Maybe this is the wrong section for this post, but what franchises would make a good war game? Just wondering what people think.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
●Aes Sedai faction
●Black tower faction
●Aiel faction
●Seanchen faction
●Evil faction with trollocks, forsaken, etc
These are the coolest that immediately spring to mind, but many more could be made.

Mass Effect, Homeworld, EOM.

I think A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) really deserves a good tabletop miniatures game.

Brian Jacques' Redwall series. I would buy the crap out of that.

 Iron_Captain wrote:


In any case, I think A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) really deserves a good tabletop miniatures game.

YES PLEASE!

Blizzard would be a cool one. Although, they would only have a handful of different armies, unless they combined both Warcraft and Starcraft. But I'm not quite sure how that would work out. Bring a Battlecruiser on the table to fight off an Orc army. They'll definitely need more than spears...

 kenneydee wrote:

 Iron_Captain wrote:


In any case, I think A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) really deserves a good tabletop miniatures game.

YES PLEASE!

Blizzard would be a cool one. Although, they would only have a handful of different armies, unless they combined both Warcraft and Starcraft. But I'm not quite sure how that would work out. Bring a Battlecruiser on the table to fight off an Orc army. They'll definitely need more than spears...

I'm not sure how to tell you this but...
Well basically Starcraft and Warcraft were originally intended to be the 40k and Fantasy video games...
Something went wrong and they became Starcraft and Warcraft instead. So there kind of already is a Starcraft and Warcraft tabletop...

Lol yes you're right! I completely forgot about that. I'm giggling to myself..

Elder scrolls might be good.

Gwaihirsbrother wrote:
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
●Aes Sedai faction
●Black tower faction
●Aiel faction
●Seanchen faction
●Evil faction with trollocks, forsaken, etc
These are the coolest that immediately spring to mind, but many more could be made.

Yes, this. Definatley this

Star Wars. But an actual TT wargame where you can assemble, paint and field a lot of ground units to your hearts content. Maybe 15 mm?

 Jimsolo wrote:
Brian Jacques' Redwall series. I would buy the crap out of that.

Honestly this would be really cool. I think I would have to go with either Logolog and the Shrews, or the Long Patrol.

I also like the sound of a star wars tabletop. I think that would pick up some traction. The X-wing battles has proven that there is at least some interest in a tabletop game for star wars fans.

But as for one that hasn't been mentioned, Might & Magic has a bunch of pretty interesting factions and units. It would be similar to Warhammer Fantasy

Mass Effect. A thousand times over, Mass Effect. I would dump every other game that I play right now if someone released a half-way decent Mass Effect tabletop game.

I'd really like a Starcraft tabletop game. I dig the Terran aesthetics. Yeah, I know it's still big guys with big guns in big armor, but if you can't tell by the number of Space Marines I have, I'd have to buy em! I really dig the Starcraft aesthetics.

Starcraft would be pretty cool, yeah.

Star Wars, Mass Effect and Halo seem like interesting ideas initially, but I don't think there's enough variety in their military forces to provide an interesting game experience.

As already said, ASOIF. I'd have to practice my freehand painting skills for all those golden lions, though

I'd also say Warcrafy. Forsaken, yuss please!

A Starcraft miniature war game would be briliant. Even if the game sucked, the models would be awesome!

 Icculus wrote:

Honestly this would be really cool. I think I would have to go with either Logolog and the Shrews, or the Long Patrol.

I'd like to see a system that would support small skirmishes as well as huge battles. You'd only need two army books ('Goodbeasts' and 'Vermin') in order to encompass pretty much all the factions. Guosim shrews would make dynamite 'mercenary' units for a Goodbeast army. And if I'm going to collect a Redwall army, I'm either going with the forces of Salamandastron hardcore, or the most vile pirate crew I can put together.

Rifts rpg perfect mix of fantasy and 40k. Glitterboy power amor fighting Dragons...yes please

XCOM

I think its far more important that the game have good rules, a name will attract people to the game, but its the game play that will keep them playing.

At present, if 40K didn't have such a long tradition, and fans that had already invested large amounts of time and money into armies, I doubt the game would be prospering.

Command And Conquer could make an awesome TT game, I would love to seem a C&C 3 Tiberium Wars or C&C Tiberium Sun personally

Love those Mammoth Tanks

Gwaihirsbrother wrote:
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
●Aes Sedai faction
●Black tower faction
●Aiel faction
●Seanchen faction
●Evil faction with trollocks, forsaken, etc
These are the coolest that immediately spring to mind, but many more could be made.

You have no idea how badly I want this to happen.

Wheel of Time... Meh, one balefire and it's over.

I'd echo A Song if Ice and Fire, Mass Effect and add Dragon Age.I'd also love a Mistborn skirmish game, or a larger scale Stormlight Archive game. Oh, Dresden Files too.

TheCustomLime wrote:Star Wars. But an actual TT wargame where you can assemble, paint and field a lot of ground units to your hearts content. Maybe 15 mm?

Hell Yeah! 15mm or 28mm, I'd plough money into this, especially if it expanded into the Old Republic era.

Halo would be cool as a Deadzone-eque skirmish game. Small squads, lots of terrain, heavy emphasis on weapons and equipment.

I'd say Marvel, but Knight Models are already working on this.

Elder Scrolls would be interesting, especially as an RPG. Yes, it's already an RPG in digital format, but there's still something to be said for a completely open tableto RPG. There's also a gold mine of fluff and history ready made.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Star Wars. But an actual TT wargame where you can assemble, paint and field a lot of ground units to your hearts content. Maybe 15 mm?

This x9000

I would buy the gak out of a 15mm starwars tabletop game. The could almost do a flames of war style system with old republic, galactic empire, New republic time periods.

Plenty of unit types to keep collectors and gamers happy.

+1 for ASOIAF and a mass-battle wargame taking place in the Hyborian Age would also be cool.

Game of thrones in 15mm?

IXLoiero95XI wrote:Command And Conquer could make an awesome TT game, I would love to seem a C&C 3 Tiberium Wars or C&C Tiberium Sun personally

Love those Mammoth Tanks

Have an exalt because you are so so correct

In fact, the Red Alert franchise would make for a good TT game as well, maybe 10-15mm.

An RPG set in William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy would be amazing, if handled properly.

A tapletop skirmish game (although considering the characters involved, skirmish might not be the appropriate word) set in the world of Mark Waid's and Alex Ross' Kingdom Come would also be all kinds of incredible.

A skirmish game based off of Atlus' Shin Megami Tensei franchise could also have a lot of potential. Not only are there already a myriad of demons designed for it already (for those not in the know, SMT was kind of like Pokemon before Pokemon came around, except instead of summoning cute little monsters to fight for you, you summoned Satan), but the videogames themselves have always favoured party-based combat, which would transfer over well to a skirmish based game. Likewise, implementing a system like the Press Turn System would be a very unique and interesting one for a tabletop game.

Daston wrote:

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Star Wars. But an actual TT wargame where you can assemble, paint and field a lot of ground units to your hearts content. Maybe 15 mm?

This x9000

I would buy the gak out of a 15mm starwars tabletop game. The could almost do a flames of war style system with old republic, galactic empire, New republic time periods.

Plenty of unit types to keep collectors and gamers happy.

Weren't there rumours of FFG (makers of X-Wing) doing a tabletop version of Star Wars?

Command and conquer tiberian sun firestorm TT
fallout 2 style TT (Factions)
Star Trek boarding Skirmish style game. Small scale, but with a bit of complexity.

War of the worlds modern style.

Team fortress 2, co op against the robot horde!

Magic the Gathering.
Brothers' War would produce endless amount of material. Just imagine seeing Mishra's War Machine etc. in model form!

I'll second Wheel of Time and A Song of Ice and Fire.

Though not really a franchise, it'd be cool if someone could make a tabletop version of the Iliad and related epics such as the Aeneid and the Odyssey. So you could have Trojans and Amazons and Achaeans and all that good stuff, with the addition of divine intervention. Plus, it'd be cool to have Hector and Achilles in miniature form.

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:
I'll second Wheel of Time and A Song of Ice and Fire.

Though not really a franchise, it'd be cool if someone could make a tabletop version of the Iliad and related epics such as the Aeneid and the Odyssey. So you could have Trojans and Amazons and Achaeans and all that good stuff, with the addition of divine intervention. Plus, it'd be cool to have Hector and Achilles in miniature form.

Have you looked at Crocodile Games WarGod's of Olympus?

X-Com, according to those who have played both is alive and well under the name Deadzone. Not sure how accurate that is, but many on here have said they're almost a perfect match. I'd enjoy seeing Halo, with a handful of elite individual Spartans verse a horde of flood or covenant.

Gauntlet: the Tabletop game. Screaming out "elf needs food, dammit" would make an afternoon.

A Monty Python miniatures games

The Wheel of Time.

Sooooo many opportunities right there!!

Iron_Captain wrote:Yea, this should be moved to OT.

In any case, I think A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) really deserves a good tabletop miniatures game.

Jimsolo wrote:Brian Jacques' Redwall series. I would buy the crap out of that.

Can't agree more

 thepowerfulwill wrote:
Maybe this is the wrong section for this post, but what franchises would make a good war game? Just wondering what people think.

Harry Potter and Counter Strike.
Just kidding.

Song of Ice and Fire, of course.

It would be nice to have a Star Wars wargame on a different scale : ground battles, or epic scale with huge fleets moving across the galaxy.
An Alien skirmish game could be a beautiful idea too. Command and Conquer and Red Alert would also be very nice.

Starcraft already has its boardgame with very nice minis, but having a "true wargame" would be awesome too.

Nobody mentionned Dune, or any Sid Meyer's game. That's just sad.

Dawn of war! Oh wait...

Redwall. That'd be epic.

Fallout (hey, there are already folks doing the miniatures... just no rules, yet....)

X-Com (the original, not the pale imitation currently being peddled).

Minecraft can be simulated on the tabletop with a box of Lego and some firecrackers....


The Auld Grump

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero - The sheer amount of awesome vehicles would make the game fun to play, nevermind the bad-ass themed armies you could make (B.A.T.S. led by Overkill, Tiger Force, Python Patrol, Crimson Guard led by Tomax and Xamot, ect.).

Fallout - There are a number of great factions that could be fleshed out, as well as making all of the fun creatures and wildlife that exist int he wastes.

Raymond E. Feist's Midkemia would be awesome.

Shadowrun. Could be mission based between 2 or more shadowrun teams or the corporate opposition. Full of tech and magic.

 Vash108 wrote:
Shadowrun. Could be mission based between 2 or more shadowrun teams or the corporate opposition. Full of tech and magic.

There's apparently plans for one. Not that Catalyst can make a release date to save their lives...

Backfire wrote:
Magic the Gathering.
Brothers' War would produce endless amount of material. Just imagine seeing Mishra's War Machine etc. in model form!

This would also be dope. So long as it was REAL minis and not clix, and so long as they got good sculptors, this would be amazing. If you limited army construction to a single color affiliation, it would allow unique factions while still allowing for a massive amount of diversity!

Mass Effect

The wargame I'm making started as a substitute for tabletop mass effect. The industry needs a bright and colorful future sci-fi game on the market.

Other than Infinity?

Firefly.

Unreal Tournament

Squad based tournament, struggle your way to victory with over the top weapons and axecrobatic skills. If succesful expand into the Unreal World outside the tournament.

Shame Epic drove the Unreal franchise into the ground like a red headed stepchild.

A song of fire and ice
battlestar galactica
Doctor who

 Vertrucio wrote:
Mass Effect

The wargame I'm making started as a substitute for tabletop mass effect. The industry needs a bright and colorful future sci-fi game on the market.

Think you can get it pretty close with Infinity. At least, it seems a pretty popular idea with people painting their stuff

Starship troopers' needs a revamp, I'm sure I'm alone in this, but I'd love to see a game based around ant combat. Ants as in insects.

Red wizard shot the food.
Gauntlet seconded.

 Llamahead wrote:
Other than Infinity?

Heh, give it a rest guys. I like the game despite its flaws, but the level of Infinity preaching can get to the point where you drive away players by annoyance.

It doesn't have mass battle, or even platoon level rules that play fast, and the anime aesthetic of most models and game art might not appeal to as many people. Mass Effect has more of a Sid Mead vibe than the anime derivatives of Shirow. So yes, the industry is still missing that game.

Not sure of Gauntlet could be made into a miniatures game, but it could definitely become a board game.

SST is sadly gone, but not without reason. The license is completely off the market as well in any form. But that doesn't stop many games from trying to emulate that feel.

I kinda stopped wanting franchises as miniature wargames because I know that any such game could never happen, be only a clix game through licensing loopholes, or just be short lived. All I want now is for people to create games in the spirit of those franchises for me to buy. But who knows, Fantasy Flight has done something crazy with X-Wing.

cmurphy96 wrote:

Doctor who

I don't think so. The Doctor would only have like 6 people on his side. Vs 80 cybermen or 30 Daleks. And the player who was the Doctor would still win. A Doctor Who wargame would not work well.

 Overlord Thraka wrote:

cmurphy96 wrote:

Doctor who

I don't think so. The Doctor would only have like 6 people on his side. Vs 80 cybermen or 30 Daleks. And the player who was the Doctor would still win. A Doctor Who wargame would not work well.

GET IMBA

Mass Effect, Game of Thrones, Halo!!!!!

 Vertrucio wrote:

 Llamahead wrote:
Other than Infinity?

Heh, give it a rest guys. I like the game despite its flaws, but the level of Infinity preaching can get to the point where you drive away players by annoyance.

Did it really sound as though I was preaching?

That's what you get for trying to be helpful ! *sniff*

DUNE, DUNE, DUNE!!!!!!

Definitely Elder Scrolls. There's so much unplundered weirdness and diversity in that setting, the potential for various armies is pretty much limitless. Scrollhammer already exists, but I'd love to have some decent 28mm minis to go with it. I've wanted an army of pretty much anything related to Morrowind since that game came out. Imagine how a Great Houses army with Silt Strider transports would look on the tabletop. Or a House Dagoth army with Akulakhan as a centerpiece.

Halo and Mass Effect both have tons of potential in terms of miniatures. GoT/ASoIaF already has some very nice, if generic, minis from Dark Sword, but I dunno how to make a good game out of it. Having all of your special characters die every turn could be frustrating...

Anyone remember the RPG "Feng Shui"? I always thought there was an absolutely amazing wargame in that.

The premise is essentially that time travel to different junctures of human history is possible by travelling through a parallell dimension called the Netherworld. Each juncture is essentially a different action movie genre--mythic China, pre-handover Hong Kong, a cyberpunk dystopia, etc--and is dominated by a faction that seeks to manipulate history to their benefit by controlling sites of power. The factions are:

Eaters of the Lotus (69): Evil demon-summoning sorcerer-eunuchs, who are the power behind the Chinese throne, and seek to expand their power.

Guiding Hand (1850): Confucian monks who seek to destroy the power of the West and impose virtuous order on the world.

Architects (2049): A one-world government ruling over a bleak, oppressive future, securing their power with superior arcane-technology and cyborged demons.

Ascended (modern): A world-spanning conspiracy of the descendents of animals who assumed human form in mythic times, and seek to destroy the magic which might expose them or cause them to revert.

Jammers: A revolutionary faction who seek to destroy all chi so that no other faction can control human destiny (possibly destroying the world in the process, but they consider that an acceptable risk), led by a cyborg chimpanzee.

Four Monarchs: One-time joint rulers of the world who lost their empire when history changed under their feet in 1985, and fled to the Netherworld, to endlessly scheme against each other and try to restore their dominion.

The Dragons: A loose alliance of individual action-movie heroes from all time periods, who heroically fight against the odds and tend to get wiped out and reformed quite frequently.

Maybe an Anima-style system for crew building, where you can choose models based on shared good / neutral / evil alignment, or by faction. Some factions could specialise in deploying and coordinating hordes of mooks, while others have a few individually potent heroes.

I'd be happy with a revamped version of Vor: The Maelstrom with its potential of adding diverse types of armies.

 Llamahead wrote:
Other than Infinity?

Infinity doesn't really strike me as a good match--Mass Effect combat is typically less deadly, closer range, and then you get into the biotic powers. If you can't rocket across the arena and megaton-punch someone with a biotic charge, it's not a Mass Effect game.

Final Fantasy Tactics and Game of Thrones

Hopping on the Mass Effect bandwagon.

Salarian STG team versus Collectors? Alliance versus rogue Asari? Krogan shock troops versus mixed mercs?

Tons of potential 'factions', lots of fluff to build on, plenty of weapons and armour to paint up and use to upgrade units (not necessarily WYSIWYG, but in terms of variability in unit capabilities), heroes people are familiar with, and 'classes' to assign to 'hero units' (returning and new alike) to spice things up.

As a huge fan of the series, yeah, that'd definitely have my attention.

Also, there's the snarky response of "Robotech", because if Palladium fumbles their launching of the product any harder, someone else is going to need to pick it up...

