"GWH Legends of the Old West Variants for Sci-Fi?" Topic

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Any other gamers out there using these rules for sci-fi scenarios?

CC

No CC to be honest there are plenty of Sci-Fi rules out there already. For my games (used to play SG1) I use CR2 or Combat Zone.

Justin is right the LOTOWest is a mix of LOTR and Necromunda the You Go I Go rules works better with 19th Century weapons or hand weapons but with the mass destruction of Sci-fi weapons you are potentially looking at slaughter or you are really just converting the pistols/rifles or shotguns into laser etc.

That is just my opinion though and charactor development and skill would work as in Necromunda

>Any other gamers out there using these rules for sci-fi scenarios?<

This wouldn't be my cup of tea as it has nothing to do with the "pulp" era. I'd rather see cowboys used in themes like cowboys vs. saboteurs in "King of the Texas rangers", or "The Three mesquiteers" in search of a missing archaologist and a lost city in "Riders of the Whistling Skull", or "The Range Busters" fighting enemy agents while delivering horses to the Phillipines in "Texas to Bataan".

The big problem is that there are no 28mm minis to represent the "B" Western heroes. Every one that I've seen is from the "Old West". We need "two gun" figs dressed like "Hoppy", Gene and Roy. Imagine the great scenarios we could create with "pulp" cowboy heroes fighting Nazis and gangsters? Yow!

"LOTOWest is a mix of LOTR and Necromunda"

Actually it's LotR rules with Mordheim campaign system. (Quite a difference from Necromunda to Mordheim.) But the problem is 20th century and beyond guns and equipment. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable in borrowing rules from either Necro or 40K, but if I could find something similar in LotR to automatic fire then I'd try to play with point values.

Iain.

Our local gaming group has had a couple of pulp fiction games using a variant of the LotOW rules. We cobbled together some rules as required, including rules for Tommy guns, Lewis guns, rocket packs, skeletons and whips, and made up stats for different types of characters and creatures.

So far, we've had two games. The first was a four way battle between the Chinese Tong, renegade German Zeppelin Troopen, heroic US Rocket Troops and the ubiquitous archaeologists, all occuring in a ghost town in New Mexico. Second took place in Egypt and involved two groups of archaeologists racing for the Egyptian tombs, being beset by Arab bandits, the Mysterious Brotherhood and the undead armies of the Pharaoh.

The system worked well for this type of game. At least, all the participants had a great time!

Will

I'm interested in trying out mods of LotOW for a variety of genres, such as modern, SF, pulp, etc. SWAT teams vs Daleks, Lara Croft vs Predators, Afrika Korps vs mummies and so on.

Thread Necromancy – I just decided to use these as a basis for Star Wars "Bounty Hunter" type gangs to snare my son into the wargames world!

Oooooo, please let us know how you adapt them and if it turns out as you hoped.

And take some pics of the game(s) too!

Dan

If the project is completed I will indeed.

I have LotOW sitting on the shelf and found some alien types on Ebay. Just got to make some desert sci-fi terrain…

Apparently these fellas are the meanest bounty hunters this side of the Outer Rim.

I don't do LOTOW, but The Rules With No Name work pretty well for sci-fi if you have the "Old West In Spaaaaaaaaaaace!" itch.

Great yet another rule set to look at again….

Any Vehicle rules been done?

Yeah I;m think of this for Retro-sci-fi, where the tech is fairly crap anyway

Where the heck did those IG-series droids come from? That shot looks pre-Imperial and the only five in existence were supposed to be an Imperial project…

I have no idea – I would ask Master Piglet but he is in his bedroom after throwing a sandwich at me.

I think they are called "Assassin Droids"

Kids these days… Bring back the birch.

I recently ran across Stargate adapted stats, I'm intrigued. :)