Ok.... while at work last night, I started thinking about the old Doom Trooper games Ratboy used to run at his store and at shows... and I got to thinking how well 1st Edition worked for that. I began to wonder if 3rd could be modified to allow for some of the silliness of first... and I cam up with this.
Warzone: Hollywood DoomTrooper
This is a modified version of Warzone, and meant for one off games were you want to try a heroic battle against just plkain STOO-pid odds. The battlefield must be crowded for this to work with lots of occluded sight lines. Dense forest, a Blasted city ruins, an underground complex… All work best for this.
The changes to the rules are as follows:
1: All Bad Guys are the basic Trooper type for the foe following normal unit creation rules. %00 points for the first pair of heroes +250 point per additional Hero.. Up to one Big Bad Guy (Razide or other) per two heroes.
2: All book heroes or individuals get 1 extra wound and 1 Extra Action. This is to represent their bad-assery and overall toughness. Normal models taken as a Hero gain an extra wound. (ie: FM or Sealion lmg gunner)
3: Models may shoot their weapons while on the move for a 2 point penalty. LMG and Shotguns can be used in this fashion but HMG and Flamer/Sprayer weapons may NOT! LMG's suffer an additional -1.
4: Models armed with two SIDEARMS may fire both weapons as 1 action for a -1 to hit. This is cumulative with shooting on the move.
5: No Bad Guy models are allowed to aim. (They never seem to in the Movies).
6: Models with a MG of any kind may perform a "Mad Minute"; this ability allows the model to have his weapon get off an extra shot per range band. IE: An x3 weapon becomes x4, x2 becomes x3, ecetera…. When this happens, the model may not do anything for their first action in their NEXT activation. ("Dude… got to reload!")
7: Custom Models may be used… but they are considered WYSIWYG and stats are equivalent to their nearest counterpart model…. Or the appropriate Doom Trooper. IE: I have a Cartel Agent with a Brotherhood LMG; he would have the stats of a Special Agent but with the LMG.
8: Models from other companies may be used for this- they can be statted out by request or you can use your own judgment- the key is to have fun…
9: GW Space Marines stats are available upon request (because they are supposed to be Hollywood Bad Asses)
Custom Gear list to come…. Watch this space.
This experiment in sillyness will be updated as I think of things or as feedback is given. Please try it out and post feed back here or in a PM to me. Thanks!
