It was really just an idea to use the figures and learn Alpha strike a bit more, I’ve always been open to using figures for different games like this if it’s fun. |
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Post by jmccarroll on Mar 23, 2021 22:16:21 GMT
There is a trend in the war gaming hobby towards warband sized gaming.
Not sure how 10-20 humans can fight even a scout tripod. Still with luck and a ambush set up it could be played.
Good idea to use lobotons as zombies. Scorpions would also make a good opponent.
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Post by easye on Mar 24, 2021 14:25:40 GMT
I have done some work on a Survival Horror game similar to Last Days only after a Orson Wells War of the Worlds that actually happened.
Part of the point of the game is that a small band of survivors really CAN'T fight a Tripod. Instead, they have to quake in terror or flee. Attracting the Martians attention in the game is usually pretty bad news.
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Post by slave2gaming on Mar 24, 2021 19:12:28 GMT
There is a trend in the war gaming hobby towards warband sized gaming. Not sure how 10-20 humans can fight even a scout tripod. Still with luck and a ambush set up it could be played. Good idea to use lobotons as zombies. Scorpions would also make a good opponent. Time is the main reason for me looking at Warband skirmish sized games. I just don’t have the time to paint heaps of figures & don’t have the spare cash to be buying hundreds more figures. I think the idea of an almost indestructible Martian Walker needs to be removed if you are going to play it as a skirmish level. Having just read the books by Scott (and really enjoying them), I do like the toughness of the tripods for a game the size of AQMF, but to move it to skirmish (10 - 20 infantry + a couple of specialists or vehicles) I thin that they need to be tough but defeatable. I’d always thought 1 tripod with units of drones/lobotons OR up to 3 tripods. |
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Post by easye on Mar 24, 2021 21:48:27 GMT
I also built a generic game called Rampant Stars that I used my Tripods in versus Space marines. It is a Skirmish game.... bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2017/02/rampant-stars-battle-report-battle-at_5.html However, I think you mean a AQMF Skirmish game. In that case, I think a Slaver as a Tripod HQ vs various Drones and Lobos makes the most sense as the Martians vs. a couple platoons of Humans with a tank or two in support. |
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Post by slave2gaming on Mar 24, 2021 23:01:27 GMT
That’s actually pretty cool, I hadn’t thought to go to a different scale of humans.
Might be the way to go! 👍
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