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I had a very crazy idea for a map,
A tabletop map from a tabletop game called "Warmachines",
A few things to Warmachines, it is a very easy-to-learn tabletop with a very fast gameplay and not many models are required to play it.
Warmachines' Scenario plays in the past, the time of steam. It is a steampunk'ed tabletop with huge machines beating the crap out of eachother, in the middle of that war of metal are 7 factions: Cygnar, Retribution of Scyrah, Khador, Cryx, Protectorate of Menoth and the infamous Mercenaries.
Each faction has it's own way of playing and quite own feeling:
Khador: Steam-exhausting monsters, they are the heaviest and slowest warmachines faction, they are mostly strong and proud people, and their philosophy is like: BIGGER, better! Additional they are monster machines latched with tons of metal. One of their disadvantages is that they have no real light warjacks.
Cygnar: The Proud of the Iron Kingdom, the cygnarans aren't the strongest force, nor the fastest, but they are adaptable as hell and their ranged weapons are HORRIFYING towards their enemies. They have small disadvantages, their armor is average and their melee abilities are average. But they have no real weakness. A good balanced faction with many toolbox-units and big guns.
Cryx: You can describe cryx with one word: Sneaky, they are a very instable faction, not too stable, underaverage in melee and ranged battle and the weakest race if it comes to armor. But they are the fastest faction in the world of warmachines. And they have QUITE overwhelming spells which cause corrosion or other tricks which can turn the table for the undead forces of cryx.
Protectorate of Menoth: Well, a bunch of fanatic guys which were originally cygnarans, they praise menoth, a divinity. Their style of fighting is quite clear, dying for the great Menoth is worth it! They got quite a good armor, but are nearly as slow as khador, their melee abilities are at the level of cygnar (average) and their ranged capabilities are quite shitty, they rely on their choirs which buff their warjacks.
Mercenaries: Quit a bunch of rough guys, they can be used by many factions, depending on the unit of mercenaries, they have no own style, they fight for money and are mostly toolbox-fighters, means they fight with dirty tricks.
Informations to the raw setup of the game:
Warjacks: Warjacks are the war machinery of that age, they are huge steam-exhausting iron bodies controlled by arcane brains and by the power of their warcaster.
Warcasters: A Warcaster is a military rank in warmachines, they are the most powerful human beings on that planet, they are adepts in magic, machines and weapons, they control the warjack's arcane brains and move them.
Infantry: Yeah, it is infantry, but many are reinforced with adapted jack-technology.
(There won't be infantry at all in this game, and not all warcasters or warjacks, but there will be many, and maybe even new(Warjacks and Warcasters))
How the Tabletop works and the Map will work:
Basic Rules:
Focus: Every Warcaster and even some other Models can give/receive Focus, Warjacks can receive focus (only if none of his abilities forbids that), Focus is used to improve the battle abilities of warjacks or to cast spells of the warcaster. Only Warjacks and Warcasters can get Focus. But only warcaster's can generate focus, beside a few solo's and through abilities. A Warjack can get up to 3 Focus per round from his Warcaster.
There are following Attributes on every 'Jack, Warcaster and other units:
SPD (Speed): The distance in inch a model can move. Can be altered by certain terrain.
STR (Strength): The physical strength of this model, this attribute is mostly used for melee weapons and special attacks. A melee weapon does STR + Weapon Power on Attack.
MAT (Melee Attack): The skill of the model with melee weapons. Is used to roll a Hit Try with melee weapons.
RAT (Ranged Attack): The skill of the model with ranged weapons. Is used to roll a Hit Try with ranged weapons.
DEF (Defense): The evasion or block possibilities of the model. If you make a Hit Try against a enemy, the Hit Roll must be higher or equal than the enemies defense, else you don't hit.
ARM (Armor): The armor of the unit, thick steelplates for example. If you pass a Hit Try successful you can roll a damage try, if you surpass the armor of the enemy with your damage try you deal that much damage to the enemy.
Well, would you be interested to bring such a tabletop to a map? if you want to help with that map, you can join my team and help me develope them. I will write the style of playing in this thread if some are interested
like, how warmachines works.
Of course I can do alot of the work, but i need a modeler, a skinner and maybe some people which help me getting the whole work done.
The Map would be a multiplayer map where you can use every model of your faction in a tournament like setting, and play the warmachines game.
Here are some pictures of warmachines: http://privateerpress.com/warmachine/gallery
Click on the flags on the screen to enter the faction showcases.
A tabletop map from a tabletop game called "Warmachines",
A few things to Warmachines, it is a very easy-to-learn tabletop with a very fast gameplay and not many models are required to play it.
Warmachines' Scenario plays in the past, the time of steam. It is a steampunk'ed tabletop with huge machines beating the crap out of eachother, in the middle of that war of metal are 7 factions: Cygnar, Retribution of Scyrah, Khador, Cryx, Protectorate of Menoth and the infamous Mercenaries.
Each faction has it's own way of playing and quite own feeling:
Khador: Steam-exhausting monsters, they are the heaviest and slowest warmachines faction, they are mostly strong and proud people, and their philosophy is like: BIGGER, better! Additional they are monster machines latched with tons of metal. One of their disadvantages is that they have no real light warjacks.
Cygnar: The Proud of the Iron Kingdom, the cygnarans aren't the strongest force, nor the fastest, but they are adaptable as hell and their ranged weapons are HORRIFYING towards their enemies. They have small disadvantages, their armor is average and their melee abilities are average. But they have no real weakness. A good balanced faction with many toolbox-units and big guns.
