What major sci-fi video game IP would make the best 28mm tabletop wargame? There are a lot of options out there!

None of the above.

Personally, all of the above.

Halo might make an interesting skirmish game.

Command and Conquer is pretty much perfect, the armies have all the classic unit types that you'd expect from a wargame, and the setting and terrain would be very cool.

Plus, RTS kinda feels like the PC version of wargaming anyway.

In many ways, Dropzone Commander already has the feel of Command and Conquer.

Halo would be the obvious choice for me. Only 3 factions (UNSC, Covenant, Prometheans, and I suppose you chould chuck in human rebels if you wanted to) so you'd have plenty of ability to make each range dynamic and varied.

I think it would make a very nice skirmish game, a la Deadzone, if you wanted to represent the feel of the actual game (with weapon swaps, usable upgrades/abilities ect), and with the number and variety of vehicles and fliers it could upscale nicely to a squad-based mass battle system.

I think Assassin's Creed would make an interesting one, a game focusing on stealth and cunning is not something I think is on the market at all. It would almost work as a single-player narrative-based game, with AI for guards and civilians based on cards or dice tables. I think it would have to be narrative-based, though, and I'm not sure it would work as a multiplayer affair trying to balance 1 guy against a dozen (if we go by the game itself). It would still make a very cool boxed game though, and the opportunity for truly 3d gaming over a board that would have to be full of terrain would be cool.

In terms of Other, Fracture has potential given the unique playstyle focus on altering terrain. I'm not sure how you'd go about representing it in-game, but it could end up being very cool, particularly as a skirmish.

I think Halo (from the list above) would be the best for a full size tabletop wargame

Fallout would make a decent skirmish sized game

There's many there that I'd like to see a model range for, metal Gear Solid and command and conquer being two of them.
But I think for a game, the wide diversity of races in Mass Effect would make it the perfect choice, and I already know who I'd choose,
the Reapers, and the Geth, just imagine how good they'd look on the table top .

Command and Conquer Probably, specifically Red Alert 2 + Yuris Revenge. 3 factions with loads of different fun units and the mind controlling the other teams army could be amusing!

CaC ftw

Halo, I have always loved the look and feel of it. To see it on the tabletop would be amazing :3

Fallout would be an excelent skyrmish game: plenty of factions and different "races", with a very nice excuse for teams to go around and fight each other...

I'd say xcom but deadzone is fairly close to that already. If I could vote twice it would be mass effect and assassins creed, both would make neat skirmish games. I'll throw in for mass effect though.

I think these would all be cool in practice and look but sicne I have a NOD symbol tattooed on my leg were going to go with C&C. I remember seeing some sort of trial stage of 28mm minis a few years ago that I think someone was trying to start/pitch but I dont know how far/how serious all that was

What about Dawn of War? I love that game!
mehehehehehehe

Fallout is my favourite video game series of all time, but I can't see it as a tabletop wargame. I was thinking only just recently, "Why don't they have a Halo Tabletop Wargame?"

I think Halo would do well if you went with the fluff over trying to replicate multiplayer.

Wizkids already did a table top Halo based around Multiplayer. It was fun in it's own right, but I'd rather see something a little different (WK version basically ignored a lot of stuff to stream line it into a clix based game).

I'm not a big Mass Effect fan, but a sort of pulpy style future skirmish game based on a ship crew could work for a more niche style game.

I think in order to work, it should enable faceless or random people and not just be limited to main characters. Hence I think Metal Gear would be a bit poor in this regards.

What about Lost Planet? Mostly humans with a few mecha vs the Akrids?

Alternatively, if you wanted near future, I think Battlefield 2142 would be fun.

I'd also love Starsiege: Tribes. Small squads of mobile troopers duking it out. Diamond Sword, Blood Eagle, Children of the Phoenix, Starwolf, Imperial, Bioderms. It could even upscale to include some Starsiege stuff and include the Cybrids.

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
What about Dawn of War? I love that game!
mehehehehehehe

It'd be a bit boring, the two main factions are identical, one is in red armour the other is in black armour.

