Lording it over hoi polloi

[Jim Webster]

Somebody asked me for the backstory for the forces that appear in ‘Hellfire in the City’ and so this is a comparatively simple solo campaign which answers the question 🙂

Lording it over hoi polloi

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[Andrew Beasley]

Interesting timing 🙂

I downloaded a free map from Wargames Vault yesterday (here) and was wondering how I could determine the occupants – OK it’s for the Palaeo game but your card based idea will be ‘borrowed’!

 

[Jim Webster]

That’s why I love generic systems, it is so easy to borrow and repurpose. Hope you have fun with it  🙂

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[Thaddeus Blanchette]

This is brilliant stuff, Jim! Scifi Afganistan!

We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

[Jim Webster]

Thaddeus Blanchette wrote:

This is brilliant stuff, Jim! Scifi Afghanistan!

Interestingly the inspiration was 5th century BC Rome and Latinum where you had the same mix of rural clans and urban settlements.
It’s interesting how these patterns keep reoccurring.
It now begs the question, did 5th Century Italy see the same ‘ideological’ clash between ‘sophisticated urban dwellers’ and ‘conservative rural populations’?

 

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[Andrew Beasley]

Jim Webster wrote:

…did 5th Century Italy see the same ‘ideological’ clash between ‘sophisticated urban dwellers’ and ‘conservative rural populations’?

Closest to Italy would be the Bacaudae (brigands and ex-slaves really into looting) that I know off – a bit west (Gaul / France) but feasibly through the area. In this case it’s more conservative urban dwellers getting attacked 🙂

[Jim Webster]

Andrew Beasley wrote:

Jim Webster wrote:

…did 5th Century Italy see the same ‘ideological’ clash between ‘sophisticated urban dwellers’ and ‘conservative rural populations’?

Closest to Italy would be the Bacaudae (brigands and ex-slaves really into looting) that I know off – a bit west (Gaul / France) but feasibly through the area. In this case it’s more conservative urban dwellers getting attacked

Yes it’s a fascinating period. Another interesting area was Egypt where the Boukoloi or ‘herdsmen’ revolted in the 2nd century.
Actually for scruffy end Sci Fi, the slave revolts in Italy (where a lot of slaves were used in remote rural areas and actually supported themselves with banditry because they had to be armed to protect the livestock they were looking after) have a lot of potential as well 🙂

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