Running a 200 player Massive Online Cooperative Tabletop War Game...
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- We've wanted a cooperative large scale war game for ARMCO for AGES. I'm sick of waiting. So I started making one. Welcome to the Meta Campaign
Video on the First Campaign!
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This is actually how most war gaming started. It’s interesting to see it come full circle.
I wouldn't mind a 1-2 hour video that goes through these battles in more detail. It sounds awesome.
Haven?.. Why did you say that name?.... WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?!
May the memory of that hellscape never die 😂
Sitka Stands!
These campaigns are always alot of fun, can't wait to see it evolve and progress throughout the years. Oh and you better believe I wanna see a time-lapse of campaign 3 once we're done with it.
Favorite part of the campaign for me was definitely the desperate struggle to save the corvette Heimdallr, with Wrecker (another corvette) diving in and body-blocking a railgun shot to save her sister ship.
Skybridge was a fun project to do. Lots of back and forth with the other engineering teams to just get the spots right for it work and a nice example for cross operational cooperation. Definitely one of my highlights from both campaigns!
Really looking forward to see what kind of projects we will be able to do with the new system and if we will be able to do a Skybridge 2.0!
Favorite part was either the orbital brawl at the end, or the initial missile panic. Corvette Chaos (My unit) also took a nasty broadside from the initial pirate ground troops, leading to the ship nearly losing all power and crashing, but due to some quick thinking from some engineers nearby, we saved the ship.
Shack always manages to impress me more and more with his amazing gm skills!
Free Company SCORPION reporting. We were there on Lussan. We did our part.
"The Iron Warden assault company still reels from the lose of Iron-42 upon the surface of Lassun. An entire squadron of MBT's to the combined fire of artillery and "MBT" squadrons. We will honour the fallen upon Titian by keeping the air clear"
In all seriousness campaign 2 was so fun to participate in, my favourite part was just watching how we formed up and dealt with each coming crisis, usually an "oh crap we're dead" moment followed by "LETS GO" mad dashes. Campaign 3 is fully underway and hopefully will have my fighter craft make it to the end of this one
The best part about participating is these campaigns is just that visceral feeling of struggle you get.
When you’re part of an operation this large and this player driven, you feel all the ups and downs. The joy of a successful artillery strike, the relief when an allied unit narrowly survives a close call, the sinking feeling in your gut when a friendly aircraft gets shot down.
It’s a sense of satisfaction that’s only really achievable when you are working together and cooperating with a ton of other people all towards a common goal.
Now granted I played a logistical unit, and my experience in this operation consisted solely of sitting in the FOB and sometimes feeding ammunition to a bloodthirsty artillery unit that craved violence. And even in such a passive role I still felt the intensity of it all, I can’t imagine what the boys on the frontlines were feeling.
Favorite part had to be when we turned the tables. Pirates had been using all these cunning tactics to try and take our stuff. But then we got fed up and decided to use their own tactics to steal THEIR stuff. And that’s how you get a battleship for free.
For anyone wondering I played the ADS, or Armco Delivery Service. Essentially if a Mercenary Corps had a postal service. With the Callsign Express.
If you do not see me in the video, that is because the Orbital, Callsign Herald’s unit sprite completely obscured me so all you can see is the SS of Express Lmao.
Hey, was just asking about this played out, nice to see this.
Took a long time to set up, but it was worth it.
@@CaptainShackwait- was I the first comment? That's never happened to me.
I may be bias, but heck yeah I want to see the Campaign 3 video
Also....seeing a unit you made and put lore and gave a soul to (both private and public) appear on screen, even briefly, created....a interesting personal feeling
as someone who loves fan stories i'd love to just get full on blow by blow recounts of your games shack, i'm still sorry that your star wars dnd game you did with wasted couldn't continue on youtube i was so hopeing a main part of the story would be finding the Liberation
My engineers are currently on the ground in campaign 3! Can’t wait to see the overhead view of everything when that wrap up video goes live. O7
It was hella fun, sorry it was a lot of work for you though. I think the ship sacrifice playing to block the torpedo for the damaged ship was quite a moment.
