"Bad Wargaming Ideas - Top 5" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 13 Feb 2024 4:52 p.m. PST |
You were asked – TMP link What wargaming projects would you say just won't yield interesting tabletop battles and why? 11% of the votes: "Resource-based map campaigns, unsuited for miniature gaming"
10%: "Sieges, not enough fun"
9%: "Submarine warfare, not enough fun"
9%: "Trench warfare, not enough fun"
9%: "Persian Gulf War, unbalanced" |
Louis XIV  | 14 Feb 2024 4:53 a.m. PST |
Sieges and trench games are probably OK ones sided with the attacker being a GM or AI. A bit like Plants vs Zombies. Zulu wars probably the same. ASW is fun and I remember lots of Double Blind Harpoon. It could work again with modernized rules. |
| MilEFEX3030 | 14 Feb 2024 6:28 a.m. PST |
Any war is interesting. Street fights against drunks coming on to your girlfriend, people calling you a chicken because of your hairstyle, all highly gameable, just use GURPS. |
| arthur1815 | 14 Feb 2024 8:12 a.m. PST |
Salvation Army versus Quakers. |
| Ferd45231 | 14 Feb 2024 9:15 a.m. PST |
Bravo Arthur, I was having a crappy morning until I saw your response. Laughed out loud. H |
| Glengarry5 | 14 Feb 2024 12:52 p.m. PST |
The Great Pig War of 1859 |
 Old Contemptible | 14 Feb 2024 4:19 p.m. PST |
Louis, I think it works better if the GM is the defender. I guess it depends on the scenario. |
| Henry Martini | 17 Feb 2024 8:00 p.m. PST |
Salvation Navy versus Sea Org. Glengarry – Did the Great Pig win? |
| robert piepenbrink | 18 Feb 2024 11:08 a.m. PST |
Martini, the war was called off when it turned out he was a pretty good pig, but not really great. |
| Henry Martini | 18 Feb 2024 6:31 p.m. PST |
Then it was probably not the first, and certainly not the last, armed conflict based on dubious claims, Robert. Of course, the theatre of operations for the contest I nominated will be judicial rather than maritime. The 'big guns' will be wearing suits and carrying brief cases, and the only 'shooting down' will be verbal, but as the verdict is announced the combatants on the losing side will experience an unpleasant sinking feeling. |
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