In the Emperor's Name!

[Mister Rab]

...we're tiny, we do it for free and we give credit to their copyright.

Good, good - I just thought it would be a shame if you got hit with the same sledgehammer that got the various BloodBowl fansites just under a year back. Also good to hear you have a Plan B 

I am about to start work on a Steampunk variant called 'In Her Majesty's Name!' as well.

Now that sounds awesome. 

[Froggy the Great]

See, that's actually interesting...

[Johnno]

I printed the rules (at work  ) and read them last night. They seem pretty straight forward.
I haven't play tested them yet but hopefully will get a game in soon.
Good work on those rules!

[Argonor]

I want to play this 

Am certainly going to get it and bring it to my club!

[Craig]

Necron's ahoy!!

In the next couple of days we should be able to upload the Necron Retinue to the Blog.  As we have a few typo's to correct (thanks to our eagle-eyed downloaders) I'll probably release these as well in a 1.1 Edition.

We're still hoping someone will pick up the challenge of writing retinue listings for vanilla and chocolate Space Elves.

Cheers,
Craig.

[Mister Rab]

Yeah, yeah, yeah - enough of your 40k procrastinations, give us VSF 

[Craig]

Yeah, yeah, yeah - enough of your 40k procrastinations, give us VSF  

You can please some of the people some of the time.... etc.  

I am working on In Her Majesty's Name, and as proof here is a draft list of possible retinues, please feel free to suggest more:

Retinues - Imperial
Explorer's Club
- Prof. Challenger
-
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Shooting Party
- Noble Shots
- Ghillies
- Beaters
Scotland Yard
- Det. Le Strade
- Sergeant.
- Constables
British Army Platoon
- Lieutenant
- Sergeant
- Soldiers
Royal Navy Landing Party
- Lieutenant
- Petty Officer
- Sailors
- Marines
The Baker Street Irregulars
- Holmes & Watson
- The Irregulars

Retinues - Enemies
Fenians
- Mad-axe O'Rourke
-
German Agents
- Count von Strepp
- Agents
- Prussian Soldaten
Chinese Tong
- Fu Manchu
- Tiger Lily [Assassin]
- Tong members
Thugees
- Priest of Kali
- Thugee Cultists
Moriarty's Henchmen
Mad Scientist
- Baron von Frankenstein
- Igor
- The Monster
Bolsheviks
- Marx
- Revolutionaries
Martians
Boer Kommando
-
Mahdists
-
The Nautilus
- Capt. Nemo
- Crewmen

And I get the feeling that I am just scratching the surface...

[Mister Rab]

... as proof here is a draft list ...

  I'm happy with that level of proof 

Seriously, I think that's a very good starting list for both heroes and villains. Might I suggest that you consider  including:

- Venusians
- Dr Moreau
- Dinosaurs (oh, go on  )
- High-tech fighters of the strange and dangerous - a Victorian version of Torchwood, if you will
- Maybe even Dracula?

I know that some of those drift away from pure-VSF into horror or even Pulp, but steampunk is a very broad church, and it would be nice to have the options!

[Earther]

Lord Blackwood and his cultists?

(Just watched the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movie…)

[Craig]

Dracula?  Well one of his girls is in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 
We will need dinosaurs to oppose Prof. Challenger and his Explorer's Club.
As for Lord Blackwood, I would make him a lieutenant of Prof. Moriarty.

And I haven't even started yet, as we can also include dirigibles, landships, Sea Devils, Frankenstein and his monsterS, etc.

Once I have the core rules and weapons sorted out then I shall begin on the retinues, enlisting the help of the crew at Forge of War, and you good people here.

[Mister Rab]

Dirigibles are absolutely essential, old chap 

btw - I just received a copy of Steam in the Air - the application of steam power in aviation during the 19th & 20th centuries by Maurice Kelly which looks chock full of info and, more importantly, PICTURES of some of the weird and wonderful early powered flying machines. If I find anything particularly special I'll pass it along.