This campaign was awesome, I played a Corvette called the Avalon, which was outfited with a railgun and cargo bays for units.
Some of my favourite moments was single handedly deploying and group of 6 units to sand rat.
Watching the boarding take place was also incredible.
Can’t wait for the vid on campaign 3 and see the Prometheus Thunder run!
I am curious about the ruleset changes!
I was inspired by your campaign 1 vid and made my own 'co-operative wargame/boardgame/TTRPG' rule system from ground up for under a dozen players (each controlling 2-3 units themselves) and use Owlbear for the 'tactical map' tracking.
I also played in your Campaign 2! I was the infantry unit Phalanx - tried to assist in defending the train but spent most of the fight on the flanks, got some action towards the end. Honestly the scale and speed at which info moved in the discord channels, I found it incredibly hard to keep up, props to the players who were trying to create news bulletins etc to keep things organised. Some of the info you shared in this vid I wasn't even 100% aware of!
I was in Campaign 1 and 2.
Highlight of Campaign 2 was rappelling onto the train and hijacking a boarding shuttle.
I helped capture the Vigil, we overwhelmed the crew with sheer numbers.
I dropped on SandRat as ODT infantry then joined up with another unit of ODT infantry fast roped onto the train when some pirates got on board then we took their assault shuttle and help board the Vigil. things got epic their at the end and now we got a shinny ( under the dirt and rust ) new ship.
Without a doubt, my favorite moment was when QRF Sleipnir were trying to save Heimdallr and I said fuck it and ordered Wrecker my corvette to just take the shot from an enemy battleship to save that ship. I still have the screen shot
I didn't manage to make it to lussan, but I got into 3. I'd love to see a video on that one after it concludes.
I joined Lussan as a Sapper Unit called Oilskins. It was awesome to play and a lot of fun! Being in Campaign 3, and without spoiler, is a lot of fun again! Very grateful for you, shack, to have created something like the Meta Campaign :D
I think one of favorite things I got to do in C2 was help Dawn deploy to the train. Admittedly I only lifted 3 units that campaign, but it was amazing to be a part of.
Was Co-Leader of Incense and Iron, the operation North Middle of the map.
Unit named Templar…
Had so much fun but man when me and Kelly’s Heroes went to board that pirate ship first that was crazy scary but so intense.
I may not have been physically on Lussan, but providing tactical analysis and mapping for Operation Sandrat was an absolute blast, time sink or not. Thanks for putting together such a fun campaign. Here's to hoping my little plane can make it through Campaign 3. o7
This sounds fun, I would love to hear more about it. Well done.
Wow! He made a second campaign! But I bet he will never make a 3rd Campaign.
I m in the thick of it
Excellent Music
Oldschool C&C never disappoints.
I’d love to see the progression of the story and maybe even join in eventually. It looks like a lot of fun.
I love to more of you making a game
I would love to see this turn into an actual game this is great
Getting shot down over deserts sucks, as a note - Kappa Flight
Wow, I've never heard of this before, but at this point, you are spending so much time to manage this, it might be time to develop a Browser based game just for this
Sadly wasn't able to directly participate in V2, but I did do a lot of the pre-drop mapping and made the enemy unit statistics list. ABC map ftw!
Yeah! A video on Campaign 3 would be great!
My favorite part of c2 was when I ran an air raid with 2 other squadrons to take out the artillery that had ruined our frontline on the previous turn
shack- im do a tabletop with Armco
Armco community- HELL YES
I planned on 180-200 players for campaign 2. We had 600+ signup. Crazy Times.
Aether Drake’s reporting in. This was a good op, even if I didn’t do much.
I definitely want to hear more
I want to see this open more to the public even if it is just a core book for small groups to play
Can't wait for the C3 video to go over the drop massacre of operation Typhoon
Yes, please, I want to keep up with this!!!
I would love to see the updates on the third campaign. Hopefully you can get some stream lining going on to make the paperwork manageable for you.
