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StringBassKnight wrote:DUNE DUNE DUNE DUNE DUNE.

Would be a bit unfair.

"I'm playing Ornithopter riding Sardaukar, what are you playing?" asked guy one.

"Sandworm riding Fremen." replied guy two,

"So how can I kill your Sandworms?" queried guy one.

"You have to drown them in water." answered guy two.

"But we're on a desert planet..." said guy one.

"I know, sucks to be you right now doesn't it?" said guy two, "Oh and my army is lead by Paul Muad'dib, which means his prescience allows me to perfectly counter all your attempts to beat me as he already knows what you're going to do."

"..."

"So, you want to play or just forfeit now?"

Call me crazy but I always wanted to wage geometric warfare after reading Flatland.

Has anyone here read the Bartimaeus trilogy? It's aimed at young teens but the story is still pretty good (and Bartimaeus is a good character)

It's about magicians who use summoned Daemons as the source of their power. So you'd have an army of magicians on each side with a variety of different daemons of varying power (stronger daemons require a stronger magician to control them etc.) under their command.

However, if the magician is slain then all his summoned daemons are sent back to their home plane. Battles would be a careful mix of defending your own magicians and killing your opponents magicians or all their Daemons (though daemons would of course be tougher and harder to kill, except for the really weedy ones).

In a more traditional fantasy setting the Shannara series by Terry Brooks would be great.

I'd love to see a mass-combat Song of Ice and Fire game.
Parafaith War by L.E. Modesitt would make for a wicked cool fleet combat game. As would the Honorverse books.
An Epic-type Hammer's Slammers game would also rock.
A Emberverse wargame would also kick arse. Massed combat with semi-modern materials and styles, car-based vehicles and the like.
And a Deathlands skirmish game. Mowing down masses of stickies with warwag 1? Yes please.

AndrewC wrote:Amtrac Wars?

Atlas Shrugged?

I echo the Dune sentiment. You would just have to treat sandriders as really heavy armor so they could actually be killed. At the very least I'd like some Dune minis.

Also, a detective RPG based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? would be pretty fun, but Shadowrun kind of covers that.

Lostchaplain wrote:Parafaith War by L.E. Modesitt would make for a wicked cool fleet combat game. As would the Honorverse books.

There's already an Honorverse game.

A Town Called Malus wrote:Has anyone here read the Bartimaeus trilogy? It's aimed at young teens but the story is still pretty good (and Bartimaeus is a good character)

It's about magicians who use summoned Daemons as the source of their power. So you'd have an army of magicians on each side with a variety of different daemons of varying power (stronger daemons require a stronger magician to control them etc.) under their command.

However, if the magician is slain then all his summoned daemons are sent back to their home plane. Battles would be a careful mix of defending your own magicians and killing your opponents magicians or all their Daemons (though daemons would of course be tougher and harder to kill, except for the really weedy ones).

In a more traditional fantasy setting the Shannara series by Terry Brooks would be great.

I have, and it would!

I've also read some of Shannara, it might work as well.

I thought they made Shanara, think they called it Lord of the Rings or something?

Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch books would make a very interesting basis for a RPG-esque skirmish game, simply because you have plots within plots within plots.

Leviathan trilogy.

StringBassKnight wrote:Leviathan trilogy.

This man is smart.

chaplaingrabthar wrote:I'm sure it probably exists already, but something based off of George R R Martin's A Song of Ice & Fire series would work pretty well. There's plenty of factions (Starks, Lannisters, Dothraki, Night Watch, The Others etc. etc.)

Also, is there a war game based on Frank Herbert's Dune mythos (Not the stuff by Brian)

Dark Sword miniatures have some great stuff from the books. No games, but their miniatures are fantastic.

Very NFSW though.

If done properly, a skirmish game based around the premise of Neil Gaiman's American Gods could be pretty cool.

Fafnir wrote:If done properly, a skirmish game based around the premise of Neil Gaiman's American Gods could be pretty cool.

Oh yes!

That would be insanely fun.

John Carter of Mars

Hammers Slammers is also available.......

DarkTraveler777 wrote:

Fafnir wrote:If done properly, a skirmish game based around the premise of Neil Gaiman's American Gods could be pretty cool.

Oh yes!

That would be insanely fun.

Well... I have a game theory class next semester where we have to design a board game.

Might be fun to try to put together something in a similar vein.

Coolyo294 wrote:

StringBassKnight wrote:Leviathan trilogy.

This man is smart.

As in by Scott Westerfeld? Yes that would make a brilliant game.

Also the Clockwork Century series by Cherie Priest. Airships, Pirates, Zombies, Steampunk and Cowboys/US Civil War. Would make a very interesting skirmish game.

