Saturday, December 4, 2010

No Man's Land - Mutant Front

This post over at The Land of Nod gave me a bug my gamer ADD couldn't ignore a Mutant Future campaign set in the setting of the Great War. So I did a little reading and map research and I'm working up a campaign map set in what would be the North-Western front of WW-I in our reality.

Here's a low-res sample of the map in progress at 10 miles to the hex:

The map is just rivers, "No Man's Land" and some railways for now.

It's a cool idea I just can't let drop: An unending Great War with mutants, weird-tech and gas-masks. Not sure if the war will be a raging, petered out to almost done or mostly over after chemical weapons, electro-cannons, heat rays and plague bombs have ravaged the world.

As time goes on I'll improve the map and likely have some companion posts for No Man's Land - The Mutant Front
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7 comments:

  1. netherwerksDecember 4, 2010 at 7:29 PM

    I've been working on simething similar in terms of the Eastern Front in Riskail--I'll be very interested in seeing how you develop this project--the map looks very good. Mutants & Mustard Gas. It is an awesome combination...

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  2. John Matthew StaterDecember 4, 2010 at 7:32 PM

    Looks excellent - I look forward to seeing how it progresses.

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  3. Chakat FirepawDecember 4, 2010 at 7:48 PM

    A suggestion is to focus the weird-tech on improving defence: Things to make the fortifications tougher and/or cause penetrations to peter out faster.

    Anything that helps on the attack more than the defence will simply bring about the highly mobile 1918 offensives earlier.

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  4. MalcadonDecember 4, 2010 at 8:29 PM

    Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote a post-apocalyptic novel in the height of The Great War called The Lost Continent (aka Beyond Thirty), and its about how in the future, the war never ended. A united North & South America became isolationists. Europe was so hit hard by the war, it became a jungle ruled by savages. Black African Colonialists are in Europe, trying to enslave and convert "the white heathens", and China is more advanced - in technology and culture - then the Pan-American Federation. (basically, an Edwardian world on its head) Its a good read, and maybe useful to you.

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  5. BlUsKrEEmDecember 4, 2010 at 8:56 PM

    I'm going to have to check out that story, thanks Macadan.

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  6. JDJarvisDecember 4, 2010 at 9:20 PM

    "The lost Continent" AKA "beyond thirty" is available via project Gutenberg. Read it years ago but I certainly am going to have to give it a reread. HG Wells' "Things To Come" is certainly worth a read to anyone interested in pre-nuke post apocalypse stories.

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  7. Brutorz BillDecember 4, 2010 at 9:34 PM

    I'll definately be following your posts on this JD!
    Malcadon thanks for the info on the ERB novel, gonna add it to my list!

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