Next Friday Night Campaign: What will it be?

[MidnightRunner]

Hey All,

Since we have just 4-5 weeks left in Vietnam, it is time to start looking at what will be our next campaign.
I have been looking at several options some of which I have done a bit of work creating templates & campaign ideas.

That said I want to know what you guys want to play.

 

Before I give the options in the poll I want to list some obvious exclusions from the options and the reasons for this.
 

1.  Iron Front A3, the WW2 mod. I left this out as we are currently running a historical campaign and I didn't think going straight into another was a great idea

2. Star Wars: Opposition. Mod is not available on steam, the mouse don't play games with copyright, which would require players to source it online or AW to host it, which is just asking for trouble. Obviously neither option is ideal. I will revisit this option if a better solution becomes available.

 

Links to the main mod for each option:

HALO: Operation Trebuchet

Starship Troopers: Opposition

Mass Effect: Opposition

Aftermath: The Fallout mod

Warhammer 40k: There is Only War

 

 

For anything I've missed or any comments please leave them below or send to me directly.

 

Thanks,

Midnight

[Walk'N]

Saw this:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1726376971&searchtext=nassau

 

and this:

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198386965268/myworkshopfiles/?appid=107410
COCORICO

[Lindi]

Must say I'd voted for both contemporary and WW2 if that were allowed. The rest I would maybe recommend for special events, maybe not an entire campaign?

[MidnightRunner]

@Walk'N between you wanting French units and others wanting BAF units I have a lot to include haha

@Lindi Good shout, I'll keep that in mind, we can always do a WW2 campaign at a later date.

[Minipily]

Contemporary are always nice, especially given there's a plethora of settings that I have very rarely or never seen.

 

Afghanistan or some Middle Eastern one is always easy and seems to still fall in favour of a lot of folk, but there's some other neat areas to explore:

 

African Conflict:

- Boko Haram vs Nigerian Army x United States Special Forces.

 

Somalian Insurgency

- Somali Pirates/Insurgents x ISIL x Al-Qaeda vs Somalian Army x US Army SOCOM x British Royal Marines

+ Pretty neat, you could also employ some anti-shipping raids with helicopter rapelling or ship boarding of sorts, I've seen it a few times and it's awesome.

 

Syrian War:

- ISIS vs YPG x Kurdish x SAA

 

War in Donbass:

- Pro-Russian Militants vs Ukranian Military

 

Vanilla Campaign Style War Scenario:

- NATO x AAF x CSAT

+ Very flexible

 

Just a few ideas, anything can be fun!

 

[Walk'N]

15 hours ago, Minipily said:

African Conflict:

- Boko Haram vs Nigerian Army x United States Special Forces.

- G5 Sahel (Sahara) vs terrorist/djihadist group (ask @mastif0...)
- Peace keeping in Ivory Coast, Chad, Congo,...

- Ebola outbreak control (or else...)

             Africa is often forgot in our games

 

Narcotic war also in South America...

[Minipily]

9 hours ago, Walk'N said:

- G5 Sahel (Sahara) vs terrorist/djihadist group (ask @mastif0...)
- Peace keeping in Ivory Coast, Chad, Congo,...

- Ebola outbreak control (or else...)

             Africa is often forgot in our games

 

Narcotic war also in South America...

 

Indeed, I think it's easy to forget how active Africa are in the war area. It's like the Middle East in some regards.

 

I'd love some gritty brutal combat in some muddy forest and/or desert. Give some AK's and Surplus AR-15's a run for their money. Could also use the FAL. Africa is a goldmine for worldwide weaponry.

 

This video does a pretty amazing job at explaining the rundown of an intense attack by ISIL against US Special Forces and Nigerian Army, it's worth a watch to see just how vulnerable you are against insurgents. There is also the actual helmet camera footage from a soldier during this mission but, it's extremely graphic as he was executed at close range. This vid is worth a watch though: