A Conversation for The Wargames Connector.
Real wargames anyone?
Acid Override - The Forum A1146917 Started conversation May 31, 2003
I'm about to make myself unpopular. Then again I've always been good at that.
Hmm, been looking for h2g2 wargames board. Unfortunately I am very anti-games workshop and this board...um...isn't
Does anyone here play (or know of someone who plays) any real wargames. I'm not bothered about it being historical battles - I've just got these old fashioned views that the winner of a game should be the player with the best strategy, not the most money.
It wasn't always like this - I've seen my fathers old games workshop collection - where you bought and game and you had...a game. You didn't need to invest hundreds of pounds a month to keep it from going out of date (let alone improving it)
Real wargames anyone?
Purple Moose - He comes, he goes. But mainly the latter... Posted Jun 1, 2003
hiya Acid Override,
I do know that this board is rather Games Workshop Orientated, but that's only because I personally play the games. The whole point of this page wasn't just for games workshop, but due to my lack of knowledge of other wargames and my addiction to the games workshop hobbies, it has just remained mainly a games workshop thing.
Always happy to help, if you stick a list of games you play into this convo i'll happily put you on the board. 
Real wargames anyone?
Acid Override - The Forum A1146917 Posted Jun 1, 2003
DBMs gotta be the main one (I forget what it stands for its in latin)
Can play (but don't own armies for) Full thrust, Battleground
I've also started to pick up Principles of War
I'm a fast learner, I'll try anything anyone thinks they can teach me.
btw I saw inquisitor on the board - wasn't that meant to be an RPG? *sigh* the gamesworkshop used to have such a good rpg.
Real wargames anyone?
Purple Moose - He comes, he goes. But mainly the latter... Posted Jun 2, 2003
it is an rpg, but it's still a wargame, but just on a skirmish scale... and it's friggin' ace! 
Real wargames anyone?
The one and only BOB (Knight of the attack penguin puppet masters)(We are Susan Winkle. Join us. A1097363) Posted Jun 2, 2003
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay was pretty good.
Real wargames anyone?
Acid Override - The Forum A1146917 Posted Jun 2, 2003
No its not an roleplaying game. Not anymore than a 'real time strategy' requires any sort of strategy*. Thats just what they wrote on the box.
An rpg is distinguished by your having a role and well, playing it. In an rpg there is a chance that situations can be solved by diplomacy, stealth or cunning. I don't think inquisior allows situations to be resolved with anything less than the complete destruction of one side. Inquisior was a way for the games workshop to make use of another scale that no other games manufacturer in existance uses to ensure you have to buy their products - nobody else in the world minds this. GW had a rule in bloodbowl where the number of points you got on a certain table was "Equal to the numeber of gamesworkshop cheerleader models painted in citedal minature paints that the player owns" Thats not even subtle. Thats stating catagorically that you have a better chance of winning by buying more of their products. I've played in offical DBM tournaments with the wrong models but GW kicked me out for not greening around the rim of the base - I did ontop, but not the rim. But I'm not bitter 
By warhammer fantasy roleplay I just wanna make sure we're on the same page. I mean the old one where you rolled on the D100 table for your proffesion and could end up with a character who *used* skills like bluff and diplomacy to achive his goals? Not the new one (Though that can be used as an rpg with heavy modifycations to the rules)
* -> Spot the anal person who distinguishes between strategy and tactcis
Real wargames anyone?
Purple Moose - He comes, he goes. But mainly the latter... Posted Jun 4, 2003
inquisitor games can be resolved without a shot being fired.
it's just more fun if there is...
Real wargames anyone?
The one and only BOB (Knight of the attack penguin puppet masters)(We are Susan Winkle. Join us. A1097363) Posted Jun 17, 2003
Acid.
Yeah that's the one.
A very good game all in all. I wonder why GW discontinued it.
The best RPG system at the moment is the World of Darkness series - Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Wraith, Changeling and the latest which is Demon:The Fallen.
According to the credits in one of their sourcebooks though "Monkeychickens : The Whipassing" didn't make it to publication.
Real wargames anyone?
The one and only BOB (Knight of the attack penguin puppet masters)(We are Susan Winkle. Join us. A1097363) Posted Jun 17, 2003
Acid.
Yeah that's the one.
A very good game all in all. I wonder why GW discontinued it.
The best RPG system at the moment is the World of Darkness series - Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Wraith, Changeling and the latest which is Demon:The Fallen.
According to the credits in one of their sourcebooks though "Monkeychickens : The Whipassing" didn't make it to publication.
Real wargames anyone?
Acid Override - The Forum A1146917 Posted Jun 17, 2003
I'm playing a few World of Darkness games right now. A nice system, very bleak and often makes for better roleplaying compared to some of the more combat orientated games (AD&D being the classic)
Still there are other games in this catagory, lets not be forgetting Cthulu...
Real wargames anyone?
The one and only BOB (Knight of the attack penguin puppet masters)(We are Susan Winkle. Join us. A1097363) Posted Jun 18, 2003
Cthulhu is another great game.
Currently playing a Vampire :Dark ages at my local club.
We got into a fight with some pre sabbat anarchs and were nearly diced.
On another thread somewhere you mentioned MERP. I used to love MERP, it was the one game whos crit system made it possible to die by stubbing your toe.
Real wargames anyone?
Acid Override - The Forum A1146917 Posted Jun 18, 2003
lol - good 'ol rulemaster. I'm playing a world of darkness game. We have now had (at different times) a mage, a vampire, a technomancer and a werewolf in the party - it was interesting to see how they got along (Ironically the biggest interparty diagreement was between two of the mages!)
Your not based anywhere near Birmingham per chance?
Real wargames anyone?
The one and only BOB (Knight of the attack penguin puppet masters)(We are Susan Winkle. Join us. A1097363) Posted Jun 20, 2003
Nah.
Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire.
Last time I was in Birmingham was to see System of a Down in the Academy.
Key: Complain about this post
Real wargames anyone?
- 1: Acid Override - The Forum A1146917 (May 31, 2003)
- 2: Purple Moose - He comes, he goes. But mainly the latter... (Jun 1, 2003)
- 3: Acid Override - The Forum A1146917 (Jun 1, 2003)
- 4: Purple Moose - He comes, he goes. But mainly the latter... (Jun 2, 2003)
- 5: The one and only BOB (Knight of the attack penguin puppet masters)(We are Susan Winkle. Join us. A1097363) (Jun 2, 2003)
- 6: Acid Override - The Forum A1146917 (Jun 2, 2003)
- 7: Purple Moose - He comes, he goes. But mainly the latter... (Jun 4, 2003)
- 8: The one and only BOB (Knight of the attack penguin puppet masters)(We are Susan Winkle. Join us. A1097363) (Jun 17, 2003)
- 9: The one and only BOB (Knight of the attack penguin puppet masters)(We are Susan Winkle. Join us. A1097363) (Jun 17, 2003)
- 10: Acid Override - The Forum A1146917 (Jun 17, 2003)
- 11: The one and only BOB (Knight of the attack penguin puppet masters)(We are Susan Winkle. Join us. A1097363) (Jun 18, 2003)
- 12: Acid Override - The Forum A1146917 (Jun 18, 2003)
- 13: The one and only BOB (Knight of the attack penguin puppet masters)(We are Susan Winkle. Join us. A1097363) (Jun 20, 2003)
More Conversations for The Wargames Connector.
Write an Entry
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers."