"what's missing - A spy modern day skirmish game...?" Topic

Just been reading my legends of the old west rules, and also play red dead etc..

I don`t think anybody done a simple ( D6 for me ) spy type game, is the scope too big..?

Creeping into enemy strongholds, car chases, underwater fights.. the list is big.. Anybody doing something…?

Hope its got your mind racing…

I guess a engine like Legends of the west, with frame and fortune etc, skills and Exp too..

Car chases need to be added..? ? ?

Thoughts people

I was talking to a buddy recently about this actually. We came up with a rough outline for a sort of Splinter Cell miniature game. Don't know if we'll ever go anywhere with it…

After reading Legends of the Old West a few years ago I started talking to a gaming buddy about the same thing. Never got anywhere with it, but I agree its a great idea.

Ed G

Look at Flying Lead from Ganesha Games…

Wasn't there "Sabotage – Into the Dark" ? IIRC, it was a spy, infiltrator game. Put out by a terrain maker (?)

That would be more of a RPG in my opinion, and someone did Top Secret awhile back.

Can't recall how simple, or complex it was. Probably more complex than what you are looking for.

You could adapt other, simple skirmish rules to your project.

Thunderball had rules and minis for underwater fights.

Sadly, they are now out of production.

I wish someone would do divers with spearguns, and swimming poses. Of course, minisubs would be appreciated as well.

Flying Lead seems ideal for that sort of thing.

Yes flying lead is great, but i was thinking more around Legends, with luck / frame points etc…

I`m looking forward to playing flying lead, and i think they is a Afgan add on soon…?

Ps.. Thanks for for chatting

I'm using grocery store plastic divers (and zodiac boats and minisubs) until somebody sculpts some figures, and Two Hour Wargames "Adventure in Lost Lands" that I'm modding for underwater action.

Previously I used Blood and Swash/Thunder and Plunder rules.

With the 2HW rules for the underwater game I figure I can simply use the pulp rules or Chain reaction 3 or FNG for above-water activities as appropriate.

I've been running Bond-style spy games using 'Astounding Tales!' for a couple of years. The transition from 30s Pulp to 60s spy drama is an easy one.

The bad guys miss, the heroes hit, the cars fly off cliffs and explode. It doesn't matter whether it's a Duesenberg or an Aston Martin DB5.

I'm hoping 7TV will fill that role. By the same guys who made the Dr Who miniatures game, so you can see the basic engine for free.

The kill team rules in one of the 40K rule books would a good starting point. They consist of creeping around guards, reaching the objective and killing the boss. D6 based and simple to pick up, there might be a web version somewhere.

Some folks have adapted "Hour of Glory" for James Bond games.

Big Jim, those rules are in the 4th edition rulebook, and weren't included in the (current) 5th edition. The mission of the same name in the Battle Missions book is quite different.

Cheers Andrew, I couldn't remember which version. It was the small skirmish Kill Team rules rather than the newer BM one.

HHhmmm How do you go from Western to Modern Spy or Splinter Cell? Maybe a Wild Wild West type of western spy game?

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Hi papa.. just talking about the legend of the old west rules, and doing something simply like that.. its a nice system to work with based on GW, same with the Doctoe Who rules, using GW as a base…

I was thinking your " posse " oe team, could inculde, safe crackers, comms, demo and sniper etc, to do the missions, with the " Hero " types geiing better and better, to the point when you don`t need the team to back you up but do it as a one man mission.. think
Bond
Bourne
fisher etc..

The people that made the doctor who rules are working on a 60`s and 70`s spy game with the rules, so you have the Base right there to add a modern setting …

Of course I should be pushing Flying Lead but the new Dr Who rules will fit the bill with some tweaking, esp if they are doing a dedicated setting … Flying Lead will work fine but until a 'Spy' supplement comes out you would need to flesh the genre out yourself.

Rich J

I think that spy wargaming is more rpg than tabletop gaming.
I'd be inclined to use feng shui.

In fact on a yahoo group about new periods for the lord of the rings / legends of the old west system, somebody has done a " Pulp version " with missions like breaking into bases and stealing stuff..

So i`m not the first..!!!!

what about the victory games james bond series ??

The problem with the spy genre is that almost all the action involves only a single protagonist. In a traditional RPG you can get around that by having an Impossible Missions type unit, but in a skirmish game you're going to end up like the A Team.

Indie RPGs offer a lot of interesting ways to approach a topic like this, but still for only a couple of players.

I think the ideal answer is a solitaire game. If you want to do skirmish, you can always do a one-off scenario like the climactic battle of a movie – and I think Flying Lead with some added chrome would be ideal for that.

I'd be more inclined to play something like this as a board or card game. Fisticuffs to me is the least interesting element of the many things spies get up to.

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It'd be tough. What would the victory conditions be? For my dad, it was having a totally boring trip into the DDR, meeting up with his contact and exchanging info, then going home without result.

Didn't always work out that way, though.