On the Round 1, seeing the VTOL carrying my infantry get shot up absolutely terrified me. Thought I'd be killed Turn 1 on my first ever campaign 😂 Crow-thulu for the win!
It's really cool to see that most of the comments are from unit commanders reporting that they are still active, or stating that their objective is close.
That's hilariously realistic considering the amount of generals in WW2 (and other conflict) that were basically "look i can totally win this with the next push if you just send more reinforcement"
@@francesco8000 "look bro, it's not unrealistic, I just need 10 more tanks. no, the last 10 tanks were a fluke, this time it's not gonna fail, i swear. Just lend me 10 more tanks and the city is ours, I swear. No, I don't have an issue with tanks, just lend me 10 more. Pls man, I'm begging you here."
I hold the very dubious title of first TAC-COM to die in battle with those two HATs being shot down, ouch To all the other ARMCO unit commanders here, keep fighting and do it for us!
Biblically, yes death is thrown into the lake of fire. It serves a purpose that we don't suffer in the world corrupted by sin and bodies corrupted by sin forever. But once sin is dealt with, so too will be death
Namer of Prometheus here! I named it after the movie Aliens: Prometheus originally, then realised that both Prometheus and Atlas were Greek Gods, and tried to get Crow-Thulu to name itself accordingly. But it’s been fun so far, Saitum shall be avenged! (Same with Armitage too)
@@MiltiadesSpyrou gods* Another name for the Titans in greek mythology is Elder Gods. Would be weird for a Titan to be the father of Zeus and not be a god, wouldn't you agree? There are also primordial gods that were the gods before the Titans were born.
I would love to hear a Shack Cinema Voice war story about how the scenario went! "The snow was glistening in the morning light. Warlord Yos finished his breakfast with his hostages from neighboring nations. He smiled as he knew his plans were in progress to annex the bordering Solar Sultanate. But that was when Armco attacked."
If you haven't seen them yet, Mega-games are quite like this (In terms of having a GM working through and interpreting player actions). A lot are less war-game and have focus on other parts, but there are a few very war-game ones that I've seen.
I came down here to say this, too. I’ve run 2 Megagames in the past and used to be a part of that scene - they run very much like this and probably have things you could borrow, mechanically. Shut Up and Sit Down’s video about ‘Watch the Skies’ is probably the best introduction to that style of game out there.
@@chebikitty5566 They're almost universally in person and over a single day, so not many, besides the recommendation the guy above you made on the SU&SD youtube channel. They're great if you can find one nearby (especially if you're in the UK, where there's a lot, but by no means is it exclusive to it)
Iron-14 operation Hurricane reporting Day 1 was so bloody for the combined operations of storm chaser, defiantly feeling the impact of those losses now supply is drying up But we've defiantly given as good as we took, been fun trying to plan around the hitches in our plans as we've gone along
Clinic here. Before the reform to TAC-COMS, I was trying to organize a civilian aid operation known as CORNUCOPIA. I read that medics could aid civilians in the area and figured I, and those few who signed on with my OP, would secure intel from the locals in Yos's city. Unfortunately, we only had me and one other person tack our names down in the organization doc I made for it.
@@CaptainShack It would be interesting to see in the future if you could have reserve battlegroups, basically as seen irl once a division has lost most of its combat effectiveness- or for other reasons- they will be pulled off the front line to replenish, rest, and repair. Capping battle groups at 30 and the TACcoms definitely were a great idea, I think it adds the possibility in rare case of a protracted campaign to have battlegroups withdrawn, and one from the reserves sent in. I suppose that if during a surprise drop a battlegroup took extreme losses, and then during week 2 it took more you could do it then but realistically campaigns won’t be long enough to see it happen a lot.
There’s a whole community of wargames called Free Kriegspiel Revolution (named after the first wargame) that’s all about letting players do anything and having a referee negotiate the results. There’s even Matrix Games that codify “arguments” and how they modify dice rolls. However, most FKR games are competitive and not very crunchy. There are solo/co-op miniatures wargames, but most are about one player commanding a faction and battles that last a few hours. You’ve gone so much deeper by giving every player control over one unit and taking a week to resolve each turn. What you’ve built here feels like something truly unique, a cooperative wargame-TTRPG hybrid. The closest thing I can compare it to are TTRPGs that are compatible with wargames: Forbidden Psalm/Mork Borg, Battletech/Mechwarrior: Legends, Heavy Gear Blitz/4e, Savage Worlds, and CRUX.
Was just about to comment about free kriegspiel! I think that is the closest thing that comes to mind. Also reminds me of megagames and a bit of "Time commanders", but that was basically a wargame with command structure.
