Hey-o!

My group has been playing a grandiose but evil campaign and would love some input and suggestions, if y'all wouldn't mind...

Ginoromous Galactic Civil War

Star Wars Risk for the galactic view of the conflict,

Starfleet Battles with Star Wars SSD's (enter Armada but...Money),

X-Wing starfighter quarrels for system supremacy (pew pew pew),

and an OGRE variant for planetary or city-sized conficts (enter IA but...Money again).

One of those shoehorned games will be replaced soon, (prob IA) but we do what we can with what we have, yeah? So, anyone else trying this kind of thing and what systems are you using?

Have great night and Fly Casual!

I've always wanted to do a big, epic meta game like that, but I don't know anyone else who is into that kind of commitment.

At this point, were I to try and do so etching like that, I would use twilight imperium for the big, strategic scale stuff, and then key some role playing sessions (probably using savage worlds) off of its political and diplomatic elements.

Sounds super crazy fun. It'll probably take you longer than the real war to end it though.

Wouldn't you be able to take out Risk and put in Twilight Imperium 3? I know it is Star Wars Risk, but still... Risk.

My brother and I once played a game of risk where the battles weren't decided with dice, but with individual games of Napoleon: Total War, whereby each side had a number of unit points equal to the number of unit points given by the figures in the Risk game.

The Risk thing just worked well for us at the time (and cheap, we had one). 3 Factions and it's mostly just used for the Macro view of the conflict. All the real battling goes down with the other games.

I agree Nightshrike...we have resolved 4 contested systems in 2 months, maybe we will finish this year?

The Risk move is usually about 10 minutes and then we proceed to either a Capital ship, snubfighter or ground battle over the next few sessions. Twilight Imperium looks to be a great system, I will have to look into that, Thanks.

Twilight Imperium looks to be a great system, I will have to look into that, Thanks.

It's an amazing game. Very long and with lots of crunchy detail that makes it not the kind of game just anyone would like, but the very fact that you are doing this indicates that it us the kind of game you would probably really enjoy.

Ahh, I miss TI...