Updates to the Variant Rules Versions and a Couple of Projects

Recently I've been quite intensely involved in going through all my variant rulesets updating, streamlining and making them more consistent. The Modern rules have had the largest makeover. I've also extracted some basic conventions and published these for AMW. So everything is now updated in the folders. This left me with a couple of pet projects. I greatly expanded my Future Wars army lists to incorporate more star nations from my favorite Sci Fi universe. This is based on the FGU Space Opera / Space Marines future history. I included some more special rules and included a race of cyborgs - the Andrayadan Collective complete with Walkers and Malignants - these I copied from Dark Realms.

My second project was to develop a credible Fantasy variant. I used to play and sometimes GM a long running Chivalry & Sorcery campaign. I really liked the world imagined by Ed Simbalist, the co-author. This is Archaeron, with the designed setting of Arden, a feudal Kingdom modeled on medieval England. This was quite a "hard" fantasy environment in that it was very much based on a Medieval setting with fantasy touches. This made an adaptation of the Medieval Rules an easy transition. I've now drafted the majority of the rules and I'm working through each of the nations described by Mr Simbalist. One rather radical departure was to introduce leaders and personalities. These are single base units that can add abilities to fighting units or fight on their own. By getting more involved in the battle they increase the risk to their base. If they work out I might extend this to other rules-ets - the Dark Age version might be a promising venture recreating some heroic action. I'm quite excited about this variant and am looking forward to play-test it over the next couple of weeks. I'll put them in the files section soon. One down side is that I've neglected my road test of the 19th Century rules. I've a Franco-Prussian war scenario all setup and ready to go but haven't got round to it yet. Well - rest of the year to go.