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Post by knoffles on Aug 25, 2021 9:12:52 GMT
Hi all,
Our club will be resuming it's annual show in late October and one of the things being mooted is putting on a few demonstration/participation games for fantasy/Sci-fi (the club is known for historic games but now it has a broad mix of gamers but many of the demo games put on by other clubs, at the show, are still historic).
Has anyone here had experience of putting on participation games (particularly for Fantasy) and if so are you able to give any pointers?
Ideally I want to do a 8th fantasy game and if it's just a demo game that is fine, but if it's a participation gamem then likely we'll slightly dumb it down, not being sticklers for every rule, trying to keep it as simple as possible.
Should we do a narrative game? Permanent reinforcements etc?
If you have any advice it would be gratefully received.
It may not happen but i'm trying to get a head of the game as it were!
Cheers
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Post by strutsagget on Aug 26, 2021 6:48:09 GMT
Who do you want to attract at the event? Role Playing and kids will like narrative more then the calculating strategists. Most importan bring great painted models and scenery. Bring even huge slogger infantry and war-machines and monsters. Maybe dragons(don’t shoot em first turn  ! Try to make lists balanced and maybe beautiful model/sculpt is better then competitive level. |
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Post by knoffles on Aug 30, 2021 10:19:03 GMT
Who do you want to attract at the event? Role Playing and kids will like narrative more then the calculating strategists. Most importan bring great painted models and scenery. Bring even huge slogger infantry and war-machines and monsters. Maybe dragons(don’t shoot em first turn ! Try to make lists balanced and maybe beautiful model/sculpt is better then competitive level. Cheers bud. I've been having a think about this and looking to potentially run a modified version of the Raze & Ruin scenario from the big rule book. Maybe 5-6k per side. The aim might be more of a demo game rather than participation (though if peeps want to roll dice and make game decisions, happy with that). It won't be a competitive game so we won't worry about small units of chaff. We'll just try and bring as many big units as we can (e.g. my dwarfs I can field 6-7 hordes and another 4-5 units of 20-30) as I think visually it will be more eye catching. It's looking like it will be Dwarves vs and Empire Alliance. One of the other players is going to bring Empire and i'll bulk it out with some Lizardmen (mainly for the eye catching monsters) and either some bretonnians or woodelves. We just don't have the painted models to field bad guys vs good (unless we can persuade Bluke to bring his warriors!). I'm also wondering about whether to run it so it's on a double width table (8x6) with the dwarves in the middle defending a village and then the Alliance attacking from both sides. I thought that would be a bit different to the normal 12x4 for larger battles. The downside is reaching the middle of the board.... Would love to get your thoughts on that! |
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Post by strutsagget on Aug 30, 2021 18:07:59 GMT
Sounds fun! Army in the middle sounds fun also but feels very hard to maneuver. I would probably skip that unless you find a perfect table where reach us not limited.
Regarding the forces both being from order.
You can always narrated it with an empire lord gone “chaos” undercover like in the Felix and Gotrek book with the dude that got an extra bonus nurgle titty (underneath). He persuaded the folks and rallied against the dwarfs saying they done something bad.(behind missing children/women)
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Post by Naitsabes on Aug 30, 2021 21:55:03 GMT
I second having well-painted miniatures + scenery is paramount. And a six wide table is not that hard to reach into the middle. I like the idea of the dwarfs defending in the middle. Classic tropes and all.
Don't have first=hand experience on participation games. I'd probably keep it loose. If somebody shows an interest, let them take over a unit (or three) and push them around, roll the dice etc. If that participant disappears, don't skip a beat and carry on.
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Post by Horace on Aug 31, 2021 13:15:53 GMT
I think the perpetual reinforcements sound fun too. Anyone can turn up, grab some models they like the look of and move on
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