Cryx: You can describe cryx with one word: Sneaky, they are a very instable faction, not too stable, underaverage in melee and ranged battle and the weakest race if it comes to armor. But they are the fastest faction in the world of warmachines. And they have QUITE overwhelming spells which cause corrosion or other tricks which can turn the table for the undead forces of cryx.
Protectorate of Menoth: Well, a bunch of fanatic guys which were originally cygnarans, they praise menoth, a divinity. Their style of fighting is quite clear, dying for the great Menoth is worth it! They got quite a good armor, but are nearly as slow as khador, their melee abilities are at the level of cygnar (average) and their ranged capabilities are quite shitty, they rely on their choirs which buff their warjacks.
Mercenaries: Quit a bunch of rough guys, they can be used by many factions, depending on the unit of mercenaries, they have no own style, they fight for money and are mostly toolbox-fighters, means they fight with dirty tricks.
Informations to the raw setup of the game:
Warjacks: Warjacks are the war machinery of that age, they are huge steam-exhausting iron bodies controlled by arcane brains and by the power of their warcaster.
Warcasters: A Warcaster is a military rank in warmachines, they are the most powerful human beings on that planet, they are adepts in magic, machines and weapons, they control the warjack's arcane brains and move them.
Infantry: Yeah, it is infantry, but many are reinforced with adapted jack-technology.
(There won't be infantry at all in this game, and not all warcasters or warjacks, but there will be many, and maybe even new(Warjacks and Warcasters))
| Sub-Section: 1. Solo: Solo Models are special models with names and special abilities. 2. Character Models: Units which you can only play once per game, they have stories and are stronger than normal models. |
How the Tabletop works and the Map will work:
Basic Rules:
Focus: Every Warcaster and even some other Models can give/receive Focus, Warjacks can receive focus (only if none of his abilities forbids that), Focus is used to improve the battle abilities of warjacks or to cast spells of the warcaster. Only Warjacks and Warcasters can get Focus. But only warcaster's can generate focus, beside a few solo's and through abilities. A Warjack can get up to 3 Focus per round from his Warcaster.
There are following Attributes on every 'Jack, Warcaster and other units:
SPD (Speed): The distance in inch a model can move. Can be altered by certain terrain.
STR (Strength): The physical strength of this model, this attribute is mostly used for melee weapons and special attacks. A melee weapon does STR + Weapon Power on Attack.
MAT (Melee Attack): The skill of the model with melee weapons. Is used to roll a Hit Try with melee weapons.
RAT (Ranged Attack): The skill of the model with ranged weapons. Is used to roll a Hit Try with ranged weapons.
DEF (Defense): The evasion or block possibilities of the model. If you make a Hit Try against a enemy, the Hit Roll must be higher or equal than the enemies defense, else you don't hit.
ARM (Armor): The armor of the unit, thick steelplates for example. If you pass a Hit Try successful you can roll a damage try, if you surpass the armor of the enemy with your damage try you deal that much damage to the enemy.
| Weapons: Weapons are used by nearly every model in the whole game. There are two major types of weapons: Melee Weapons: Melee Weapons are swords, fists, blunt weapons, or whatever is used in a melee fight. Your standard melee range is 0,5". Melee Weapon Damage is calculated by STR + POW of the weapon, for example if the weapon of a warjack would have 6 POW and the Warjacks STR is 9 the Weapon would have a Melee Weapon Damage of 15. Melee Weapons can have different ranges, but thats always written in the stats of the model. -Melee Weapons look like the following: "Name of the Weapon" POW 1 P+S 9 for example, POW is the power of the weapon, P+S is POW + STR -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ranged Weapons: Ranged weapons are arcs of lightning, guns, canons, flamethrowers and so on. There is no standard range for a ranged weapon, all have different attributes. Ranged Weapon Damage is fixed. There is a special type of ranged weapons, the spray weapons like flamethrower of acid launcher for example, they are damaging everything in a cone if they hit the targeted model. Additionally non-spray weapons can have AoE's, means they affect units in a area, but if you miss the main target of the AoE Attack it will deviate away and may hit your own models. Ranged Weapons look like the following: "Name of the Weapon" RNG 10, ROF 1, AOE -, POW 10 RNG: The range of the weapon in inch. ROF: Rate of Fire in numbers, this tells you how many times a weapon can possibly shoot per round, for example 1 means it can shoot 1 time. If it would be 2, you could shot 1 time normal, and you could spent 1 focus to buy another shot. AOE: The Area of Effect, here it is none, so there won't be a AOE Effect, if it would be 3 you would need a 3" Circle Template to estimate the AOE Effect. Units get hit by the AOE effect are damaged for half of the weapon's POW. If you don't hit the target with the AOE Effect (you lose the Hit Try) the AOE will deviate by 1W6 and may hit other units as the targeted, but only with half the POW. POW: The Power of the Ranged Weapon, this POW is not combined with any attribute and estimates the strength of the ranged attack dependant on the weapon (a bombard deals more as a small handgun). |
More informations coming soon....
Well, would you be interested to bring such a tabletop to a map? if you want to help with that map, you can join my team and help me develope them. I will write the style of playing in this thread if some are interested
like, how warmachines works.Of course I can do alot of the work, but i need a modeler, a skinner and maybe some people which help me getting the whole work done.
The Map would be a multiplayer map where you can use every model of your faction in a tournament like setting, and play the warmachines game.
Here are some pictures of warmachines: http://privateerpress.com/warmachine/gallery
Click on the flags on the screen to enter the faction showcases.
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