There was this awful RPG that was made sometime in the last decade - Lionheart, Legacy of the Crusader. The premise was the typical "magic somehow gets released in OTL" during the middle ages, but the tremendously silly thing is you run into RL characters from OTL like Leonardo DaVinci, despite the vast majority of Europe becoming depopulated due to magic and the ravenous goblin mongol hordes.
Do you play AH-themed games?
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If anyone is interested we are creating an ATL for the Shadowrun RPG. The idea is that anything can and will happen:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=170602
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=170602
The Vulture
Banned
For a while I was playing in a pen and paper RPG set in an Axis victory world. Sadly, it fell apart after a while, but everyone loved the setting and the opportunities it offered, so I might resurrect it at some point.
Also NATO troops have the right accents and have a mix of weapons.
Except the Norwegian soldiers, or so I heard.
As for me :
Since you mentioned WiC and other "Cold War gone games" have already appeared in this thread, I'd add the Operation Flashpoint and ARMA series to the rest : Not just fictional 1980s nearly-gone-nuclear brushfire wars or modern day peacekeeping stuff, but completely fictional archipelagos and countries as well, all set on a mildly alternate version of present day Earth (and most of them being the titular flashpoints, which (by sheer dumb luck) might decide about the future of geopolitics).
Also, the alternate history campaigns and rare or never flown aircraft of WWII from the last installment of IL-2 Sturmovik (by far the only "alternate WWII" game that didn't give the Nazis or Soviets campy superscience tech). I loved the Crimson Skies PC game a few years ago, but that's basically unplayable now due to technical issues with my current OS.
And once I finally find the time to purchase EU III, that too.
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Yep... C&C series up until the point EA ruined it and Rome Total War (mainly EB mod).
Why go for horse riding in a game when you can go for it in real life?
Unconsensual
Banned
Mount and Blade Warband (something primeval about riding a horse...) AND CUTTING OFF HEADS WITH MY LONGSWORD!
archaeogeek
Banned
RTW with Europa Barbarorum
Paradox games
Patrician series
Citybuilder series.
Every once in a while.
Although my real crack gaming wise is physics puzzles and platformers
Paradox games
Patrician series
Citybuilder series.
Every once in a while.
Although my real crack gaming wise is physics puzzles and platformers
Sachyriel
Banned
Although my real crack gaming wise is physics puzzles and platformers
Now you're thinking with portals!
my 'AH in gaming' goes back to board game days, with my first exposure to it being a small game about the US mission to rescue the hostages in Iran going forward. I briefly had a copy of "Their Finest Hour", in which you can play out Operation Sealion if you dare as the German player (I wouldn't recommend it).
In computer games... Red Alert/C&C, War of the Worlds... and some game I can't recall that dealt with WW2 on a small scale basis (squads) and had an Operation Sealion expansion. Can't even remember the name of it, but I remember that the interface was atrocious, so I tried it once and then never again...
In computer games... Red Alert/C&C, War of the Worlds... and some game I can't recall that dealt with WW2 on a small scale basis (squads) and had an Operation Sealion expansion. Can't even remember the name of it, but I remember that the interface was atrocious, so I tried it once and then never again...
Being a fan and quite regular player and modder of M & B (I own the original, not Warband), I'm suprised you consider it AH. The world of the vanilla games (Calradia) feels like a fairly standard low fantasy Europe and ME analogue to me (a good one though, having a society and nations with believably medieval attitudes).
MrP
Banned
I doubt hacking off imaginary noggins could be as fun as riding a real horse, but maybe that's just me and Cockroach.
Having ridden a few horses, including one that bolted under me, I'd say that lopping heads off would add nothing to it unless the heads REALLY had it coming. Chalk and cheese.
Oh yes,
Computer:
Civ (God of games)
EU3
Vikky
HoI
Pacific War
Guns of August
Map, dice and counters:
OCS GB2,EatG and CB as a single large campaign game
Empires in Arms
Settlers of Catan
Last Day On Earth (Zombies - worst rules ever written, but good fun)
World in Flames (old rules)
Paths of Glory (God of Games)
Oh yes,
Computer:
Civ (God of games)
EU3
Vikky
HoI
Pacific War
Guns of August
Map, dice and counters:
OCS GB2,EatG and CB as a single large campaign game
Empires in Arms
Settlers of Catan
Last Day On Earth (Zombies - worst rules ever written, but good fun)
World in Flames (old rules)
Paths of Glory (God of Games)
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Almost any wargame or open strategy game can be considered "alternate history" because they allow outcomes other than what occured in OTL. Some, more than others, however. I tend to prefer games set in OTL that allow players to play with historically plausible alternate setups, technologies, or strategies to explore plausible "what ifs". In fact, I tend to prefer these to outright AH-based games because these usually to force the player into a world imagined by somebody else that is just as constrained as OTL, only different.
My current fave is War Plan Orange, a version of Matrix game's War in the Pacific strategic game, but based on the "what if" of one of several possible wars between the USA and Japan in the late 1920's early 30's
My current fave is War Plan Orange, a version of Matrix game's War in the Pacific strategic game, but based on the "what if" of one of several possible wars between the USA and Japan in the late 1920's early 30's