Cisharp

Hey there, I thought I will share the Units I created so far for Showdown. Here are the Unit Stats of some of the Units I created so far with the Troop Builder I mentioned in my last post. There are some shortcomings that I would like to point out with what you can find here. Automatically included is a small rant :) A note what was used for the Romans: The romans shown here are 3 different XP levels for Principii. What is a bit sad about Weird Wars: Rome is that the Triarii and the Principii are the same stats wise... which is a bit sad... I haven't found a neat way of distinguishing them... So you can also use the stats for the Triarii actually. Where do the stats come from? Well they were taken from the BEASTS & SOLDIERS section of Weird Wars: Rome while the Gear was taken from one of the first chapters! A note for the Point Cost of the Romans (what was improvised): The Troop Builder does not know Pilums so they are calculated as a "Short Spear" whi

I started playing around with the Savage Worlds Showdown rules after getting hold of Pinnacles latest greatest Product "Weird Wars: Rome". Weird Wars Rome puts the player in the position of legionaries of the Roman Empire, but the setting has a twist: the ancient world is infested with low magic and magical creatures, making this a bit more challenging! A good review on youtube for the setting can be found here . I always enjoy watching those... Anyhow, the games in Weird Wars Rome seem to run a bit differently than normally, because it seems to heavily emphasize battles and hierarchy. So normally the player characters will be a squad of roman soldiers (they don't have to be but for that the campaign presented in the corebook is layed out) and one of them will be the leader of the squad. Now, my experience shows that it's normally not a good idea if one player of the group is the "leader", it tends to kill a bit of fun in the roleplaying, probably be