Would love to hear about campaign 3 and the new rules. Did you set up a command structure so orders are entered and smaller engagements are resolved more quickly through delegated authority?
I am unable to play, but I love the idea! Please please give recaps of the system as it evolves and the continuation of the story!
As a part of campaign 3 who joined after the campaign 1 vid and couldn’t get into campaign 2, I so want a campaign 3 video. We were not ready in Tornado and Typhoon for the AA…
This is really cool. What program was used to run this?
Yer I’d loved to hear more about the campaigns
Man now I gotta join the next mega campaign! I would love to be a mechanized infantry unit or artillery unit!
I really want update videos as a mission progresses. even if only once a week and short. it'd be really cool.
I wish this game was available on Steam, been looking for something me and my stupidly numerous cousins can play together
I would recommend having commanders for consolidated orders and actions
Guess what was implemented for C3… exactly that! we now have Tactical Commanders (tac-com’s) and submit orders through them for them to send easier to digest orders to Shack. Along with this there’s a player cap for how many per each tac com but it isn’t hard to make operations across units (don’t ask how tornado and typhoon lost more units in 1 turn than the entirety of C2)
Hey, I got to see this the tail end of the 2nd campaign. I made a unit for the 3rd but the rules changed so ill just wait till you make them a bit more concrete.
Question is how much data are transferred between clients and server. If the amount is larger than streaming video and commands and audio, then you have the answer on what works best for browsers. Processing parts on a client opens much more for cheats and hacks, along various issues in sync and rubber-banding.
Aight - I need to try to join.
I would love a report on capaign 3 in a news report style.
Hey Shack, are we able to watch on the discord? Or is it just players?
It’s open to watch and you can look through and talk in any of the channels! Just be warned it sometimes moves a mile a minute (especially when Shack releases enemy orders)
I can't remember there was game for this similar. Risk the board game. I see on browser game from youtube game show case or review of it. That a lot of players for turn base. How about time base? So everyone would need move at once. Need to adjust base on player feedback. But must be fun to test the game to see how the game is play differently.
Amazing, love it! now make it PvP :P
Yes To everything
My medics are currently on the ground in campaign 3, and are very busy for round 2
Will this be released publicly on steam at any point
Half a mil lets get it guys🎉🎉🎉
Can't wait till he says screw it and starts actually developing the game into something publicly available
Since most of the gameplay is based on hard rules, I wonder if you could use a bot to read through the messages and enact them by having the state of the battlefield as a database (which you could then manually edit to account for the cool, unconsidered things like the construction of airports here).
Of course, this would depend on the messages with their orders following a set formula without spelling errors, which is always a problem when dealing with a huge amount of players
Someone (not shack) is doing this (and did it for c2 but I don’t know much about that one). The trouble is that people submit orders in different ways with different wording. We have volunteers who do the bulk of the work making easier to understand orders for shack (groups doing the same thing just get put under one big order.)
@@icebot3045 Figures, glad there's a way they're still processed *relatively* neatly
Yes, just yes
I would love to be apart of this organized chaos. He’s a question can I join Armco in a re-fited colony shit like the sprite of fire? Or am I locked to choosing something else?
Currently we aren’t don’t have any orbitals in the rules but Shack has mentioned possible reworks for them. Many things were cut but it’s loads more fun when 350 people on a map all are working together (though I didn’t get to do anything in campaign 2)
I really think it would be funny if every so often we have to go back to haven because the bugs just keep showing up there
I love this
AGHHGGG I MISSED OUT
play more warno
So first thing I hope someone eventually animates at least so part's of this series. Second i understand you calling yourself gamemaster but I am disappointed that you are not warmaster or something similar.
hey man you gotta release the rules for this system when you feel it is ready i know a bunch of poeple that would be intrested in running this type of game
how to join?
You might know since you specifically mentioned browser based, But Drop-shock is what you are copying/recreating..
You know the game kind sounds like the historic Kriegspiel but that game requires a lot of aids and GM for it to work with any significant number of players.
talk tuah?????