I guess it would save on tooling costs.

They already have a halo and mgs table top variation for Risk!

Fallout had a rts called Fallout:Tactics. It had online play that allowed several factions to fight each other. The factions I think were Vault Dwellers & Brotherhood of Steel, Reavers & Enclave, Ghouls & Super Mutants, Raiders, Deathclaws, Automotron computers. However I never got to play the online portion, but from what I was able to play with in the online options, I found out it was a point cost per unit similar to building a small squad in wh40k or xcom: enemy unknown. Also you were not restricted to only play 1 race. for example you can have a team with a super mutant, deathclaw, robot, and a brotherhood of steel.

A Fallout tabletop game is not restricted to an established rts series. It could be a game focused on gathering resources instead of just kill all and holding locations. I can imagine it being a boxed game ready to play like wh40k relic. The fallout series is not a serious grimdark setting so it should have some satirical and parody elements and easter eggs. For example, when your troops gather resources from a junk yard, they may find the Holy Hand Grenade! Or when crossing a bridge, there could be a chance to encounter a man with riddles.

Imnewherewheresthebathroom wrote:
Halo might make an interesting skirmish game.

Clix tryed this it bombed faster then the movie Battleship

C&C would be a great choice if it was the GDI vs NOD story. I could see Red Alert to some extent

Gears of War and Bioshock would be awesome on a skirmish scale

Borderlands (1 & 2). Bandits, psychos, atlas and hyperion troops, zombies and big bads.

Mass Effect, though the races are rarely 'warring' in a way that would make sense in a tabletop.

This is a stretch and it wasn't a game but a show. Space: Above and Beyond for any who remember it. Hammerhead ships and Chigs. Now that would be fun! Now strictly speaking of Sci-Fi games, how about the old X-Com?

 Kaiserbudheim wrote:
This is a stretch and it wasn't a game but a show. Space: Above and Beyond for any who remember it. Hammerhead ships and Chigs. Now that would be fun! Now strictly speaking of Sci-Fi games, how about the old X-Com?

Actually that would be pretty cool. One side is human, other side is alien. Both sides go through the whole tech and research arms race thing and there's the occasional attack on a base or two.

I'm torn between Halo, Mass Effect and Starcraft...

 DarkWind wrote:

Imnewherewheresthebathroom wrote:
Halo might make an interesting skirmish game.

Clix tryed this it bombed faster then the movie Battleship

C&C would be a great choice if it was the GDI vs NOD story. I could see Red Alert to some extent

Halo's great flaw was it trying to be multiplayer and not really translating the various models well (no shields on Spartans, for example, or ODST being worse than regular marines). That, and Wizkids has been pretty lackluster pushing more than just Halo (Crimson Skies was a brilliant game that they put nothing behind, as an example). When your only way to stay in business is to crank out new figures, a property like Halo becomes a bit problematic when you make almost everything in the first set.

 Maniac_nmt wrote:

 DarkWind wrote:

Imnewherewheresthebathroom wrote:
Halo might make an interesting skirmish game.

Clix tryed this it bombed faster then the movie Battleship

C&C would be a great choice if it was the GDI vs NOD story. I could see Red Alert to some extent

Halo's great flaw was it trying to be multiplayer and not really translating the various models well (no shields on Spartans, for example, or ODST being worse than regular marines). That, and Wizkids has been pretty lackluster pushing more than just Halo (Crimson Skies was a brilliant game that they put nothing behind, as an example). When your only way to stay in business is to crank out new figures, a property like Halo becomes a bit problematic when you make almost everything in the first set.

With the amount of fluff already out there, and the fluff that we will definitely see in the future, they would never be able to pull it off. Sometimes, I look at WH40K on the tabletop and the models and think, "Why hasn't someone like Games Workshop made a game like this?" The mechanics of wh40k would be very easily transferable, translating perfectly into the universe. Plus, the ODSTs already provide Steeeel Rehn effectively enough. Now, slightly alter the cover mechanics and shields, add special rules and a codex or 2, and you have yourself a Halo Tabletop Wargame worthy of the name.

