This is an impressive and evocative concept; I especially like the varied scales of it, from the vast Cultures with their peculiar constraints on the battlespace, through the Companies and their ethos, down to the actual battlefield itself.
And it seems totally playable! (Not to mention a kitbasher’s delight.) Not sure you really need an app, though; wouldn’t a deck of cards get you there?
When I imagine the game I imagine people with warbands from all over meeting in clubs or whatever and being able to play straight away, but with all of their victories, defeats and alliances, being part of one continuous story, so its for the maintenance of a campaign style, which I hope would add depth to the the game.
Ah, I see. That sounds…challenging. But ambitious! And if there’s one thing I associate with False Machine products, it’s “challenging but ambitious.” 😉
As someone originally from the midwest, I also lament the lack of care for beauty and aesthetics in our so-called culture.
This setting is also interesting. I appreciate that it isn't some binary order/chaos or good/evil kind of thing; I like the idea that these are genuine "renaissance men" with nobler ambitions, or at least philosophically coherent ambitions if not noble per se, and appropriately, there's also a pettiness to it, that they would rather be the greatest of humanity than a lesser god. Yet at the same time, the "gods" (cultures) need them, their limitedness as humans makes them valuable pawns of proxy wars that would otherwise destroy human and culture alike, so there's this fine balance to it all, a kind of messy natural equilibrium. I would not hold it against any human, any mech pilot working for one of these renaissance twats, who resents how their lords are holding them back from something greater, even knowing the tragedy that in doing so, if they succeeded, they might be damning all of existence.
And then the whole game of it all, I'm not really a wargame guy, but the idea you've cooked up sounds really cool if I were!
This is an impressive and evocative concept; I especially like the varied scales of it, from the vast Cultures with their peculiar constraints on the battlespace, through the Companies and their ethos, down to the actual battlefield itself.
And it seems totally playable! (Not to mention a kitbasher’s delight.) Not sure you really need an app, though; wouldn’t a deck of cards get you there?
When I imagine the game I imagine people with warbands from all over meeting in clubs or whatever and being able to play straight away, but with all of their victories, defeats and alliances, being part of one continuous story, so its for the maintenance of a campaign style, which I hope would add depth to the the game.
Ah, I see. That sounds…challenging. But ambitious! And if there’s one thing I associate with False Machine products, it’s “challenging but ambitious.” 😉
This is awesome!
As someone originally from the midwest, I also lament the lack of care for beauty and aesthetics in our so-called culture.
This setting is also interesting. I appreciate that it isn't some binary order/chaos or good/evil kind of thing; I like the idea that these are genuine "renaissance men" with nobler ambitions, or at least philosophically coherent ambitions if not noble per se, and appropriately, there's also a pettiness to it, that they would rather be the greatest of humanity than a lesser god. Yet at the same time, the "gods" (cultures) need them, their limitedness as humans makes them valuable pawns of proxy wars that would otherwise destroy human and culture alike, so there's this fine balance to it all, a kind of messy natural equilibrium. I would not hold it against any human, any mech pilot working for one of these renaissance twats, who resents how their lords are holding them back from something greater, even knowing the tragedy that in doing so, if they succeeded, they might be damning all of existence.
And then the whole game of it all, I'm not really a wargame guy, but the idea you've cooked up sounds really cool if I were!
I feel like Midwest does have an aesthetic. I think of it as boxy/Ford/Amtrak. Its not all bad. And thanks!