GETTING TO KNOW YOU SEPTEMBER 2022 AKA INTERROGATION by GLITTERWOLF!

[strawhat]

15 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

QUESTION SEPT 19th.

Normally you have Fantasy Games and Scifi Games, now how about a Futuristic Army invading a planet where the population is still in it's medieval/magical/fantasy era?

Tell me which Futuristic Army would attack and who would be the Medieval/Fantasy Army ( they are capable of magic) be able to fend them off?

 

What do you think?

Can Monsters and Magic beat drop ships and blasters?

( No Planetkilling from orbit...that would ruin it)

 

I don't have any specifics in mind, but this seldom works out well for the less technologically advanced in any the works I've seen.

[Auberon]

17 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

QUESTION SEPT 19th.

Normally you have Fantasy Games and Scifi Games, now how about a Futuristic Army invading a planet where the population is still in it's medieval/magical/fantasy era?

Tell me which Futuristic Army would attack and who would be the Medieval/Fantasy Army ( they are capable of magic) be able to fend them off?

 

What do you think?

Can Monsters and Magic beat drop ships and blasters?

( No Planetkilling from orbit...that would ruin it)

 

I've seen some takes on it, and what it comes down to is how high the magic is and how tough the beasties are.  i.e. Dragons that bullets bounce off of and are capable of smacking a fighter jet out of the sky are more trouble than those that can't.  Same with wizard that can drop a meteor on a military base, etc.

[Glitterwolf]

Question Septh 20th.

Do you like/have you played campaign games that use different game systems to paly out the campaign?

If you played them, what did you like/dislike about it?

 

Example: Start in Space with Battlefleet Gothic, the winner invades the homeplanet of the losing side starting with a skirmish game to set up a beach head, followed by a full out 40K battle.

Or a Mordheim Skirmish game being followed by a large WHFB/AOS battle, resulting in a huge war with the Warmaster Game?

 

 

[TGP]

2 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

Question Sept. 20th:

Do you like/have you played campaign games that use different game systems to play out the campaign?

Yes. I Have played in such a thing just the once. It was at a gaming convention. 
 

The setup was as follows:

There was an M class planet with an unpowered Space Hulk in close orbit. There was an Ork fleet approaching the planet from anti-sunward and an Imperial fleet closing with the planet from Sunward. This was represented by three tabletops. 
 

Table 1 was an Imperial Base/Research Station on the planet defended by marines and under assault by an Ork landing force dropped in from the hulk. (Normal 40K rules)
 

Table 2 was a set of corridors and chambers representing the hulk command room area being assaulted by Ultramarines in Terminator suits and Dreadnaughts. (40K Space Hulk ? Rules)
 

Table 3 was a huge black tablecloth with a model planet and hulk with Battlefleet Gothic spaceship models for the Ork and Imperials fleets. (Battlefleet Gothic Rules)

 

 

2 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

If you played them, what did you like/dislike about it?

I liked that what was going on could have a simultaneous effect on another table. 

The high point for me was when one of my Imperial Cruisers on Table 3 got to pull off a close pass over the planet (went screaming by too fast to achieve orbit) but managed to strafe (make a firing pass on ) the Orks on Table 1. Shipboard weapons will Wreck a bunch of ground pounders badly. Half the Orks on the table went **Poof**!!

 

 

[malefactus]

3 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

Question Septh 20th.

Do you like/have you played campaign games that use different game systems to paly out the campaign?

If you played them, what did you like/dislike about it?

 

Example: Start in Space with Battlefleet Gothic, the winner invades the homeplanet of the losing side starting with a skirmish game to set up a beach head, followed by a full out 40K battle.

Or a Mordheim Skirmish game being followed by a large WHFB/AOS battle, resulting in a huge war with the Warmaster Game?

 

 

 

I am not ignoring the questions; it is just that I haven't played anything in more than 25 years...I'm out of game mode.

[Chaoswolf]

4 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

Question Septh 20th.

Do you like/have you played campaign games that use different game systems to paly out the campaign?

If you played them, what did you like/dislike about it?

 

Example: Start in Space with Battlefleet Gothic, the winner invades the homeplanet of the losing side starting with a skirmish game to set up a beach head, followed by a full out 40K battle.

Or a Mordheim Skirmish game being followed by a large WHFB/AOS battle, resulting in a huge war with the Warmaster Game?

 

 

It sounds cool in theory, as well as in stories like the one @TGP mentioned, but I have never been able to participate in one.

[WhiteWulfe]

4 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

Question Septh 20th.

Do you like/have you played campaign games that use different game systems to paly out the campaign?

If you played them, what did you like/dislike about it?

 

Example: Start in Space with Battlefleet Gothic, the winner invades the homeplanet of the losing side starting with a skirmish game to set up a beach head, followed by a full out 40K battle.

Or a Mordheim Skirmish game being followed by a large WHFB/AOS battle, resulting in a huge war with the Warmaster Game?

 

 

I'd love to try out one of those convention games where there's Dropfleet Commander as well as Dropzone Commander running at the same time, but I've never actually participated in such an event.  Does seem neat and interesting though. 

[Jasper_the_2nd]

On 9/19/2022 at 5:19 AM, Glitterwolf said:

QUESTION SEPT 19th.

Normally you have Fantasy Games and Scifi Games, now how about a Futuristic Army invading a planet where the population is still in it's medieval/magical/fantasy era?

Tell me which Futuristic Army would attack and who would be the Medieval/Fantasy Army ( they are capable of magic) be able to fend them off?

 

What do you think?

Can Monsters and Magic beat drop ships and blasters?

( No Planetkilling from orbit...that would ruin it)

 

I was introduced to role playing playing Rifts, which is all the everything all mashed together.

