Dragon Rampant - Who's Playing?

[Diablo Jon]

I enjoy "The Men Who Would be Kings". I'm no expert on the colonial era but the game is fun and interesting. It includes an AI, "Mr. Babish" (sp?), to run the tribal or rebellious forces to allow for cooperative, GM'd, or solo play. I keep threatening to set up an orc or similar force for the AI and run a Human, Elf or Dwarf expedition into their area.

Yeah I've been thinking about porting over the solo rules from TMWWBKs to Dragon Rampant they should work well enough. The solo rules do give a particular kind of game though as they relay on the players forces to move to trigger the AI units so they don't really work well in an attacker/defence scenario where the players forces don't want to move. For a a group of adventures (all high powered units in DR)on a wilderness crawl being attacked by hordes of baddies they'd give a good game I reckon.

[Plynkes]

It's 'Babbage', named after Charles Babbage, the Victorian inventor, creator of the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, which were mechanical computers. He's considered the inventor of the computer and the father of computing by many. Sounds like something that belongs on the VSF board, but it was real.

I believe that the computer on 'Family Fortunes' (the British version of 'Family Feud' for our LAF friends in the New World), that thing that made the UHHHH-UHHHH! noise when the contestants got an answer wrong,  was also called Mr. Babbage.

[Little Odo]

Owned them for a while, read them through on a couple of occasions, but not got around to playing them yet. I have played Lion Rampant a few times and enjoyed that, so I imagine Dragon would be that cut above fun-wise due to the fantasy elements. I may move onto Dragon Rampant once my current skirmish games using Middle-earth SBG have run their course and I need something grander.