Wargaming the Morrow Project

[gamerguy]

Anyone ever wargame TMP? I have always been interested in gaming the ground combat between the different groups. A Krell push into Amerindian territory, a slaver hostage taking raid, most any group trying to exercise control over an independent village or that village, and its neighbors performing a resistance operation against its oppressor. I was always a player so never got into who was against who and exactly where they were all located.

I think a platoon to company sized (per side) action at most. At the time Squad Leader came to mind but now there are quite a few (too many to choose from?) rules sets or board games which could be used. I don't envision skirmish size actions (one figure, acting as a stand alone unit, equals one person or vehicle) but one where a fire team or squad size group is represented by one stand of infantry (if using minis four to twelve figures per stand) with one vehicle per figure. Of course based on my other posts I don't see many vehicles in use other than wagons and possibly trains. I like 1/285 miniatures so that would be the scale of miniatures I would go with but up to 15 mm should work OK given workable ground scales.

Putting Morrow teams in could add spice for the seriously underdog side but this is gaming the situation not role playing.

[ArmySGT.]

My only current plan is to possibly incorporate 25mm minis. The new Bolt Action Games WW2 line from Warlord Games Gives me a good variety of weapons. Couple this with the historical and period set, plus a Zombie set to get any tech level group I want.

Down the road though I haven't the space for this right now.

[gamerguy]

Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

My only current plan is to possibly incorporate 25mm minis. The new Bolt Action Games WW2 line from Warlord Games Gives me a good variety of weapons. Couple this with the historical and period set, plus a Zombie set to get any tech level group I want.

Down the road though I haven't the space for this right now.

Are you talking using minis in a role playing environment or as a stand alone wargame? If the latter what ground scale? Thank you.

[Craig67]

You could also try Striker, its a sci-fi mini's rule set from the old GDW. Nice thing about it is that it has rules for building vehicles. Plus laser rifles of course

[gamerguy]

Originally Posted by Craig67

You could also try Striker, its a sci-fi mini's rule set from the old GDW. Nice thing about it is that it has rules for building vehicles. Plus laser rifles of course

I was very involved with Striker back in the day. Presently I have come to appreciate the Conflict of Heroes game system. After returning to gaming last year I wanted to get deep into ASL but after trying CoH I have dropped the idea of ASL. I am starting working Striker into CoH. Striker is great for working up scenarios and TOEs, etc. but frankly is an old game system and shows it's age. Plus the scale of CoH (squad and weapons team size units with platoon to company size battles) is what I feel captures what I would like to game.

If you, or any of you, are familiar with Striker and/or Conflict of Heroes I would appreciate assistance and feedback on my ideas. Thank you.

[RandyT0001]

Recently, I started creating a wargaming map for the Jackson Republic using HexDraw.

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by gamerguy

Are you talking using minis in a role playing environment or as a stand alone wargame? If the latter what ground scale? Thank you.

As part of the role play. Platoon and Squad level. I am over the big set piece games. I can play that in less hassle by playing Total War or Close Combat on a computer.