Eghm... Genuinely confused about Mork Borg/hacks being mentioned as an example. Even PbtA games would be closer. Would you elaborate a bit? Last time I checked, Mork Borg was a beautiful mess of a new school rpgs, with problems running anything, but short campaigns or modules
VIGIL SQUAD COMMANDER HERE, THAT WATER PLANT IS GONNA BE MINE VERY SOON. I WILL NOT FORGET MY FALLEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO DIED IN THE ASSAULT ON THE AIRBASE. THEY SHALL BE AVENGED, VIGIL TEAM LEAD OUT.
You hit right into nostalgia. At school, I made a similar fighting game for my friends on paper. With fog of war, dice, and squads. Unfortunately, for the first time DM, I was afraid to disappoint any of the players and everything went down to a duel and a draw.
Fallen's Prayers medical unit here. Loving the campaign so far and glad that the power plant attack went smoothly. Hoping that blackout stays with zero casualities and that there's no chemical weapons.
What's funny to me is that this sounds like if somebody tried to make Total war into a tabletop game. Boiled down and streamlined for manual play. Simply brilliant.
Only mildly relevant, but you might be interested in a video called "The TV Show that didn't want you to know it was a Video Game" by people make games.
NEWTON, reporting in. Investigating the cluster of three buildings to the northeast on intelligence from the Kalypsan Bureau of Intelligence and YONDER section. Looking forward to hearing about HELIOS MIRROR when it comes up.
Projects like this is the reason why I love Captain Shack's content and the ARMCO community in general. "By the Great Old Ones, we will prevail." - DSc. Marco Neilus, Commander of SQUIDS Heavy Tank unit and CEO of Millennium Labs.
Bonesaw medic here from Operation Blackout. Still alive and kicking, just very busy. Also nice to see Spatha patches he made show up in the video. Also in Shacks own words "TAC-COMS Baby"
This is probably one of the coolest things I've seen in a while. Its been very interesting and entertaining to watch unfold. Definitely gonna try and get in if there's another one.
Loved the recap/info! Just a quick thought that came about from your comment about the heavy air assets that felt kind of 'lost' after dropping off their tanks and infantry for the assault: other than providing fast transport for reposition of other units, perhaps they could add extra supply effort to another combat unit that comes in the form of a bonus damage die, i.e. the artillery company got extra shells this turn, bonus bombard, etc...
Takes an engineer a full turn to pack up 3 supplies for one of the heavy VTOLs, so it would completely tie up an engineer unit as well to help with that. The Heavy VTOLs aren’t armed so no bonus damage dice. The Arty spend one die per shot/round so we are stuck again with the supplies issue. Also Arty is more of a support unit and does no direct damage of its own.
MORE PLEASE 🙏🏾 this is a genuinely gotten me intrigued in this entire campaign, question for anybody who actually is in it, if I were to want to join and be in command of a warship how do I join and do that ?
As a corvette captain in campaign 2 I am looking forward to seeing my ship getting brought back even if I have to recruit other players to help crew her. Honestly I think having multiple people will be more fun
@@chiapet1336 for the current campaign yes if you want access to old rules and docs reach out to the veterans we have links to most of them. I think Nalla on the server had a doc with all the info v2
I like the action changes, it means you're not sitting around waiting for either recon or for the enemy to push you, otherwise you're always giving the enemy first-hit advantage.
Would love to see an AWAC’s type unit to fill the role of the E-3/E-7, coordinate air units, provide situational awareness and reconnaissance + some ELINT/SIGINT work. Maybe allow fighter units or bombers in range extra vision and more movement or defence against air units and SAM’s. Not the flashiest unit to put in but massive help when large air tasking is required
I'm really enjoying watching these vids. Very interesting change with switching away from a tile based system! Looking forwards to hearing how the rest of this campaign goes.
Hey, there is a historical game that is kinda like this, called "war in the pacific admiral's edition", its a video game board game, where either player vs AI, or player vs player, sets up their turn, then when you end it, both sides orders are initiated, where the GM (the game) will process the orders and then simulate what happens, giving a report of everything that happened. Definitely a lot more complex in terms of what can be done and the fidelity, though your RP workaround kinda gives that feel anyway. I would love more content on this, maybe even video reports of each days, that would be awesome!
It would be interesting to see in the future if you could have reserve battlegroups, basically as seen irl once a division has lost most of its combat effectiveness- or for other reasons- they will be pulled off the front line to replenish, rest, and repair. Capping battle groups at 30 and the TACcoms definitely were a great idea, I think it adds the possibility in rare case of a protracted campaign to have battlegroups withdrawn, and one from the reserves sent in. I suppose that if during a surprise drop a battlegroup took extreme losses, and then during week 2 it took more you could do it then but realistically campaigns won’t be long enough to see it happen a lot.
just wanted to say, this is an absolutely BRILLIANT idea. I wish I could have joined but there's no way in hell I'm giving you even more work to do lmao
Are the battlegroups persistent throughout the campaigns? Because it would be very interesting to see how each Battlegroup develops such as develop its own culture and identity or Esprit de corps and the like.
