"Using THIS in a modern wargame?" Topic

Any ideas or suggestions?

It looks a little big to fit on my table. Plus, wouldn't the owners object to you borrowing it?

Use it in a skirmish scenario: bad guys have a boxcar full of tnt going into a major metropolitan area, good guys must raid train.

"Throw Zombie from the Train"

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any landlocked country is going to need invading armor transported and supplied by either road or rail. Pick a country with crappy roads..

(or game tom clancy's "Bear and the Dragon" but with chinese air-parity, possibly because of US non-involvment)

#1 You have to steal it and drive it off the table.

#2 A bunch of poorly armed insurgents have set up a series of barricades across the railroad tracks. You must clear the barricades and ride the train to safety.

Clicked in, got a few laughs and moved on. But then came back with the idea has anyone used a train (I'm guessing yes on this) car layout and had fights through, over and under like in old westerns or modern spy movies?

Use it to haul some nuke warheads, and have a "Broken Arrow", when someone tries to hijack them.

just have it run through the game at speed every turn you roll a 6,7,or 8 on 2 D6 killing everything it hits. only a MBT stands a chance of derailing it. make a table and roll to see how far it gets onto the game table at the start of the turn and exit it at the end of the turn.

Check the dining car.

If the chef has a ponytail, you're good to go.

My kids would steal it, thinking it was Chuggington.

Foreign or domestic group raiding a derailed train that is carrying nukes? Or to kidnap or assasinate an important individual?

Dan

Nothing cooler than having a fight on top of a train.

Or not; ask Archer.

Nothing cooler than having a fight on top of a train.</Q>

+1

When we played Battlefield Evolution, we did a couple of games using my S gauge trains as terrain features. Looked very colorful with the long strings of cars breaking up the line of sight.

Since they were mostly hopper and tank cars there was not much opportunity to fight inside them. Even locked boxcars would be an effort to crack open, and then what – move 40 tons of paper products?

I should do the same with Force on Force. Terrorists attack a rail yard. You don't need nukes when you can get at several tank cars filled with nasty chemicals in an urban setting.

I have a lovely FP-40 with Superliner cars suitable for a 25mm game. You can't access the insides, but the only thing cooler than fighting on the top of a train is fighting in a multi-level train car.

Not war, but you could make a game out of it.

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We've run the odd Cold War game with a (West German) train on the table, basically just moving scenery.

I've also used trains as turn markers (their progress indicates game time).

There are always lots of good excuses to use a train in a game:)

You have to steal a box from the baggage car. But to get there you have to pass though a carriage full of Alliance troops. Your space ship is flying above and a man is lowered down and takes a panel off the roof and the box is passed up to him. The panel is replaced and you have to get off the train….

Sounds familiar?

JohnG

GREAT suggestions, everyone! Thank you!

Dragon Gunner on 10 Sep 2012 4:08 p.m. PST wrote:
#1 You have to steal it and drive it off the table. /h4>

Just to be clear you do not drive" a train, or engine you run them. They only go forward and reverse, no steering
involved.

VR
James Mattes
(A former N&S Man)

Do a modern take on the Royal Gorge War?