Welcome to Fuscrito'uut - Demon Shit, essentially. This blog will cover the potential development of a tactical war game based on the Legacy of the Aldenata series of books by John Ringo. The first two books, A Hymn Before Battle and Gust Front, are available on Kindle for free at this moment. I highly recommend downloading and reading if you're a fan of military sci-fi.
The basic formula of the series is that of heroic stands by humans against an enemy of vastly superior numbers but less than stellar tactical acumen. The enemy regularly loses a million troops at a time, to give some perspective of scale. The humans are insanely out numbered. However, they have two things going for them - human tenacity and the Armored Combat Suit; powered armor. Suits are few, regular military is numerous. Cock-ups are common and the obliteration of entire Corps happen with alarming regularity.
The goal of this project is to produce a game that emulates the conditions of the books while staying as far to the "game" side of the game/simulation scale as possible. The intent is that the game is fluid enough that most battles can be fought in an hour or so. I'm not looking to create a multi-day monster.
If the system works out and seems to have real potential, I'll contact Ringo about actual development - without his blessings this thing doesn't exist at all. The only reason I'm doing anything before contact is that I want to have a good idea of the system in place before pitching it.
Assuming the green light from Mr. Ringo, I'll be contacting various teams about the actual creation of models and molds.
Following all of that, we'll take it to Kickstarter as that seems to be the best way, currently, to raise the capital for a project such as this.
That's it for now, more later about actual game concepts.
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