Striker or Twilight 2000?
- Thread starter SgtHulka
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What about Striker? The old GDW game is ambitious but flawed. I'd love to see a Battlefield Evolution version of this game.
Can Mongoose' Traveller RPG system integrate at all with Battlefield Evolution? Or are they totally seperate? I suppose if worse came to worse you could simply use Battlefield Evolution to role-play larger battles, always allocating damage dice to the player character(s) last, but it would be nice to see a greater degree of integration.
Can Mongoose' Traveller RPG system integrate at all with Battlefield Evolution? Or are they totally seperate? I suppose if worse came to worse you could simply use Battlefield Evolution to role-play larger battles, always allocating damage dice to the player character(s) last, but it would be nice to see a greater degree of integration.
lastbesthope
Mongoose
Mongoose Steele said:I know I would love to do a Traveller: Evolution miniature book, but I barely have the time to draw up my deadlined projects - let alone take on side work right now!
-Bry
You wait till I convert A:2089 to Traveller (Hey, it could happen), then we'll need a Traveller Evo for that game :lol:
LBH
lastbesthope
Mongoose
Mongoose Steele said:
Wouldn't it though! If I ever get serious about it I'll be in touch.
I just need to get my nose out of the Jaffa Cakes and into my A:2089 books.
LBH
(In case they don't have them where you are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes
Very tasty they are too)
Mongoose Steele said:I know I would love to do a Traveller: Evolution miniature book, but I barely have the time to draw up my deadlined projects - let alone take on side work right now!
-Bry
I don't know anyone who actually played Striker. I know people did (and even still do) but I, personally, have never seen a game in action. The rules are just too byzantine.
However, almost anyone who played Traveller bought Striker, many just so that they could build tanks and guns and APC's and stuff. The gearhead aspect of Striker was *incredible*. Between that, Book 2, High Guard, and Trillion Credit Squadron, Classic Traveller appealed to a certain type of gamer (or human being) in ways that no other game of the time could.
If someone could marry that "build anything at any tech level" bravado with a miniatures game that actually worked, it would be amazing. Mongoose already has the miniatures game that works: B: Evo. The difficult part is the gearhead bits.
SgtHulka said:
Nope, no default setting this time around. Instead we modeled the entire conflict. You can now play where ever you want, however you want.
Another thing is the lack of detailed OOB (Order of Battle or a listing of military units, including their size, type, equipment and any other relevant information, for non-grognards), as well as, an annotated listing of nuclear targets. This is intentional. I realize this may disappoint fans of the earlier versions, but let me explain our reasoning.
First, times have changed; it’s been 15 years since the last edition was published. The targeted audience (yours truly included) of the earlier editions was mostly wargaming grognards who lived off that kind of information. Players today are not that concerned with detailed military data and often are turned off by the inclusion of it.
Secondly and more importantly, we’re designing this edition for customized play based on each party’s needs and desires. Player groups are now free to determine for themselves which cities were hit and which were not; with the exception of only a few key cities (only listed to further the timeline plausibility). In addition, the timeline nor background lists any tactical nuclear targets (which there were many), leaving this completely up to the GM and party.
Nothing in this book will prevent you and your group from generating your own OOB and/or nuclear targets lists. In fact this is encouraged. You are allowed to play in any town/city and with any military unit you desire.
Rick
Mongoose
Hi Smokewolf,
I was interested in picking up a copy of the new Twilight 2013 rules, but not sure atm for 2 reasons: do you do the introductory packs to Europe (UK), and I wasn't sure what the basic mechanisms of your step rpg system are, what dice, what task resolution, etc. Any chance you could put a basic intro to the system up on your website so I could get a feel for how it might play?
Ta.
I was interested in picking up a copy of the new Twilight 2013 rules, but not sure atm for 2 reasons: do you do the introductory packs to Europe (UK), and I wasn't sure what the basic mechanisms of your step rpg system are, what dice, what task resolution, etc. Any chance you could put a basic intro to the system up on your website so I could get a feel for how it might play?
Ta.
dsfrankevo
Mongoose
SgtHulka said:
A few years ago at Historicon (or maybe it was Cold Wars) - one of the big east coast Historical conventions, I saw a game of Striker II being played
It was being GMed by Frank Chadwick - the author of the rules
I have owned both Striker & Striker II (I still have a copy of Striker II)
Striker II uses mechanics similar to the first edition of the Command Decision family of games authored by Frank Chadwick & can actually be played (both are out of print) unlike the original
The original Striker was an unholy attempt to spawn a game from the first version of the Traveller RPG & Tac Force a cumbersome modern (historical) minis game.
It had worth as a resource for Traveller GMs but was not user friendly as a game - oddly enough, the same can be said for Tac Force as a modern forces/combat reference (then - in the late 70s/early 80s) but it too was unplayable as a game
Frank's game at the con had a lot of obscure out of production Sci-Fi minis and lots of converted to Sci-Fi minis - it was fun to look at but I wasn't interested in playing.
Rick
Mongoose
Smokewolf: You mentioned on the site that you were doing post free to US and were trying to arrange it for the uk? Have you been able to?
Dsfrankevo: Striker was a good infantry game that suffered when vehicles were brought in, Striker II was an adaptation of the Combined Arms/Command Decision series of games, good for armoured combat, infantry just another add on. Both games suffered from being too generalised for miniatures though.
Dsfrankevo: Striker was a good infantry game that suffered when vehicles were brought in, Striker II was an adaptation of the Combined Arms/Command Decision series of games, good for armoured combat, infantry just another add on. Both games suffered from being too generalised for miniatures though.
I think I may have posted this link a year ago over at the evocommand forums but if anyone's interested in seeing the "flavor" of the Twilight 2000 setting, I highly recommend reading the following play-by-post:
http://www.d20.demon.nl/t2k/operations.html
I'm not associated with the game in any way, I just stumbled on it a few years ago and spent far too much time reading through it. Really sucked me in.
http://www.d20.demon.nl/t2k/operations.html
I'm not associated with the game in any way, I just stumbled on it a few years ago and spent far too much time reading through it. Really sucked me in.
