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So for some bizarre reason people don't like necrobumping even though it does exactly the same as starting a new topic, but anyway, I'll respect forum rules <3 so, on an Elder Scrolls Wargame:


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!

I like the idea you're going with here. Why have you chosen to not give the Stormcloaks cavalry? IIRC their field camps in the game had horses, just as the Imperial ones do, and Windhelm gets a large stable.

What models will you be using for these forces?

 feeder wrote:
I like the idea you're going with here. Why have you chosen to not give the Stormcloaks cavalry? IIRC their field camps in the game had horses, just as the Imperial ones do, and Windhelm gets a large stable.

What models will you be using for these forces?

Hmm, I haven't played much of Skyrim (it's far and away my least favourite Elder Scrolls game), so I might rectify that with some additional units, but I saw the emphasis placed by the Stormcloaks on their infantry, and to try and distinguish them I thought I'd make the cavalry more significant for the Imperials, but that'll probably change a little bit, though I imagine the Imperials drawing on many of their cavalry units to use in battle. As for figures, I personally use cardboard counters for Warmaster over figures, seeing as it's O.O.P., but I would probably go with 10mm Vikings for the Stormcloaks and 10mm Romans for the Imperials, depending on figure styles. I'm also really liking the potential for a fantastic campaign that could be fought as part of the Skyrim Civil War, I'll finish a formal draft and post it here as and when I can, as a rough starting point

Acting perplexed about why posting in a six year old dead thread garners unpleasantness doesn't change that this is still the wrong place to start this conversation. There are several forums this could be, such as Game Design or Misc. Other Miniature Games.

 Ahtman wrote:
Acting perplexed about why posting in a six year old dead thread garners unpleasantness doesn't change that this is still the wrong place to start this conversation. There are several forums this could be, such as Game Design or Misc. Other Miniature Games.

Hey man, I'm just posting this where I found it I just really don't understand why people get hett up over necrobumping, or at least the kind where people are contributing something... And there was no unpleasantness, the moderator ws actually really nice <3

So basically you came into a forum, didn't learn anything about it, revived a six year old thread, then complain about it while trying to be passive/aggressive toward the other posters trying to talk to you. Good job.

 Ahtman wrote:
So basically you came into a forum, didn't learn anything about it, revived a six year old thread, then complain about it while trying to be passive/aggressive toward the other posters trying to talk to you. Good job.

Did someone spit in your cereal today?

You are coming off as more aggressive in this thread than anything LianneJW1912 has posted.

Why not hit the yellow triangle if you find the posting content problematic instead of being an ass to a new member?

Current discussion already in progress:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/736416.page