David Brin's "Thor meets Captain America"

[SBRPearce]

I just read this novella (available for your perusal on Brin's website: http://www.davidbrin.com/thor1.htm) and now I'm eager to set up and run some "Endless World War" scenarios. I picture the lineup being US science-based troops versus Reich fanatics supported by their Asgardian allies, who are very dangerous and nigh unstoppable. (The "nigh" part is important.)

Can anyone recommend a ruleset that can take some tweaking and will accomodate both singular individuals and entire units (since, in the story, it says that an entire armored company stands a chance of taking down an Asgardian, if they're well-coordinated and lucky)?

Thanks in advance. (Might be fun to run up a FoW hack to mind-bend the orthodox army-listers at my FLGS!)

[supervike]

Sorry, can't help you too much, but I just want to thank you for the link to that story.

Looking forward to reading it!

[Hat Guy]

I think adapting Flames of War may be your best bet, or possibly AE WWII.

[Weird WWII]

Battleground WWII is my poison.

Brian

[robertsjf]

or possibly AE WWII.

Not sure that has the scope the OP's looking for as I was originally going to recommend SoTR (Suprise!)

I like the OP's idea of running a FoW mod.

[Darkson]

AE has rules for Super Heros in their Over the Wire e-magazine.

[Hat Guy]

Or you could go really nuts with something like Crossfire or Epic.

[robertsjf]

AE has rules for Super Heros in their Over the Wire e-magazine.

What about the "entire armored company" part?

[SBMiniaturesGuy]

I've ordered Brin's graphic novel of the same story. I have done rules for super soldiers in the new NUTS! weird war book, and am also developing super hero rules for the Two Hour Wargames' "Chain Reaction" system. But at a skirmish level, there's little gaming fun in having a godlike superbeing run amok on the table. I limit the rules to heroes like Captain America, Batman,Red Skull, stuff like that. I treat Superman level super beings as a nasty artillery strike -- they bash up an area and then leave. In the old comic books Superman rarely sticks around to chat with the troops after smacking some panzer tanks. If opposing superbeings end up in the game at the same time they cancel each other out, after bashing up an area of the board (and all figures in the area duck for cover or get hammered!). At this level in Brin's story, you're better off using a Operational Level game like Panzer Corps (Divisional scale) or CrossFire (Army/Front scale) or doing a boardgame of some type -- whip up a new Axis and Allies variant maybe, pr do a WW2 version of Godstorm: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/prod/riskgodstorm

Say, that would work! Take bits of both and you have it! Who's up for designing the game with me?? Maybe a Lead Adventure collaboration! 

[Darkson]

What about the "entire armored company" part?

Funny thing you can do that as well. Check out the Basra expansion.

[pauld]

was there not some rules for Cap and Red Skull for Mongoose's Battlefield Evolution World at War from Agis


http://www.agisn.de/html/captain_america.html