The battlegroups aren't, but I've seen chatter about certain groups reforming over multiple campaigns. Icarus, for example, seems to want to reform with the general idea of "Do the most batshit insane plans that still make sense for that particular campaign."
I am currently in the process of creating a fantasy version of this type of game right now. It's not quite my first foray into making tabletop style games, though i'm currently hitting several walls when it comes to doing this. Seeing your success and the amount of fun your players are having is giving me a lot of inspiration to keep on going. I look forward to seeing the rest of this campaign. ^^:;
Bro this is so damn cool! Wish there was enough time in the world to see this game get dedicated videos. Hours of shack narrating these warzones would be amazing.
So... for the VTOL and Carrier Units... after they bring in the Ground Units... maybe they could go and get aditional supplys to drop... giving the ground units more ammunitons etc. giving them a 1 round attack boost or something like that... with this they have something to do after the drop... and have to think where they shpuld drop the supplys to help...
This is actually gripping and I am not even playing. I do wonder how many turns or actions happen in a day? Is it single actions for battles for the day and the next day more action or is there perhaps a timer on a count down for when turns and events occur? Loving this little series so far man 👍🏻
Unit ashfall, operation tycoon here. The drop was rough even if I at the time was oblivious due to my 12h nightshift job. Currently im hoping to takeover the waterplant town and secure our operation section
This reminds me of a certain type of DMD game that I’ve seen before where Everyone is working in the same world and each players actions mark the map for any who follow in their footsteps. Each DM and their party of five people have their own unique objectives and each party is separated though there is an overarching narrative.
@@john_mystery Not sure, I am specifically referring to the game in this video. "Narrated D&D Story: How A Player Turned Out To Be The Secret BBEG Of The Session" -By All Things DnD
SO COOL! I play lots of TTRPGs like Savage Worlds and other stuff, like the 40k TTRPGs, always usually stuff that's wargamer adjacent. So I really like this!! It reminds me of watching people do Zeus stuff in Arma 3 videos!!
Had no spec ops this time around, maybe when campaign 4 comes around he’ll expand it again. At the current moment no one can join mid campaign but we’d be glad to have you next time.
Been loving to take part so far as Calidonia-1 (even tho this Campaign I was part of the massive Round 1 around the Military Base Drop Massacre). Very fun also from an RP writing perspective, with so much happening, you got plenty of fuel to get the pen going.
You know, this whole setup reminds me of an old browser game I used to play when I was younger called Battle Dawn. This is much more fleshed out and better in rulesets. But the idea of a massive multiplayer tabletop war game reminded me of when I used to play, setting up my units to attack a base, and then logging off, only to hop back on the following day to see the result of what happened. Battle Dawn was a flash game, so it definitely had it's limits, and it was made way back in 2010 (Maybe older, not sure). But yeah, this was a really fun watch!
Liberty-1 Troop VTOL Operation Typhoon Reporting in We have made landfall north a Yos stronghold along with a large group of other VTOLs. Fortunately we were far enough north to avoid enemy AA. Having deployed the infantry unit Vigil we are now heading west to take the water plant. Will report back in soon, end transmission.
I absolutely love these videos, probably because I really enjoy RTS games and the like; thinking of joining the discord and maybe joining in when the next campaign comes around.
One game that covers planetary assaults and such was Battletech: Battleforce./Batleforce 2. Old board game. I think the new version is Interstellar Operations Battleforce for reference
kriegspeil(sp) is about the only game that gets this large but it used military ranks so it would be a bit constrictive to what your doing but it would be a good base on how its set up
Love the arrows because it kind of encompasses the true cluster f--- of a contact with the enemy and the chaos and piece meal info you get contact made... okay... fierce fighting... *fingernails oooookkkay???!!!*** cool stuff
Callsign: Air Dragoon here, I’m a Heavy VTOL from Battlegroup Atlas. So there’s a few fun little details I wanted to bring up around the campaign. 1. At 5:53, Shack accidentally showed off the composition for Atlas with Blackout's patch when talking about how battlegroups worked 2. The bridge on the Logi Truck I was carrying in that photo is actually a reflavoring of its supplies, to allow us to drop our units and arrive at our target air base on the first turn by having our engineers place it over a river. Hilariously, this kind of push may not even potentially matter because… 3. We accidentally sucked up like, half of ATC and Special Deliver to bomb the adjacent military base you can see in a few photos. Atlas itself honestly ended up just cleaning up stragglers this turn after our squadron of ten bombers ATOMIZED anything military important nearby xD
If you can't have a chain of command while also giving the players leeway in interpreting orders, that's on you for failing to organize it in such a manner. Heck, you've now just lost out on some potential RP from units following the "spirit" rather than the letter of the orders of other players. If you make sure the higher rank players have large scale objectives and ensure that the lower rank players are given areas of operation and more specific objectives, there's no need for the kind of micromanagement you're fearing.
