Bill Reed | 22 May 2013 12:21 p.m. PST |
I got out my old Warhammer Mighty Empires and started using it for my Napoleonic campaigns. the hex maps are great for making up your own maps, when two army's meet I then fight that battle on my war-game table and stared using 54mm French/Prussians as my 25mm are getting to small for me to paint now. and I like the look of the 54mm when set up on the table as you see much more detail. been using it for a few months and its been really good for small battles. has any one else tried Mighty Empires for the there campaigns!! |
JimDuncanUK | 22 May 2013 12:34 p.m. PST |
When Warmaster first came out (we called it Warhamster) my playing group used a Mighty Empires map to arrange impromptu contacts in a loose multi-player campaign. A chum had magnetised the hexes and we rearranged them on a metal surface for each club meeting. It was great fun! |
15th Hussar | 22 May 2013 12:35 p.m. PST |
I'm afraid that ME is the only Warhammer early game product that I never bought
I have everything else considered 1st Ed (and even a few 2nd Ed) from GW, but I never purchased ME
I looked at it and into it, but it never quite grabbed my attention
obviously. |
Bill Reed | 22 May 2013 1:01 p.m. PST |
I have found it really good for playing a hex campaign on, and then moving to the war-game table to fight the battle using Napoleonic's, so far it seemed to fit in really good, in getting you to move on a hex map and you can also use a fog of war so never knew what size of army corps you will meet. works really good for solo war-game's too. |
Shedman | 22 May 2013 1:12 p.m. PST |
I'm a big fan of ME – I've got 3 of the original sets that we would combine into a mega game I've used it to play HOTT and DBA campaigns including a very good WW1 campaign I also did an online one many years ago – link |
Quadratus | 22 May 2013 3:57 p.m. PST |
I've always wanted to try it. Never enough interest in my group The rules are free from GW. . .This seems crazy. . . It's a TRAP!!! Maybe they just feel bad about sucking the money out of fanatics for umpteen years.. . :) PDF link |
darthfozzywig | 22 May 2013 6:09 p.m. PST |
Yeah, I love me some ME. On the front page someone's been spamming/advertising their version of Mighty Empires tiles as PDFs. Worth combining with the free rules download. |
15th Hussar | 23 May 2013 5:39 a.m. PST |
I hate you peeple
now I have to go look for an old copy. <Insert several mild invectives and references to others heritage here |
wminsing | 23 May 2013 9:49 a.m. PST |
If someone could post a tile manifest one could knock together their own copy fairly easily with the posted rules
. -Will |
Space Monkey | 23 May 2013 10:22 a.m. PST |
If someone could post a tile manifest one could knock together their own copy fairly easily with the posted rules
Seattlegamer posted a list in this older TMP thread TMP linkCardstock Mighty Empires: 28 different coastal tiles 22 different mountain tiles 18 different river tiles 7 different coastal tiles (with river inlets) 6 different woods tiles 6 different lowlands (hills) tiles 26 different Plains tiles (slight variations in coloring) 1 marsh tile Ocean tilesA full set was 124 tiles, 110 unique tiles, and 14 ocean tiles. At one point GW made them all available as a PDF download from their site, along with some campaign rules for their use. Here is the PDF that GW put up on their site at one point for using ME with Warmaster. PDF link I don't think they're the original ME tiles. Hopefully it's not cheating GW, since they put them up for free at one point already. |
PhilDe | 24 May 2013 6:43 p.m. PST |
I've used Mighty Empires a couple of times, with good success, just using the basic rules (die rolls to decide combats). What I'm trying to do is figure out how to create a digital map using the above linked tiles to make the map, the conduct an online campaign where I could referee the moves, etc. Then the games could either be in person or via the die-roll. Anyone have any idea how to separate/manipulate the tiles to create a map? I've tried Photoshop, word, etc. Anyone have any suggestions/ideas? |
darthfozzywig | 29 May 2013 3:44 p.m. PST |
Photoshop, etc, would work. With some effort you could create images of each tile, then save them as brushes. Rotating them would be fiddly, however, so I'm not sure if it's worth the effort. For campaign maps, I use NBOS Fractal Mapper 8, then put a hex overlay (you can do that in the software, adjusting the grid to the desired size). |