 Editor in Chief Bill   | 23 Feb 2019 9:49 p.m. PST |
Do you like to mix Gothic Horror (werewolves, vampires, pumpkinheads, witches) into your fantasy wargaming? |
| x42brown | 24 Feb 2019 2:25 a.m. PST |
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ZULUPAUL  | 24 Feb 2019 3:26 a.m. PST |
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 miniMo | 24 Feb 2019 4:00 a.m. PST |
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| Aethelflaeda was framed | 24 Feb 2019 5:30 a.m. PST |
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| irishserb | 24 Feb 2019 5:38 a.m. PST |
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| Gunfreak | 24 Feb 2019 6:18 a.m. PST |
I like Gothic armor, though I do prefer mid 14th and early 15th century armor over mid to late 15th century armor. |
| NWMike | 24 Feb 2019 7:08 a.m. PST |
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| axabrax | 24 Feb 2019 7:45 a.m. PST |
Sure. Loved the old Ravenloft campaign setting |
 etotheipi  | 24 Feb 2019 10:39 a.m. PST |
I use pretty much all the standard Gothic Horror species listed by TV Tropes. link I'm not sure that horror is a wargame modality. Horror requires a different type of dynamic than tabletop wargaming – suspense rather than tension. I still like the characters, moods, and aesthetics of the genre in the wargaming activity. |
| Dave Gamer | 24 Feb 2019 1:16 p.m. PST |
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 Parzival | 24 Feb 2019 2:13 p.m. PST |
In D&D, sure.
I'm not opposed to it on the tabletop, either, but I don't have armies structured that way. I will agree with etothepi, though, that "Gothic horror" isn't really a mode for big battles. Gothic horror implies a much smaller experience, with a limited number of protagonists facing a powerful antagonist, in an environment of suspense and ever-growing, yet possibly undefined, danger. If vampires, werewolves, etc,, are on the battlefield, then the "Gothic" part of it is gone, and it's just a battle against a legion of horrors— but then, that could always have been the goal of the antagonist in the suspenseful setting.
So you can have them in a big battle game, but at that point the "creepy, sinister Gothic horror" element is gone. |
| Vidgrip | 24 Feb 2019 2:43 p.m. PST |
Yes, but I prefer to do it as a skirmish scenario in its original "historical" setting, rather than a generic fantasy setting. I'd rather fight vampires in Transylvania than in D&D, for example. That being said, yeah I have no problem with it. What I'm currently painting:
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| Uesugi Kenshin | 24 Feb 2019 3:42 p.m. PST |
No, but my wife's got that handedly covrred. |
| Sigwald | 25 Feb 2019 6:17 a.m. PST |
Yes! Just painted up these vampire ladies for my undead army
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 Legion 4 | 25 Feb 2019 7:28 a.m. PST |
Very nice Sigwald !  I think the one in the middle asked me to go out for a bite after I got off work ? But that was a long time ago …  |
 Sgt Slag | 25 Feb 2019 7:47 a.m. PST |
Love to field Undead Armies. Not much of a sense of horror with them, but they're fun armies to play with/against. Cheers! |
| 79thPA | 25 Feb 2019 8:10 a.m. PST |
I am slowly building forces for a Salem-esque style skirmsih game. |
| keithbarker | 25 Feb 2019 10:00 a.m. PST |
I bought My Last Sunrise (Vampire Gothic) from Bad Squiddo Games and am very happy with them. Nine different packs. link
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| tkdguy | 26 Feb 2019 11:37 p.m. PST |
Yes. I've thought about doing a Medieval Highlander/World of Darkness type of game, but I never got around to it. |
| Joes Shop | 27 Feb 2019 5:41 a.m. PST |
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| Legion 4 | 27 Feb 2019 6:23 a.m. PST |
All I do is 6mm Sci-fi. But if anything like Weres, Vamps, witches, etc., shows up on the gaming table. I'll deal with them, just more Xenos ! Beside my Epic Chaos forces have demons, zombies, beastmen, etc. It's all good !  Or bad …  |
| chironex | 06 Mar 2019 3:39 p.m. PST |
Such items are now a staple of fantasy gaming, but in a mass battle system it's hardly very "Gothic" at all. The sheer scope of games like HOTT rather makes the Gothic elements appear as "just more stuff to fight". I do, however, have Chaos in Carpathia, Rippers: the Horror Wars and many others which should suit, an if not, it would probably work better as a role-playing setting anyway. |
| Old Contemptibles | 08 Mar 2019 3:45 p.m. PST |
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