Sunday 3 March 2013

One off game idea



      I mentioned a one off game idea to Karl (Crooked Dice) and he was kind enough to give me a free figure of a "fembot" as it has a robot mask head. So here is my first attempt to replicate the classic film "West World" onto the table top.  I have tried to recreate the Yul Bryner gunfighter. Unfortunately I could not get an exact copy of the figure so instead went for one I had already. It is a foundry figure from their "wild west Cowboy" range. I did not have a figure that was wearing a shirt without a waist coat. Yes I know that this one is wearing a "firemans" shirt which is different from the film. So we have to accept the figure is representational and not a definitive copy. (I did look for one at Cavalier but came up short). The thing to bear in mind is that it is the idea which makes the game and not the detail of the figure.  Despite the fact that the picture was taken in natural light it has come out very dark. I accept that the figure is painted in dark greys and dark browns but even so it has still the best of the bunch and still far to dark. Oh well!!

West World was of course written by Michael Crichton who then adapted and re-wrote the story which later became "Jurassic Park". While there are similarities there are also differences but they are both about "Theme Parks" which go horribly wrong and try to kill the people there on vacation.  I would recommend the film if you have not seen it. Yes it is dated and it shows, but it is still worth looking at.

So where does that put us with a game? In the film Yul Brynor is the only real nasty trying to kill the star. But that need not be the case in a game. The first time the star and co-star (who dies) encounter robots that have gone wrong is when a rattlesnake bites one of them. Obviously this should not happen, "Health and Safety " would freak! In a game setting however it would be better to have several robots trying to kill the players. At this stage it is only the germ of an idea but I think it has legs as a one of club game as we already have all the terrain and figures we would need, Unless of course I can scrounge more robot heads.

That's it for this week. It all starts again on Tuesday. Thanks for reading and I hope you like the idea. All the best Clint.

                                                                                       


20 comments:

  1. That's a pretty good conversion, looking forward to a game report.

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    1. It was a trial model to see if it would work. (which it does). I can't see an AAR for at least a month.

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    1. It will have to be a one off game. And as mentioned above not for a while just yet.

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  3. Nice conversion, Clint. Will you be using the 7TV rules for your scenario?

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    1. yes I'll use 7tv rules but not even thought about details just yet.

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  4. Nice conversion though mate. Great job

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    1. Cheers mate, although I think the colours look better in real life. Also if anyone who could sculpt saw it they would weep!

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  5. I like the idea and the work Clint, good idea for a game as well!

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    2. Well feel free to make one yourself for your western town. Look EVEN Ray likes it and it's Science fiction!

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  6. That is damn good Clint and has captured the look of feel of Yul

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    1. Thanks Pete. Some mad ideas do work (others less so).

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  7. Excellent Clint! Really like this idea!

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    1. Welcome to sCIENCE fICTION wargaming. It's not all rayguns and rockets!

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  8. West World was a favorite movie of my youth. I never knew M Crichton wrote it. It does have a great premise for a game. You can add the Roman and Medival worlds to it as well. The work needs not to be in vain either. The robots could easily be folded into the campy Xmen villian's Arcade's murderworld from the 80's...or robotic minions for a pulpy evil genius! ;)
    brilliant work!

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    1. Agreed Roman world and medieval world. But if you chose you could do any setting, "Speak Easy World" (1920's Gangsters) has an appeal to me. Whatever setting there really is only the robots malfunctioning that would set it apart from a "Normal" game in that setting. But as a One off game I like the idea.

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  9. Thats a great idea i love westworld and futureworld, both have come out on blue ray in region A format, westworld disk has the pilot of the short lived tv show beyond westworld

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  10. try necron heads and green stuff

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    1. Thanks Shinto. This one off idea is creeping along behind the scenes. So I'll say no more about it for now.

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