Mariachi reporting I have now twice charged headfirst into the front inside an ifv... as an unarmed medic unit... and have been uncharacteristically successful lol Round three but hoofing it on foot this time, let's see how lucky I get! Long live our Hammer Tac-Com, the Glorious Supreme Regal Heavenly Mandated Commander of the Ninth Armies of Valhalla, Marshal of the Forces of Good and Vanguard to Justice, Bossman Frenchie o7
I hope, that among that community, there are some clone wars intro fans who secretly yearn to be reporters who could recap the highlights of what's been happening.
You might be talking about it at the end, but kriegspiel used an “umpire” as an arbiter. It allows for military realism for commanders (Since they are giving out general orders-not micromanaging) and is still in use within militaries to this day.
I don't know if you take suggestions or thoughts, but I figured I might as well throw it in here, as this project of yours seems fantastic. So with regards to those planes being downed, and all the players on board basically being kicked out of the game because death, one thing I immediately thought that could lead to more interesting gameplay, and potentially be a bit less feel bad, could be that if aerial transports get shot down, that perhaps there's a dice roll, possibly for each unit, or just across the board or something like that, to see if anyone survives the crash. This does not bring them back into the fight, but just means that they're recoverable. This then allows allied units to try and rescue the crashed plane's people, adding them to their own ranks again, bringing them back into the fight, and might also lead to the enemy trying to capture/execute them. I reckon that a mechanic like this could add a lot of interest and intrigue, without necessarily heightening the burden *too* much for you as the game runner. It allows for people to try these sort of big, high risk maneuvres, and then potentially have it be followed up with additional high risk rescue operation, for a very dynamic and narrative engagement, while reducing feel-bad situations for the passengers of these aerial transports.
I would love to see more of this for sure and try to join when you get ready to run again. Just to let you know maybe the move order Advance could be called Advance to Contact. Sorry if I am overstepping.
On the Round 1, seeing the VTOL carrying my infantry get shot up absolutely terrified me.
Thought I'd be killed Turn 1 on my first ever campaign 😂
Crow-thulu for the win!
I feel lucky that I've only lost a man. Telkan Pushing on! I like our Crow's Nest.
And we're making sure we keep as little losses as possible with my MASH being built at the Nest.
Lucky, I *actually* got killed turn 1 of the campaign
You guys are fighting the good fight down there, keep it up
It's really cool to see that most of the comments are from unit commanders reporting that they are still active, or stating that their objective is close.
That's hilariously realistic considering the amount of generals in WW2 (and other conflict) that were basically "look i can totally win this with the next push if you just send more reinforcement"
@@francesco8000 "look bro, it's not unrealistic, I just need 10 more tanks. no, the last 10 tanks were a fluke, this time it's not gonna fail, i swear. Just lend me 10 more tanks and the city is ours, I swear. No, I don't have an issue with tanks, just lend me 10 more. Pls man, I'm begging you here."
I hold the very dubious title of first TAC-COM to die in battle with those two HATs being shot down, ouch
To all the other ARMCO unit commanders here, keep fighting and do it for us!
Shot but not forgotten
Rip Marisa
Shack: Would you like to know more?
Me: Yes, yes I would.
The name sounds goofy (in a good way), but Crow-thulu’s motto goes so hard. “Even Death May Die”
Many such hard lines come out of Lovecraft, as long as you don't think too hard about the primary school maths and science education.
That not dead may eternal lie . And in strange aeons, even death may die.
-the Necronomicon
"For in trying times, even death may die" is a quote I literally read earlier today in a very obscure place
Biblically, yes death is thrown into the lake of fire. It serves a purpose that we don't suffer in the world corrupted by sin and bodies corrupted by sin forever.
But once sin is dealt with, so too will be death
Crow-thulu teaming with blackout sounds of tactical death & smoke.
RIP Shack's neck, died in both turn 1 and 2
Rabbit takes it, that motto is just so perfect.
Namer of Prometheus here! I named it after the movie Aliens: Prometheus originally, then realised that both Prometheus and Atlas were Greek Gods, and tried to get Crow-Thulu to name itself accordingly. But it’s been fun so far, Saitum shall be avenged!
(Same with Armitage too)
*titans
Atlas and Prometheus are titans not gods
@@MiltiadesSpyrou gods*
Another name for the Titans in greek mythology is Elder Gods.
Would be weird for a Titan to be the father of Zeus and not be a god, wouldn't you agree?
There are also primordial gods that were the gods before the Titans were born.
@@derdox6720 I had not heard of Elder Gods, I have always heard them referred to as Titans.
Thanks for the fact check
HACSART reporting in. The artillery support shall flow heartily. My condolences to all the guys that have to supply our artillery base.
I would love to hear a Shack Cinema Voice war story about how the scenario went!
