"INSECT Takeover: As In "Alien Apocalypse"???" Topic

Awful Sci Fi Productions film (with Bruce Cam – it figures), but with an interesting premise:

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They look like a bunch of SW Geonosians:

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QUESTION:

Has anyone here ever gamed a post-apocalyptic world taken over by a race of insects? Any pics?

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PS. Yes. I'm watching the stupid movie right now.

They even use weapons similar to those of the Geonosians:

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Full film here (if you can stomach it):

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Older suggestions for insectoids:

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Now, who's done a nice game with the insectoids as invaders, destroying Earth cities and such? How did it go? Photos?

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:) a few years ago I bought my brother Aeon flux as a Christmas present, the following year he retaliated with Alien Apocalypse…

It is awful and Bruce cannot help in anyway to make it better.

Hey CC, the 'Hive Pincer' figures from Dreamblade ALSO make really good 'alien bug-lords'…

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to order?

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I've played ATZ as a Giant Insect Invasion game, the majority critters were giant ants (plastic party ants, about 6 feet long in game scale), but I also had much larger Giant Spiders and a scorpion the size of a Greyhound bus…

There was a very boring movie, "Phase Four", about ants organizing and taking over the World.

Wow phaseIV! We where shown that at school age 12, the bit where the ants come out of the guys palm! Our teacher jumped as high as us lol.

More alien bugs in a film coming soon –

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OMG!!! Looks like a new film version of H.G. Wells' "Food of the Gods":

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Surely someone has gamed something like that already! If so, did your setting involve a small town, an island, or something else?

Was it a post-apocalyptic take-over, meaning everything was in ruins and the survivors where the combatants?

Other than kill off the bugs, did you have any other objectives in the game?

Any photos of what you did?

Anyone?

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Bugs are just so… Starship Troopers!

Sorry, not into the giant bug genre.

Carnivorous mobile humanoid plants? Check!
Anthropomorphic lizards and birds? Check!
Dinosaurs? Check!
Giant bugs? Nope!

Hold your tongue, Alien Apocalypse was a GREAT movie. Be careful Bruce-ites are everywhere.

Yes but as an RPG rather than tabletop, I used the players home town (Auckland NZ) as the setting and the local knowledge really helped set the tone for the game. Two years later when we went to watch Independence day one of the players confronted me afterwards with "I spent the entire movie thinking been there gamed that and you ran it."

"thinking been there gamed that and you ran it"

You must have left quite an impression!

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If I can link it properly, here's a photo from my "Us versus THEM!" 1950s B movie NOVAG Convention game.

Enjoy!

Hmm. Let's try that again. link try that again.

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Let's see if this one works.

Mulligan

Mulligan,

How was your game?

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People seemed to get a big kick out of it. I've run it several different times in several different venues. The ants almost always win, although a few of the civilians usually manage to make it out. I set the game up to essentially have two phases: the OMIGOD, giant ants, let's get the ---- out of town civilian phase and the truckloads of GIs just back from Korea gunning and flamethrowering their way down the highway to take back the town phase.

Mulligan

(I usually also include a subplot that ratchets up the tension suitably for a 50's B movie. (i) Will Bobby get to third base with Peggy Sue up at Makeout Point before Sheriff Andy and Deputy Barney pull up in the squad car, flashlights blazing, and say "Out of the car, Romeo!" (ii) Will Bobby get to third base with Peggy Sue before the first randomly placed ant hole opens up and the ferocious Formicidae start swarming?

Ooooo, Peggy Sue . . .

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This has to be the worst SF movie I have ever seen.

PC,

Couldn't agree more. Horrible, horrible film.

However, I think the basic premise should make for an interesting game. Don't you think?

Cities in ruins. Astronauts return to earth after years in space, only to find the remnants of humanity as slaves and food for . . . not apes . . . but large man-sized alien insects!!!

I kinda like the "alien occupation" theme:
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Freedom!!!
Freedom!!!

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This is funny:

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OK CC, I like the concept. The bugs give me the creeps, but I like the concept. I particularly liked the concept of Xenoforming the earth (your first article). This gives our astronauts an advantage over the enslaved, as they can possibly survive for periods of time in the new atmosphere.

I think I would rather see reptilians, or even grays, than bugs though. But all of this leads to a "Fight the Future" X-filian type of scenario, and I'm not certain this is pulp, even if George Pal were to do it.

Unless of course, the key player resembles Gene Barry, he is driving 1940s station wagon, he is fishing near Mt. Palomar, and can escape in a small army liaison aircraft with a bimbo by his side.

"I'm not certain this is pulp"

I can see a lot of Pulp and VSF applications to the alien occupation theme, using all sorts of aliens, not necessarily bugs.

Weren't there lots of Pulp comic books about alien invasions?

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Did any of them involve occupation and conquest by the aliens? Instead of "Mars Attacks" it would be more like "Mars Conquers".

Or, if you prefer, you could have Buck Rogers fight alien conquerors (pick your flavor) instead of Hans:

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PS. As for VSF, it would simply be a different twist to the HG Wells' original premise, right?

I wonder how good these are?

"MEM-71201 BioBugs x 9 $12.00 USD
These figures come in 9 upper torsos and 9 lower torsos (3 designs each) and will require assembly."
auction

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"that is our favorite delicacy next to wood…never tempt us!"

If they wanted to be "really authentic", they should have said, "damp wood".

:)

For my 15mm gaming, some of these might work for me, if there are more unarmored poses on the way:

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Also these guys from GFI

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How about the dreenoi from Starguard. Pretty cool figs.

Thanks,

John

Battlestar Galactica's "Ovions" at least wined and dined you first:

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