 Editor in Chief Bill   | 03 Apr 2015 8:08 p.m. PST |
How do you like your miniature wargaming spy games? Realistic? Cold War? Pulp? Sci-fi? Humorous? Fictional? |
| Weasel | 03 Apr 2015 8:12 p.m. PST |
Honestly, for something like this, if it was a conventional RPG, I'd probably want it pretty realistic, but with miniatures, I'd notch things up and make them pretty silly. |
| skippy0001 | 03 Apr 2015 8:56 p.m. PST |
Cold War-more crucial plotting, more clarity. |
| JasonAfrika | 03 Apr 2015 9:50 p.m. PST |
Cold War, Campy James Bond stuff |
| Mako11 | 03 Apr 2015 11:11 p.m. PST |
Yes, Cold War campy, and humorous is pretty good, say like with good precedents from Man from U.N.C.L.E., In Like Flynt, James Bond, etc. Realistic, and/or semi-realistic, with the occasional over the top plots could be good too. |
| Mute Bystander | 04 Apr 2015 3:24 a.m. PST |
If I played a spy RPG it would have to be fun because even semi-realistic would be mind-numbing boring. |
| Mute Bystander | 04 Apr 2015 3:26 a.m. PST |
Maybe it could be from before the modern era ("The Great Game" setting.) |
 etotheipi  | 04 Apr 2015 4:38 a.m. PST |
even semi-realistic would be mind-numbing boring I completely agree. My preference is interwar conspiracy and industrial espionage pulp spy games. |
| Dynaman8789 | 04 Apr 2015 6:58 a.m. PST |
James Bond Roleplaying game is what I would use. As others have noted realistic spies are boring (or dead or no longer spies). If someone would make up a simulation about the machinations of spying at a high level that could be interesting. Setting up spies, finding a spy and using them to send false info somehow, trying to decide if you spies are compromised or not… |
Random Die Roll  | 04 Apr 2015 7:16 a.m. PST |
I would go for Pulp, Campy, Sci-Fi Maybe something like 7-TV or Pulp .45 |
| Goonfighter | 04 Apr 2015 11:49 a.m. PST |
"sandbaggers" – the best spy series you've never watched. It wouldn't make much of a game though, unless it was a card type game in which MI6,MI5, CIA and a few other NATO (or even just Whitehall) factions play against each other while the WARPACT agencies exist purely as random events…..
In fact you could have CIA, MI6 Ops, MI6 Int, FCO as the factions with KGB, MOSSAD etc etc all played by random cards. |
| Weasel | 04 Apr 2015 5:02 p.m. PST |
This might be better suited to a board game, ala games like Twilight Struggle or Illuminati. |
| LHMGKodiak | 05 Apr 2015 4:51 a.m. PST |
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| etotheipi | 05 Apr 2015 7:04 a.m. PST |
If someone would make up a simulation about the machinations of spying at a high level that could be interesting. Setting up spies, finding a spy and using them to send false info somehow, trying to decide if you spies are compromised or not…
The reality of this, too, is mind-numbingly repetitive and dull. Spy fiction is much more engaging; it compresses the timeline, reduces the number of moving parts (especially individuals with specific skill sets who don't see the whole picture), and collocates the interesting stuff. |
| capncarp | 06 Apr 2015 4:32 a.m. PST |
Over the top campy and gimmicky, with loads of pop culture references. |
| SaintGermaine | 08 Apr 2015 8:46 a.m. PST |
Lots of levels of conspiracy and complicated plots like Orphan Black or Person of Interest. |
