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Post by remoore12 on May 14, 2015 17:04:22 GMT -8
I have just started running a game with a group of three brand new players who can sometimes have a hard time stepping outside the box. We are all military so I'm trying to stick with what they know with a zombie twist, generic I know but they are seeming to have a great time. My question for you all is do any of you have any good recourses for modern military campaigns? I am having a hard time finding anything and I'm don't feel confident in creating it all myself. TIA
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EssEmAech
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Post by EssEmAech on May 28, 2015 10:11:06 GMT -8
Tour of Darkness is basically Weird Wars: Vietnam. It has a lot of good Edges for a modern military unit, particularly at the Squad/Fireteams scale. I have the original HC, and it was for the first printing of the game, so the rules are probably a bit out of date. I see that DrivethruRPG has PDFs of the Players Guide for ~$5, and the whole shebang for ~$7. I'm not sure if the PDFs are updated to SW Deluxe or not, though.
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Post by remoore12 on May 30, 2015 1:16:14 GMT -8
Thank you! That's really helpful.
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Post by natebob on May 30, 2015 1:22:41 GMT -8
FM 999-3 is a fire team level field manual I used in a Zombie game I ran. I printed off select pages and had the party find them randomly and they assembled them in to a book. zombiecombatcommand.com/field-manuals/
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Post by Houndin on May 30, 2015 7:14:48 GMT -8
If you can find them, twilight 2000 or Dark Conspiracy. Also check out the Delta Green modification for Call of Cthulhu.
[Edit] sorry didn't realize this was SW specific. Ignore me Sent from my Nexus 7 using proboards
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Post by savagedaddy on Jun 15, 2015 20:29:10 GMT -8
Have you considered 're-skinning' Reality Blurs' Agents of Oblivion?
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Post by ilina on Sept 5, 2015 20:08:59 GMT -8
if they are all modern military soldiers playing modern military characters, they are really playing themselves. i suggest convincing them to try military appropriate to another genre, like medieval military or futuristic military, as a small stretch to slowly ween them away. while being a small girl who primarily plays small girls, i often try to step away from my heavily martial arts focused self and play a variety of things from doctors to psychics and even duelists. adding even a single fantastic or future element to a military squad can encourage the group to approach things differently. maybe instead of being traditional navy seals, they play a group of federation cyborg magical girls called the assault faeries, that are akin to elite youthful female space marines with cyborg technology, gothloli fashion, and magical powers and thus have to approach things a bit differently. it is still a military unit, but it would encourage a mix up in tactics.
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Post by ayslyn on Sept 11, 2015 6:57:35 GMT -8
if they are all modern military soldiers playing modern military characters, they are really playing themselves. Not really. There are so many different kinds of people in the military. Not every radioman on a destroyer is the same. Not every platoon sergeant has the same beliefs. Let's look at your job... Look around your work space. Look at your co-workers. That's a group of people who all basically do the same thing, but a completely different people. The military is the exact same thing. This is why Das Boot was different from Hunt for the Red October.
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Post by shadrack on Sept 11, 2015 7:26:47 GMT -8
Not exactly modern, but I played in an awesome "Aliens" game. We were all marines, and wouldn't you know it, our CO bit it early. I think there were going to be Predators too, but the game died.
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Post by jeffrywith1e on Sept 20, 2015 8:14:03 GMT -8
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Post by remoore12 on Nov 29, 2015 2:29:46 GMT -8
maybe instead of being traditional navy seals, they play a group of federation cyborg magical girls called the assault faeries, that are akin to elite youthful female space marines with cyborg technology, gothloli fashion, and magical powers and thus have to approach things a bit differently. it is still a military unit, but it would encourage a mix up in tactics. I am stealing this. Lol!
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Post by ilina on Dec 3, 2015 23:15:03 GMT -8
maybe instead of being traditional navy seals, they play a group of federation cyborg magical girls called the assault faeries, that are akin to elite youthful female space marines with cyborg technology, gothloli fashion, and magical powers and thus have to approach things a bit differently. it is still a military unit, but it would encourage a mix up in tactics. I am stealing this. Lol! a female space marine in a fancy dress with a childlike figure, sounds totally epic. i mean, they are still effectively space marines, only as cute anime girls in frilly dresses who through magic and technology, fight big bad monsters. i got the idea from combining shadowrun, warhammer and the magical girl genre of anime with elements of strike witches. as a setting rule, a benny must be awarded for clever timing of panty shots in the magical girl tradition. think porcelain dolls with vibrosabers and 50 caliber ballistic firearms and less plasma and lightsabers.
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