Books that would make good wargames.

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**bloodaxegit**

Posting this for a friend: Books by David Gemmel; waylander and the like

**Trondheim**

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

THIS! I would enjoy this very much, lord how hillarious it would be

**porkchop806**

Tom Clancy's Red October "a naval warfare stratagy game"

**malfred**

To all you Dune fans.

My faith in humanity is restored.

For now.

Thank you for posting.

I for one would not want the Butlerian Jihad. That story (the writing) aggravated
me. I'd just like a skirmish game dealing with kanly. Troops with ballistics, knives,
armor, etc.

And also, there is this for inspiration:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Fremen%20Army%20Pt.1

God, I love that army.

**MajorTom11**

Malfred is the Quisatz Hadderach!

Dune would be great as a skirmish game. So would Game of Thrones... the usual issue will be unit variety, but it can be dealt with.

**Kyrolon**

porkchop806 wrote:Tom Clancy's Red October "a naval warfare stratagy game"

Did you know that the naval sequences in Red October and Red Storm Rising were based on wargames actually played by Clancy and Larry Bond? I am not sure if they actually played one another, or how involved Bond was directly, but they were gamed using Harpoon.

**ChocolateGork**

The Honorverse

**Castiel**

Wow, I've been away for the weekend, and there are loads of great suggestions! Thanks!

I also had another thought. Has anyone read any of Brent Weeks' books? The Night Angel trilogy would make a great game, and his Lightbringer books look like they will be the same. Thoughts?

**English Assassin**

It occurs to me that quite a few of these suggestions wouldn't require anything so drastic as a complete rulesset, just unit rules, lists and some thematic modifications to established rules.

Modifying, for instance, Kings of War's rules, to represent Michael Moorcock's or David Gemmel's universes would be a doddle, and methinks rather good fun.

**malfred**

Hordes of the Things for science-fiction

http://web.archive.org/web/20061206064922/http://www.barr.karoo.net/hws/dbx/hottscifi.htm

It will take you to the Wayback Machine, but don't mind
that. Hordes of the Things is a generic Fantasy rules-set that
templates everything.

**MasticatorDeelux**

GW's 'Will it Sue?", based on the manuscript of events entailing the GW/CH lawsuit. Special characters include John Cochran, Jim "The Hammer" Shapiro and many others!

**Maelstrom808**

For large-scale fantasy settings, I'd like to see Raymond Feist's world of Midkemia realized into a TT game.

I absolutely love the ideas of either American Gods or Night Watch as a skirmish game.

**Mr Hyena**

H.P Lovecraft's work could make a very interesting game.

Dune as well.

**frozenwastes**

Mr Hyena wrote:H.P Lovecraft's work could make a very interesting game.

http://unclemikesworldwide.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1

**Ensis Ferrae**

Conan the Barbarian, as a skirmish game

**Grot 6**

frozenwastes wrote:
Mr Hyena wrote:H.P Lovecraft's work could make a very interesting game.

http://unclemikesworldwide.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1[/quote

RAFM.
http://www.rafm.com/
Pulp Figures
http://www.pulpfigures.com/main.php

As for Conan-

http://www.matakishi.com/

**Nicorex**

Melvills "Moby Dick"

Nivens "FootFall". Lack of variety since its just humans vs Elephants but there is land and space war.

**KingmanHighborn**

Even though Chris Roberts created it, William Forstchen and others made it into some of the best novels out there, so Wing Commander. Withs it's tons of Terran Confederation and Kilrathi fighters and cap ships, add in the Nepehilim, and other factions like the Border Worlds and the Landreich and you got an amazing potential for a game that would blow BFG out of the water, as fighters, bombers and carriers would actually have major purposes.

It'd also be nice to paint up some Hellcats and Dralthi fighters.

**Vampirate of Sartosa**

On a semi-related note, Monster Blood Tattoo would make an excellent roleplay.

