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Anybody else feel like Bethesda should bring out a Elder Scrolls Wargame?

Wrong forum, and NO. Elderscrolls is fine right where it is. Same answer to the inevitable MMO question. I like my Elderscrolls done oldschool thanks

Elder Scrolls was a D&D campaign setting before it was ported to the computer. They wisely decided to make their own ruleset rather than pay for a licence.

So I suggest you reverse what has been done to get your wargame.

Translate Elder Scrolls into D&D and then use the D&D Miniatures Handbook. It should be too much work, its thinly veiled D&D as it is, same enough levelling system just direct switch the ruleset over and convert the attributes to the orginal six.

KingCracker wrote:Wrong forum, and NO. Elderscrolls is fine right where it is. Same answer to the inevitable MMO question. I like my Elderscrolls done oldschool thanks

I still want 4p Co-op

2 player co-op would be good enough for me

NO WHAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KingCracker wrote:NO WHAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WAI!

Slarg232 wrote:

KingCracker wrote:NO WHAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WAI!

I don't know how such a thing would work, and be consistent with the Elder Scrolls system. The absence of classes sort of breaks the wargame premise by way of balance. Well, unless we're talking about representing the mass unite warfare of events like the Septim conquest.

I still want Cooperative play for Elder Scrolls...possibly the only thing they really need to add in terms of game mechanics to the game.

Karon wrote:I still want Cooperative play for Elder Scrolls...possibly the only thing they really need to add in terms of game mechanics to the game.

Its my wish.

Apologies for a necrobump as a new poster, but I do have to say that I have some interest in creating a playable Skyrim Wargame using the Warmaster Rules as a template. I'll be focussing on the Skyrim Civil War initially (which I'm finding difficult rn because I haven't played Skyrim 'D) as that is probably one of the easiest and most obvious battles/wars with defined battles and units etc. Right now I'm working on a conversion process, as I'm looking less at miniatures, as I play Warmaster with counters instead of figs anyway, and more looking at the various units, size of armies, different tactical styles and how that would reflect on the army lists etc, but I'm thinking armies of about 1,000 points representative of around a 1,000 soldiers per side, as trhis seems to be a good scale for Skyrim

There's been mods for large scale battle simulator video games which are maybe similar. Those mostly involve the Dunmer Great Houses, but the world's diverse enough to bring in the other states. A wargame would probably be expensive as hell though, given Bethesda's track record with miniatures.

Skirmish level games may be more the series' area. As has been said it started out as a D&D campaign, which would fit how the video games play. I ran a Frostgrave campaign set in a post-Red Year Vvradenfell a while ago which wasn't too difficult to throw together.



Edit: and damn. Six year necro? Just create a new thread man.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
There's been mods for large scale battle simulator video games which are maybe similar. Those mostly involve the Dunmer Great Houses, but the world's diverse enough to bring in the other states. A wargame would probably be expensive as hell though, given Bethesda's track record with miniatures.

Skirmish level games may be more the series' area. As has been said it started out as a D&D campaign, which would fit how the video games play. I ran a Frostgrave campaign set in a post-Red Year Vvradenfell a while ago which wasn't too difficult to throw together.



Edit: and damn. Six year necro? Just create a new thread man.

i'll be honest, I really dislike Skirmish games, they feel kind of lame to me, compared to controlling full-on armies of warriors, the only 'skirmish' game I ever got into was Space Hulk, and that's really it's own unique thing.

But regarding the actual wargame itself, honestly I think small 1,000pts games of Warmaster with adjusted unit stats, I have the Imperial Legion and Stormcloaks pretty much sorted. The Stormcloaks have lower command values and are not permitted to form brigades of more than three units, due to their lack of emphasis on 'rank-and-file' compared to the Imperials, Ulfric Stormcloak having a CV of 8, compared to Tannius' 9, and respective commanders having 7 and 8 for each faction. The Stormcloaks have little in the way of cavalry, mostly relying on a combination of cheap infantry footsoldiers and 'elite' infantry units, and have the use of skirmishers, which seems fitting. The Imperials have more cavalry, though still not a prolific amount, and have more expensive infantry overall, though many of these have armour saves, where Stormcloak equivalents do not. Also worth noting is the Stormclock 'Shield-Siblings' gives units an armour save of 6+ if an entire brigade is equipped with shields etc. I think it's pretty easy to make it work, and the campaign for the battles of Skyrim? Fantastic! I feels befitting, my highly loose calculations give me a rough population of Skyrim of 65,000 (obviously not the actual number of NPC's in the game, but an adjusted ratio based on real world examples and Daggerfall), so an army of roughly 500-1,000 works well in this circumstance. Plus the Warmaster rules are free to download, so that's a plus!

P.S. I've never understood the problem with Necrobumping, surely it's easier to look at a past conversation than start a completely new one? Does basically the same thing And I felt this was something important to sharee <3

Necromancy detected!

Back into the grave with you, old, dead thread!

[Probably best to start a new thread on something that is 6 years old...]