"You are immortal. What is/are your gaming projects?" Topic

You have become immortal. The reason is irrelevant.
Limitless time stretches before you.
What gaming project(s) do you start on?
Imagination has no limits!

The dozens that have been in the pipeline (and on my shelves) for years…

Rudi

The quest for the ultimate rules!!!

mjc

Ooops!

Sorry,

Already doing that.

mjc

It does not compute.

All projects are infinite.

Recreate the LOTR battles at 1:1 in 28mm

Just think the dice I would need to roll under GW rules!

Andrew
blog.kings-sleep.me.uk

Looking for infinite space and and infinite quantity of money. After that I imagine my fanatical megalomaniac feelings will (almost !) be satified….

Nothing changes, I fear. Most of my current projects demand an extaordinary lifespan anyhow.

Recreate WWI in 1:1 scale. All of it.

Oh dear, I work best with a deadline, so with unlimited time I suspect I wouldn't do anything at all! Maybe just tinker around with adding stuff to my existing collections. The fiftenth draft of my Corps level WW1 rules woudl extend into the 115th draft etc etc.

I bet I still won't get around to painting those Hallmark 1/6000th scale ships thuogh.

I'd probably do a lot more walking, running and sailing.

Put some money into LONG term investments, then do greek hoplite army , 1:1 in xyston 15mm. Build ultimate gaming table. then expand army to cover macedonian, successor, cartaginian etc, do whole ancient med. Mwahaha

Phil

Leipzig at 1:1 scale!

Paint everything that is unpainted on my shelves currently.

I think when I'm immortal, I have time enough to paint them all properly.
I think…

paint every ship that The Royal Navy has ever fielded. The rule would be i could only pick up the ships from the Navwar shop. So due to it's opening hours i would need to be immortal.

Gettysburg 1:1

I would own most of the world's supply of pewter, cast in the form of 28mm figures of course.

Immortal, huh? Hmmm…nope. Still wouldn't live long enough to finish at the rate I paint!

What Brian said.

Doug

Everything, obviously.

building fort Zinderneuf is high on the list.

I will finally finish:
Irish War of Independence.
The '45
Leonardo by GASLIGHT
Sedan Chair Racing
SYW Austrians
Guadalcanal and Philippines Flanmes of War
Castle sieges in 28mm

Well, once the Zombies or the uberflu or whatever it is that gets the rest of you guys, I will pick and choose what I want from wargamers' collections far and wide. Mine, its all mine ha ha ha ……

Unless I get infinite money I'll just be picking away at my backlog of unpainted minis.

Recreate the Siborne model in 15mm, faults and all.

But once you are rendered into zombies, would you want to game with an immortal? Or would you nasty brutes wait until I had everything set up and then knock the table over, or stomp on terrain, or drink all the paint? Geez, that's no fun..

I would spend a good chunk of my time mastering rapid prototype machines, and another good chunk making model files for figures you only need one of. That 13.75 mm tall bagpiping cosmonaut? Yep, You'd finally have him.

Once I had that done, I'd find a bunch of re-enactors and larpers, do a rotoscan of them, and then slam that through the rapid proto machine. Finally, nobody will be able to complain about the proportions on a figure, because those proportions came directly off Brigadier General Cheeto-Beard of the Union.

Time enough to take my time on it.

I don't know! I'd have to think about it – for about, say, a million years!
How about recreating the whole universe in 15 mm, through all time and all conflicts. How big is a universe in 15 mm and how fast is it expanding? Is dark matter just a black-wash in 15's or an exotic particle? How does one adjust space-time in 15 mm? The questions are infinite but fortunately I have all the time in the universe to ponder them!
The Procrastinator.

First I take the world.
Than I take the universe.
The ultimate game.
The first goal takes about a hundred years.
The second about 2 billion.
But who cares ?
I'm immortal.

There can be only one…

Develop 1-1 scale super warriors, and save humanity from doom at the hands of aliens and Old Night. I'll probably need some awesome helpers too, say about 20…

All of them.

Virtual reality. Go to sleep, dream yourself to wherever doing whatever, wake up; repeat as desired. Wait….

"Limitless time stretches before you. "

I would need that to paint my existing lead pile at this rate.

I suppose I could write a random generator for my computer and wait patiently for the perfect rules to emerge by themselves. I could playtest them an infinite number of times so I would know they were perfect.

This could end in a rather sad way: It's likely that our hobby is a fleeting phenomenon in human history. In a hundred years, our immortal wargamer might be the last gamer left! So there he is, for all eternity, painting figures, perhaps ultimately going on acheological expeditions to find more figures, amassing this titanic collection, but with no one to play with!

All I need is about 300 years to catch up on my unpainted lead pile. Assuming I don't buy anything new during that time.

I have no time for gaming my master Xerxes is making me assault a bunch of stubborn Greeks. I'm guessing I'll die since I'm wearing pajamas and carrying a longaberger shield. Oh well such is life in the caliphate…..

I guess we'll finally find out if it's CCGs, Video Games, prepaints, Mass marketing, or something else that "Finally kills the hobby".

I'd party, take big risks, clean up on high-yield, long-term investments, and generally outlive the hell out of everybody. Of course, eventually this would go sour. The cheerful smiles I'd wear at other people's funerals would fade.

Then I'd find my mission.

I'd grit my teeth, buy a gigantic supercomputer and a spaceship, and set out to insult everyone in the entire universe. Individually, personally and (this is the part I'd grit my teeth over) in alphabetical order.

(Apologies to Douglas Adams-- I'm writing this from memory.)

You people aren't immortal?

Do I also get infinite funding? Because there's only so long I want to teach school, but presumably I'll still need to eat and all that.

I'd just keep doing what I'm doing; buying miniatures that interest me and perhaps eventually painting them.

Oh! Oh! I could finally have enough time to catalog all the minis Michael and I already have!

all of them, every period, in multiple scales, at skirmish level on up….

Right after doing the 1879-1884 War of the Pacific (Chile, Peru, Bolivia) both on land and sea, I'd start doing periods I already have in other scales. Most of my stuff is 15mm – so I'd do 10mm or 6mm for really massed battles and then 28mm or larger for skirmishes.

I would develop materials and motors such that I could paint 1:35 scale figures and armour that are all self-propelled and I could watch a big battle from the stands above a lumpy soccer field.
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Tim

My Berlin project has been going on since about 1974 and I am about half way done. I may need to be immortal to finish it and then game it.

Mike "Bunkermeister" Creek
bunkermeister.blogspot.com

Borrible->
Too Small.

First: I MAKE the universe.
Then: I make the world.

That's
The Ultimate Game.

The first goal takes about 12 and 14 billion years.
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The second takes about 4.54 billion years, give or take…
(…'course, I'd use a 'cheat code'; I'm busy, y'know? Call it about 5770-6K)

But who cares ? I'm immortal.

Or was omniscience, omniprescence and omnipotence not part of the deal…?

switch to collecting 1:1 scale Miss America figures, in their swimsuit version.

Yeah baby.

tabletopwarrior->

FTW

Nanite driven automatons depicting the Folk Wandering period in 1:1 scale.

A similar goblin conquest of the galaxy, using primitive hand weapons and sublight speed spacecraft.

Obviously if I was immortal, I could wargame long-past conflicts that haven't even happened yet. The Third World War, the wars of Martian colonisation, the wars of Martian Independence, the first Human-Xenos war… all would be ancient history. *Plus* I would have lived through them, so I could make sure I have perfect uniform information and orders of battle for the lot.