Mass Combat - Gamerstable Ep89

Boz Shulun

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Many moons ago, roleplaying games were begotten from strategy based miniature battles. With this background in war games, and the propensity of massive battles in many of the tropes of fantasy and sci-fi, it is not surprising when you look at a lot of older RPGs and see systems for massive battles.

Then a funny thing happened, games started going away from the complicated strategy based mass combat systems and toward abstract rules for battles.

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Boz Shulun

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Thanks Tom!

Had to reach into the way-back machine on a lot of them. But some of the newer games that have mass combat rules are very good, primarily Savage Worlds.
 

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