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I am a big fan of Tyranny, the most recent RPG by Obsidian. It is a low fantasy setting with roughly bronze age technology, set during a rebellion in a recently conquered territory of a worldwide empire. I find the bronze age setting very refreshing. I also love the moral ambiguity, since there is no good vs evil, only individuals struggling to survive in a wider conflict. I am thinking it would make a good setting for a wargame and I would be interested to hear if anyone has an ideas.

There are three main factions. Firstly, the Disfavoured. I take these as being primarily heavy infantry, quite similar to Roman Legionaries. Secondly, the Scarlet Chorus. I take these as being ancient 'Celts' (a rough label covering the 'tribal' people of Europe who fought the Romans). Thirdly, the Vendrian Guard. I take these as being hoplites. There are some other factions, such the Unbroken who seem Persian inspired and the feral but intelligent Beastmen.

There are some fantasy elements present. Magic use seems quite prevalent. Most magicians seem no more powerful than any other fighter, so rather than having magicians primarily as characters I think they would need be rank and file (obviously there could be especially powerful magicians who are characters also). There are no monsters or weird creatures in the game beyond the beastmen. Also, I have seen no horses. One can easily say such things are present in the the wider world but not on the corner of the world that the game takes place in. However, I think not using horses would be an in interesting way to make the game different to historical games.

One could play at multiple scales. Firstly, mass battle with units. Modding ancient warfare games would probably be easiest (WAB, Impetus, Warmaster Ancients, etc), though a fantasy game primarily based around ancient warfare would also work. Secondly, skirmish based games with, say, between 15 to 50 models. I am not to familiar with these (Lord of the Rings is the only one I have played). Finally, a skirmish based game based around gaining experience. Mordheim comes to mind, also I am tempted to investigate Broken Legion and Gangs of Rome for these purposes.

Anyone any thoughts?

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Dragon Rampant is what you are looking for.....

https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2016/12/review-dragon-rampant-osprey-wargame.html

This will allow you to easily do what you want with the 15-50 models skirmish range.

You could also use Of Gods and Mortals but without the Gods....
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2016/12/review-of-gods-and-mortals-osprey.html

Finally, if you want to learn more about Broken Legions....
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2016/12/review-broken-legions-osprey-wargame.html

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For skirmishes, I would check out Song of Blade and Heroes or one of the Two Hour Wargames fantasy or Viking (warband) games.

Hordes of the Things/DBA would fit the mass battles quite easily and still not require a ton of figs due to the basing conventions.

-James
 
   
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It sounds like you're looking to play with a particular setting and theme, which can be grafted onto almost any game engine.

If you don't want horses, and like small skirmish, then Mordheim is a great fit.

Otherwise, I think you need to work on refining what scale you want to play at, and what level of detail you want things to be resolved. If you want mass battle, for example, then Mordheim is a poor idea, but Kings of War using 10mm (or smaller) becomes a good idea..

   
 
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