| Chris PzTp | 19 Nov 2008 11:33 a.m. PST |
What would a "luddite army" look like in a VSF game? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Perhaps it would be a be a mob of some sort, arriving from a random direction to indescriminatly attack any mechainized contraptions because they see them as an abomination. I can see "Luddites jump out of the nearest cover and ambush your contraptions" as a random event. What would they be armed with? Hammers & farm tools? I know, I know, Luddites were from around 1811-12, but perhaps all the new victorian technology depicted in our games offended their sensibilities and the late 1800's saw a resurgence of 'neo-luddites,' who were particularly offended by the war-like purpose the new machinery. |
| Skrapwelder | 19 Nov 2008 11:37 a.m. PST |
Wooden shoes. That way they would get a bonus for discarding sabot. |
| Mikhail Lerementov | 19 Nov 2008 11:54 a.m. PST |
Probably look a lot like a row of wooden crosses in an overgrown field. |
| Grape Ape | 19 Nov 2008 11:57 a.m. PST |
"And was jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark, Satanic mills…" Ya know, I may be bucking a two hundred year trend, but I always thought that Blake had a screw loose. |
| Steve Flanagan | 19 Nov 2008 2:12 p.m. PST |
Do Rebecca's Daughters: big hairy men in dresses, smashing up machinery. "But, ooooh, the Ironmasters
They always get their way …" |
| Plynkes | 19 Nov 2008 2:26 p.m. PST |
Why are these Luddites smashing up war machines again? The Luddites weren't mindless technophobes, they objected to new technology in the textile industry that put skilled workers out of a job (and had the side effect of making working in said industry a living hell).
I don't think you're going to find too many soldiers who object to labour-saving battlefield devices that make killing the enemy an easier job requiring less training.
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| Chris PzTp | 19 Nov 2008 2:59 p.m. PST |
"Why are these Luddites smashing up war machines again?" Your point is well taken, but given the fact that in the last VSF game I played in I "ambushed by lizardmen" while another player was "ambushed by raptors" … They're "neo-luddites" :-) |
| Brandlin | 19 Nov 2008 3:15 p.m. PST |
They're "neo-luddites" :-) you mean hippies? |
| Lowtardog | 19 Nov 2008 3:38 p.m. PST |
Luddites were Georgian not Victorian why not the Ostlers, Stable boys and Blacksmith T Union disaffected at the loss of trade? with ironclad machines etc |
| runs with scissors | 19 Nov 2008 3:57 p.m. PST |
How many Luddites does it take to change a lightbulb? |
| tinned fruit | 20 Nov 2008 12:35 a.m. PST |
Anybody do "The men they couldn't hang" minis? Got to have a good sound track to a doomed adventure. |
| Steve Flanagan | 20 Nov 2008 1:09 a.m. PST |
I don't think you're going to find too many soldiers who object to labour-saving battlefield devices that make killing the enemy an easier job requiring less training. Not PBI, perhaps – but in real life assorted generals and elite cavalry regiments were certainly agin mechanisation. Old Etonian neo-luddites, then? |
| Plynkes | 20 Nov 2008 2:48 a.m. PST |
True, true. But one tends to think they would use the Old Boy Network to have such things blocked in the corridors of power and drained of funding, rather than charging around the battlefield smashing them up in the face of the enemy. |
| lkmjbc3 | 20 Nov 2008 8:26 a.m. PST |
They must be commanded by "Captain Swing"! Boy, that would be a great rock band name…. Captain Swing and the Luddites! Joe Collins |
| Jamesonsafari | 20 Nov 2008 10:13 a.m. PST |
Big hammers. Lots of really big hammers. And wrenches to undo the bolts on the machines. Maybe some torches and pitchforks to complete the "Angry Mob" aesthetic. Lead by a wild-haired fiery orator waving a book. |
| J Womack 94 | 20 Nov 2008 10:57 a.m. PST |
Whopping great huge hammers! BTW, I like the idea, though! |
| The Gray Ghost | 20 Nov 2008 4:15 p.m. PST |
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| Robin Bobcat | 21 Nov 2008 2:24 a.m. PST |
Hammers and pry-bars, I'm thinking. Possibly molotovs, if you want to make them nasty. |
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