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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: pixelgeek on February 24, 2020, 03:08:09 PM
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There are a few folks in my local gaming group that are looking for games to use their 40K figs with. I am going to be writing an article for my blog that incorporates some of my own suggestions as well as some entries in the rules thread.
I was looking for more suggestions as well as comments from people that have reused their 40K collections and how well the experience went.
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You can use many of them to play Infinity. Space Marines could basically be Ork troops. Not everything will have an equivalent in Infinity but many will. Infinity is a fantastic game, probably the best sci-fi skirmish game out there.
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Star Breach.
I cannot praise this game enough! There is a thread on this forum which holds more feedback from folls. But it's free to download and has rules for most of not all 40k equivalent factions. It's kill-team-esque but without any of the issues kill team has of just being smaller 40k with weapon stats designed for a larger game.
More is planned for it in the future too.
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There are a number of options.....
Tomorrow's War
Rampant Stars/Rampant Sun
Fist Full of Lead
Blasters and Bulkheads
Rogues Stars
Rogue Planet
There are more, but this is what I have at the moment....
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I'd second Rogue Planet and Fistful of Lead: Galactic Heroes especially, and I'd also recommend these:
FUBAR (excellent and free)
Pulp Alley (a brilliant game that works well with just about any setting)
Mutants and Death Ray Guns (the sci-fi game we've played most - and largely with 40K miniatures: probably the easiest and quickest to get playing straight away)
Also:
Xenos Rampant (a free Dragon Rampant hack)
The Men Who Would Be Kings (great for space marines or orks against primitive aliens)
and even ...
Hordes of the Things (https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=122064.0)
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Plus another for Galactic Heroes. You can take your existing
40k force & break it down into several 'Teams' enough to give
you a multi-player game. Knowing how many figures most 40k
players have, you could do a card for each 'team' then randomly
draw to see what you get for that scenario.
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You could always go retro and try Laserburn.
You would recognise a lot of the kit.
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I'm sure I saw someone building lists for chain of command
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Definitely Rogue Planet, love that game!
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Pixelgeek,
Try Xenos Rampant. It's free and written by the author of Dragon Rampant, Lion Rampant, Pikeman's Lament, the Men Who Would be Kings, and other sucessful games.
Some of those other game suggestions are very small skirmish scale, with only five or six models a side. Tiny numbers of troops on each side will not scratch that I want to use my 40K models, but don't want to play 40K itch.
Xenos Rampant has power armor, support troops, tanks, apcs, walkers, and xenos. Rampant games let you field what you want, enabling you to use ALL of your 40K models (maybe not your warlord titan).
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Try Xenos Rampant. It's free and written by the author of Dragon Rampant, Lion Rampant, Pikeman's Lament, the Men Who Would be Kings, and other sucessful games.
While I agree with the recommendation, I don't think that's quite right: Xenos Rampant is a fan-written add-on for Dragon Rampant, not something written by Dan Mersey.
It's good, though!
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I've used my 40k and warhammer stuff for so many different games. 7TV has scratched the smaller skirmish itch. Not seen Xeno rampant, but like the sound of it, love dragon R.
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The link to it is here (https://richardcowen.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/xenos-rampant-futuristic-wargaming-in-dragon-rampant-v1.pdf).
We played a large-scale, four-player game of it a couple of months back. It's pretty good. The one caveat I had was that failed activations, which have never bothered me before in the Rampant games, did loom large. That was because we had one side (daemons) entirely composed of discounted Dragon Rampant units, which don't get the free actions that the new Xenos Rampant units do.
So, on balance, I'd suggest that rather than fielding DR units for half price in points (as in the XR rules), they should be just one point cheaper but should get a free Move action to compensate.
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How well does Xenos Rampant create units that feel different from each other? One issue I had with Dragon Rampant was that units didn't really feel distinct.
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It introduces a whole range of new troop types to go alongside the Dragon Rampant ones. One is very clearly meant to be used for space marines. They have lots to differentiate them, including special morale rules. All the new units have at least a couple of new special rules (a free action and a new action type, typically), and they all get access to lots of upgrades and downgrades, along with all those in the DR rules.
As an example, if you're using terminators, you wouldn't merely use the marine ('elite infantry') profile and a reduced-model unit, but instead upgrade the armour of the terminators and equip them with extra firepower and close-combat options.
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I forgot, that I also use 40K minis for games of Strange Aeons!
Inquisitor retinues vs. Daemons and Xenos work great in this game!
People also played the "In the Emperor's Name", which was later re-skinned as In Her Majesty's Name for Osprey and Steampunk games.
Edit: Forgot these:
Stargrunt
Dirtside II
Gruntz
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Acquire the 2nd edition rulebooks cheaply from second hand sources and then game whatever generic scifi battles that one wants to. 99% of the rules are not tied into any specific scifi setting.
Or this (http://swordplusone.com/warband_print.pdf).
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OnePageRules' Grimdark Future (if you want big battles) or FireFight (for skirmishes). It's a simplified rip-off system, and works quite well!
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vHgukpncdtY/XgsIsQ9KzGI/AAAAAAAABoY/RDGF6W-RyHEWpx83AYK3hG2gt7NYfYrlACEwYBhgL/s640/IMG_20191230_191713.jpg)
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Any of the sci-fi skirmish games will work for gang fights/small skirmishes - Supersystem, Galaxy heroes, Star Breach, pulp alley as examples etc.
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Has anyone played both Rampant Stars and Xenos Rampant?