While not the classic future vs past, it certainly allowed everything to mix. Sometimes it works, sometimes the soft squishy people accidentally get stepped on, sometimes the dragon rips the arms off the mech and beats it to death with them.....

 

 

5 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

Question Septh 20th.

Do you like/have you played campaign games that use different game systems to paly out the campaign?

If you played them, what did you like/dislike about it?

 

Example: Start in Space with Battlefleet Gothic, the winner invades the homeplanet of the losing side starting with a skirmish game to set up a beach head, followed by a full out 40K battle.

Or a Mordheim Skirmish game being followed by a large WHFB/AOS battle, resulting in a huge war with the Warmaster Game?

 

 

Not yet.  But the store is looking at running a Combined Arms campaign. That's Warlord's new game that can play alone as a strategy game or that you can use to combine playing Bolt Action, Blood Red Skies and Victory at Seas into one campaign.
We'd be starting with just a Bolt Action campaign but the other options are there.

 

[Thoramel]

6 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

Question Septh 20th.

Do you like/have you played campaign games that use different game systems to paly out the campaign?

If you played them, what did you like/dislike about it?

 

Example: Start in Space with Battlefleet Gothic, the winner invades the homeplanet of the losing side starting with a skirmish game to set up a beach head, followed by a full out 40K battle.

Or a Mordheim Skirmish game being followed by a large WHFB/AOS battle, resulting in a huge war with the Warmaster Game?

 

 

 

Not really, no. I have, however, paused an RPG to bust out a deck of cards to play blackjack for some PCs who were in a casino. I've also stolen liberally from the rules to the X-Wing miniature game to play out some aerial combat in an RPG. Do either of those count? 

[Cranky Dog]

7 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

Question Septh 20th.

Do you like/have you played campaign games that use different game systems to paly out the campaign?

I know it's a thing, mostly the role playing characters vs skirmish/army battles systems, but I don't recall ever doing it myself, or not with systems different enough to be considered distinct.

 

Add in the fact that many role players aren't as keen to play wargames, or wargamers who don't care for the role playing.

 

[Pezler the Polychromatic]

8 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

Question Septh 20th.

Do you like/have you played campaign games that use different game systems to paly out the campaign?

If you played them, what did you like/dislike about it?

 

Example: Start in Space with Battlefleet Gothic, the winner invades the homeplanet of the losing side starting with a skirmish game to set up a beach head, followed by a full out 40K battle.

Or a Mordheim Skirmish game being followed by a large WHFB/AOS battle, resulting in a huge war with the Warmaster Game?

 

 

Not something that I've done. Games Workshop tried doing it so that a Kill Team game where a win would give a bonus to a 40K game right afterwards, and a win there would give a bonus to an Apocalypse game. Didn't really work because 1) Kill Team at that time was terrible; and 2) not that many players had any army large enough for Apocalypse nor did they really want to buy yet another game system.

[Corsair]

9 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

Question Septh 20th.

Do you like/have you played campaign games that use different game systems to paly out the campaign?

If you played them, what did you like/dislike about it?

 

Example: Start in Space with Battlefleet Gothic, the winner invades the homeplanet of the losing side starting with a skirmish game to set up a beach head, followed by a full out 40K battle.

Or a Mordheim Skirmish game being followed by a large WHFB/AOS battle, resulting in a huge war with the Warmaster Game?

 

 

Nope, not yet.

[Glitterwolf]

5 hours ago, malefactus said:

 

I am not ignoring the questions; it is just that I haven't played anything in more than 25 years...I'm out of game mode.

No problem Al, I don't game myself, only videogames.

I just figured with the amount of gamers here these question applied to most. There will be other questions that apply to the like of us as well.

[Zink]

9 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

Question Septh 20th.

Do you like/have you played campaign games that use different game systems to paly out the campaign?

If you played them, what did you like/dislike about it?

 

Example: Start in Space with Battlefleet Gothic, the winner invades the homeplanet of the losing side starting with a skirmish game to set up a beach head, followed by a full out 40K battle.

Or a Mordheim Skirmish game being followed by a large WHFB/AOS battle, resulting in a huge war with the Warmaster Game?

 

 

 

I've always liked the idea of having multi level connected games. I'm a fan of the Renegade Legion games from FASA which tried to do that. It had a roleplaying game (with almost no support and supplements), a ground combat game focused on grav tanks, a space fighter game, a space fleet game and a planetary invasion game with rules of how to connect them into one massive interconnected scenario. I've never actually used these rules to do that though.

 

I have designed and played escalation campaigns for Warhammer and 40K and other systems using different sizes and levels of rules. Start using skirmish rules and a handful of minis and work our way up to a massive battle at the end. I've been tinkering with a campaign system/board game for years that could be used to create a background and economic framework for tabletop games. Build armies, castles, whatever and move them on the map and then play the battles out on the table. Never really get very far with it though.

[strawhat]

17 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

Question Septh 20th.

Do you like/have you played campaign games that use different game systems to paly out the campaign?

If you played them, what did you like/dislike about it?

 

Example: Start in Space with Battlefleet Gothic, the winner invades the homeplanet of the losing side starting with a skirmish game to set up a beach head, followed by a full out 40K battle.

Or a Mordheim Skirmish game being followed by a large WHFB/AOS battle, resulting in a huge war with the Warmaster Game?

 

I like the concept, but I've never been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to actually try and implement it.  I've also wanted to try some double-blind games, as well.

 

When my last group dissolved (wrecked by COVID and an overseas deployment), we had been talking about a tri-level Star Wars game.  Use Armada for the capital ships, then break into X-Wing when it comes time to dogfight/enter the atmosphere, and finally end up planet-side with a mission for Imperial Assault.  It sounded like fun, but who knows whether or not we could have properly executed it.