"Closest SciFi rules to Team Yankee / Flames of War?" Topic
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 Extra Crispy  | 29 Jan 2023 4:53 p.m. PST |
Looking for sci fi rules that are closest in mechanics to Team Yankee / Flames of War. Is it 40k? Epic Armageddon? Something else? |
| Thresher01 | 29 Jan 2023 5:14 p.m. PST |
40K is apparently FOW. Need popcorn for the replies/outrage over that assertion. |
 The Nigerian Lead Minister  | 29 Jan 2023 5:59 p.m. PST |
I disagree, FOW is 40K for WWII. More popcorn? |
| Pythagoras | 29 Jan 2023 7:05 p.m. PST |
Future War Commander, maybe. Two Hour Wargames probably has something similar. |
 Saber6  | 29 Jan 2023 9:10 p.m. PST |
Just use FoW, or TY and file off the serial numbers |
| Arjuna | 29 Jan 2023 9:18 p.m. PST |
Get the rules in electronic form, and swap out the names and designations for those of the setting you want. Remove the historical context, if FOW deals with history at all. Change some stats and the point system, get it smoothed out by an LLM AI, like ChatGPT, and Voilà, a new SF rule system.
Game rules aren't copyrightable.
At least not in the anglophone world, as far as I know.
And probably not on the meager rest of this planet, like say Germany. |
 Mister Tibbles | 30 Jan 2023 8:48 a.m. PST |
Future War Commander is based on Warmaster and is nothing like FoW
Why you ask?
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| Mark Plant | 01 Feb 2023 9:45 p.m. PST |
Rules are most certainly in copyright. Their concepts can't be copyrighted though. You can rip them off wholesale, provided you rewrite them. Games Workshop have trade marks on some of their words. You can't call your space marine a "space marine", for example. |
| Arjuna | 02 Feb 2023 6:46 a.m. PST |
Yes, you're right.
Rules in the sense of gaming mechanics.
Not, for example, the exact wording, which may be under copyright.
That is the reason I recommend smoothing it with an LLM-based AI.
Some give you the option to select a writing style. You may have a chance to patent the gaming mechanics though. |
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