| Sherlockgeek | 30 Nov 2019 10:21 p.m. PST |
Which do you guys prefer? I have a lot of infantry and guns with a few tanks so I lean CoDominion or Dorsai. I want to get to Hammerverse cause I love tank models. Use Gruntz for small battles and 5150 BC for larger. |
Frederick  | 01 Dec 2019 11:33 a.m. PST |
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| Stryderg | 01 Dec 2019 12:56 p.m. PST |
Is "all of the above" an option?
If I remember correctly:
The CoDo books were more infantry heavy, Dorsai was a mixed bag and Hammer's was more tank heavy. I don't really see a reason that you can't combine them, since they were all mostly human-centric (except maybe Dorsai, I definitely need to reread those). |
| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 01 Dec 2019 1:33 p.m. PST |
The only CoDominion stuff, Mote in God's eye etc, I've read is very space navy-centric – never grabbed me as a setting for gaming. What are the other books like? |
| BigDan | 01 Dec 2019 2:15 p.m. PST |
CoDominion has a Slammers like mercenary unit mentioned as I recall. Dutch or German hover tank merc group? |
| Sherlockgeek | 01 Dec 2019 3:42 p.m. PST |
The original books are all infantry centric, because of the high cost of shipping tanks become strategic assists |
 Saber6  | 01 Dec 2019 4:44 p.m. PST |
CD and Slammers can 'sort of' match up. Dorsai are 'something different' CD was in the business of moving people, infantry was cheap. |
| Stryderg | 01 Dec 2019 6:14 p.m. PST |
The CoDo books included the War World series. It was a bunch of short stories and few novellas about a planet that was barely habitable and used as a dumping ground for Earth's politically undesirable. So you end up with survival stories of American Indians vs Nordic peoples that have sort of reverted to the viking era. Other stories include a pair of Mongol brothers that manage to smuggle horse embryos onto the planet, an American rancher that brings back chivalry, and a bunch of others. The rest of the universe was involved in an interstellar war with the Saurons, who thought it would be a great idea to genetically alter/filter their births to create a superior race and take over pretty much everything. One of their ships ends up on the planet, too. Then there is the Falkenberg's Legion series which deals with a mostly infantry merc unit trying to pay the bills and salvage civilization on the outskirts of the human empire while it crumbles from political corruption. I highly recommend all of them if you haven't read any. |
| robert piepenbrink | 01 Dec 2019 8:46 p.m. PST |
Definitely Friedlander armor and Covenanter infantry in the CD world, though I don't remember much specificity about the tanks. I'd call Drake's work tank-centric, maybe, or tank POV. Drake himself did his time with the 11th ACR in Vietnam and Cambodia, and we always see tanks coping with hostile infantry, never tank on tank action. That said, everyone in all these worlds under discussion--even Saurons and Friendlies--is human. Build yourself decent infantry, cheap infantry and armor and you can play all three. |
 Legion 4  | 06 Dec 2019 3:27 p.m. PST |
Have you looked at the "official" Slammer rule book … "The Crucible". It has rules for 6, 15, & 25mm. Pretty good ! |
| Sherlockgeek | 06 Dec 2019 5:03 p.m. PST |
I want those rules so badly. The 15mm scene isn't great in my area |
| Tango01 | 28 Apr 2020 9:10 p.m. PST |
Those looks good!…
Amicalement
Armand
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| David Johansen | 23 Oct 2020 6:37 a.m. PST |
One interesting ruleset is FGU's Space Marine from the 1970s. It really tries to cover all the popular vehicles and weapons from science fiction novels so you have Bolos and hover tanks and dial a guns. The rules are a bit scary looking but really it's just d% to hit and d10 + weapon value to penetrate vehicles and d10 vs armor type to penetrate infantry. The reason I mention it is that CoDominion verses Dorsi verses Hammerverse is right up its alley. |
| capncarp | 13 Dec 2020 10:58 p.m. PST |
Quoth David Johansen:
<One interesting ruleset is FGU's Space Marine from the 1970s. It really tries to cover all the popular vehicles and weapons from science fiction novels so you have Bolos and hover tanks and dial a guns. The rules are a bit scary looking but really it's just d% to hit and d10 + weapon value to penetrate vehicles and d10 vs armor type to penetrate infantry. The reason I mention it is that CoDominion verses Dorsi verses Hammerverse is right up its alley.> AND it has conversion tables for D&D and Metamorphosis:Alpha weapons and troop stats. "In the cave there's a red dragon." "I set my Dally-gun to "Infinite Repeater" and deal it umpteen bazillion hit points." (DM starts rolling for treasure….) |
| Sherlockgeek | 18 Feb 2021 1:41 p.m. PST |
The pick I made was Infantry Heavy, combo of Snowcrash politics with CoDominion style mercs. The Hammerverse was at the present too expansive and also just limits what my friend and I can do. The result was two infantry heavy armies supported by light tanks and APCs. (I modified Panzer Is with a laser cannon. Just cause I had the models and bits to match it). The ruleset we are using is Gruntz and maybe in the future Strike Legion: Platoon Leader. Make it more crunchy. |