"The snow was glistening in the morning light. Warlord Yos finished his breakfast with his hostages from neighboring nations. He smiled as he knew his plans were in progress to annex the bordering Solar Sultanate. But that was when Armco attacked."
If you haven't seen them yet, Mega-games are quite like this (In terms of having a GM working through and interpreting player actions). A lot are less war-game and have focus on other parts, but there are a few very war-game ones that I've seen.
I came down here to say this, too.
I’ve run 2 Megagames in the past and used to be a part of that scene - they run very much like this and probably have things you could borrow, mechanically. Shut Up and Sit Down’s video about ‘Watch the Skies’ is probably the best introduction to that style of game out there.
Do you have any recommendations on TH-cam? I've been interested in watching a couple.
@@chebikitty5566 They're almost universally in person and over a single day, so not many, besides the recommendation the guy above you made on the SU&SD youtube channel. They're great if you can find one nearby (especially if you're in the UK, where there's a lot, but by no means is it exclusive to it)
Iron-14 operation Hurricane reporting
Day 1 was so bloody for the combined operations of storm chaser, defiantly feeling the impact of those losses now supply is drying up
But we've defiantly given as good as we took, been fun trying to plan around the hitches in our plans as we've gone along
Clinic here. Before the reform to TAC-COMS, I was trying to organize a civilian aid operation known as CORNUCOPIA.
I read that medics could aid civilians in the area and figured I, and those few who signed on with my OP, would secure intel from the locals in Yos's city. Unfortunately, we only had me and one other person tack our names down in the organization doc I made for it.
ngl a weekly status report would be very cool.
Can't wait for the full rules to be avaliable so I can gather some friends and have some little campaigns ourselves.
This is a very cut down version. While they rules are posted on the discord. Best to wait till I get them flushed out then have at it!
@@CaptainShack I'd like to get to see each version as they evolved one day.
@@CaptainShack Please don't take down/delete the old versions old the rules.
@@CaptainShack It would be interesting to see in the future if you could have reserve battlegroups, basically as seen irl once a division has lost most of its combat effectiveness- or for other reasons- they will be pulled off the front line to replenish, rest, and repair. Capping battle groups at 30 and the TACcoms definitely were a great idea, I think it adds the possibility in rare case of a protracted campaign to have battlegroups withdrawn, and one from the reserves sent in. I suppose that if during a surprise drop a battlegroup took extreme losses, and then during week 2 it took more you could do it then but realistically campaigns won’t be long enough to see it happen a lot.
@@mustlovedragons8047we have an archive if you want to check out the rules, just ask alx.
CC here, Icarus still flies
lol That Crow-Thulu unit patch goes unreasonably hard.
There’s a whole community of wargames called Free Kriegspiel Revolution (named after the first wargame) that’s all about letting players do anything and having a referee negotiate the results. There’s even Matrix Games that codify “arguments” and how they modify dice rolls.
However, most FKR games are competitive and not very crunchy. There are solo/co-op miniatures wargames, but most are about one player commanding a faction and battles that last a few hours. You’ve gone so much deeper by giving every player control over one unit and taking a week to resolve each turn.
What you’ve built here feels like something truly unique, a cooperative wargame-TTRPG hybrid. The closest thing I can compare it to are TTRPGs that are compatible with wargames: Forbidden Psalm/Mork Borg, Battletech/Mechwarrior: Legends, Heavy Gear Blitz/4e, Savage Worlds, and CRUX.
Was just about to comment about free kriegspiel! I think that is the closest thing that comes to mind. Also reminds me of megagames and a bit of "Time commanders", but that was basically a wargame with command structure.
Eghm... Genuinely confused about Mork Borg/hacks being mentioned as an example. Even PbtA games would be closer.
Would you elaborate a bit? Last time I checked, Mork Borg was a beautiful mess of a new school rpgs, with problems running anything, but short campaigns or modules
BASED SAVAGE WORLDS APPRECIATOR!!!
Holy Divers here. Icarus is going hard and are still standing strong
VIGIL SQUAD COMMANDER HERE, THAT WATER PLANT IS GONNA BE MINE VERY SOON. I WILL NOT FORGET MY FALLEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO DIED IN THE ASSAULT ON THE AIRBASE. THEY SHALL BE AVENGED, VIGIL TEAM LEAD OUT.
You hit right into nostalgia. At school, I made a similar fighting game for my friends on paper. With fog of war, dice, and squads. Unfortunately, for the first time DM, I was afraid to disappoint any of the players and everything went down to a duel and a draw.
Fallen's Prayers medical unit here.
Loving the campaign so far and glad that the power plant attack went smoothly. Hoping that blackout stays with zero casualities and that there's no chemical weapons.
What's funny to me is that this sounds like if somebody tried to make Total war into a tabletop game. Boiled down and streamlined for manual play. Simply brilliant.
