"A dedicated ImagiNations Board?" Topic

I'm very interested in ImagiNations of all time periods. Curious to see if there's enough demand for a dedicated, crossperiod board.

There is one already, albeit just for 18th Century. I agree it should be multi period and not just confined to 18th C.
It really should be a single board but in all zones of interest. Nothing all that special about 18th C beyond powdered Whigs.

I'm trying to put together a bizarre alternative early medieval period campaign with states like the Seleuko-Sassanid Empire, the Dyarchy of the Sahel, the Avarite Imperial Diocese of Ravenna etc… and would love input from experienced campaigners.

I'd like to do a thirties one.

One consistent board would make sense.

semi-related: will Aventine Moors/Berbers/Negros mix scalewise with Foundry Nubians?

Would an imaginary board for imaginary nations not be more appropriate?

I imagine it would be a hit.

It would be nice. ImagiNations seem to be growing not just in number but in periods also. In fact there is a lot of room to do ImagiNations beyond 18th century, and as knowledge about uniforms and history becomes commonplace, we see that such ImagiNations can be more than historically reasonable, if that ever was a factor.

Examples are aplenty, from Greek-Italic city states, splint Persian empire states, Iberian (or Gaul) partially unified kingdoms, shuffling Goth kingdoms after Rome's fall, medieval dominions, 17th century small states, napoleonic times republics or small kingdoms/dominions, 20th century interwars states…

Exactly, Dogged. It seems wide open. I'd like to see more focus on it.

I'm growing a 17th century to 18th century Imagi-World.

However, considering Dark Age, Medieval Age, Late Medievel, Early Renaissance, and various 19th and 20th century ideas as well.

Why? We don't get that much on the sole Imagi-Nations Board we have now, which is 18th century.

I think Imagi-Nations, being such an ordinary and commonplace entity in war games should just be posted in the normal section on Historical Games, unless you're dealing with magic in which case it should be in Fantasy.

If you are really interested in Imagi-Nations you should join "The Society of Daisy" a Yahoo group devoted to humor, whimsy, an imagination in gaming, and ESPECIALLY Imagi-Nations. We talk about that all the time, and our PRINT ONLY newsletter (the last printed Fanzine on Miniatures in the world just finished two solid years on all the dimensions of building an Imagi-Nation, with lots of how-to-do. Our next two years will see almost as many.

We also produce games reworking old Avalon Hill favorites for Imagi-Nations, rules, stories and satires of other games, like a running gazetteer of all the nations in the old Divine Right" games. An upcoming issue has ZORN- or the Medieval Equivalent of the "Strength through Joy crowd."

As I think about this, I am wondering.

Unless you are going into Imagi-Nations to break free of the bounds of reality and allow yourself to create a "killer army" the only reason to do Imagi-Nations is humor. That's the way I do mine.

However most periods don't really seem suited to it except the 18th century and that's where most of them are grounded. The reason is simple. Bumbling generals, lascivious countess' hilarious units, and wild plots are possible, but I think they are possible ONLY because the period itself with it's whole "Gentlemen of France You may fire first" absurdities attracts us to a place where war does not have to be so grim and cutthroat as in previous or soon to come ages. The Nineteenth Century could also be a happy hunting ground for Ruritanian Monarchies, and absurd plots,but somehow the 17th century with it's grim religious conflict and the squalor of the Middle ages are ill suited to it.

Of course once we get to the Ancient world we can game our way through the fabulous "B" movies fo the 30's to 60's, and I did make a rule set "Honey I Sacrificed the Kids."

So maybe.