X-Com, the game mechanics are all there for a table top game.

I'm with eisensapper on xcom!

Command and conquer could be fun, especially if they could harness any of the base-building elements for the tabletop.

Mass effect and fallout would make cracking quest-style small-scale squad based rpg's.

 FinecastPraisesNurgle wrote:
I'm with eisensapper on xcom!

Command and conquer could be fun, especially if they could harness any of the base-building elements for the tabletop.

Mass effect and fallout would make cracking quest-style small-scale squad based rpg's.

I keep wondering why they don't make Fallout RP books (like DnD)

ass effect for me

Though as long as it is a skirmish scale.

basically infinity

Infinity with crazy psychic powers and flashier hacking moves. Why isn't it a game already?

What about Warframes?

X-com practically IS a table-top game anyway,being a strategy RPG, just in video game form. A Halo version of 40k is much more interesting considering the FPS nature of the video games.

I gotta say Starcraft...which reminds me, why isn't there any model company producing good kits for Starcraft??? Oh old art style only please, not the bloated baloon-iacs from SC2. Balloon army to trick Nazis, I'm fine with. Not in my should-look-awesome-and-hardedged game franchise.

If I HAD to stick with one on the list I'd say Halo for sure. But I voted Other

Personally, of the games listed, I'd prefer mass effect.

The reason is diversity. Almost all the other titles listed have only 2 or perhaps 3 major factions. Whilst this would be good from a balance perspective, I do like a more expansive background.

Mass effect gives just this, with its many different species and factions it has the potential to supply possibly up to a dozen factions.

Also, it has the advantage of adjustable scope. The setting could be represented by squad based combat (like the game), pitched battles (think epic 40k with reapers) and up to fleet engagements (like BFG).

Fallout might be good fun also, but I imagine it like a necromunda style of game, where you control your own gang, rather than an established faction.

Starcraft.

 Daba wrote:
Starcraft.

Wouldn't that just be 40K under a different name?

1st. Assassin's Creed is not very Sci-fi. One Sci-fi machine does not a sci-fi franchise make.

2nd. Dawn of War would make an amazing Tabletop game! Oh wait...

TITANFALL

What about Starship Troopers? Hienlein left the universe pertty open and described a couple races beyond the Arachnids and noted that there were more out there. Would be a designers wet dream I'd think

 Watchersinthedark wrote:
What about Starship Troopers? Hienlein left the universe pertty open and described a couple races beyond the Arachnids and noted that there were more out there. Would be a designers wet dream I'd think

Already is (or was) a Starship Troopers 28mm game.

I don't know if anyone still plays it though.

Command and Conquer obviously has all the units and vehicles that you would expect to see in a TT wargame. Halo has a wide variety of units as well, but not as many. Mass Effect is the more diverse than either one, but none of the factions are shown to have a wide variety of vehicles or units in the games. You'd have to make a lot of new vehicles/units to fill it out. Reapers would be AMAZING as a TT army. A true scale Destroyer would stand about 750 MM/30 Inches. That would be one hell of an amazing model.


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 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 Daba wrote:
Starcraft.

Wouldn't that just be 40K under a different name?

Yep. Blizzard is creative!

First qualifier would be, skirmish-based game (like Infinity) or army based game (like Warhammer 40K)?
For an army based game, I would vote Mass Effect.
For a skirmish based game, I would vote X-COM.

However, I do have one idea that I really like. While it isn't a video game IP, it has been used for video games: Dune. Imagine playing a commando squad for one of the great houses (or Fremen) raiding another great house.

Actually, Planetside would make a really cool 28mm tabletop game.

Mass effect for me.
While in the games you mostly fight only in small conflicts that doesn't me there aren't larger ones both in the back story and parts of the game.
As someone mentioned above, there is a huge number of factions which all differ widely in both style and look:
-Humans
-Turians
-Salerians
-Asarii
-Krogan
-Geth
-Quarian
-Rachnii
-Reapers
-etc.
and then there are alliances and merc groups which bring several races together.