 Jimsolo wrote:

 Icculus wrote:

Honestly this would be really cool. I think I would have to go with either Logolog and the Shrews, or the Long Patrol.

I'd like to see a system that would support small skirmishes as well as huge battles. You'd only need two army books ('Goodbeasts' and 'Vermin') in order to encompass pretty much all the factions. Guosim shrews would make dynamite 'mercenary' units for a Goodbeast army. And if I'm going to collect a Redwall army, I'm either going with the forces of Salamandastron hardcore, or the most vile pirate crew I can put together.

I completely agree. Salamandastron Hares led by a Badger Lord and Martin the Warrior for big games and Long Patrol Hares for Skirmish level stuff. Also, a Star Wars ground forces TT game would be a very good thing, as would a Mass Effect system.

A Star Wars Battlefront style game seems inevitable.

A world of Warcraft table top game could be fun.

You could either say, your guild has to be of a particular race only. But have different classes.

Or just a faction based version. 25 models max.

Even have models for some of the in game evil creatures. So you can either play as a faction or the creatures in the dungeon/instance. On a 6x4 or 4x4 table.

Sell zone mortalis style tiles too.

I've been pining for a Mobile Suit Gundam tabletop game of over 10 years. They already have an extensive line of models, 35 years of lore across several alternate universes, and it would give me an excuse to buy and make gunpla models more.

 Zuul wrote:
I've been pining for a Mobile Suit Gundam tabletop game of over 10 years. They already have an extensive line of models, 35 years of lore across several alternate universes, and it would give me an excuse to buy and make gunpla models more.

Yeah, I've been dreaming of a Mobile Suit: Gundam: 00 tabletop game, mainly because of the number of factions etc.

In 00 we have

Celestial Being
Celestial Being Fereshte (not sure if that's the correct spelling, the Celestial Being Black Ops division)
Team Trinity
Advanced European Union
Human Reform League
The Union
Earth Sphere Federation Forces
A-laws
Extraterrestial Livingmetal Shapeshifters
The Rogue Innovades
Innovators (from the Innovator war)

Also, it'd be cool to have Celestial Being fight against other Gundam units from other timelines, however, the 5th generation suits from the 00-movie are the most powerful in the Gundam Franchise. :/

 Fafnir wrote:
An RPG set in William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy would be amazing, if handled properly.

A tapletop skirmish game (although considering the characters involved, skirmish might not be the appropriate word) set in the world of Mark Waid's and Alex Ross' Kingdom Come would also be all kinds of incredible.

A skirmish game based off of Atlus' Shin Megami Tensei franchise could also have a lot of potential. Not only are there already a myriad of demons designed for it already (for those not in the know, SMT was kind of like Pokemon before Pokemon came around, except instead of summoning cute little monsters to fight for you, you summoned Satan), but the videogames themselves have always favoured party-based combat, which would transfer over well to a skirmish based game. Likewise, implementing a system like the Press Turn System would be a very unique and interesting one for a tabletop game.

While I would like the idea of a Metagen tabletop game, I kind of view it more as of Board game material potential as the party-based idea behind seems a bit more Board gamish than table top along with recruiting and leveling up demons (although that might be more Persona-esque than Shin Megami Tensei). However, I can see a way of doing a skirmish game for Shin Megami Tensei, but I think it would be kind of limited since it might be the only three factions based on Law, Neutral, and Chaos to conflict with each other.



And I hate being part of band wagons, but I think a Mass Effect skirmish tabletop might be cool. I say kind of have a activation and actions like Warmahordes but be able to have a reaction system like Infinity and varying levels of exhaustion determining what you can do as that model reacts. Also, each person have alternate turns, going from one model or so to another players model.

For Sci Fi I'll jump on the Mass Effect bandwagon with Halo in a comfortable second place

For Fantasy I'll go with a different MMORPG than everyone else, Rift so many factions to choose from, so many possibilities for models.

I'd like to see Legend of the Five Rings with a miniature game again (I believe there was one at one point).

A Gears of War skirmish game would be cool...

But I always thought Batman would make a cool game. Whist the minis are sweet I havent found anyone in my area who plays it.

Starwars would be pretty awesome aswell

I'm currently working on a mass effect tabletop game.

If love a skirmish scale game set in the Vampire Hunter D world.

I'm actually kinda shocked that hadn't been Kickstarted yet...

 Alpharius wrote:
If love a skirmish scale game set in the Vampire Hunter D world.

I'm actually kinda shocked that hadn't been Kickstarted yet...

God dammit, now I want this.

 Formosa wrote:
I'm currently working on a mass effect tabletop game.

Oh? Skirmish? Large scale? Scalable? Something in between?

I'm definitely one for Deadzone Mass Effect. Or Deadzone X-Com (Since it's halfway there already). But mostly Mass Effect.

Mind you, I'm pretty much up for anything Mass Effect. My Scourge in Dropzone Commander are already painted up as Reapers.

 Forar wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
I'm currently working on a mass effect tabletop game.

Oh? Skirmish? Large scale? Scalable? Something in between?

He won't get the license, but it'll be fun to use any rules and some look-alike figures to play.

Death race aka "CARWARS".

I've said it in other threads like this, but:

Pokémon - arena skirmish game.

Plants Vs. Zombies - a nice all in one vs. board game.

My little Pony, Could you imagine it?

 Alpharius wrote:
If love a skirmish scale game set in the Vampire Hunter D world.

I'm actually kinda shocked that hadn't been Kickstarted yet...

Yes.. that is a wonderful idea! Some kind of very small miniature count game, get someone like Taban to do the miniatures..

The important thing for anyone trying to do a Vampire Hunter D game would be to make sure they spent the time and money getting the best possible sculpts. Yoshitaka Amano's artwork is such an important part of VHD, it'd take a gargantuan effort from even the most masterful of sculptors to capture even a fraction of his works' essence.

griffen127 wrote:
Mass Effect, Game of Thrones, Halo!!!!!

this.

