Pleistocene Megafauna Hunt!

[Blaker]

Howdy Capt,

My bad, I downloaded Tusk 1. However, Irregular Miniatures has Tusk II and Tusk III on their website.  Tusk II is an expansion and Tusk III looks like more in the future.

cya

[O Dinas Powys]

Huge apologies, real life has been far too hectic recently so I've not been on the Forum for what seems like an eternity!   

Blaker, thanks for the cool post, I'll give it the proper reply it deserves if/when life quietens down again!

In the meantime I'm just trying to get together the basis of an order before the Warfare Deadline tomorrow evening!

So quick question: does the mammoth with howdah come with any crew?

Hopefully I'll be back properly soon...

Cheers,

Meirion

[Blaker]

Howdy O Dinas,

As far as I remember, the pack does not come with crew. It seems like from a much older Pendraken Catalog, you could pick a crew but that might have been the catapult 

Have fun at Warfare!

[Blaker]

Speaking of. . . which Pendraken minis would work for  CAVEMEN?   

[fred.]

The Barbarians are fairly close - though perhaps a little under-dressed.

[O Dinas Powys]

Yeah, spear and bow armed barbarians would be good.  Amazons too possibly, but only for temperate and tropical regions 

Maenoferren's entry from the painting competition is petty cool:


AI11 Ancient Indian Forest tribesmen are another code I've seen that would do for more advanced hunters:


The wizard might make a tribal elder/shaman with some modification and an appropriate paint job.

[Blaker]

Thanks O Dinas, I have some Barbarians out in the barn, must go dig the out 

Do you think the War Mammoth without howdah would for the Mammoth hunt ?

Pretty sure there are a couple of them out there also.

Now just need to see which rules would work or if I need to mash the rules together 

[fred.]

The mammoth is definately suitable, the howdah is completely separate. The mammoth is big too, about 30mm tall, and with big tusks.

[Maenoferren]

this is a pic of my mammoth, I thought I had a picture of him with my hunting party for scale but evidently not
I did a bit of bending and snipping to get him to rear up... I had just watched 10,000BC and had a man poking with a spear and a mammoth and the two just sort of worked

[O Dinas Powys]

Thanks O Dinas, I have some Barbarians out in the barn, must go dig the out 

Do you think the War Mammoth without howdah would for the Mammoth hunt ?

Pretty sure there are a couple of them out there also.

Now just need to see which rules would work or if I need to mash the rules together 

Certainly hope so!  Just ordered pretty much everything mammalian from the catalogue for collection at Wafare so I'll let you know what else is suitable. 

this is a pic of my mammoth, I thought I had a picture of him with my hunting party for scale but evidently not
I did a bit of bending and snipping to get him to rear up... I had just watched 10,000BC and had a man poking with a spear and a mammoth and the two just sort of worked

Cracking work on that mammoth 

I was wondering whether I could do something similar to the Pendraken "carnosaur" to give it a more modern, bipedal pose.  Probably have to start on something smaller like one of the raptors

[O Dinas Powys]

Now just need to see which rules would work or if I need to mash the rules together 

Yeah.  Been giving this a bit of thought, just haven't had time to really work on it.

Tusk seem to be a good, simple set of rules which were fun when I played them a Colours.  The one thing that grates with me is that the only difference between creatures is their reaction table.

However, I really like the reaction table system as a means of determining behaviour/reactions for the creatures.  My idea would be to port these over to another system with a slightly more realistic combat system.

Of the systems mentioned in this thread Savage Worlds and Dungeon World are the two I'm most likely to use.

I think they would probably reaction tables would work very nicely with Savage Worlds: on the creatures initiative card just roll on the table and apply the result.  (This approach would probably work fine with any I-go-U-go or sequential initiative system.)

Dungeon World's novel initiative system poses a more tricky problem.  One possibility would be to port the DW combat system into Tusk.  I don't have the rules to hand, but as far as I remember this wouldn't be too tricky.    I was hoping Six would have his website live by now so we could see if he's modified the system significantly for above-ground skirmishes (or mass combat even).

Cheers,

Meirion

[Maenoferren]

Meirion while I remember I havent forgotten to sort that stuff out for you, just been a tad busy of late

[O Dinas Powys]

Meirion while I remember I havent forgotten to sort that stuff out for you, just been a tad busy of late

That's ok, I've been a bit out of the loop recently myself 

There seems to be an unwritten law of nature that as soon as you say you'll do something for somebody real life intervenes BIG TIME!