Only mildly relevant, but you might be interested in a video called "The TV Show that didn't want you to know it was a Video Game" by people make games.
Definitely want to see more of this. It's always fun to listen in on these kind of projects and see how they unfold!
NEWTON, reporting in. Investigating the cluster of three buildings to the northeast on intelligence from the Kalypsan Bureau of Intelligence and YONDER section. Looking forward to hearing about HELIOS MIRROR when it comes up.
Projects like this is the reason why I love Captain Shack's content and the ARMCO community in general. "By the Great Old Ones, we will prevail." - DSc. Marco Neilus, Commander of SQUIDS Heavy Tank unit and CEO of Millennium Labs.
Bonesaw medic here from Operation Blackout. Still alive and kicking, just very busy. Also nice to see Spatha patches he made show up in the video. Also in Shacks own words "TAC-COMS Baby"
This is probably one of the coolest things I've seen in a while. Its been very interesting and entertaining to watch unfold. Definitely gonna try and get in if there's another one.
Loved the recap/info!
Just a quick thought that came about from your comment about the heavy air assets that felt kind of 'lost' after dropping off their tanks and infantry for the assault: other than providing fast transport for reposition of other units, perhaps they could add extra supply effort to another combat unit that comes in the form of a bonus damage die, i.e. the artillery company got extra shells this turn, bonus bombard, etc...
Takes an engineer a full turn to pack up 3 supplies for one of the heavy VTOLs, so it would completely tie up an engineer unit as well to help with that.
The Heavy VTOLs aren’t armed so no bonus damage dice.
The Arty spend one die per shot/round so we are stuck again with the supplies issue. Also Arty is more of a support unit and does no direct damage of its own.
MORE PLEASE 🙏🏾 this is a genuinely gotten me intrigued in this entire campaign, question for anybody who actually is in it, if I were to want to join and be in command of a warship how do I join and do that ?
As a corvette captain in campaign 2 I am looking forward to seeing my ship getting brought back even if I have to recruit other players to help crew her. Honestly I think having multiple people will be more fun
@@jacksonschulein3216 is all the info for units and things on the discord ?
@@chiapet1336 for the current campaign yes if you want access to old rules and docs reach out to the veterans we have links to most of them. I think Nalla on the server had a doc with all the info v2
Yes it is.@@chiapet1336
@@chiapet1336 Yeah
Soon we will be storming the castle. SCORPION will be there. Keep the flame burning PROMETHEUS!
Lightning reporting, Rabbit is hopping to success.
Templar here.
Hoping that we have an interesting Turn 4 and 5… me and those in the north thinking of probing or assaulting the citadel in Turns 4-5
commander of Raiju squadron here, the brave men and women of my squadron are all heroes, they did their duty, and I could ask nothing more of them
I like the action changes, it means you're not sitting around waiting for either recon or for the enemy to push you, otherwise you're always giving the enemy first-hit advantage.
Thanks for sharing this with us, I have been very curious with all these mentions. Sounds like a lot of fun!
Would love to see an AWAC’s type unit to fill the role of the E-3/E-7, coordinate air units, provide situational awareness and reconnaissance + some ELINT/SIGINT work. Maybe allow fighter units or bombers in range extra vision and more movement or defence against air units and SAM’s. Not the flashiest unit to put in but massive help when large air tasking is required
I'm really enjoying watching these vids. Very interesting change with switching away from a tile based system!
Looking forwards to hearing how the rest of this campaign goes.
Hey, there is a historical game that is kinda like this, called "war in the pacific admiral's edition", its a video game board game, where either player vs AI, or player vs player, sets up their turn, then when you end it, both sides orders are initiated, where the GM (the game) will process the orders and then simulate what happens, giving a report of everything that happened. Definitely a lot more complex in terms of what can be done and the fidelity, though your RP workaround kinda gives that feel anyway.
I would love more content on this, maybe even video reports of each days, that would be awesome!
It would be interesting to see in the future if you could have reserve battlegroups, basically as seen irl once a division has lost most of its combat effectiveness- or for other reasons- they will be pulled off the front line to replenish, rest, and repair. Capping battle groups at 30 and the TACcoms definitely were a great idea, I think it adds the possibility in rare case of a protracted campaign to have battlegroups withdrawn, and one from the reserves sent in. I suppose that if during a surprise drop a battlegroup took extreme losses, and then during week 2 it took more you could do it then but realistically campaigns won’t be long enough to see it happen a lot.
just wanted to say, this is an absolutely BRILLIANT idea. I wish I could have joined but there's no way in hell I'm giving you even more work to do lmao
Its fine lad, tbh shacks a workaholic and loves this kind of stuff, i recommend you should at least join the server and check it out.
Are the battlegroups persistent throughout the campaigns? Because it would be very interesting to see how each Battlegroup develops such as develop its own culture and identity or Esprit de corps and the like.
