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A Mass Effect wargame would be great, but what I'd really like to see is an RPG more than anything, and to be honest I'm amazed there isn't one. Green Ronin published a Dragon Age RPG a few years ago and it's a bloody good system (I'm running a DA campaign at the moment), so I'd totally trust them with ME should Bioware/EA let them have a crack at it. I say RPG before wargame just as there's a ton of stuff in ME that would be hard/pointless to represent on the tabletop in a purely combat game. For example, you're not going to see a Hanar in battle... unless it's Blasto!

Actually, forget everything I just said and get me a Blasto mini, stat!

I though there was one for Mass effect.

id say final fantasy but i know there was once one for tactics which was cool.

 Desubot wrote:
I though there was one for Mass effect.

id say final fantasy but i know there was once one for tactics which was cool.

Are you thinking about Victoria Lamb's Endless Fantasy Tactics?

 Elemental wrote:
Gundam. The more I think about it, the more amazed I am it hasn't happened (Gundam Vs is the same idea as a viedo game). The universe is such a perfect fit for small-scale skirmishes with heroes and grunts from different factions going head-to-head.

Mekton would cover that perfectly. If the Kickstarter wasn't several years late with no appreciable progress. :( I've got a box of 1:144 kits awaiting delivery of the rules (Gundam Wing, sadly, but at least the mecha designs in that series were good).

 AndrewGPaul wrote:

 Elemental wrote:
Gundam. The more I think about it, the more amazed I am it hasn't happened (Gundam Vs is the same idea as a viedo game). The universe is such a perfect fit for small-scale skirmishes with heroes and grunts from different factions going head-to-head.

Mekton would cover that perfectly. If the Kickstarter wasn't several years late with no appreciable progress. :( I've got a box of 1:144 kits awaiting delivery of the rules (Gundam Wing, sadly, but at least the mecha designs in that series were good).

My response was Armored Core for largely the same reason. I'm shocked there isn't a popular anime style mecha game out there. Then again, there seems to be less overlap in anime and wargame fans than I'd assume. In any case, I want some shoulder cannons and beam sabers, please.

Soul Samurai wrote:

 Desubot wrote:
I though there was one for Mass effect.

id say final fantasy but i know there was once one for tactics which was cool.

Are you thinking about Victoria Lamb's Endless Fantasy Tactics?

Yeah but i recall they closed recently or something.

Oooo Armored core would be hella fun.

Seconded on Dragon Age: Origins, Orzammer is one of my favourite locations ever crafted in computer games! It is such a shame that the writer who created it was hounded out of Bioware by internet trolls :-(

A universe which engaged me in my youth was Nosgoth, the settling of the Soul Reaver/ Legacy of Kain series so I would enjoy painting up a little Vorador or Raziel.

Also I love the setting of Summoner 2 and the art style used to create the characters is really cool. I would love a set of Galdyrian Swordsmen or Tempest Beasts!

I'm feeling oldschool and missing WHFB, but I am imagining the potential of an Ogre Battle tabletop game. It's an ancient franchise, the last entry in the series was 16 years ago, and it has a good mix of monsters, races, and it has demons and Chaos Gates.

Doom.

Elder Scrolls.

Metro Franchise.

Halo needs a 28mill - 32mill wargame/skirmish game.

War of The Worlds.

Cthulhu-Verse.

Bioshock.

Titanfall.

Overwatch.

I'll throw one out there, how about star blazers, I mean who doesn't want to fly the Yamoto around space and blow stuff up, plus it has one of the coolest theme song's ever!

That's got (or had, anyway) a set of rules.
http://www.starblazersonline.com/

Every so often, I think I'd like a game in Iain M. Banks' Culture setting, but then I realise I can't think how such a game would work. Playing Special Circumstances agents using Rogue Stars or something is probably the best bet.

oh wow, thank you for pointing that out Andrew, bookmarked! I will have to dig around that sight later today, lots of good stuff.

I would like to see a game based Moorcock's Elric series.

Metal gear solid, I could see that selling like hot cakes. Maybe with a base building system using cards to bring on support and asset’s.

Borderlands skirmish game.

Factions:
Vault Hunters
Locals
Bandits
Various Corporations

I would not mind a tabletop version of command and conquer in say 10 or 15mm.

Both players deploys a base that consists of the main building and a few logistic buildings and some defence.
Then you have a set amount of turns, say 15-20 in order(combat must be very simple and very fast) to kill the enemy base. Units are on a infinite resupply as long as you controll 1 spesific base building(not the command senter) but you cannot bring in units that is not part of your "inventory list"

 FrozenDwarf wrote:
I would not mind a tabletop version of command and conquer in say 10 or 15mm.

Both players deploys a base that consists of the main building and a few logistic buildings and some defence.
Then you have a set amount of turns, say 15-20 in order(combat must be very simple and very fast) to kill the enemy base. Units are on a infinite resupply as long as you controll 1 spesific base building(not the command senter) but you cannot bring in units that is not part of your "inventory list"

Oh man red alert would be fantastic.

Prism tanks and DESOLATOR "Ready for MELTDOWN"

I would love some Jenkinsverse (aka Deathworlders) miniatures.

Super Smash Bros. - all of Nintendo's universes and some guest IP all combined together. You could have Bowser and his koopas, Princess Peach with the Mario brothers, Yoshi cavalry, and whatever the Mushroom Kingdom has, Captain Falcon and his friends riding around in skimmers, Ganondorf with all the familiar Zelda foes, Giygas with starmen and hypnotized stray dogs and street thugs, and so forth. You'd also have Fire Emblem for the boring standard fantasy army to ground the whole thing, and Pokemon to bring in the kids.

Darth Visari wrote:
Hi

Shadowrun is perfect for a skirmish game . But balancing the infinite variety of Skills , wepons , equipments , magic and bionics will be a nightmare.

There WAS a shadowrun based skirmish game many years ago called DMZ. Came with mats (poster sized) point to point movement and covered models on foot or motorcycles (go-gangers). FASA even had a City-fighting sprawl table with lit-up 3d terrain AND a working monorail at a Gencon back when it was released (which means they got around the hex-map movement issue). You used the minis available from Ral Partha for it.

There was movement, combat (weapons) as well as magical combat and it may well have had a mechanic for decking certain aspects, too but it's probably 25 years or more ago and I've forgotten. I ended up using the mapsheets for mapping out my cyberpunk2020 game combat sequences.

Something that I always wondered why they didn't do is ..

GIJoe and Masters of the Universe.. Hasbro owns WotC but they don't do anything with it.

They could do a miniature game that is D&D scale so it is cross compatible;
Run the line for 18 months and cover RPG books like Green Ronin did for DC Heroes;
Plus Masters of the universe is Gamma World when you think about it.

Since WotC is usually tied with Wiz Kids, I would rather them do something else
with their miniatures. I hate blind pull and the quality they currently produce has really
went down hill.

But hasbo has all kinds of action figure suppliers and can't do their own small scale figures.
Follow the same ideas for releases as their collector models; Maybe even small tanks
and vehicles of scale for the line..

 Desubot wrote:

 FrozenDwarf wrote:
I would not mind a tabletop version of command and conquer in say 10 or 15mm.

Both players deploys a base that consists of the main building and a few logistic buildings and some defence.
Then you have a set amount of turns, say 15-20 in order(combat must be very simple and very fast) to kill the enemy base. Units are on a infinite resupply as long as you controll 1 spesific base building(not the command senter) but you cannot bring in units that is not part of your "inventory list"

Oh man red alert would be fantastic.

Prism tanks and DESOLATOR "Ready for MELTDOWN"

Working on that ;-)

I kinda want to see an Aldenata Wars series. Maybe as an epic level game with an Early War/Late War/Second War set up.

They should make a miniatures game based on the Total War: Warhammer series.

 Luciferian wrote:
They should make a miniatures game based on the Total War: Warhammer series.

Now that's funny...

But they can not... the world blew up the last I heard...

 Paradigm wrote:
A Mass Effect wargame would be great, but what I'd really like to see is an RPG more than anything, and to be honest I'm amazed there isn't one. Green Ronin published a Dragon Age RPG a few years ago and it's a bloody good system (I'm running a DA campaign at the moment), so I'd totally trust them with ME should Bioware/EA let them have a crack at it. I say RPG before wargame just as there's a ton of stuff in ME that would be hard/pointless to represent on the tabletop in a purely combat game. For example, you're not going to see a Hanar in battle... unless it's Blasto!...

I started building one based on Spycraft/Stargate (the only d20-system game that does guns well, in my opinion) for fun a couple of years ago, and got kind of bogged down trying to find a sensible way to reconcile what is 'equipment' rather than a 'power'.

There's also a huge amount of trouble built into biotics; the crowd-control effects are only usable by Shepard/Ryder&co because they'd be incredibly annoying to get hit with in an action game whereas in a tabletop game you can't always designate someone the "player" with access to those sorts of powers, and the physics aspect (can I throw that guy at an angle that'll toss him off that thing?) is irritating to write in such a way that it wouldn't be irritating to play.

So you could do it, but the lore is so vague about why a lot of the game mechanics work that in translating a real-time action game into a turn-based tabletop game it'd be quite easy to go far off-mission and end up with something that didn't play right, feel like Mass Effect, or work.

Dragon Age is a lot easier because it's basically turn-based already.

Kind of against the spirit of the thread, but I do think in general miniature games work better as their own property and not something licensed. The development time on miniatures is just so long that from concept to a finished model being played on the table makes it hard to cash in on a popular trend and licensing fees make an already tough business hard to sustain and always under the threat of losing access to the IP.

It's not impossible, but I'd find it pretty hard to do outside of a couple evergreen brands like Star Wars. Mass Effect really nudged my brain in that direction, for as much as I love that IP, I'd be just as happy with another universe with similar levels of care put into it that was in the hands of the game designers... and not EA....

Even my own desire for an Armored Core game is less an official want for a Raven's Nest and more wishing to see an anime inspired mech game with a robust, parts based model building system.

Dune, in my mind as important to scifi as Star Wars or LOTR is to fantasy.

The Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton could use a miniature game which I imagine would be very similar to the Dropzone & Dropfleet Commander games.

A Conan the Cimmerian wargame would be boss, especially if it let you field THULSA DOOM!