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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Sci-Fi Small Skirmish Games => Topic started by: fabienM on February 24, 2017, 03:25:17 PM
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I have been testing or reading skirmish wargames rules for years (for fantasy and scifi) including SOBH, Mutants and Death Ray Guns, Heroscape, Deadzone, Necromunda, AT-43/Confrontation, Dust Tactics, SAGA, Chain Reaction 3.0, Mercs form Megacon, a brief look on Infinity...
I just bought Rogue Stars which seems to me the right ruleset for playing teams of 4-7 minis in scifi setting.
I decided to build some gangs for my playing group and was thinking about designing a campaign for a more "roleplay" game. I am looking for universe where I could build my campaign and instead of creating a whole universe I was thinking about using existing roleplaying space opera universe.
After this (long) introduction my question is : what space opera/scifi universe do you use to play Rogue Stars?
From now, I've identified the following possibilities more focused on space opera:
- Jack Vance Universe from Demon Princes (books)
- Honor Harrington Universe (books)
- Vorkosigan Universe (books)
- Traveller (RPG)
- Mindjammer? (RPG)
- N.E.W. (RPG)
PS : It's a voluntary option not to consider Star Wars or Dune Universe ;-)
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My sci-fi skirmishing in general (not just RS) is firmly grounded in the 40K mythos, although I'm willing to play fast and loose with other inspiration and incorporate it into a 40K-ish setting.
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I'm currently trying to work out how to use Rogue Stars for the Strontium Dog setting, and am in very early planning stages on "Valerian & Laureline", likely to be inspired enough once the movie comes out next summer.
That said, I like the (chronologically) earlier Vorkosigan books very much, and would love to see something along that lines - the plots seem to focus on very small groups of highly individual characters which could work nicely with Rogue Stars.
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Serenity/Firefly. I really like that crew.
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The Gaean Reach universe of Jack Vance. Anything can happen there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaean_Reach
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If I could find miniatures to represent the various races, I might use the Star Frontiers rpg setting. I love the races in the game. There just doesn't seem to be any minis to represent them other than the original game minis and they are 25mm and made of lead.
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Thanks for all this answers I will look at those universes.
I noticed that many universes were centered on human species or derivated when they are not exclusively humans. Two of my eight squads contain aliens (a Combined army starter from Infinity and the Rebs starter from Deadzone) so I am looking for a universe where all races are considered and not so many are to be found (even Gaean Reach seems human centric).
I've found the world of the Flying Tigers RPG (a french one) that could be interesting with a deep universe and many transgalactic organisations (Lady of Iron for Pirates, Rose of March for psionics and cultists, Galactical International Corporations for mercenaries,...)
I looked also at the clone of GW world ie Warpath from Mantic Games.
And just to finish I think that I will not use them but transhumanism post apocalypse world of Eclipse Phase or Mindjammer look interesting too :)
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i think its great for inquisimunda
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Hmmm. Anyone else familiar with Phil Foglio's Buck Godot / Gallimaufry comics? They seem like a good fit setting-wise, all sorts of aliens, weird tech, tons of different motivations for scenarios, and room for generally small scale actions despite Buck's frequent involvement with the big power players of the setting. So many crew possibilities - Winslow cultists, alien ninjas, Hoffmanite grievous injury providers, Velvet Fist bouncers/employees/patrons.
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Larry Niven's Ring World and Known Space has all kind of aliens. A Man-Kizinti(sp?) campaign would be great.
Peter Hamilton's Nights Dawn trilogy could be interesting with swashbuckling high tech captains vs possessed humans that have powers but glitch technology.
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Larry Niven's Ring World and Known Space has all kind of aliens. A Man-Kizinti(sp?) campaign would be great.
As far as I know there are exactly 3 existing Kzin miniatures in a vignette set originally made by Ral Partha.
Now made by Dark Sword
http://www.darkswordminiatures.com/shop/index.php/miniatures/elmore-masterworks/cat-warrior-with-dagger.html
There are of course many other feline aliens but none I have seen that truly represent Kzin.
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Serenity/Firefly. I really like that crew.
When Mal kicks that henchman into the engine intake I was fan for life.
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How about;
The Ice Pirates movie
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I liked the Aliens in the "Alien legion" comic books as well as the setting.
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I have come across Black Ocean a set of books by J.S. Morin, I have only read the first 3 so far and I must admit I have enjoyed all 3. I am sure the Black Ocean will be a good Universe for Rogue Stars, which I am looking at doing myself.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Salvage-Trouble-Mission-Black-Ocean-ebook/dp/B00OWR6IFS/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
give them a look over :)
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Sorry, forgot to say if you go to his website and subscribe you can get a free copy of Black Ocean and others stories :)
https://www.jsmorin.com/
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If I could find miniatures to represent the various races, I might use the Star Frontiers rpg setting. I love the races in the game. There just doesn't seem to be any minis to represent them other than the original game minis and they are 25mm and made of lead.
Try here: https://www.alternative-armies.com/collections/ganesha-games-scifi (https://www.alternative-armies.com/collections/ganesha-games-scifi)
;)
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Try here: https://www.alternative-armies.com/collections/ganesha-games-scifi (https://www.alternative-armies.com/collections/ganesha-games-scifi)
;)
Best Yazirian range ever sculpted, and the solitary Vrusk is okay. The Dralasite doesn't do anything for me but then anyone should be able to kitbash Dralasite figs. The utter lack of Sathar is the real problem, and hard to overcome. I'm honestly tempted to "re-imagine" them as these Deadlands Hell On Erath figs
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LWwAAOSw32lY2a0D/s-l1000.jpg)
with suitable added scifi weapons and gear.
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I was a fan of Mike Resnik's "Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future". It was a great yarn in my college years.
Anyway, I think "Rogue Stars" would fit very well into that universe. Space gunslingers, bounty hunters, big game hunters, lawmen and villains all seem to fit very well.
Skipper
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Maybe i will have a try with some cyberpunk/shadowrun-like setting :) or blade runners VS replicants...things like that :)
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Mel Brooks Spaceballs with a bit of MST 3K thrown in for me. Since I like to have fun.
Just saying.
Snitchy sends.
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The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers. And Blade Runner as well.
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The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers. And Blade Runner as well.
Dean over at Starship Combat News would be proud of you. He's still using Gooseman as his avatar pic after all these years.
Which is at it should be, because Shane is still awesome.
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Dean over at Starship Combat News would be proud of you. He's still using Gooseman as his avatar pic after all these years.
Which is at it should be, because Shane is still awesome.
Yeah. You know the same guy owns the rights to the series. I've got some great ideas from that show.
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I've been assembling notes and a list possible models to do a riff on Star Wars heavily inspired by the old SPI classic 'Freedom in the Galaxy!' ; a bit retro-sci-fi and mix in some of my other favorite sources and that's my setting.
-Will
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Speaking of Star Wars wannabes, how about the old mid-80s Star Ace RPG setting from Pacesetter Games? I had a serious attack of nostalgia the other day and grabbed a copy off ebay. Pleased to see it's just as cheesy as I remembered it being. Still, it's a viable RS universe for sure.
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Had never heard of Star Aces but just read some reviews and it sounds almost tailor-made for Rouge Stars action!
-Will