The battlegroups aren't, but I've seen chatter about certain groups reforming over multiple campaigns. Icarus, for example, seems to want to reform with the general idea of "Do the most batshit insane plans that still make sense for that particular campaign."
@@LEGOBoy922 They're the daredevils and rednecks
Accounting reporting for duty, fighting the galaxy's most terrible enemy: paperwork!
Gods, I CAN NOT WAIT for more updates, this looks SO friggin amazing
Nightfall was here. Prometheus will succeed.
Saitum needs a new planet!
Also Yos needs a new haircut…
The workload of running a game for 300+ people would make my head fucking explode.
I can’t wait for the next one! Also would enjoy seeing some player’s plans, ideas, theories, included in the video!
this is so cool. i wish i had paid more attention to this earlier!
This has me hooked can't wait for the next update.
I am currently in the process of creating a fantasy version of this type of game right now. It's not quite my first foray into making tabletop style games, though i'm currently hitting several walls when it comes to doing this. Seeing your success and the amount of fun your players are having is giving me a lot of inspiration to keep on going.
I look forward to seeing the rest of this campaign. ^^:;
Bro this is so damn cool! Wish there was enough time in the world to see this game get dedicated videos. Hours of shack narrating these warzones would be amazing.
So... for the VTOL and Carrier Units... after they bring in the Ground Units... maybe they could go and get aditional supplys to drop... giving the ground units more ammunitons etc. giving them a 1 round attack boost or something like that...
with this they have something to do after the drop... and have to think where they shpuld drop the supplys to help...
This looks amazing! Shack thanks for posting the Discord link. I can't wait to read more about this :)
this is the nest step we have taken towards a real-life enders game scenario
This is actually gripping and I am not even playing. I do wonder how many turns or actions happen in a day? Is it single actions for battles for the day and the next day more action or is there perhaps a timer on a count down for when turns and events occur? Loving this little series so far man 👍🏻
Unit ashfall, operation tycoon here. The drop was rough even if I at the time was oblivious due to my 12h nightshift job. Currently im hoping to takeover the waterplant town and secure our operation section
This reminds me of a certain type of DMD game that I’ve seen before where Everyone is working in the same world and each players actions mark the map for any who follow in their footsteps. Each DM and their party of five people have their own unique objectives and each party is separated though there is an overarching narrative.
Was this the game of many players from how to be a great GM?
@@john_mystery Not sure, I am specifically referring to the game in this video.
"Narrated D&D Story: How A Player Turned Out To Be The Secret BBEG Of The Session"
-By All Things DnD
It was a really interesting video! I had no idea that you were working on this kind of game 👍🏻
love the commentary and this stuff reminds me of the scene in battlestar galactica of the chaos from the bridge and having to listen to the comms
SO COOL! I play lots of TTRPGs like Savage Worlds and other stuff, like the 40k TTRPGs, always usually stuff that's wargamer adjacent. So I really like this!! It reminds me of watching people do Zeus stuff in Arma 3 videos!!
How does one sign up for this, I would love to play a Light Spec Ops recon unit based around vehicles like the British Jackal!
Had no spec ops this time around, maybe when campaign 4 comes around he’ll expand it again. At the current moment no one can join mid campaign but we’d be glad to have you next time.
@@john_mysteryyeah let us know where to signup for campaign 4 tough
Been loving to take part so far as Calidonia-1 (even tho this Campaign I was part of the massive Round 1 around the Military Base Drop Massacre).
Very fun also from an RP writing perspective, with so much happening, you got plenty of fuel to get the pen going.
You know, this whole setup reminds me of an old browser game I used to play when I was younger called Battle Dawn. This is much more fleshed out and better in rulesets. But the idea of a massive multiplayer tabletop war game reminded me of when I used to play, setting up my units to attack a base, and then logging off, only to hop back on the following day to see the result of what happened. Battle Dawn was a flash game, so it definitely had it's limits, and it was made way back in 2010 (Maybe older, not sure). But yeah, this was a really fun watch!
Liberty-1 Troop VTOL Operation Typhoon Reporting in
We have made landfall north a Yos stronghold along with a large group of other VTOLs. Fortunately we were far enough north to avoid enemy AA.
Having deployed the infantry unit Vigil we are now heading west to take the water plant.
Will report back in soon, end transmission.
I love After Action Reports and this was a terrific one! I would absolutely love to watch more.
(I subscribed, by the way.)
This is really sick, happy for the players and you too Shack!
gotta love this community
15:51 It's a light vehicle unit, I would rename "Desperatos" to "Desperautos". Because 🚗
350 players is crazy. I played in the first one but not the others. Man impressive.
I absolutely love these videos, probably because I really enjoy RTS games and the like; thinking of joining the discord and maybe joining in when the next campaign comes around.
