| OSchmidt | 09 Jun 2014 1:45 p.m. PST |
This bifurcates into two questions. 1.Is your army just a collection of figures or do you lavish time on the narrative of the history of the Imagi-Nations, and how they came about, the personages, and personalities that have a presence OFF the table top, that is, it has an existence beyond the table top, or are they just bunches of soldiers you push around. 2. Why did you go into Imagi-Nation armies in the first place, and why do you stay in them. |
| The Gray Ghost | 09 Jun 2014 2:24 p.m. PST |
1, Both, my IN is about two first cousins battling for control of a throne their uncle left.
but sometimes I just push soldiers around the table |
| John the OFM | 09 Jun 2014 2:32 p.m. PST |
Back in the previous century, my Imagi-Nation was Slobbovia,. but it was shared with a whole bunch of other drunkards.
This was a Diplomacy pbm game. You can probably Google it. I am there as Family Raskolnikov. |
| doug redshirt | 09 Jun 2014 2:59 p.m. PST |
Where else can I have a regiment wearing polar bear fur grenadier hats that is made up Jewish refuges and escaped African slaves? Of course they are in separate companies due to dietary reasons. Since the country is modeled on the Netherlands I can get away calling them the Haarlem Grenadiers. Haarlem is a across the river from the capital where refugees settled in the last century escaping persecution and slavery in this freedom loving country. Now how they got the polar bear fur is another story. |
| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 09 Jun 2014 4:11 p.m. PST |
I am still in the process of sorting it out… my Imagi-Nation is a breakaway principality in the Spanish Netherlands, so Spain gets to be my main villain. You can check my incoherent ramblings about it here: punkrabbitt.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
| nsolomon99 | 09 Jun 2014 6:04 p.m. PST |
I have developed a full history of The Grand Duchy of Nordmark and her army from the time of the Crusades through to 1809. |
Frederick  | 09 Jun 2014 7:29 p.m. PST |
Working on it but most certainly the units will have histories- after all, a unit with bright yellow uniforms and pink facings deserves some sort of an explanation – especially when the drummers have reversed colours! |
| Narratio | 09 Jun 2014 8:07 p.m. PST |
Ahh Otto. The answers are Yes and because they're immense fun where I can let my imagination run wild. Siebenburgen, a principality of the Triune Empire of Scythia, Pannonia, TransBalkania. |
| Cardinal Hawkwood | 09 Jun 2014 9:01 p.m. PST |
We have a whole continent, well actually two continents and a sub continent but things are quiet there.And nice flags
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| Cardinal Hawkwood | 09 Jun 2014 9:03 p.m. PST |
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| Big Martin Back | 10 Jun 2014 4:08 a.m. PST |
Mine are based around our 2 twin towns – 1 in Germany and 1 in France. They've been elevated to the rank of principalities and given a lot of geographical pushing to have them as (unfriendly) neighbours. |
| OSchmidt | 10 Jun 2014 4:22 a.m. PST |
My own answers are 1.Of course, I simply can't gin up an imagi-nation without a backs story and loads of detail.
2. My reason for entering Imagi-nations was partly because I was tired of the "Osprey Nazi's" but mostly it was because I've studied history intensely and found most of the "movers and shakers" utterly dreadful people. That's why the stories above are always burlesques and parodies of real leaders.
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| Fighting 15s | 10 Jun 2014 7:06 a.m. PST |
Mine are Urst Kassel and the Grand Duchy of Badwasser. Hurst Castle is a prominent landmark opposite me in the Solent and is a sound-alike; Badwasser is a play on where I live (Freshwater). For Urst Kassel I use Austrians. This is because the people of Badwasser are clearly devoted loofahrans, and therefore Prussian. Badwasser is a duchy, because everyone needs a Grand Duc on top of their Badwasser. Ian |
| Rich Bliss | 10 Jun 2014 8:52 a.m. PST |
You mean the Principality of Lower Monrovia, ruled by Luther Burbank, Prince of Monrovia and Duke of Dubuque. It used to be Upper Monrovia, but a massive mudslide pushed the original lower Monrovia into the sea. The Army organization is based on the Ottoman Empire, but the figures are 54mm AmRev plastics and the large cavalry force is mostly Naopleonic with as wide a variety of headgear as I could manage. The national colors are brown and maroon quartered with a wreathed velociraptor rampant in the center. See: oocities.org/zonker1.geo For more information. |
| Ottoathome | 14 Jun 2014 4:10 a.m. PST |
The story is sort of essential. After all, we are composing an "alternate reality" that I suspect we rather would like to live in. |
| Bill McHarg | 17 Jun 2014 5:37 a.m. PST |
I am still in the process of filling out the background for my imaginations. My first one is the Grand Duchy of Waldo. Waldo is a neighborhood in Kansas City close to where I live, and I just liked the name.
I am doing a second one, to do solo battles. I am leaning toward calling it Germelshausen. Its the name of a town in a German folk tale that only exists once every hundred years, because the people were so evil. Supposedly it was the inspiration for Brigadoon.
I am doing both NQSYW for the 1800s, and continuing it to Shiny Toy Soldiers for the late 1900s. |
's motivation to paint Napoleonic ships returns!