Historical battle wise you have:
-Rachnii wars (Rachni v everyone)
-krogan wars (krogan v everyone)
-geth rebelion (geth v quarian)
-First contact war (human v turian)
-reaper war (reapers v everone)
and war games can cover the rest.

There is a wide range of weapons from assault rifles to snipers to shotguns and rocket-launchers.

Vehicle wise there is a bit less range. Geth have their big walkers and there is the mako apc, beyond that not much.

I think this would suit a small scale battle game with rule focused enough to cover the different types of armor, hacking powers and the telekinesis.

Dawn of War...

Starcraft. and WoW, period, millions of players and followers...

Command and Conquer would be pretty cool, though I think it would be better as a 10mm game. Then you can really start fielding armies of mammoth tanks

I'd have to say Mass Effect.
It would suit either skirmish or larger scale games. I have no doubt that there are hundreds of sketches and concept art for vehicles and things for the various races too fill out the model count, not to mention that the universe and history has so much room for expansion and scope to fatten the miniatures and supplements out.

i would think Gears of War/MassEffect would be the two that would best make a table top game. Treat it as like Necromunda or KillTeam, able to customize a small team w/set gear list, can run stock or detailed customization.

Halo i feel would be like playing is Imperial Guard with a Space Marine Force Commander as MasterChief.

C&C i see could be interesting if they add some kind of tech/weapon progress achievable mid /late turns of the game to give it that RTS feel. With out something like that it would feel the same as any other army table top.

XCoM i would agree with on the same basis as i noted with GoW + ME.

While it would be very interesting to see the diversity of WoW brought to a tabletop game, its not sci-fi enough to count for a vote.

Mass Effect could be cool as well but suffers from the fact it wouldn't be too different from Infinity except a wider variety in aliens (though I'd play Turians if this was made because they're awesome.)

XCOM I like as it is with its nicely animated, turn-based tactical shooting and base-building/management.

Warframe would be pretty cool, though some of those levels are pretty massive to portay on your typical 4x6 table.

So my votes going to go for one I've not seen yet. Mobile Suit Gundam.

The Half-Life series would be fantastic as a miniature game.

And I know the title says "major sci-fi" but I think a small game called Jamestown would be quite fun as a tabletop.

I am thinking about starcraft

Fallout would be an interesting RPG and Halo would have good marine skirmishes.

I think a Fallout game in the style of Mordheim would be awesome.

Get a gang, find loot, battle other gangs for bottlecaps. Random events happening, mutant gangs, hacking building security to your aid, etc.

A game set in the future Terminator universe would be awesome. Human resistance vs the robots oh yeah...


Also this is an older game but a table top version of area 51 could be pretty cool too.


I also think that a pseudo board game version of Mario cart could be amusing. (think modified gorkamorka)

I think one of the problems here is that most of the franchises are like 1 man vs a horde of people(Halo), or some involve complex movement(Assassins Creed). I think it would be cool to play a game all about cover saves, but it may end up being a stalemate creeping around cover. Unfortunately, most games are all about murdering hordes of enemies. I think that Titanfall might have some unique gameplay as a wargame.

Edit: Actually, I think that Planetside 2 would be cool as a 28mm tabletop game. Also, Hawken might be cool, since the mechs are fairly balanced.

PS2 wouldn't be bad at all. Tanks, aircraft, loads of infantry. Could almost do 15mm so things like galaxies and multiple liberators made more sense. Common pool vehicles would be great sellers and the three factions probably wouldn't be terriblyhard to bbalance.

I'd personally love to see a wargame in the Mass Effect setting. Something like battlefleet gothic with each race as a different faction.

I'd like to see a proper Star Wars based game.

Battlefield should be on this list, it would make a nice varied wargame.

My vote goes to Mass Effect. You certainly have enough races to see a lot of variety in army builds and each race has access to atleast 4 clases usually and that isn't even touching the different powers and weapons available to each class and race.

