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Wounded Ronin
post Feb 10 2011, 09:27 PM
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Does anyone remember SWAT 2? It had its rough edges but I loved it. The game let you manage LAPD D Platoon, including training, internal procedures, legal problems, gear purchases, and so forth.

Lately I've really been thinking how great it would be if there were a game of some kind that let you manage your own SWAT team. I have been thinking about all kinds of procedural details you could add to improve the kind of stuff they had in SWAT 2.

Specifically, I was considering the possibility of taking a RPG system so you could represent your officers as characters with their own skills, attributes, and personalities. But the RPG system would have to allow for tactical gaming for the concept to work. Once you had your RPG system, you could just tack legal details and internal departmental procedure rolls on top of it to create your department policies and county ordinances.

What RPG system would be best? My first thought was SR3, but that doesn't really account well for facing or for suppressive affects. My next thought was Pheonix Command. It has facing and action time durations, but it's a cumbersome system that hardly anyone knows.

Any suggestions? Maybe once I've picked an "engine" I can create a sample department and a sample scenario.
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- Wounded Ronin   I want to manage my own SWAT team   Feb 10 2011, 09:27 PM
- - Tiralee   Er Ronin, I was pretty sure supressive fire was ...   Feb 10 2011, 11:35 PM
- - Wounded Ronin   I always felt that the SR3 suppression fire rules ...   Feb 11 2011, 04:56 PM
- - X-Kalibur   Not that it has rules for facing necessarily, but ...   Feb 11 2011, 06:32 PM
- - Wounded Ronin   In that case I will have to look those up. EDIT. ...   Feb 11 2011, 07:57 PM
- - Wounded Ronin   So yesterday evening I went to a FLGS and dropped ...   Feb 12 2011, 07:47 PM
- - Wounded Ronin   Seems like Infinity is great. There's suppres...   Feb 13 2011, 04:35 AM
- - Tanegar   Why would you need to make minis? Imperial Guard ...   Feb 13 2011, 05:12 AM
|- - Wounded Ronin   QUOTE (Tanegar @ Feb 13 2011, 12:12 AM) W...   Feb 13 2011, 05:10 PM
- - Tanegar   This actually sounds really interesting. Do keep ...   Feb 13 2011, 05:51 PM
- - Wounded Ronin   I continue to work on this project. I am now thin...   Feb 14 2011, 08:51 PM
- - Tiralee   Ronin - Lego. Instant Mini's, can get police...   Feb 15 2011, 04:26 AM
|- - Wounded Ronin   QUOTE (Tiralee @ Feb 14 2011, 11:26 PM) R...   Feb 15 2011, 04:46 PM
- - KarmaInferno   Even better, search "BrickForge" and ...   Feb 15 2011, 06:42 PM
- - Wounded Ronin   Hey...does anyone know about how much it would cos...   Feb 17 2011, 08:17 PM
|- - CanRay   QUOTE (Wounded Ronin @ Feb 17 2011, 04:17...   Feb 17 2011, 08:50 PM
- - Wounded Ronin   Well believe it or not I'm making progress on ...   Feb 21 2011, 04:31 PM
- - nezumi   Baltimore City's foxtrot unit costs $4m a...   Feb 22 2011, 02:26 PM


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