"Settings for Battlesystem" Topic

Just noticed this board. I started minis gaming years ago with Battlesystem but moved on to WFB. Many of my oldest minis are still based on the little cardboard chits included in the box game.
I remember that the game seemed to play quite well but required some work to create the armies and settings for the game. When Warhammer came along with the Ravening Hordes for 2nd edition it got me hooked and I dropped Battlesystem.
If battlesystem is to become popular again it would be helped with a setting an some defined armies. Not the game killing army books that GW now produces. Maybe more in line with the older lists or list like Chipco uses for Fantasy Rules!
I am off to round up my lost rules and check them out again. Does anyone know of any setting/campaigns or army lists produced for Battlesystem?
I can see another foray into producing army builder files coming……..

There is a list of them at the yahoo group. link

The "base" seting was supposed to be your DnD world. You could default to Greyhawk or Dragonlance.

You need to remember that all of this came from a bunch of Historical gamers that assumed a certian level of research or input from the players

Yeah, it was originally for a D&D setting. Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Mystara, Forgotten Realms, etc… Or your own setting.

I've been wanting to wargame in Greyhawk and I've been planning on either using HOTT or Battlesystem 2nd Ed.

Historical games also work well. I recall a game featuring the Northumbrians opposing the Picts. My Picts were not painted, so I used Copplestone Wood Elves as a proxy and we fought a historical battle. A good time was had by all.

It would be fine to use the background for WFB if you like it.

For fantasy, I rarely specify the setting. A Tolkienesque world with D&D undertones is presumed.

When I first played the game in the 80's, Mystara was the setting. A few of the old D&D and AD&D modules have BattleSystem scenarios in them.

Does anyone know of any setting/campaigns

H1 Bloodstone Pass was specifically a Battlesystem adventure. A number of small actions leading up to a big finale. Pretty fun and came with paper terrain and more counters. Good stuff.

Still one of my favorite systems for fantasy gaming and I manage to get in one or two games a month with it…25 some odd years after I played my first (and only 2ish versions along the way).

In terms of settings, pretty much anyone you were playing with. Dragon Kings has a lot of interesting information for Darksun (as did a couple of other supplements for Darksun) – as did several Birthright supplements (there was an article covering conversions of some campaign specific stuff in Dragon Magazine). Forgotten Realms had a half dozen supplements that had a focus or at least skirted Battlesystem. I seem to recall a Dragon magazine article that involved a Nazi patrol stumbling across a group of Wizards and the actions there after as a Battlesystem scenario (though it might just be my old age).

The nice thing about the format was that you didn't have to rely on strict lists. If you wanted to have a Paladin general with an army of reformed orcs – you could do that. Although you could do some pretty ugly things as a result – most people won't, because what comes around goes around.

I seem to recall a Dragon magazine article that involved a Nazi patrol stumbling across a group of Wizards and the actions there after as a Battlesystem scenario (though it might just be my old age).

I have that reprinted in Best of Dragon vol 1. I loved reading that.

It wasn't Battlesystem, however, pre-dating it by a few years. I'm not sure the author is even clear on what rules they're using (modified Chainmail, possibly, or some unholy Chainmail-Tractics hybrid?).

I should look that up!

Sturmgeschutz and Sorcery. This fellow has some info on it.

link

Sturmgeschutz and Sorcery. Didn't that appear in the Strategic Review. The magazine that preceded The Dragon? Kinda dating myself. I just turned 50 and I'm still playing with little toy soldiers.

Well yes I should of just checked out the link. As Ms Adanadana would say nevermind.

I always wanted to play a game like that… Then, many years ago now, a friend put together a WW II game (uber-popular within our gaming group), which had space aliens, with advanced weaponry, hiding on the game board, cloaked/invisible. I was given the command of the aliens, which were not super-powerful, but fun -- nobody else had a clue, until weird things started happening… My hi-tech weapons did not do incredibly well, but I had stun grenades, and light sabers, and I made good use of these against the German Regulars, who happened to approach the wall of the factory, which held my alien infantry, inside the second story windows…

The group informally ganged up on the aliens, who attacked Allies, and Axis troops, with indiscretion. After the aliens were destroyed, the game became just another WW II scenario. I was disappointed they didn't seem to enjoy it as much as I did, but it was still a memorable game -- at least for me! LOL! Cheers!

we've used them for dragonlance, forgotten realms, tolkien and even some world war 2 (combat system only). It would be so neat if this game catches on again!