10-27-2012, 03:42 PM | #1 |
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Last War vs Factory States scenarios?
I have the impression that all the Ogre Designer's Edition Scenarios are Last War, but it's not entirely clear. Is there enough "historical" information to make scenarios that are distinctively different between the Last War and the Factory States?
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10-27-2012, 07:34 PM | #2 |
Join Date: May 2012
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Re: Last War vs Factory States scenarios?
The Factory States era is an intentionally vaguely defined wide open playground, plot-wise. There is relatively little detail and virtually no defined history, so we're all much freer to set the parameters on Factory State scenarios than we are for Last War scenarios.
In the Factory States era, governments are all much smaller, more local, and frequently run by AIs (factories, sentient Ogre veterans of the Last War, etc). Ogres are much rarer (the Factories aren't dumb enough to be building any more since the War ended), conflicts are likely to be much more local and self-contained, and multipolar battles involving 3 or more factions might be significantly more common. Many factions may have significantly less access to new military hardware, so scenarios would be smaller and forces may be substantially less likely to fight to the last unit. Rogue Ogres (that have not established a power base for themselves over (or in cooperation with) a human community and/or an AI factory) are not uncommon and represent a serious threat to any stable city-state. Factory states are centered around manufacturing facilities of widely varying levels of specialization and maintain extensive trade amongst themselves to obtain goods, services, and software that they cannot build for themselves. Military skirmishes to resolve trade disputes are far from uncommon, as there is no such thing as international law, and treaties have no more strength than the personal characters of the signatories. Skirmishes involving trade disputes, and defense against rogue Ogres (singletons or (eek!) small packs) would constitute the most frequently occurring types of battles. As the article says, the Factory States Era, while not the epic global nuclear apocalypse of the Last War, is far from peaceful. So generally speaking, you'll see a lot more "Raid" and a lot less "Ceasefire Collapse". What few Ogres exist might only generally join battle in genuinely desperate defensive situations, although I could also see scenarios that involve Ogre "kings" leading their city's force from the front, like medieval nobility: the knights squaring off in single combat while the axe-wielding peasant crowds hack each other to pieces around them. What you would NOT see would be:
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