Warband: Goalsystem Fantasy Skirmish [Official Game Title Changed - 7/7/14]

[Too Bo Coo]

Ok, that's two votes for this!  I may work up an alternate Google doc with this scheme just to see what it looks like.

Thanks!

I think that if everytime a character or monster attacks, that they also run the risk of a counter attack, that may make the game more deadly in a way you had not originally envisioned....

[fourcolorfigs]

I think that if everytime a character or monster attacks, that they also run the risk of a counter attack, that may make the game more deadly in a way you had not originally envisioned....

Yeah, that's why it needs play-testing, I think.  It will change the dynamic of the current game, for sure. Thanks!

[fourcolorfigs]

Just an update on things. I should be ready to release a play-test doc at some point in the next week or so.  Maybe sooner. I need to give the radical new close combat rules a thorough spin myself before unleashing them.

Also, I got my order from Four-A miniatures, and they are amazing!  My Goblin warband with Chaos Dwarf leaders will be a terror, or  least they'll look good dying!

[Conquistador]

Just an update on things. I should be ready to release a play-test doc at some point in the next week or so.  Maybe sooner. I need to give the radical new close combat rules a thorough spin myself before unleashing them.

Also, I got my order from Four-A miniatures, and they are amazing!  My Goblin warband with Chaos Dwarf leaders will be a terror, or  least they'll look good dying!

I would like to play-test this.  Right now I am using Swordplay, (about to be updated to the new and superior reaction system in NUTS! 2nd edition - free as always,) but this would be good to compare to my "usual" go to skirmish rules.  Skirmish rules should be fast, unpredictable, and deadly.

Gracias,

Glenn

[Davian]

Good news for the play-test! My fantasy figures are waiting for some scratch fight!

[fourcolorfigs]

Some images from a play-test session last weekend!












Thanks for looking! 

--Scott

[deathjester25]

Great looking game. Really looking forward to try it out

[Nikdo]

Great setup.  I can't wait to try this out.

[fourcolorfigs]

Ok, folks!  Here's links for the first play-test version of GSF, and Carl's wonderful warband roster sheet--thanks, Carl!

https://app.box.com/s/xeim3xtnmzqeelnm9cy4

https://app.box.com/s/3wrh3klhmpk4n030utv2


Try them out and let me know what you think! 

A few comments:

-- Please don't comment on the "layout" -- this is not a finished rules doc and will be subject to much revision and an actual layout process once we reach the end of this process, and even while we're laying it out.  Comments on the current layout as you see it will likely not be relevant.

-- I have not finished the monster section.  Many more monsters need to be included. 

-- I want to build Class archetypes that player's can simply apply a species package and equipment to.  This will come in the next few weeks and make it a lot faster to build characters.
Everything you need is there now, but you'll have to build characters from scratch at this point.

-- Use 70 pts. as your max for single characters, and 300 pts. for your Warband size.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks!

--Scott

[Davian]

Great! Downloaded and I'll try it for sure and let you know about it, thanks!

[Nikdo]

Thanks, Scott.  I've downloaded the play-test version and will take a closer look.  Hopefully I'll be able to throw out some figures this weekend...

[Too Bo Coo]

Thanks Mate!  My Drow arrive tomorrow!!!

[Too Bo Coo]

Ok, 300 GPB worth of Otherworld mins just arrived in the post and are added to the other 500 GOB that I bought last year (If you like Otherworld their 'Vouchers' are great, if you spend 200GOB, you get 300 to buy items!  You cant use sale prices, but the sales are generally 10-25% with a few up to 40%, but if you buy the voucher, you got 50% free, so it's still a better deal in most cases!  For the 700gob I got I spend about 450 on vouchers.  Anyhoo, my support for OW aside, I bought their Drow line (minus the Driders) and plan to use them as my first warnband for Delve/your as yet untitled game!    I decided to start playing with Taymia Clear Smoke to 'mystify' the drow armor a bit and the Reaper Triad Dark Elf paint set.  Work will be a bit slower with the summer here, but by the end of it I expect to have a warband painted and ready!

I read a bit through your rules and my initial thoughts were that i still plan to play Delve as a 'regular game' type thing so that I can run some sort of campaign.  It seems very well suited to that.  I also plan to use your new game to run stuff at my local club and with Mates.  VERY excited to see more!

[Conquistador]

Downloaded both.

Family in town for Independence Day so will read them when I get the chance.

Gracias,

Glenn

[Rolude]

Downloaded and checking it out.

Then the real trick will be getting the time to actually Play-test it, heh. ;-)

Before they went up I gave B&B(2)* a full read through and it is a great use of the rules so I expect I'll feel the same about this too.
* I had bought it but not really given it a solid read before. It's been in the pipe to get used but since I picked it up we haven't managed to actually get any minis gaming in /sad/.

ANYHow... I did find a funny thing happen when I was reading B&B. I said earlier that for me I found that GSDelves was more of an RPG rules set than I had been wanting. So the funny thing was that while reading Blasters & Bulkheads 2 it occurred to me that it would work great as an RPG, heh!

So I guess for me it seems like B&B nailed the point between TTG and RPG. If GSF is basically a "fantasy version of B&B" then it should be fantastic.