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[AussieGuy]

War of the Old Worlds is a game using ascii draw where you can control a mercenary army. Doing good, bad or some shade of grey. I will be you GM and I await your input. This game is very close to starting!

Rules

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The rules will be a mix of dnd and warhammer. (I guess) The army will consist of units that can contain anywhere from 5-50 soldiers. There will be many varitys of units including: Archers, Horsemen, Swordsmen, Spearmen and Special units. Each containing a captain that leads the unit. There is also hero soldiers that are very strong.

The attacks will be d20 + Any bonuses or negatives vs Ac (armour class) + Any bonuses or negatives. Normal soldiers have 1 wound but more advanced soldiers might have 2 or 3. Heros have even more than that.     

General and Officer rules
The General and Officers are played by players. The General is in command of the whole army while the officers are in command of 1-3 units. Generals issue basic orders like: Charge, Hold, Fall Back, Flank etc. Officers can control their units with a bit more depth as they focus on their units.

Army

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2 units of archers  (20 each)
W1 AC 13
Longswords +3
Longbows +3
Leather Armor +3
 
3 units of Infantry (20 each)
3W 14 AC
Scale Amour +4
Halberd +5

2 units of horsemen (8 each)
1W AC 13
Chainmail +3
Short Sword +2
Spear +2
Small axe +2

General Dwarmin
4W AC 14
Buckler +1 
Leather +3
Mace +3
Dagger +1
Short bow +1
10 gold left

Officer Emperor_Jonathan
3W
AC 13
Chainmail +3
Short Sword +2
Spear +2
Small axe +2
30 gold

Officer RAM
14 AC
3W
Scale Amour +4
Halberd +5
0 gold

Officer Phantom
3W AC 13
Longswords +3
Longbows +3
Leather Armor +3

 
Equipment

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200 gold each to start
Armor:

Light
Cloth +1 AC 20
Padded +2 AC 40
Leather +3 AC 60
Medium
Chainmail: +3 AC 80
Scale: +4 AC 100
Heavy
Bronze +4 AC 130
Iron +5 AC 160
Steel +6 AC 200
Shields
Buckler +1 AC 50 (Can be used with bow)
Small +2 AC 70  (10% chance of blocking)
Medium +3 AC 90 (20% chance)
Large +4 110 (30% chance)
Tower +5 140 (40% chance)
Weapons:

Swords
Swords are good vs everything except undead. Slashing
Dagger: +1 Atk 10
Short: +2 Atk 30
Long: +3 Atk 50
Claymore: +5 Atk (2 handed) 100
 
Blunt
Need some strength do do any damage. Bludging
Club: +2 30
Mace: +3 50
Flail: +4 70
 
Axes
Has less precison than a sword but can lop off limbs pretty easy.
Small +2 30
Medium +3 50
Large +4 70
2 handed +5 100

Polearms
Keeps enemies at bay. Very good vs. mounted.
Spear +2 30
Pike +3 50
Halberd +5 (2 handed) 100

Archery
For ranged combat
Shortbow +1 20
Bow: +2 40
Longbow: +3 60
Crossbow: +4 80
Throwing spear: +5 100 (must be close up)

General:
Dwarmin

Officers:
Calvary officer: Emperor_ Jonathan
Infantry: RAM
Ranged: Phantom
 

Here is the map! (ignore cursor)

Here is the key!

[Phantom]

What timeline? DF Type, Futuristic, or Present?

[AussieGuy]

fantasy which is DF i guess

[AussieGuy]

Added some more rules.

[Jervous]

Wait, do we add suggestions or do we each get our own mercenary group?

[AussieGuy]

I was going to do one mercenary army with player officers and general but if you want more armies I guess I can do that.

[RAM]

Can we have an undead army?

[Phantom]

I demand a Human Army.
With crossbows without the limbvs and string.

[RAM]

I asked first, and humans can be undead...

[Phantom]

Yes, but humans who fight back are somewhat harder to kill then use necromancy.

[AussieGuy]

So are we going with one army or mutiple? I pefer 1 as its easier to keep track but if you all want more than i'll work harder.

[Dwarmin]

I just finished playing Fantasy General, a fantasy themed Panzer General type game, I thought something like that could be parlayed into a forum game. This looks like it could be good.

I say 1 army just to start. Once the game gets the bugs ironed out, you can expand.

For suggestions, how about

-Mass Spell casting? Either hero or general with the ability to cast spells, or units that can cast a specific spell?

-Lots of variable races/customization of units . Kobold phalanx?, Troll knights in plate mail etc.

-Can we have skirmisher units? They would essentially be light, fast infantry who could attack normal infantry without retaliation, but could obliviously get flattened in a straight up fight. In RL they were useful for damaging enemy organization before battle, scouting, ambushing etc.

-FG had fantasy style air combat, with flying units like war eagles and bombardiers that could both attack ground units with varying success. But that would another level of crazy lol!

[AussieGuy]

I say 1 army just to start. Once the game gets the bugs ironed out, you can expand.

Thats a good Idea. I will start off with one army.
 

-Mass Spell casting? Either hero or general with the ability to cast spells, or units that can cast a specific spell?

We could have Wizard heros or Small units of Wizards but we would need a system so they dont own everything.
 

-Lots of variable races/customization of units . Kobold phalanx?, Troll knights in plate mail etc.

Thats also a good idea. I guess it would be easy makking bonuses and negatives for each race. I was going to do customization and maybe even units gaining exp?
 

-Can we have skirmisher units? They would essentially be light, fast infantry who could attack normal infantry without retaliation, but could obliviously get flattened in a straight up fight. In RL they were useful for damaging enemy organization before battle, scouting, ambushing etc.

Yeah, I think skirmishers would be cool. Giving them a bow and sword, shooting randomly from bushes, ambushing. I think Kobolds would be great for this.
 

-FG had fantasy style air combat, with flying units like war eagles and bombardiers that could both attack ground units with varying success. But that would another level of crazy lol!

I that would be too hard for the start. Mabye once we are moving.
 
 
I'm going to start making the map with ascii draw. Might take a while.

[Phantom]

If we join, can we choose what specialty are troops excel in?

[AussieGuy]

I dont get what you are trying to say.

If you mean yourself yeah you get to chose what you excel at.