"Imagi-Nation Musings" Topic

I am looking at my Imagi-Nation plans again, and still musing. I have written down some imaginary history intersecting with reality circa 1725, but my big question is, where does Imagi-Nation intersecting with reality end, and fantasy begin?

I have big plans for little games involving tricorn troops capturing dinosaurs for use in war, skirmishes with skeletal pirates, and Cthulu cultists all dancing in my head, above and beyond the Princess' Guard engaging those pesky French over who gets to steal the peasants' sheep.

Am I am Imagi-nation heretic, simply overimaginative, or well on track to having some great fun if I can find anyone willing to play with my box of toys?

It is your world! Mine went to war over pistachio nuts.

Freedom is amazing.

punkrabbitt returns wrote:

"Am I am Imagi-nation heretic, simply overimaginative, or well on track to having some great fun if I can find anyone willing to play with my box of toys?"

My first thought, you took the wrong pill…the blue one, not the red.

Then I remembered, I am the one with 18th century Dark Elves whose armies have flying machines, flame throwers and rocket artillery.

Don't mind me.

All of the above punkrabbitt, and thank goodness ;) BTW as per your moniker at least 1 item or regiment or something has to have a rabbit as its symbol. We await pictures. Cheers and happy dreaming and gaming.

Ok, yet another goofy idea… what if those pesky Venusians have hit a VSF level of technology and sent a mission to Earth? I am always looking for excuses to field my Kroot models…

Give me a week, I will start a blog. I quit my World of Warcraft habit to pursue this project :-)

That's OK by me – my developing Imagination army has German speaking infantry in tricornes and bearskins, Cossacks and Saphis

Sure, why not?
Basically any imagi-nation is set, not on 'our' Earth but in an parallel universe the time-line of which diverged from ours. The divergence may be minor (a pair of statelets added to the 300-some of the HRE) or more important (2 large 'white' countries in Austalia by the mid-18th C.), and there is no reason it could not affect biology or geography rather than (only) history.

Besides there are precedents: pirates in tricornes almost routinely meet Atlantis survivors, bizarre native cults, Deep Ones & other fishmen, dinosaurs, krakens, undead (to the point that there are several ranges of undead pirates and sailors); maybe some disturbed the catnap of Godzilla or King King, but they did not return to tell the tale. Such encounters don't have to be restricted to 'mysterious islands' or coastal jungles. 'Lost Worlds' and entrances to '7th continents at the Earth's core'can be located in the hearth of continents, for instance.
And several 'traditional' imagi-nations on the web are periodically plagued with vampyrs, werewolves and witches.

My only warning -if you chose the period because you like not only the uniforms but also the style of warfare- to keep it rather subdued, otherwise you'd risk to end playing WHFantasy Battle or Victorian Science Fiction with minis in tricorne: a totally different wargaming genre.

There is a similar risk with a fully VSF opponent. Of course all technologies don't progress at the same rate, re. that Turtledove series with ET reptilians mastering interstellar travel but invading Earth with only WW1 military technology; not to mention the abysmal performances of the SW stormtroopers! But with invaders from another planet you are at risk to have the Earthlings military backward, leading to a 'Victorian colonial warfare' unbalanced situation. Safer to locate your non-humans on some 7th continent on Earth -in the middle of the Pacific or underground link : their technological level may be anywhere between the Stone Age and the Napoleonic times, their 'weird looking' weapons notwithstanding.

PS: will the Princess Guards be Maiden Guards?
Unfortunately Eureka 'Sandras' are hard to obtain.

Thank you all for your support and suggestions.

@Zargon: here is my personal gunpowder-era tabletop icon:

H'mmm. The commander of my Clan McBadger, ( anthropomorphised Badgers wearing kilts), is Bunny Prince Charlie. Made from a spare OG Jacobite mounted officer, two 1/3000 Soviet subs for ears, and some green stuff. Must get a pic of him one day!