I think that a Mass Effect game would work best on a skirmish level *akin to Warmachine* with normal games running about 5-15 models

Halo and Fallout would both be interesting.

As would X-com. I mean its practically a table top game already.

I voted Halo.

Of all the franchises listed above it, to me at least, has the most clear cut factions each with their own units and organizational structures.

XCOM. 'nough said.

Ubisoft's Creed is all about one mass-killer bulldozing his way through meat-shields in order to get to an objective. It's be like the War of the Ring game with less units.

System Shock would be better as an RPG with maybe miniatures on the side. Bioshock would be the 'intro' or 'lite' version of the game.

Fallout would be a fun miniatures game, but there's a lot of post-apocalyptic miniatures out there already like Eden and Brother "I sculpt naked Ukranians" Vinni. I'd be afraid of them eventually following in GW's footsteps and releasing a lot of DLC, though.

Command and Conquer would be amazing. Red Alert has light humor, and Tiberian X has a great setting. The only drawback is that it'd be only two sides normally. Perhaps Flames of War. Like Fallout, the GW-caliber DLC would be unbearable.

Gears of War already has a board game. It's supposedly rather good. It's much better as a Space-Hulk-like corridor game than a wargame.

Halo already has a RTS, and the collective yawning from gamers could be heard across an ocean. Miniatures games are platform-agnostic so there's no Stockholm Syndrome that'll convince people to play/buy a Halo wargame.

Mass Effect would have a cool aesthetic, but like Gears of War, it'd be better as a Space-Hulk-like corridor game; exploring a Reaper Derelict perhaps? The DLC would be its downfall.

Metal Gear has always thrived as a cinematic game with war in the background rather than a war game itself. Much better as an RPG, and it'd be the perfect fit for an RPG.

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Of the choices, I'd choose Command and Conquer. I think someone may even be able to find the franchise's corpse somewhere in the dumpster.

Star Wars but with the ground troops (eg. Battlefront)

Although Red Faction guerrilla trilogy would be pretty cool.

Gears of War, a skrimash team vs team focused game with the potential for larger battles. Three large factions: Humans, Locust, Lambent. The game would be very fast paced and focus on tactical game play with small fire teams of troops.

 GiraffeX wrote:
I'd like to see a proper Star Wars based game.

Seconded, but don't think Clone Wars, think after the second Death Star is blown up.

I voted other just cause I would like to see command and conquer tiberium wars, halo and fallout! Also I think star wars as a large scale tabletop set in the old republic setting

i think crysis could be fun as a skirmish game. three factions seems most likely, the human resistance, cell, and the ceph. the ceph minis could potentially be quite cool.

EDF 2025

Starcraft for sure. STARCRAFT zerg power. I've actually worked on a zerg fandex a bit, but....

Star wars old republic maybe. Theres the sith, old republic, mandos and the cartels

Infinity is already basically what the people who suggest an X-COM or Mass Effect game would be looking for if you ask me. Heck, it even has the whole "reaction fire" dynamic down and one of the factions is pretty much the aliens from X-COM crossed with the Covenant from Halo. I would not be surprised at all to learn that the developers played a lot of that game before they made Infinity.

 Paradigm wrote:
I think Assassin's Creed would make an interesting one, a game focusing on stealth and cunning is not something I think is on the market at all. It would almost work as a single-player narrative-based game, with AI for guards and civilians based on cards or dice tables. I think it would have to be narrative-based, though, and I'm not sure it would work as a multiplayer affair trying to balance 1 guy against a dozen (if we go by the game itself). It would still make a very cool boxed game though, and the opportunity for truly 3d gaming over a board that would have to be full of terrain would be cool.

You know, when I read that option in the list I scratched my head and moved on. You have successfully sold me on that idea. I honestly can not think of a stealth based tabletop game (admittedly I do not know all that many).

 Maximus Vulanus wrote:
I keep wondering why they don't make Fallout RP books (like DnD)

They tried to. The licensing fell through. There were a couple fan made projects but nothing complete that I am aware of. Here's what came out of it. If you know what it was supposed to be originally then it is pretty obviously "not Fallout the RPG".

