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So , first a bit of background , i'm wrinting my own part sci-fi and part ww2 wargame it set in 1950-something ww2 has basically carried on , the nazis have fallen to infighting and neue Deutsch Republik and the crumbling remnants of the third reich.THe british have left mainlan europe in order to bolster the defense after the near fall of britain after the loss of the battle of britain and the germans advance only being halted after american intervention.

Then you get the sci-fi, with russia being left relatively unsathed by cancellation of the planned operation barbossa and the nasis focussing of all efforts and recources on operation sea-lion. The ussr becam reclusive and retracted all communications with the west.Then without all warning the red army marched on the nazi controlled berlin and within 1 day the city was dust.The source of the new found might of the red army was a ship , found in the small mining town of tunguska , a crashed ship belonging to a un-known race , the technologies were taken and warped to suit the russians needs , massive iron clad walkers marched ahead of ranks of masked infantry , tanks carried cannons of earth breaking power.

In 1945 an uneasy alliance of of the n.d.r, u.s.a the ussr and the british forces the russians fell , the u.s withdrew , preoccpied with an unkown concern , the british set about utilising what they could of the russia technology and the n.d.r dug in , taking all the land they could rather in lieu of their shattered father land.

WIth the dawn of 1950tensions yet again grew between the u.k and the n.d.r and the remnants of the ussr , now conclaved in the east , open war broke when the a small strike team of British commandos were slaughtered by an unknown source , it was believed to be the ussr , but the n.d.r were now claiming responsiblity , a series of small border skirmishes took place and then we get to the then present , open war has been declared by the three factions and all hell is about to break loose .

SO thats the fluff i'll put the movement rules prototype on tomorrow but it will be 28mm , have no offical model range and will hopefully be rleatively cheap , so far i'm about 2/3 of the way through the first draft of the rules with only the more complex stuff to , go , then it will be on to play testing and then who know , please comment on what you think of the fluff so far as i want story to be a main part of the game.

Thanks so much.

'claw






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First update will be on tonight XD , so what do people think so far

Isnt that basically just the AE WWII setting advanced 5 years?

Or SOttR?

SOrry , can you expand on that a little i don't know what you mean?


'claw

It means he thinks the setting you've described has been pretty much overdone in the market these days. You're better off coming up with something a little more original.

i had another idead for the same sorta game but napoleonic fighting , an alien race , check an earlier thread i posted and i go into detail more , what would you prefer,

You could use the Harry Turtledove "World War" books as a background to get you started.

Basically, aliens with 1990's tech arrive on earth in 1942 and take on all comers.

Aliens vs Napoleonic forces would seem to be one sided unless the alien tech is much reduced - Well's War of the Worlds is a good pointer.

How about a ww2 German expedition to the "hollow earth" where they encounter classic fantasy races? See Michael Moorcock's last Elric trilogy (dreamthief's daughter) for some ideas.