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[Buff Orpington]

For really useless motivations in a sci fi setting you can't beat BattleTech. Raiding a planet for water! So, after a short run of failed raids you have to abandon your arid planet, next time pick one with water of its own.

[grizzlymc]

Right, a civilisation that can cross inter stellar space and get water out of a gravity well can't just find ice asteroids and redirect them to its atmosphere?

It's like expecting the aborigines of the andes to have fleet battles with the picts.

[Buff Orpington]

Grizzlymc has just invented Warlord's next game.

[goat major]

Next months Wargames Illustrated comes with a free set of coracles

[levied troop]

Mars Needs Women!!

[grizzlymc]

Well, he gets to shag Venus, isn't that enough?

[Norman D. Landings]

Grizzlymc has just invented Warlord's next game.

Isn’t it this: https://www.manapress.com.au/tribal/

(Which I assumed was based on Grizzly’s average Friday night.)

[Paul]

Tribal is quite an interesting game in that it doesn't use dice or a tape measure just playing cards.

In terms of motivation for interstellar war I suppose we've ignored the fact that one of the protagonists might just be delicious to the aggressor!

[Purple]

.And what are we fighting over? Invade a planet? Fine if they are a bunch of Zulus, but otherwise they have the resources of a planet, and you have what you can get by 1st class space mail. Cheaper to buy them.

Three words.

Trump Space Force.

[goat major]

In terms of motivation for interstellar war I suppose we've ignored the fact that one of the protagonists might just be delicious to the aggressor!

Or - as in the John Mills Quatermass - they may be a nice ingredient for a range of cosmetics