Garyius2003
SOC-13
A very long movie about the Boxer Siege. It took quite a few liberties, the worst making the American Major the overall military leader and action hero (in real life he was brevetted Major for his actions in the siege, and spent half the time in bed wounded).
However, both the movie and real life seem to give a real reason for the noble PC class. The government ministers, and various church/charities leaders (we would call them NGO leaders today), came together and ran the battles and defenses, plotted to get people and food in, raids, salvage and backyard engineered weapons, and a committee type of command under the loose leadership of a government minister.
Port this directly to a TL3/4 level world, have a platoon of Marines with combat armor and energy weapons, and everyone else sharing hunting and personal defense firearms, nuke the star port somehow, and have two months of city siege play game while waiting for the Navy to arrive. In real life the game could go for a year.
I think the GURPS and Mongoose Noble classes would directly port the best, but lots of ways to go, and a real reason for the committee/consensus method PCs use to play the game anyway.
I don't know how well this would work at TL5 or above, though. Maybe not even at full on TL4.
The best part is that the GM could even use the real life events as a timeline script, saving them from having to do things from scratch. Really lazy GMs could even use the real life maps.
The big trick would be the starport. Maybe have the government use all their off world funds to purchase a battery of ship ground based lasers, with mercs for training, and 'loose' the laser emplacements to the rebels, blowing up the scout and free trader on the class D downport and being enough to make the weekly scout and free trader unable to come down from orbit.
Ideas? Comments?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_the_International_Legations
However, both the movie and real life seem to give a real reason for the noble PC class. The government ministers, and various church/charities leaders (we would call them NGO leaders today), came together and ran the battles and defenses, plotted to get people and food in, raids, salvage and backyard engineered weapons, and a committee type of command under the loose leadership of a government minister.
Port this directly to a TL3/4 level world, have a platoon of Marines with combat armor and energy weapons, and everyone else sharing hunting and personal defense firearms, nuke the star port somehow, and have two months of city siege play game while waiting for the Navy to arrive. In real life the game could go for a year.
I think the GURPS and Mongoose Noble classes would directly port the best, but lots of ways to go, and a real reason for the committee/consensus method PCs use to play the game anyway.
I don't know how well this would work at TL5 or above, though. Maybe not even at full on TL4.
The best part is that the GM could even use the real life events as a timeline script, saving them from having to do things from scratch. Really lazy GMs could even use the real life maps.
The big trick would be the starport. Maybe have the government use all their off world funds to purchase a battery of ship ground based lasers, with mercs for training, and 'loose' the laser emplacements to the rebels, blowing up the scout and free trader on the class D downport and being enough to make the weekly scout and free trader unable to come down from orbit.
Ideas? Comments?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_the_International_Legations
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