Elder Scrolls
Dragon Age.

 Vertrucio wrote:

 Forar wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
I'm currently working on a mass effect tabletop game.

Oh? Skirmish? Large scale? Scalable? Something in between?

He won't get the license, but it'll be fun to use any rules and some look-alike figures to play.

Of course.

Just curious what the focus was. He can use little paper standees to play with and my questions remain.

 Compel wrote:
I'm definitely one for Deadzone Mass Effect. Or Deadzone X-Com (Since it's halfway there already). But mostly Mass Effect.

NO. I don't want Mantic's hands anywhere near Mass Effect if it becomes a miniatures game. Can you imagine how totally they would butcher the sculpts, not to mention the fact that they'd probably cast everything in restic. I'd much rather see Corvus Belli do it - the Infinity aesthetic fits perfectly with the talents and styles of their sculptors.

I'd like to see a good mass combat version of the Elder Scrolls series - I've always wanted to field an entire army of Stormcloaks and have them face off against hordes of Draugr or Imperials. Can you imagine the multi-part hard plastic kits for all the models?

~Tim?

darkcloak wrote:
Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

This. Forever.

Schmapdi wrote:I've said it in other threads like this, but:

Pokémon - arena skirmish game.

I'm surprised that there hasn't been a Pokemon-esque game yet. Assemble a team of 6 monsters and fight against a rival's team in a stadium setting. Maybe include some card mechanics to make it more interesting and as a nod to the card game.

DarkTraveler777 wrote:G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero - The sheer amount of awesome vehicles would make the game fun to play, nevermind the bad-ass themed armies you could make (B.A.T.S. led by Overkill, Tiger Force, Python Patrol, Crimson Guard led by Tomax and Xamot, ect.).

Since Hasbro has the rights for GI Joe and Heroscape I'd love to seem them combine the two into a game. There's enough of a market among GI Joe collectors that there would be a interest even if the game wasn't the best. You wouldn't be able to do anything beyond small vehicles, but if you wanted larger scale battles you'd need to consider 15mm scale given the amount of vehicles.

I'd love to see a Stargate SG-1 skirmish game. I know a while back there was a company that was going to make licensed minis, but I don't know if they ever came out and I don't think there was a game associated with them.

He-Man could make for a fun skirmish game. So could Thundercats.

My votes are for:

1.) A Song of Ice and Fire
2.) Star Wars (Capital Ship Combat, akin to BFG/Silent Death)
3.) Wheel of Time

Mass Effect

G.I. Joe! I would eat that up! However, no one would ever get killed. They would all leap from their vehicles mometns before they were destroyed.

Skylanders- You could even reprupose the figurines and use them. I would make the scale 1:1 and you could use anything in your living room as terrain.

Twisted Metal!- We need more car combat games! It would be skirmish and relatively detailed like Battletech.

Transformers.

Make this a small skirmish game. You can get a variety of teams from various eras, whether it's beast wars, or dino bots, or the modern vehicles. But your minis would have two different modes they would be able to fight in.

Summoner Wars.

The game is pretty good with just cards and the limited mobility provided, but the art is pretty good and I think it would translate well to a tabletop wargame. It looks like it wanted to be a miniatures wargame but without the miniatures.

 Icculus wrote:
Transformers.

Make this a small skirmish game. You can get a variety of teams from various eras, whether it's beast wars, or dino bots, or the modern vehicles. But your minis would have two different modes they would be able to fight in.

This would actually be very cool, I think. By its very nature, it's got unique mechanics, and there's a lot of scope for minis as well.

Mass Effect where you can choose the make up of your team. Make it as customizable as the game and you should be good. I'd sell my kidney for this game.

Elder scrolls. But the miniatures can be a larger scale. You buy male or female bodies. Then different heads from different races, then the equipment and armor snaps on? I don't know if that could actually work, but it would be awesome. (Skirmish game.) I don't have any specific ideas for a larger game. I'd sell my other kidney for this.

Gundam. Use Universal Century or thrown all shows together like Turn A did. Each team has points so you can go with one or two super gundams or a bunch of Zakus or whatever. I'd give up my imaginary first born.

Stars Wars, but not JUST rebel vs Empire. Throw in everything. If I want Aura Sing and a bunch of mercenaries against my Twi-lek Jedi and her padawan, I should be able to do it. I'd give up...um...this mug I got at the Gran Canyon?

 Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:


I'd like to see a good mass combat version of the Elder Scrolls series - I've always wanted to field an entire army of Stormcloaks and have them face off against hordes of Draugr or Imperials. Can you imagine the multi-part hard plastic kits for all the models?

~Tim?

I'd prefer a skirmish game that could be scaled up to a mass battle game. Or two games in parallel, a skirmish game and a mass battle game, both using the same miniature range. Sort of like how the LOTR SBG and WOTR use the same miniature range, with miniatures formed up into units using movement trays for WOTR.

Whilst I agree, having huge armies of Stormcloaks and Imperial Legions; or Aldmeri Dominion, Ebonheart Pact and Daggerfall Covenant; or Chimer and Dwemer; clash on a battlefield would be awesome... I'd also like to play a small band of Heroes plundering an ancient Dwemer or Ayleid ruin for treasure, a band of Dawnguard vampire hunters exterminating a vampire lair or a band of Companions fighting a horde of Draugr.

Most of The Elder Scrolls video game franchises' charm is in small scale, skirmish level / RPG style encounters. Thats something you just wouldn't get with a mass battle game similar to Warhammer Fantasy.