One game that covers planetary assaults and such was Battletech: Battleforce./Batleforce 2. Old board game. I think the new version is Interstellar Operations Battleforce for reference
kriegspeil(sp) is about the only game that gets this large but it used military ranks so it would be a bit constrictive to what your doing but it would be a good base on how its set up
I would love to see more of this, this is so fascinating to see!
Love the arrows because it kind of encompasses the true cluster f--- of a contact with the enemy
and the chaos and piece meal info you get
contact made... okay... fierce fighting... *fingernails oooookkkay???!!!*** cool stuff
Callsign: Air Dragoon here, I’m a Heavy VTOL from Battlegroup Atlas. So there’s a few fun little details I wanted to bring up around the campaign.
1. At 5:53, Shack accidentally showed off the composition for Atlas with Blackout's patch when talking about how battlegroups worked
2. The bridge on the Logi Truck I was carrying in that photo is actually a reflavoring of its supplies, to allow us to drop our units and arrive at our target air base on the first turn by having our engineers place it over a river. Hilariously, this kind of push may not even potentially matter because…
3. We accidentally sucked up like, half of ATC and Special Deliver to bomb the adjacent military base you can see in a few photos. Atlas itself honestly ended up just cleaning up stragglers this turn after our squadron of ten bombers ATOMIZED anything military important nearby xD
Aether reporting in, we’ll smash that citadel!
If you can't have a chain of command while also giving the players leeway in interpreting orders, that's on you for failing to organize it in such a manner. Heck, you've now just lost out on some potential RP from units following the "spirit" rather than the letter of the orders of other players. If you make sure the higher rank players have large scale objectives and ensure that the lower rank players are given areas of operation and more specific objectives, there's no need for the kind of micromanagement you're fearing.
Bro, I've been subscribed to this channel for *years*. Tell me how I didn't know that Tabby and Shack were a thing 😂
Mariachi reporting
I have now twice charged headfirst into the front inside an ifv... as an unarmed medic unit... and have been uncharacteristically successful lol
Round three but hoofing it on foot this time, let's see how lucky I get!
Long live our Hammer Tac-Com, the Glorious Supreme Regal Heavenly Mandated Commander of the Ninth Armies of Valhalla, Marshal of the Forces of Good and Vanguard to Justice, Bossman Frenchie o7
Would absolutely love to watch a video/videos breaking down how it went. Fascinating to watch.
I hope, that among that community, there are some clone wars intro fans who secretly yearn to be reporters who could recap the highlights of what's been happening.
Callsign Billote from Iron Hammer here, hype to see more recaps and this campaign go on ! o7
i love this high player tabletop war game so much
also side thought the logo for armco reminds we so much of the IMC logo from titanfall so much
You might be talking about it at the end, but kriegspiel used an “umpire” as an arbiter. It allows for military realism for commanders (Since they are giving out general orders-not micromanaging) and is still in use within militaries to this day.
Loving this! I very much want a battle recap
This is a so Amazing Concept of a game !!!
This is so fascinating. I feel like GMing this would have given me a heart attack.
This sounds fun. When I’m done with school in a few months, I may be interested in this.
Haldora was here. May Hammer and Atlas stand strong!
I don't know if you take suggestions or thoughts, but I figured I might as well throw it in here, as this project of yours seems fantastic.
So with regards to those planes being downed, and all the players on board basically being kicked out of the game because death, one thing I immediately thought that could lead to more interesting gameplay, and potentially be a bit less feel bad, could be that if aerial transports get shot down, that perhaps there's a dice roll, possibly for each unit, or just across the board or something like that, to see if anyone survives the crash. This does not bring them back into the fight, but just means that they're recoverable. This then allows allied units to try and rescue the crashed plane's people, adding them to their own ranks again, bringing them back into the fight, and might also lead to the enemy trying to capture/execute them.
I reckon that a mechanic like this could add a lot of interest and intrigue, without necessarily heightening the burden *too* much for you as the game runner. It allows for people to try these sort of big, high risk maneuvres, and then potentially have it be followed up with additional high risk rescue operation, for a very dynamic and narrative engagement, while reducing feel-bad situations for the passengers of these aerial transports.
C&C music is a vibe.
This looks fantastic!
Oh man this sounds awesome! I really want to get into the next campaign if you do a 4th!
Yes, thanks you for doing a 3th campaign video❤
The badges look sick, Crow Thulu goes hard
God, these campaign looks so cool, would have loved to participate in one since I was a kid !
yes i would love to hear more of this. between this and Star Wars AOTR are my fav episodes to watch
Bucketheads, here! The first week was not kind to me. Immediately ran into infantry and trucks. Thankfully, Battlegroup Typhoon had my back!
want more for sure , keep at it Cap
I would love to see more of this for sure and try to join when you get ready to run again. Just to let you know maybe the move order Advance could be called Advance to Contact. Sorry if I am overstepping.