Yo.

So, I've been playing with ideas for how to inject some RPGness into your SWM-ing and y'all may have seen my SWAG gaming stuff, but I've been experimenting with some ways of mod-ing SWM Characters for either RPG or Scenario purposes... I give you SWAG+ (or Star Wars Adventure Gaming Plus)! Disclaimer: I'm doing this as a mental exercise and it sooooo much fun to come up with stuff like this, but I thought I'd share it because just maaaybe others might be into it. All goods.

I'm slowly developing a fun system (or a funstem) where you can mod existing SWM Characters by adding cards to them - much like an X-Wing of Armada thingee. I want to be able to add Weapons, Armour, various skills and Abilities to SWM Characters so you can play scenarios, or run against interesting character combinations for the helluvit. Fun stuff, man! These cards will be the same size as SWM Cards and will slide under the bottom of the SWM Card to add fun things to that character. Some of it will fit nicely, some of it will be wild, pretty much all of it will need some hefty house rules to manage it!

Anyhoo, where I am starting is Species Cards! My Species Cards slide under the bottom of your SWM Card to change the Species of an SWM Character into whatever you like. I've started with a handful of the most common ones and have plans to add plenty more (if I get that far). (Actually, if you like this and don't see a Species that you want, lemme know!) Why not turn your SpecForce Marine into a Wookiee? Or your Jedi Guardian into a Twi'lek? Anyhoo, here's how it works:





Here's the link to the folder containing my Cards so far!
SWAG+ Cards Folder

Anyhoo - if this is of interest to you, lemme know. If there's changes you think I should make, lemme know. If there's something you'd like to eventually see, lemme know!

Stay awesome, y'all.

Aw yeah - let's do this!

And - lastly for today, because I am still working on other stuff - I've been trying to play around with a SWMAI system and, y'know, it's bloody hard! Anyhoo - here's where I've got to:



The way it works is before each AI character activates, you make a d20 roll to determine their Aggression (which will determine how they operate). A high roll will likely see them charge into the fray, whereas a low roll will be quite the opposite. Once you've rolled, you work out which table you're rolling from (are they just normally attacking, or do they gain bonuses from standing still, or can they even see their opponents, etc.) and then you work out what their move is.

A coupl'a examples:
1) My Stormtrooper can't see the opponent. He rolls a 13 for his AI Roll. Looking at the "No Target" Table, he will Charge! towards the opponent, being sure to veer to his right when such options present themselves. This could mean heading towards the right-most opponent, or heading down a right-way corridor, or even just ending in cover to the right. Easy.

2) My other Stormtrooper next round can see the Opponent. Now, if he was within 6 squares of his Officer, he'd be able to get a bonus, but since he isn't, he's gonna roll from the "Standard" Table. He rolls a 10, but because the character that activated right before him made an "Aggressive" move, this character gets a +2 to his roll. Emboldened by his comrades, his 10 becomes a 12 and he is now "Confident" and will move forward into cover while attacking, taking the attack at the most advantageous time. The character that rolls after him will then get a +1 bonus to their roll because of his confidence.

It should be self-explanatory, but will require a hefty dose of house rules. Two notes: The Commander's Aggression, which is in the "Rolling for AI Actions" is a bit of future proofing. Eventually, I'd like to give Commanders a +/- for their leadership, but you could play around with this now. You could run a Jedi against an ultra-Aggressive Commander (+3!) or a overly-Cautious one (-2...?!) - have some fun wi' it. And secondly: I've found so far in my tests that AI is a bit dummer than it could be, and the points cost of the AI squad needs to be 150% of the player-run squad. a 30pt player-run Jedi would need to run against 45pts worth of Stormies for it to work.

All very rough and fun for Scenarios and RPG!
Rule!

Yes I think I get it. The squad would activate and you could choose to have one of their marksmen go, and then say a squad tech go. Then you would just have to manually mark that one marksman and one tech had gone.

I think the only other big question is how is damage distributed? Say a Mace Windu has waded into a squad of stormtroopers and makes his to hit roll. Does the squad controller get to say, "oh you killed my tech?" or does Mace's controller get to say, "no I killed the commander."

I know Warhammer 40k and I believe star wars legion uses the former method. IE. squad controller decides who dies when damage is taken.

AH! I get it now, my bad. I was interpreting this as one model representing the whole squad. Again, my bad. Still a good idea. Really looking forward to gear cards.

Well, I've done some more work on this puppy and this is where we are!

If you are interested in adding Items - that is Weapons, Armour, and Equipment - now you can! Well, you can start the process. There is a crapload of options and direction I could take this part of things, but in a nutshell this is what it will look like:

It may take some time, but I have stacks of ideas about what items to add, and now that the template is done, I can just start making it awesome!

Sometimes, however, you may want to boost the Stats of characters. Perhaps your stormtrooper's attack is not high enough, or your Clone's defense is too low... etc., well, now you can!

I know there is more I can do here, but I'm at the start with it. Dam keen on your feedback!

And lastly...


Enjoy!

Great work on this kezza! you are one of the most gifted content creators I know! that you made this whole system from scratch and keep improving on it is simply amazing

Thanks heaps for the feedback! I'll keep an eye on the Uniques-Costing thing. Because its mainly focused on RPG-based/Scenario fun, I'm not too worried about making a slightly suck Unique better, but I am thinking that I want to put some limits on how much HP/Def/Att you can increase to. I'll keep thinking.

Anyhoo!

I've been working on adding Abilities through cards to our SWM superstars. This process is a way of "levelling up" your SWM heroes but starting them down a path towards greatness. I'm starting smallish at the moment and can see a million directions that this can go, but you gots to start somewhere!



I haven't quite worked out how and when you add Abilities (similar to adding Bonus Cards with the whole "levelling" thing), but I know that's what I'd like to be able to do. I've only got three Ability Cards in their to start with, but a whole load more are only just around the corner...

Anyhoo - have some fun!

Booyah! That sounds awesome!

I like the idea of planting random weapons and equipment around a map and letting everyone hunt for the best ones...

House rules!