PACIFIC RIM! ahem.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:


I'd like to see a good mass combat version of the Elder Scrolls series - I've always wanted to field an entire army of Stormcloaks and have them face off against hordes of Draugr or Imperials. Can you imagine the multi-part hard plastic kits for all the models?

~Tim?

I'd prefer a skirmish game that could be scaled up to a mass battle game. Or two games in parallel, a skirmish game and a mass battle game, both using the same miniature range. Sort of like how the LOTR SBG and WOTR use the same miniature range, with miniatures formed up into units using movement trays for WOTR.

Whilst I agree, having huge armies of Stormcloaks and Imperial Legions; or Aldmeri Dominion, Ebonheart Pact and Daggerfall Covenant; or Chimer and Dwemer; clash on a battlefield would be awesome... I'd also like to play a small band of Heroes plundering an ancient Dwemer or Ayleid ruin for treasure, a band of Dawnguard vampire hunters exterminating a vampire lair or a band of Companions fighting a horde of Draugr.

Most of The Elder Scrolls video game franchises' charm is in small scale, skirmish level / RPG style encounters. Thats something you just wouldn't get with a mass battle game similar to Warhammer Fantasy.

Exactly! You voiced my thoughts better than I could.

Also, Pacific Rim would be amazing.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:


I'd like to see a good mass combat version of the Elder Scrolls series - I've always wanted to field an entire army of Stormcloaks and have them face off against hordes of Draugr or Imperials. Can you imagine the multi-part hard plastic kits for all the models?

~Tim?

I'd prefer a skirmish game that could be scaled up to a mass battle game. Or two games in parallel, a skirmish game and a mass battle game, both using the same miniature range. Sort of like how the LOTR SBG and WOTR use the same miniature range, with miniatures formed up into units using movement trays for WOTR.

Whilst I agree, having huge armies of Stormcloaks and Imperial Legions; or Aldmeri Dominion, Ebonheart Pact and Daggerfall Covenant; or Chimer and Dwemer; clash on a battlefield would be awesome... I'd also like to play a small band of Heroes plundering an ancient Dwemer or Ayleid ruin for treasure, a band of Dawnguard vampire hunters exterminating a vampire lair or a band of Companions fighting a horde of Draugr.

Most of The Elder Scrolls video game franchises' charm is in small scale, skirmish level / RPG style encounters. Thats something you just wouldn't get with a mass battle game similar to Warhammer Fantasy.

There's a lot of scope either way. With an RPG, though, there's a strong chance you'd just end up with a reskinned D&D, or trying to beat that at its own game. That said, D&D could be a good base, for those willing to put a little work into an Elder Scrolls RPG. With little experience of it, I imagine it would be largely just re-doing NPC/enemy stats.

Personally, though, I'd prefer a mass-battle, or at least platoon level, simply because I always felt that, despite the epic scale of the games, the actual engagements were almost too small. When the battle of Whiterun, one of the largest fights on the game (both fluffwise and game-wise), has around 20 guys per side, it's a little underwhelming. I'd want something larger than that on the tabletop.

I think LOTR/WOTR would make a good base, as it does scale so well. All one needs is specific minis, although Romans and Vikings could work for Imperials and Stormcloaks, and I recall seeing some rather Draugr-esque skellies a while back.

Halo:

The diversity of the army's and units would be amazing, but I dunno if it would suit a 28mill wargame or a 10-15 mill epic game

Star Wars:

Whilst I like X-Wing, I want to see land battles, Clones fighting general grievous, Boba Fett going for Han Solo, Drop ships going in and AT-AT's decimating the Rebel scum etc, etc,

Game of Thrones

Would be really cool as either a skirmish game or an epic scale game, Stark all the way, The North Never Forgets... and Winter is coming...

Wolfenstien:

I love all the weird war stuff

Command and Conquer: Red Alert:

Would be brilliant at an epic scale game, Kirov's reporting in!

Terminator:

Dunno if this hits a wargame or a skirmish but I would LOVE a Skynet Force

Doctor Who:

I think a more military take on the universe would be cool... plus official Dalek minis, and I would have an Imperial Dalek army

Transformers:

Dunno if this would fit into skirmish or Wargame, I think around 15mill for a wargame (so that you can add in humans and Mini-Cons) plus G1 and Armada all the way Also a nice customisation leader option would be nice as well would love to put myself on the battlefield and transform into an apache helicopter

Dark Souls:

Would be an incredible skirmish game

Dead Space:

Again another incredible skirmish game

Starship Troopers:

The game was before I started the hobby and I want my overacting mobile infantry!

I would love to see a cross-over game though, like Doctor Who Vs. Star Wars would be cool I want my Daleks taking out the Empire laying siege upon the Death Star!

Command and Conquer would be amazing. It would be like a Dropzone Commander that I was interested in. If there was some sort of harvesting resource mechanic, I'd cry with joy. GW could surely get into that so easily?! God knows EA have done everything they can to milk the license dry so I'm sure they'd play ball!

Well, they have had tabletop starwars games before. Both land and space. Unfortunately they're OOP ever since the license with wizards of the coast lapsed. I played both and enjoyed them a lot. Heck the thing that keeps me away from that new x-wing game is the lack of capitol ship combat.

I also liked their starwars D20.

GI Joe would be cool..

But was also thinking Masters of the Universe. (He man). Like GIJoe the hero side would have high point characters and villain side would be a horde type army

 Zuul wrote:
Well, they have had tabletop starwars games before. Both land and space. Unfortunately they're OOP ever since the license with wizards of the coast lapsed. I played both and enjoyed them a lot. Heck the thing that keeps me away from that new x-wing game is the lack of capitol ship combat.

I also liked their starwars D20.

This. If X-Wing was capitol ships I'd be all over it like cheese on a Riptide. I want Vindicator class star destroyers and Droid control ships battling it out.
The D20 rpg was very good. Loved the alien race supplement. (Never liked playing as a human.)

You make a SW capitol game, I'm there without pause.

Most everything I can say has already been said... AND I SHALL SAY IT ANYWAY!

Gundam for sure would be an amazing tabletop and one I've thought about trying to slap mechanics to. Maybe give the option to create custom mobile suits and gundams and then kitbash to your hearts content (Bandai is sitting on a gold mine if they ever turned something like Build Fighters into ANY kind of game).

L5R also did have a tabletop game, but the fact I can't recall it clearly shows that problem. And when you get right down to it, 7 Great Clans (refuse to accept the Mantis, sorry), The Shadowlands, Imperial Army/Minor Clans allies, ronin mercenaries... plenty of options for fairly different factions, and it'd be great to use with the rpgs as well to give more depth to their mass battles.

Halo would be cool, but would suffer from a lack of depth, and the more I try to envision as Mass Effect tabletop, the more it looks kinda like Infinity with more aliens A good one would be nice to see though.

Fire Emblem might make a pretty cool tabletop game...

 PlaguelordHobbyServices wrote:

 Zuul wrote:
I've been pining for a Mobile Suit Gundam tabletop game of over 10 years. They already have an extensive line of models, 35 years of lore across several alternate universes, and it would give me an excuse to buy and make gunpla models more.

Yeah, I've been dreaming of a Mobile Suit: Gundam: 00 tabletop game, mainly because of the number of factions etc.

In 00 we have

Celestial Being
Celestial Being Fereshte (not sure if that's the correct spelling, the Celestial Being Black Ops division)
Team Trinity
Advanced European Union
Human Reform League
The Union
Earth Sphere Federation Forces
A-laws
Extraterrestial Livingmetal Shapeshifters
The Rogue Innovades
Innovators (from the Innovator war)

Also, it'd be cool to have Celestial Being fight against other Gundam units from other timelines, however, the 5th generation suits from the 00-movie are the most powerful in the Gundam Franchise. :/

I actually bought a zaku a few weeks ago to have as a showpiece model, never watched gundam before, I have watched quite a bit now and this idea is what actually made me start this thread. I thought you might be able to play with many GMs/Zakus/Whatever other low tier mobile suits your faction has, or go full on herohammer style gameplay with one of the stronger gundams as a one man army.

For what it's worth, if we're going by UC0079 standards, the RX-78-2 wasn't that much better than the later mass production model RGM-79 that came after it. In fact, the GMs were lighter and had better mobility, albeit with weaker armour (not much of an issue when beam weaponry, an increasingly popular tool on both sides of the one year war, was becoming increasingly popular), and better weaponry (although later models rectified this).

Really, an earth combat Gundam game would actually kick all kinds of ass. I'm not sure that a tabletop game could properly convey the 3D depth of movement that space combat would have, but something could definitely work for an 8th MS team style ground game.

A bit unrelated, but I was working on a stand for a model helicopter (nothing built just some sketches, just kinda a proof of concept thing, not ever going to actually use one) that had adjustable height, (for landing and such) something like it could work for space combat in a minor fashion.

A Song of Ice and Fire definitely.

Dune.

/dropsmic

40k.
It would be great if some one wrote a rule set specifically for the battles in 40k.(A 40k battle war game.)
Rather than the heavily patched 'WHFB skirmish rules in space v3.x' , GW plc sell.

A very interesting thread. I don't want to make everyone hate me, but some of the ideas being spouted strike me as very silly.

"A song of Ice and fire". Warfare in this is, like medieval warfare but with some dragons, and the occasional wildfire. You might as well make "generic fantasy, the wargame" (which already exists).
Don't get me wrong, the books are great, but not because the battles are particularly unique or interesting, its far more the politics and characters.

"Wheel of time". I love the books, but again this might feel basically like another Warhammer fantasy. The only difference being that a single Aes Sedai or Asha man (or god forbid Rand) can annihilate about 100 of your troops each turn. I think a game where you both put hundreds of models on the table only to sweep them off again because the other guy has channelers doesn't sound great.

"Doctor who". I have used the ancient rogue trader book to run a few sort of role playing game doctor who games. These were fun, but I don't think it would really work competitively. "You cant shoot my guys because you can't remember them" is a great rule in a competitive wargame.

"Elder scrolls". I am no expert, but I have played some Skyrim. From what I have seen you could easily play a game of warhammer fantasy and say "these dark elves are from Morrowind, those lizzardmen are actually argonians (hence no saurus).

Maybe I am being unfair here, but most of the ideas seem to be "I want 40k and fantasy, but with a different trade mark attached".

Sorry, I hope I haven't offended anyone.

Dast

Dast wrote:


Maybe I am being unfair here, but most of the ideas seem to be "I want 40k and fantasy, but with a different trade mark attached".
Dast

It may well be a case of that, but really, I think it's minis that a lot of people would want. I would happily play an Elder Scrolls game based on the LOTR or WFB system, if there were specific minis, in that same way that I'd use Deadzone with proper Star Wars minis.

 Jimsolo wrote:

Backfire wrote:
Magic the Gathering.
Brothers' War would produce endless amount of material. Just imagine seeing Mishra's War Machine etc. in model form!

This would also be dope. So long as it was REAL minis and not clix, and so long as they got good sculptors, this would be amazing. If you limited army construction to a single color affiliation, it would allow unique factions while still allowing for a massive amount of diversity!

I'd also love this. But I'd rather preserve the mix-and-match aspect by including some resource system that permits multiple colours. Like... taking actions with a unit costs a certain amount of [coloured/colourless], and smaller units cost less to activate. Resources could be accumulated by being directly generated by units, or special objects bought along with the army (kind of like mana batteries which can be targeted and destroyed). Also, extensive conversion options for planeswalkers.

