The Loose Association of Wargamers

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.

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.

Grizzlymc has just invented Warlord's next game.

Next months Wargames Illustrated comes with a free set of coracles

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

Buff Orpington wrote: ↑Sun Dec 16, 2018 8:27 am 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.)

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!

grizzlymc wrote: ↑Sat Dec 15, 2018 12:37 pm .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.

Paul wrote: ↑Sun Dec 16, 2018 10:44 am

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