I would like to see Generation One Transformers!!

Starcraft and Command & Conquer are both very fond RTS for me and were some of the first games I played of the genre back when I was a freshman in high school, so yeah if they made models for them I would buy them up in a heartbeat. And of course, as others before me have already said, they are perfectly set up for wartable gamming. They have pre-existing units. The game makers worked to create balanced, visually distinct armies with a diversity of units and thus fits well into the requirements for a good wargame.

HOwEVER! I actually voted for Fallout. Despite Starcraft and C&C's strong background in RTS and a myriad of units, Fallout has something special, character. When I first began to play Warhammer, I enjoyed the idea of actually being the general in Fantasy, however, other than declaring a challenge, it doesn't really come into play (I could try to talk like my general would, but that would get annoying quick).

Fallout however, does have a strong sense of characters from diverse armies. You could play NCR, Brotherhood of Steel, The Enclave, Caesar's Legion and you could have special characters from those armies too like Legate Lanius or Scribe Rothchild

Dune has a rich setting with which to start a tabletop wargame. Although the video game is older than those on the list and is based on a book, I still think it has immense potential. The Prana/Bindu ideas and water scarcity background gives opportunities for unique mechanics.

For those who have not read the series, I would highly recommend it.

Halo, Gears of war and Bioshock infinite, they all have theeir tabletop "wargame", they have it from the heroclix game system, pre paimnted (and ugly ) models with the same game system, skirmish over a squared paper map ,they had little succes so that each only had one expansion, in the case of halo it was two i belive.
the images of each one:

 Watchersinthedark wrote:
What about Starship Troopers? Hienlein left the universe pertty open and described a couple races beyond the Arachnids and noted that there were more out there. Would be a designers wet dream I'd think

It already is a table top game andy chamber designed it
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers:_The_Miniatures_Game

Halo would be really cool in my opinion. Spartans, UNSC, Covenant, Flood, etc.

 anyeri wrote:
Halo, Gears of war and Bioshock infinite, they all have theeir tabletop "wargame", they have it from the heroclix game system, pre paimnted (and ugly ) models with the same game system, skirmish over a squared paper map ,they had little succes so that each only had one expansion, in the case of halo it was two i belive.
the images of each one:

Spoiler:

Even pacific ring get a expasion (but ugly models jejeje)

I'm still curious about what heroclix even is. Is it any good?

I find it funny that people are saying Starcraft.
We already have that, it's called Warhammer 40,000.

Blizzard blatantly copied wh40k to make a video game, then making a tabletop game with the same copied stuff would be bad taste and probably pretty repetitive.

 SkavenLord wrote:

 anyeri wrote:
Halo, Gears of war and Bioshock infinite, they all have theeir tabletop "wargame", they have it from the heroclix game system, pre paimnted (and ugly ) models with the same game system, skirmish over a squared paper map ,they had little succes so that each only had one expansion, in the case of halo it was two i belive.
the images of each one:

Spoiler:

Even pacific ring get a expasion (but ugly models jejeje)

I'm still curious about what heroclix even is. Is it any good?

Its basically a movement square turn based strategy game which satisfies everyone's "what if X and Y fought each other?" dreams.

Could Aragorn beat Wolverine in a duel?

What if Master Chief and Superman had a fight?

Mass Effect. I'd collect a geth army.

System Shock, and Starcraft.

Mass Effect. Quarians w/ Geth allies.

I don't know if it qualifies as Sci-fi (it certainly doesn't fit into fantasy or realism) but I'd love to see a vehicle based scrimage - game -like 'Twisted - Metal'.

I would love a Bioshock tabletop set in Rapture, set in the conflict between Andrew Ryan and Atlas.

Ryans side would have Big daddies and a fewer number of more well equipped infantery.

Atlas side would have more infantery with more advanced plasmids as his army is composed of splicers.

Starcraft no doubt

How did Starcraft not make it up their?

