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Hi everyone!
After quite a bit of lurking here on the forums, I have finally decided to make an account. Huzzah! Anyway, I have just finished reading the books Leviathan and Behemoth (Would have posted link, but I'm not sure if thats allowed....) and I thought of trying to make a wargame out of it. So yeah, my question is if anyone knows a rule set I can tweak for the idea or if I have to make it all from the start? Any and all ideas a welcome, so just post away! Thanks in advance.

What books are you talking about?

Link?

The books are written by Scott Westerfeld, and here are the links: scottwesterfeld.com/blog/books/leviathan/ and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Westerfeld_novel)

WM and Hordes

Clanker = jacks
the genetic animals= well you should know by this point

Thanks

Another example of "its all been done before". There really are extremely few totally new ideas. Someone has already thought of pretty much everything at this point.

Want rules, go here...
http://www.freewargamesrules.co.uk
...should be able to find something or maybe merge a couple into what you need

OP did you know that there used to be a wargame called Leviathan?

Nope, I didn't know that. I'll google it.

Different Leviathan me think, this one have dwarf war golem and such

Retrias wrote:Different Leviathan me think, this one have dwarf war golem and such

I don't know if they ever released War golems or not. But not as different as you may think.

Heres a link:
http://leviathanwar.blogspot.com/

well I seen it in the wargames rules digging around
Yep, very much different. The leviathan he is taking about has no elves nor dwarf, not in apocalyptic world, and is an alternate history fiction, so yeah

Here is a Tv trope link
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Leviathan

I haven't read the leviatihan books yet, but reading that link made me immediately think of Dystopian Wars. Which makes sense; I think I remember hearing somewhere that the books were one of Spartan's major inspirations.

Catalyst has also been working on an airship combat game called Leviathans as I remember...