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Just to comment I’ve brought out a guide to wargames campaigns to go with Hellfire. It’s got world building, politics, economics and suchlike but it’s meant to be fun. This is not combat accountancy for beginners
Whilst it’s written with Hellfire in mind, being a campaign system it doesn’t really matter what wargames rules you use with it.
If you’re interested, it’s mentioned on the blog here https://jimssfnovelsandwargamerules.wordpress.com/2021/08/21/hellfire-campaigns-the-universe-at-your-feet/
Available from Wargame Vault as a pdf
https://www.wargamevault.com/product/368418/Hellfire-Campaigns-The-Universe-at-Your-Feet
And from Amazon as paperback or kindle
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The smart answer would be that with a good campaign book to get your teeth into, you’ll never need scenario books again
I did ponder scenario books, but for me, I feel they need a link. (A bit like the Dodgson’s World scenarios did)
For the writer, that way they don’t feel like a heap of stuff I just swept up and dumped in this document on the off chance somebody might buy it. For the wargamer if there’s a theme then they might feel it’s worth investing in some extra/different figures because they can see they’ll get the use out of them. The advantage of the Dodgson’s world pack was that originally you bought the figures and got the scenarios free
If there are any other manufacturers out there with interesting ranges it could be fun to do something similar.I was going to put the archonate (with triceratops and dogs) in the Campaigns book but as I was writing up I discovered that there was a novel, or at least a novella in there so perhaps when that’s out there could be another campaign booklet there, as the figures are available .
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It has to be confessed that I did wonder about promoting the new edition of Hellfire as having ‘added grammar and spelling’ but felt it wasn’t the selling point I was after
The reason I included the Moghul campaign is because I felt it showed what could be done. Not merely with the Hellfire rules (I’ve not yet played Napoleonic Naval with them) but also with campaigns. The thing about SF is it allows you to project all sorts of cultures and economic systems into the future. These tell you what sort of military forces you can have and join with the economics to guide you as to the size. So a Moghul type system isn’t a bad one for a SF background. It’s stable, for the English, it lasted the length of time separating us from Bonnie Prince Charlie, and for Americans it lasted longer than the American Republic has currently achieved. Even in decline the Moghul Empire lasted 150 years.
With the stress on Munificence and Magnificence it has reasons for people to engage with it, and also to serve under obligation in the armed forces.
But if you shunted it into a SF setting as well as infantry, perhaps the lesser gentry arrived in their aircars mounting a crew served heavy weapon of choice?Also if you buy figures for the Moghul campaign (Irregular will have suitable) they can always turn up in other Hellfire games as the denizens of backwood planets 🙂
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Also if you buy figures for the Moghul campaign (Irregular will have suitable) they can always turn up in other Hellfire games as the denizens of backwood planets
At first I thought you said Mongol, and went to Irregular’s 6mm site and searched for a while until I found them. But I agree and plan on using ACW in slouch hats painted in olive and/or camo as various low tech troops.
Bought the campaign rules and am very impressed on your unique way of imagineering worlds. Only a few pages in but looks awesome.
I have ACW in slouch hats for low tech troops in 15mm, painted sand and washed with peat ink
In 6mm Irregular did some Russian Crimean infantry in peaked cap and great coat. They were in lose order carrying their rifle horizontally at their side. I bought quite a few for my various paramilitary police forces. Blue greatcoat and black peaked cap. And they’re not ostentatiously shooting at people which is good.
The Moghul range is Ian’s Wars in India range but there are figures in other ranges. The dark age range has some nice armoured elephants. The colonial range has Mahdist infantry who would work nicely for hillmen
But in 6mm, once you want scruffy and disreputable, there is so much choice
With engineering worlds I tried to get something that works without too much paperwork and record keeping. There has to be record keeping but I don’t want it to replace the day job
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My sole formal computer training was two evenings of a BBC micro back in the early 1980s. It’s so long ago I cannot even remember the language it used
The first evening was to explain programming from ones and zeros etc
The second evening we wrote our own programme to get a small ascii car to move from left to right across the screen. My car looked as if it was on the other side of a hedge of differing size and bits kept disappearing. The lecturers hadn’t a clue what was going on and I mentioned it a couple of years ago to a mate and apparently there was something in the BBC micro that did this under certain circumstances. He knew what it was but it didn’t mean a lot for me.
Which is why I stick to cards and rolling dice for world buildinghttps://jimssfnovelsandwargamerules.wordpress.com/
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