Various resources for the skirmish game project ... codenamed "Tatterdemalion."

Primary sources

• Western Esoterica
• Porta's "Natural Magic"
• Daemonologie by James I
• Cornell's Witchcraft Digital Archive Many in Latin.

Pieces

The Tarot deck represents strategy and forethought, as well as the careful arrangements of divination and magic.

The dice represent a model's innate skill and the vagaries of fortune.

The bids represent effort, which must be husbanded until the proper time.

Suits

Each model has certain innate faculties with each of the four Suits.

The suit of Swords stands for physical combat and skill at arms. It may be used to defend in melee, or in challenges where raw strength and toughness are required.

These represents skills or special abilities for a model. These should not be house-wide or an effect of equipment. These need to be general traits / keywords, so they can be used by as many models as possible without confusion.

Some abilities will have a limit. For example, Feint and Parry will likely have a Swords icon next to them, indicating that they can only be used in melee combat. A conjurer, on the other hand, could have Feint with the Wands icon.

A collection of suitably ominous quotes for use in the skirmish game rules.

Fate or Fortune

"All things which we do and bear
On Fate's lofty decree depend" Seneca

Another day, another possibility for skirmish rules.

I'm trying to use a Tarot deck for strategy (player play tricks, like the French Tarot game), dice to represent innate or random tests (which can be compared vs the cards), and poker chips to evaluate action points, risk, activations, &c.

I want to eliminate rulers too, so a Tarot card will be used for measuring movement and range.

Players will share a common Tarot deck, chips, and dice. No worries about differences in the size of cards that way.

Example:

The Basics

One roll-off, either opposed or unopposed. Most rolls will be opposed. No mechanic for multiple rolls (like to-hit, to-wound, save).

A success is 5+. The active or attacking player must score more successes than the defending player.

Dice range from d6 to d12.

An advantage -- such as higher skill, more effective equipment, cover -- will raise the die (d6 to d8) or add more dice. A disadvantage will lower dice.

Time for another attempt at skirmish rules!

Just looking for a good, fun game. No need to worry about commonality of miniatures or rules, as I'm no longer interested in catering to the pick-up gaming crowd.

Good ideas from games I've played or read. I'll try to include similar ideas if they're playable.

• Assuming models have military training and don't act like idiots (Force on Force)
• Interleaved activation or reactive activation, not I-go you-go. (FoF, Infinity, Dust, A&A)
• Snap-to-cover (MERCS)
• Rolling a bunch of dice (40K)

I'm trying to assemble the rules for small-scale combat in Warhammer 40K. Focus is on interior / close quarters combat, including shipboard actions, building interiors, and cityfights.

Rules come from IA4: The Anphelion Project (A), IA9 and IA10: The Badab War (B), or Cities of Death (C). Anything else is a playtest or house rule.

Game parameters:

• no more than 1500 points per side
• vehicles limited or disallowed in interiors

Close-Quarters Shooting (A)

Initial Setup

Set up a 3' x 3' board of mostly city terrain.

Place a flyer (Stormraven or Valkyrie, &c) on the table in one corner. The downed vehicle counts as impassable terrain for all models, but any model within 1" of the vehicle counts as being in hard cover.

The defending player places a casualty marker (representing the pilot) in a building or ruin within 6" of the vehicle, along with two models representing elite snipers.

Defend the Ancient / Battle of the Ancients

The defending player sets up first. His force consists of:

• One walker (must have one or more close combat weapons) or monstrous creature costing up to 150 points.
• Up to 75 points of Troops with at least 1 squad.

The walker or MC is the only "big man" in this force, but may not be given any character upgrades.

The opposing player uses a normal force org -- or, in a "Battle of the Ancients," the the same force org as above.