I'd vote for Halo. For it's sheer amount of possibilities with th setting. Loads of factions possible, like Sangheili rebbels, human insurgents, might even see Spartan 4 traitors. (Seeing where the story is going.

Next to that... A game based on the Tribes games (Tribes:Vengeance in particular). Like a futuristic Bloodbowl with all kinds of nifty stuff and some kind of gravity/speed mechanic.

Gears of War (I just love how everything looks in the games)
then C&C (I mean its just awesome)
Then perhaps Fallout (I mean you already have factions and whatnot, and with all the different weapons available)

Command and Conquer us pretty much already that, would be fun to play a tabletop version.

I think Dragon Age would be a great tabletop game; the Darkspawn, the mages, templars, humaans, dwarfs, aka THE samen factions you can recruit into your army.

Maybe TF2? It could be a "Capture the Flag" style game where each player is given 9 mercs. The player chooses which player gets which class (and like the game, the mercs can "respawn" and there can be multiple mercs with the same class.)

Oh would love to see a fallout tabletop, supermutants raiding a talon company outpost, or even NCR versus Legion battles, raiders being attacked by a mass of ghoules ,so many possibilities for skirmish battles in the fallout univers, that being if new vegas is included.

There would be so many factions:

-NCR
-Legion
-Brotherhood of steel
-Boomers
-Mr.House securitrons
-Raider gangs ( Khans, Vipers, Jackals, etc...)
-Supermutants
-ghouls
-Regulators
-Talon company
-Vault dwellers ( security guards pushing out supermutants at the vault entrance, to epic thinking about it )
-Enclave
...

this would be darn good

I absolutely adore fallout. A 28 MM boardgame would have the following factions IMO:

1. NCR: infantry heavy ranged faction with air support (vertibirds)
2. Legion: infantry heavy melee faction with options for strong leaders like Lanius or Joshua Graham.
3. BOS: infantry small power armor faction with access to special pre war tech.
4. Enclave: Like BOS but with better armor, worse guns (compared to OP laser stuff BOS has) and best air support (lots of vertibirds.)
5. Master's army Super Mutants: 8 foot tall green super men. nuff said.
6. Post master army super mutants: less equipment but access to more experienced troops.
7. raiders: abnormal hit and run list.

There can probably be more factions but that is all I can think of now.


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A Star Fox space battle game could be cool; would be interesting to see how the raw speed and insane agility/maneuverability into miniatures form.

Borderlands would be a fun little skirmish game with insane powers and maybe randomly controlled beasts to get in the way

Space:Above and Beyond

Mass Effect and X-Com would make me dig out my credit card in an instant.

Having now played quite a bit I'd like to See Destiny as a TT game and a RPG.

I've been playing this game called "Dawn of War". I think that would make a great tt game, and possibly even an RPG.


Obviously I'm just joking.

I'd say Team Fortress 2.

I am far too biased to vote for anything but Fallout.

World of Warcraft would be fun. It has lots of factions plus many gamers would buy the models even if they dont intend to play the game.

star wars battlefront, yea its somewhat cheating the question and there are a few already, but still, i think a star wars game would work, something along the lines of 40k it would have all codexs for rebels, empire, CIS, jedi, sith, republic, using units and tanks from the CW series and movies and games, i recken it would work

Bioshock would be really cool.

Elite: Dangerous would be nice for an X-Wing style game.

the_valeyard6 wrote:
star wars battlefront, yea its somewhat cheating the question and there are a few already, but still, i think a star wars game would work, something along the lines of 40k it would have all codexs for rebels, empire, CIS, jedi, sith, republic, using units and tanks from the CW series and movies and games, i recken it would work

I am actually working on something very much like this, a Star War skirmish game that borrows heavily from Battlefront (especially in terms of things like Command Posts and respawning, allowing for larger battles with only a handful of models).

My vote goes to Xenogears. Because I like mutants and Big stompy robots. And that game despite being partially finished is one of the best playstation games of all time imo.

Definitely the fallout universe. I would like to see some super mutant faction... Or cars

Killzone, Tenchu, X-Com