**EmilCrane**

A quirky skirmish game based on discworld could be fun, hell even a bigger battles one would be cool too

Semi-related: Dragon Age and Elder Scrolls, not books but still deserve wargames IMHO

**greenskin lynn**

Vampirate of Sartosa wrote:On a semi-related note, Monster Blood Tattoo would make an excellent roleplay.

you could probably make a decent skirmish game also, or a board game, now that i give it some thought

**Necroagogo**

How about The Day of the Triffids? A few plucky survivors against hordes of carnivorous plants.

or. you could run it like Battleships if anyone gets blinded.

The League of Extraordinary Gantlemen migth make a fun, small-scale skirmish game too.

**Fido198674**

EmilCrane wrote:A quirky skirmish game based on discworld could be fun, hell even a bigger battles one would be cool too

Semi-related: Dragon Age and Elder Scrolls, not books but still deserve wargames IMHO

Have to agree with Dragon Age, I think it would pretty cool.

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Although a movie foremost, reccent graphic novels sorta placed it in the book section as well.

Based on that, I always wanted a Skirmish or Warhammer Quest style game based on the Labyrinth. Players play characters either based on mortals trapped in the Labyrinth trying to get out via the Goblin city, or generally adventuring with in it.
On a skirmish front you could access factions based around Goblins, rag tag groups (much like the one Sarah ends up with) the Fire Gang, and various other weird denizens of the Labyrinth.

Other than that, something based around the World of Darkness would be good. Werewolf packs, either tribe based or pack, Vampires in coeteries or Clan based, perhaps a mix. Also Wyrm minions with Black Spiral Dancers, Pentex and/or Banes, could have them mixed/seperate. Plus Witch Hunters, Police Force for those who like to take on the underdog, Mages etc.
Probably work best as a Skirmish game, but that would be something I could really get my teeth into.

**Hordini**

War and Peace! Oh wait....

For real though, Maelstrom808 already mentioned it, but you could do some sweet fantasy battles in Feist's Midkemia universe. Traditional medieval infantry and heavy cavalry from Midkemia vs. lacquered-armored Tsurani or Pentathians or what have you. A lot of options there.

**KingmanHighborn**

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Although a movie foremost, reccent graphic novels sorta placed it in the book section as well.

Based on that, I always wanted a Skirmish or Warhammer Quest style game based on the Labyrinth. Players play characters either based on mortals trapped in the Labyrinth trying to get out via the Goblin city, or generally adventuring with in it.
On a skirmish front you could access factions based around Goblins, rag tag groups (much like the one Sarah ends up with) the Fire Gang, and various other weird denizens of the Labyrinth.

I could go for that just for the chance to paint a David Bowie mini, while singing 'Dance Magic Dance'

**dripwelquest**

Iain M. Banks' series The Culture might make for a nice base.

**Great White**

The Inheritance cycle(Eragon books) seems like a cool game of army and Dragon wars

**Balance**

dripwelquest wrote:Iain M. Banks' series The Culture might make for a nice base.

"OK, your crewed battlefleet shot at my GSV. 20 shots, four hits, so It ake 4 points of shield damage. OK, my turn. my GSV launches 10 'Gangster' class ROUs, each of which has a half dozen drones that Displace over and start disabling your crew. If you manage to kill any of the ROU ships you only get half VPs as they've fully backed up their mind-state. I get sixty dice, 56 hits, so that's eleven ships uncrewed. Now for some gridfire from the GSV itself and the rest of your fleet is now debris."

"Oh, but despite tabling your entire army, I lose as the Culture is theoretically pacifists anyway and I killed too many sentients. Dang. Play again?"

**Mr. Burning**

A discworld table top game would be awesome. You could probably pick and mix some current rules and come up with some pretty nifty skirmish based games for inside Ankh Morporkh and the like.

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Necroagogo wrote:

The League of Extraordinary Gantlemen migth make a fun, small-scale skirmish game too.

Prety much any steam punk/VSF themed rulseset could amply serve.