I ain't gonna lie. I'm poor. So my first thing for a minis game is how open to proxies the community is. Which is a big part of why #Battletech is my main wargame. I use whatever detritus & extras are on hand and nobody blinks an eye if I got my sheets & army calced out.
Today, March 18, Seattle high schooler David Lightman teaches his friend Jennifer Mack about war dialing, hacking, phreaking, and the importance of infosec (WarGames, 1983)
I was thinking about the feudal technocracy my group might visit, and had an idea. What if it was a mechwarrior clan society? Only problem is, not high enough tech level. You only really start getting mechs at TL 12. So I wondered if there was a higher TL world on my map with that government type.
But I did find one that matches, and it’s not far from where they’ve been.
@notasnark@deinol Or it's the cultural fallout of cultural exchange with the higher tech level planet, but doesn't have the tech to support mechs – but giant walking robots aren't the only way to have a feudal technocracy obsessed with vehicular combat.
Played a game of Ogre at my local shop. Taught a guy how to play, he played the Ogre. I was unable to slow him down fast enough. I should have deployed the howitzers closer to him.
My friend’s enthusiasm for Warhammer the Old World is contagious. Luckily I already have an unpainted wood elf army, so I just need to spend time painting.
Will probably spend more time on the command three than the other nine out together.
So I picked up the Battletech Alpha Strike Counters pack, and I’m very impressed. It comes with 15 of these cardboard buildings, which aren’t super fancy, but are pretty awesome for a $25 terrain starter pack. Only a few block line of sight for knights, but all of them are taller than tanks or infantry.
I plan to use these for Battletech, Legion Imperialis, and even Ogre miniatures.
This is an open and honest question. There are no rights or wrongs here. I just want to gather people's opinions on war games. What role do you think war games play in our hobby? 🤔 #boardgames#WarGames#question
@tabletopgamesblog I see a lot of people in the comments going a long way to walk uphill – both ways – to avoid dealing with things simply.
Wargames were the initiatory structure which allowed for the creation of role-playing games as a derivative. At a purely theoretical level, one could actually claim that all wargames are role-playing games as all wargames involve the player taking on the "role" of some sort of coordinator for an active force. Just as there are solo RPGs and GMless RPGs, I would argue they derive from predecessors found in what is largely the wargaming community who pioneered many of those mechanics for management first.
Once you accept that wargames and RPGs are merely different points on the same spectrum of narrative and mechanics, then the truth of the question arises: it's innately nonsensical. Except as when speaking to the social groupings and not the hobby as a whole.
One final point: The RPG industry as a publication architecture probably would not or could not exist as an industry of its current scope without the merchandise and tournament architecture of wargames providing income for game shops. Worth keeping in mind.
I should mention that if you are interested in Epic/Battletech/Ogre scale miniatures, SJ Games is doing a project for a new set of tanks that I’m of course getting two of.