I've been working on a game called Uncommon Valor for a little while now, having risen out of "demand" as opposed to necessarily interest in developing the system. Basically, my friend has some 28mm miniatures, and so do I, and we want to bash our mandollies together, but we need rules for it. Despite there being a bevvy of miniature-agnostic games out there I decided to lump one together out of a bunch of spare mechanics sitting around on my computer. So that's where this project came from.
Uncommon Valor is a miniature-agnostic tabletop wargame for two players. It can be played at any scale, but is getting tested with 28mm figures. Pieces are designed by the players using a fairly basic set of parameters so they can stat up whatever type of unit they'd like (within reason) to accommodate a broad range of models. After designing forces, the game is based around 3Ms: Morale, Maneuver, and Momentum. Each has a mechanic that represents this focus. It also has a delayed fire-resolution mechanism that I'm still tinkering with. I'm just going to give a brief rundown on the game here. My current multiplayer game project is Afterglow. This is a ship-versus-ship space wargame meant to be played on a 3'x3' surface. The "space boats shooting each other" genre of wargaming is a comfortable middle ground between the overcrowded (like World War II anything or "generic skirmish") and under serviced (archery-focused combat and side-scrolling Contra-like "platformers"). There are lots of very good games in the area: Star Wars: Armada, Full Thrust, and Talon are all reasonably well known to people with an interest in this type of sphere. And, as I said, they're all good games. Great even! But they all capture a similar feel: wet navies IN SPACE kicking the shit out of each other, grinding one another down, jockeying for the best firing arc, destroying armour and systems. They're kind of like Battletech with boats, which I guess makes sense since Battletech is sort of a hack of a naval combat game.
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