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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => In Her Majesty's Name => Topic started by: Craig on 30 July 2014, 05:24:46 AM
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That looks intriguing...
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Really? REALLY? A board game? >:(
Oh, right, campaigns... ;)
Doug
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Why the angry face? A board game of IHMN would be pretty damn cool imho, perhaps a bit like "Fortune & Glory" but VSF rather than Pulp. Send a copy to Wil Wheaton (yes, the actor) and see if he features it on Tabletop, his online/Youtube gaming show.
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If I were a fish, it would look a lot like a hook.
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My mate thought board game - I thought campaign.
Either way the worm on the hook is working.
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I am such a tease... it's a boardgame created by a very good friend of mine. But it could easily be used for campaigns...
Here's some more: http://inhermajestysname.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/i-say-i-say/
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now i am intrested
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Why the angry face? A board game of IHMN would be pretty damn cool imho, perhaps a bit like "Fortune & Glory" but VSF rather than Pulp. Send a copy to Wil Wheaton (yes, the actor) and see if he features it on Tabletop, his online/Youtube gaming show.
No fear, I was pretending to be one of those callow fellows who fear expansion automatically means watering down. I'm not sold on the game, but VERY intrigued by campaign possibilities!
Doug
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Could provide the campaign background for the battles to then be fought out on the tabletop.
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I'm in tell me more!!
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I'm in tell me more!!
I suspect Craig's 'I'm such a tease...' means we'll be pulling details out out of him, one by one, for MONTHS...
;)
Doug
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Now at first glance that looks like a pleasing blend between 'The Fury of Dracula' and 'Kingmaker'. Most intriguing.
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Now at first glance that looks like a pleasing blend between 'The Fury of Dracula' and 'Kingmaker'
I hope it's not exactly like Kingmaker; I've had the game for about three years and still don't get how to play it.
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I believe that the author of this fine diversion, known hereabouts as Maldred, may be along soon to answer people's questions :D
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<edit for brevity> Here are the components of the game that you might find useful to run campaigns.
Map (board) plus Destination cards, Movement, Mission cards, Adversary cards, Action cards, Fame Points, Akhenaton & Regalia of Ra
Mark
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Thanks!
We will try to be gentle with your 'baby'. Hope you forgive the 'I'm not sold on the game...' Early days, don't you know.
I will say that my games of IHMN have tended to bring out the characters of the 'companies' more than most systems I've played recently. My game day-before-yesterday of G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T. was actually enhanced by that sense, as I was trying to flesh out my group as I went along. I'm sure it's there some in the card play, but I personally see it as, at least, a consideration.
Really? Centered around those sand-grubbers?
Oh, well...
Doug
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Really? Centered around those sand-grubbers?
Doug
Only in the sense that you get to beat them up, collecting one of the regalia before Akhenaton gets it is a reoccurring theme and runs parallel to the main task of completing missions, Akhenaton appears at the end and may win if the players screw up - how that would work in campaign terms I look forward to finding out.
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Eh?
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Eh?
Sorry, brain dump has been edited, hopefully clearer now
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So, how to use the board game as an accessory to running an IHMN campaign.
Part 1 - the board
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The game board is a map of the VSF world, real cities, legendary locations and unexplored islands.
A deck of cards is used to pick locations, there is a bias towards European sites.
7 locations are not represented, these are the home cities of the protagonists - London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Rome, Constantinople & Cairo.
Akhenaton is the bogyman.
Locations are joined by trail, rail or sea routes. Air travel tends to be between cities (aerodromes or moorings are required).
As well as basic movement Action cards offer tickets to ride on train, steam horse, ornithopter, paddlesteamer etc.
How would you use this for a campaign?
Turn and turn about? Simultaneous movement?
Do you want to be able to 'buy' travel tickets or do you want to 'deal' cards (physically / virtually) to players?
Do you want to allow companies to intercept each other ?
Over to you guys .....
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For board games I have always favoured the turn system.
Off the top of my head, I'd say one free movement per player per turn, but (saveable) cards available that can grant extra fast travel if played.
Maybe give players a chance to interact (saboutage!) each other if one lands on another. Perhaps give them random cards-swaps if the player who has landed chooses to do so. This would give them a decision to make as to whether they risk it and also give a player with poor cards a chance to really screw over another player with good ones.
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Maybe give players a chance to interact (saboutage!) each other if one lands on another. Perhaps give them random cards-swaps if the player who has landed chooses to do so. This would give them a decision to make as to whether they risk it and also give a player with poor cards a chance to really screw over another player with good ones.
I like your thinking, a lot of the board-game testers have been very collaborative, as this is the VSF version of the "Great Game" I expect players to screw each other over a lot more, after all you are representing your nation ...
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Too right. Co-operation is all very well to a point, but sneaky underhand backstabbing is way too much fun to resist. Ah, the look on an erstwhile ally's face in Risk when he has trustingly left Iceland undefended and then you play your set of cards and stack all your guys on Greenland. "Yes, I'm afraid so," followed by the rib-aching hilarity of the other players.
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Looks like a large scale version of Scotland Yard (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/438/scotland-yard) to me. Is Mr. X in London or in Cairo? I'll take the zeppelin to find it out!