I'd also love to see Pokemon. I started writing rules for a Polemon game, but it turned into a not-Pokemon game.

ntw3001 wrote:

 Jimsolo wrote:

Backfire wrote:
Magic the Gathering.
Brothers' War would produce endless amount of material. Just imagine seeing Mishra's War Machine etc. in model form!

This would also be dope. So long as it was REAL minis and not clix, and so long as they got good sculptors, this would be amazing. If you limited army construction to a single color affiliation, it would allow unique factions while still allowing for a massive amount of diversity!

I'd also love this. But I'd rather preserve the mix-and-match aspect by including some resource system that permits multiple colours. Like... taking actions with a unit costs a certain amount of [coloured/colourless], and smaller units cost less to activate. Resources could be accumulated by being directly generated by units, or special objects bought along with the army (kind of like mana batteries which can be targeted and destroyed). Also, extensive conversion options for planeswalkers.

I'd also love to see Pokemon. I started writing rules for a Polemon game, but it turned into a not-Pokemon game.

All of that sounds really, really good. I always thought the MtG universe would make for a great tabletop game because of the huge background diversity and colourful imagery. I don't know why they haven't done it yet.

As far as I can tell, they're a bit precious about making sure everything they produce for Magic leads directly back to the CCG. Like, it's pretty clear that they could produce some really great video games as well (and they'd have a lot more reason to get into that industry than tabletop games), but they don't want to divorce the IP from the business of selling cards. I don't particularly hold that against them; it's their game and they run it very well as is.

 Forar wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
I'm currently working on a mass effect tabletop game.

Oh? Skirmish? Large scale? Scalable? Something in between?

Skirmish, our current plan is to start with alliance and turian in the first contact war, the same book will also cover the scyillian blitz and introduce the batarians as the first mercenary group (later to be a mercenary faction), e.a has been very forthcoming and if they like the ruleset they are willing to licence it, all very early stages here of course

 Formosa wrote:

 Forar wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
I'm currently working on a mass effect tabletop game.

Oh? Skirmish? Large scale? Scalable? Something in between?

Skirmish, our current plan is to start with alliance and turian in the first contact war, the same book will also cover the scyillian blitz and introduce the batarians as the first mercenary group (later to be a mercenary faction), e.a has been very forthcoming and if they like the ruleset they are willing to licence it, all very early stages here of course

Dude thats awesome! I gotta ask, vehicles, yes or no?

Come to think of it, I have a bunch of unopened boxes of the old Starship Troopers miniature game. That's one franchise I'd love to see get a game again. Hell, I'd like that game specifically to return; it was really fun and the models were great.

Mobil Suit Gundam

Also an Attack On Titan skirmish type game would be fun

Fallout would make a fun miniatures game so would command and conquer

I would like to see a good Star Wars miniatures game LOL or maybe even another attempt on Starship Troopers

Kane & Lynch. The arcade mode in Kane & Lynch 2 could be made into a brilliant wargame/board game.

Someone said Counter Strike as a joke, but I don't see why not. It'd be pretty awesome to move around Spetsnaz and L33T H4X0R models on a de_dust table. Could be complemented with a card system for buying all the classic weapons.

I always preferred my mecha a little more on the realistic side and would love to see a game based on Armoured Trooper VOTOMS setting (the inspiration for the Heavy Gear game). VOTOMS is a hard science fiction setting with a bit more of a galactic scale than Heavy Gear has

 thepowerfulwill wrote:

 Formosa wrote:

 Forar wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
I'm currently working on a mass effect tabletop game.

Oh? Skirmish? Large scale? Scalable? Something in between?

Skirmish, our current plan is to start with alliance and turian in the first contact war, the same book will also cover the scyillian blitz and introduce the batarians as the first mercenary group (later to be a mercenary faction), e.a has been very forthcoming and if they like the ruleset they are willing to licence it, all very early stages here of course

Dude thats awesome! I gotta ask, vehicles, yes or no?

First off no there will be no vehicles, this is to save money for the infantry kits and when and if people enjoy the game and pick it up then we will look at vehicles.

I just thought of Barsoom otherwise known as the John Carter of Mars series.

Tharks, Red Martians, Therns, and many, many others.

G.I.Joe: A Real American Hero would be epic, but why stop there while wish-listing? I dream of 80s Saturday Morning cartoon APOCALYPSE! He-Man vs Thundercats vs Transformers vs G.I.Joe: A Real American Hero vs Mr.T's T-Force vs M.A.S.K. vs Silverhawks vs Macross vs Voltron, Etc....

I know I want to paint an army of Dark Elves from Thor 2. A Mad Max game would own. Vampire: The Masquerade or Dark Ages. Hell, all of White Wolf in to one amazing wargame.

On a side note, I really want an epic Lego 40k video game made by me. Just extract it from my imagination and make it a reality.

I can't believe only one other person has said Alien, for God sake imagine it. Multiple missions set on a tight board where the colonial marine player has a leveling squad of marines with individual skills?

Properly designed this could be the very best skirmish war game ever. Hell you could even have wayland-yutani mercenaries to really liven up the gameplay.

Sign me up, kick startit whatever, whoever has to do it just take my money.

 ClintonG wrote:
I can't believe only one other person has said Alien, for God sake imagine it. Multiple missions set on a tight board where the colonial marine player has a leveling squad of marines with individual skills?

Properly designed this could be the very best skirmish war game ever. Hell you could even have wayland-yutani mercenaries to really liven up the gameplay.

Sign me up, kick startit whatever, whoever has to do it just take my money.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/556916.page

I think you missed the boat by almost six months for the Kickstarter , but eventually you can get the game at retail.

For some reason I thought that game fell through, oh silly brain!

Well now I know where to throw my money in the near future! Thanks!

Happy to help spend your money (The miniatures do look amazing so they'll be getting my cash as well)!