Christmas Presents

[Michi]

Ludwig II (Ludwig Otto Friedrich Wilhelm), (25 August 1845 – 13 June 1886) was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his death. He is sometimes called the Swan King (English) and the Fairy tale King (German). Additional titles were Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, Franconia and in Swabia.
It has been said that Richard Wagner’s  (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) late career is part of Ludwig’s legacy, since he almost certainly would have been unable to complete his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen or to write his final opera, Parsifal, without the king’s support. Ludwig also sponsored the premieres of Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and, through his financial support of the Bayreuth Festival, those of Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal.

Now there is that Wagnerian ensemble from Bayreuth, Franconia who travel the world on a mission. You´ll find an almost invulnerable Germanic hero Siegfried, a superstrong Valkyrie, a weapons artist Hagen, a sneaky dwarf and a lot more that will bring some fairytale magic and fantasy sword&sorcery to your world of VSF. All that in memory of a king who was the first monarch to marry steam and electricity for his private entertainment in castle Linderhof´s enchanted cave Venus Grotto...

[Tangoedtaz]

Hi all, i'm interested in a scarecrow and pumpkin head crew, with a boss. I have settled on a new talent of animate manaquin, this would allow the creation of scarecrows and pumpkin heads, but also medevil suits of armour ect, i was going to treat them as cheap throw away but large numbers troops, somthing like zombies, The talent cost has been a problem, it has to last for a full game, but be cheap enough along with the boss cost to allow a good number to be bought.
Any advice would be welcome.

All best and merry xmas to all

[warlord frod]

Tis the night before Christmas and the Warlord has but one wish.  Please pick me! Here are two suggestions for you Craig:

How about this? HG Wells as a time traveler who has gathered his team from the mists of time. So you could have any character from the Victorian era from any corner of the world. Then we add Eloi like Wenna or if you want to give him an evil twist add Morlocks with a weakness to bright light.

How about Philip Jose Farmer’s Wold Newton mutant family which originated when a radioactive meteor landed in Wold Newton, England, in the year 1795? The Family included many fictional characters such as : Solomon Kane; Captain Blood; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Harry Flashman; Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Professor Moriarty ; Phileas Fogg; the Time Traveler; Allan Quatermain; Tarzan and his son Korak; A.J. Raffles; Professor Challenger; Richard Hannay; Bulldog Drummond; the evil Fu Manchu and his adversary, Sir Denis Nayland Smith; and more. A family tree can be found in Farmers book “Tarzan Alive” and again in “Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life”. The potential here is limitless

Merry Christmas

[Hepworthnot]

The Marylebone Cricket Club cries out for attention with none other than WG Grace leading them. He was a doctor so will have some abilities in that area.
Old Father Time will be armed with a deadly scythe.
Richard Baird, a famous umpire with his exploding bails will be on hand as will the groundsman with his patented steam powered heavy roller.
Gentleman and players will make up numbers, some armed with a crude club (basically a wicket with lead inserted in the end to give it extra clout) or a cricket bat which will have to be wielded two handed. Howzat?

[axabrax]

Vampires and their minions.

[Wosamog]

I'm not sure if this has already been done to death or is already possible, as I won't have my copy of the rules until tomorrow, but I would quite like to see a company including Harry Flashman.

I've been trying to figure out a Flashman company myself, but keep drawing a blank regarding the man himself, so I'm going to chance my arm and see if you would write something suitable as part of the xmas pressie competition, Craig.

My thinking is that the company would be made up of one particular type of troop for the most part: British riflemen, Pathan bandits, Naval coves, and so forth.  There would have to be a real heroic type as the second in command, who will need to keep the arch-coward in line during battle.

This character would do all the heavy lifting, while Flashy runs his mouth off from a position of safety.  I've got in mind that there would need to be some sort of rule or mechanism whereby Flashman's craven nature would take over if he found himself outside a certain distance or LOS of his 'handler', but no idea how to represent this shameful behaviour in the face of the enemy.

[Craig]

Vampires and their minions.

Heroes, Villains and Fiends: The entourage of the Prince of Wallachia 

[shadowking1957]

And there tough buggers


http://shadowking-shadowkings.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/ihmn-evil-of-dracula.html

[Graham_Tasker]

Two ideas have cross my mind:

One based on the Romantics as personified by Blake and others, they were at there peak between 1800 -1850, but continued on for 50 plus years. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism), They were a reaction to the industrial revolution, it was a revolt against the social and political norms of the age of enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. Therefore their weapons would be swords and similar, no arc weapons or such like.

Second one would be based on the great reformers, David Lloyd George,  William Ewart Gladstone and others. These would be fighting to keep the reforms in place and to improve on them. They would have some support among the lower classes. They would have access to all the new forms of technology.

[axabrax]

Thanks! On my post Xmas list now!

Heroes, Villains and Fiends: The entourage of the Prince of Wallachia 

[cameron]

The John Carter of Mars stuff doesn't interest me at all. It doesn't fit with the setting or theme of the game. Still, it's not for me to decide how other people have fun, and it's Craig's time, not mine.

My suggestions:

The Barker Street Irregulars: a rag-tag group of street urchins, pickpockets, scamps, and scalawags. Probably poorly armed, but slippery as eels and well-educated in the sorts of skills that allow a person of tender years to survive on the mean streets.

Innsmouth Degenerates: A family of fish-man hybrids with ties to ancient mystical secrets

Hashashins

[Scorpio]

Hell on Wheels:
Irish muscles, Chinese cannon fodder, veteran Confederate and Union gunslingers, armed bartenders, dancers, whores and gamblers...

Honestly, the Industrialists company from HVF seemed to fit this bill for me.

[Bullshott]

The Marylebone Cricket Club cries out for attention with none other than WG Grace leading them. He was a doctor so will have some abilities in that area.
Old Father Time will be armed with a deadly scythe.
Richard Baird, a famous umpire with his exploding bails will be on hand as will the groundsman with his patented steam powered heavy roller.
Gentleman and players will make up numbers, some armed with a crude club (basically a wicket with lead inserted in the end to give it extra clout) or a cricket bat which will have to be wielded two handed. Howzat?

and a dozen armed cricketers (for VBCW) will be available at some time in the New Year from Sloppy Jalopy

http://vbcf.freeforums.org/painted-sloppy-jalopy-cricketers-t1641.html

[Seen Kanary]

The Terrible Company of Asylum Controllers.
The lunatics have indeed taken over the asylum and have escaped at will. The most demented of these being led by a criminally insane warlord whose cunning and strength is second to none. He holds sway over a most varied bunch of insane misfits. There are the cannibals, the torturers who are masters of the slow death (pity the poor soul who falls into their grip), the brutes who make Mr Hyde seem almost genteel, those of the sly cunning and an almost invisible method of stealth. Accompanying them are the morons who obey without thought for themselves or others any order given by their master. Their is no rational to their behaviour. There is no reasoning with them. It is capture or death.