Dune?


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A Town Called Malus wrote:

StringBassKnight wrote:DUNE DUNE DUNE DUNE DUNE.

Would be a bit unfair.

"I'm playing Ornithopter riding Sardaukar, what are you playing?" asked guy one.

"Sandworm riding Fremen." replied guy two,

"So how can I kill your Sandworms?" queried guy one.

"You have to drown them in water." answered guy two.

"But we're on a desert planet..." said guy one.

"I know, sucks to be you right now doesn't it?" said guy two, "Oh and my army is lead by Paul Muad'dib, which means his prescience allows me to perfectly counter all your attempts to beat me as he already knows what you're going to do."

"..."

"So, you want to play or just forfeit now?"

It could be set during a different time period, like the big war. (The Butleran Jihad or something?)

China Mieville's world of Bas-Lag, as depicted in Perdido Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council.

Masses of civilizations, city states and races all vying for power. All cool concepts.

Three of them...

Legion of the Damned, by William Deitz

A scifi army of robots, cyborgs, etc. that fight aliens.

Heros in Hell series, by Jan Morris.

the Inferno series by Larry Niven.

These three books would all be good RPG's, or Tabletop games.

Harry Potter - Quidditch the Tabletop game - "99 problems, but a snitch aint one"

Mutant Chronicles/Doomtroopers... Target games made some tabletop skirmish game for it, but it never really took off. Still have some ducal militia, trenchers and ashigaru collecting dust.. The minis never reached the greatness of the artwork..

Loved the imagery in the books/comics.. Especially brotherhood and bauhaus ...

Still, i'm considering using the ducal militia to make a small IG force, or convert into skiitari...

//Calle

(edit: the tabletop game was called warzone...)

Castiel wrote:

A Town Called Malus wrote:Has anyone here read the Bartimaeus trilogy? It's aimed at young teens but the story is still pretty good (and Bartimaeus is a good character)

It's about magicians who use summoned Daemons as the source of their power. So you'd have an army of magicians on each side with a variety of different daemons of varying power (stronger daemons require a stronger magician to control them etc.) under their command.

However, if the magician is slain then all his summoned daemons are sent back to their home plane. Battles would be a careful mix of defending your own magicians and killing your opponents magicians or all their Daemons (though daemons would of course be tougher and harder to kill, except for the really weedy ones).

In a more traditional fantasy setting the Shannara series by Terry Brooks would be great.

I have, and it would!

I've also read some of Shannara, it might work as well.

Hmmm...an army almost completely dependent on their magician leader, that loses most or all its fighting abilities without said leader...sounds like Warmachine/Hordes to me. Which basically means you already have the rules available...now you need fluff and minis.


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Jag_Calle wrote:Mutant Chronicles/Doomtroopers... Target games made some tabletop skirmish game for it, but it never really took off. Still have some ducal militia, trenchers and ashigaru collecting dust.. The minis never reached the greatness of the artwork..

Loved the imagery in the books/comics.. Especially brotherhood and bauhaus ...

Still, i'm considering using the ducal militia to make a small IG force, or convert into skiitari...

//Calle

(edit: the tabletop game was called warzone...)

I played some Warzone back in the day, had some Bauhaus troops. I liked the game, shame it never took off.

Richard Morgan's Market Forces, It's been sort of done in other incarnations under different IPs I think, but as a sort of Road Wars type game.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:China Mieville's world of Bas-Lag, as depicted in Perdido Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council.

Masses of civilizations, city states and races all vying for power. All cool concepts.

This would be fabulous. Mieville is renowned for being a big geek, so I can imagine he might be quite enthusiastic about a Bas-Lag wargame (or a board game, for that matter).

A game based upon Gene Wolfe's 'Book of the New Sun'/'Book of the Long Sun' worlds would make me very happy indeed.

The Mahabharata.
The Ramayana.
The Iliad.

All would have a similar appeal to 40k. Gods, spirits, monsters, and demons fighting against and alongside humanity and its numerous champions. Over-the-top powers being hurled back and forth, magic and death everywhere. I'd particularly like to stage a battle between Rama and Ravana's armies...although with Ravana's 10 heads and 20 arms, he wouldn't be very easy to paint.

P.S. The Odyssey might make a good RPG if you played fast and loose with the storyline.

whigwam wrote:P.S. The Odyssey might make a good RPG if you played fast and loose with the storyline.

It would certainly make a much-loved Saturday morning cartoon...

And yes, I could be tempted by a mythic ancients wargame; actually I'd be surprised if somebody hasn't already released one.

David Gemmell

Both the world that Druss inhabits as well as Jon Shannow.

What about A Clockwork Orange, as a sort of skirmish game?