Magic and Tech: Development

Now is the time for you all to start play testing in earnest! Have fun.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kgTDdpMyL-XkcFmEJEr3tu2uFJ6QwiSV/view?usp=sharing

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ottsunzzcx5err/Magic%20and%20Tech%20V0.12%20Packet.zip?dl=0

Well, it’s time again. V0.11 for Magic and Tech has been uploaded. I will eventually begin play testing as well as maybe post videos of gameplay when the time comes. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DrfQ1ChfGIGlWi8BQUu6q01wQpGZ6ARY/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DrfQ1ChfGIGlWi8BQUu6q01wQpGZ6ARY/view?usp=sharing

Sorry for the delay. I’ve been busy and now I have a chance to upload Magic and Tech V0.10 with slightly expanded rules and four more unit cards. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EBFxBf-qIRsYVthgyB5BAkLSrzsc5Kb7/view?usp=sharing https://www.dropbox.com/s/15p3stcksxuo4cg/Magic%20and%20Tech%20V0.10%20Packet.zip?dl=0

This is it people! The largest one yet! Magic and Tech V0.09 is now up! https://www.dropbox.com/s/z8bcqe454wt23x7/Magic%20and%20Tech%20Packet%20V0.09.zip?dl=0 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RkPJ9S_95xQhPvD8kx_NO9EVMFOFX5T_/view?usp=sharing

V0.10 won’t be til sometime in January as I create more cards and finalize the force points and begin creating the Table of Organization and Equipment for Narata, Penar Providence, Cultists, rogue mages and orc insurgents.

These minis were cleaned, sprayed with a gray primer and then sprayed with a Tamiya Olive Drab spray. I think. I should check on that and make the proper edits as all of my work is done at the shop as well as check what color went what for the battle dress uniform and the vests but the brown is Tamiya NATO Brown.

The war dog came after I started painting and the handler was quickly made and I accidentally skipped the green spray. Once they’re done, no one will know anyway.

Magic and Tech V0.09 will be coming along next Saturday so until then.

Two weeks ago, my dad had passed away and the future for this project now looks bleak. I will do what I can but more of my time is being spent trying to pick up where my left off and I have had little time in touching this project. My own play tests are now on hold indefinitely until things stabilize and I am able to spend more time tackling this project.

That is all I have to say for now.

V0.07 will be in about a months time as I expand the mission creation rules, add in the vehicle;e morale chart, run some rough playtests on a small scale and begin to put together the TO&E chart. This last bit will take perhaps the longest to do as this will cover so many branches of service and so many other choices. In the mean time, please tell me if any of my links have been working and what you like, don’t like about the ruleset so far?

This was made 6 years ago. This cemented the idea to redo an old story world I had came up with many, many years ago and it was a total mess. I have revisited that world and have made it better and I hope I can share this world with you through story and in miniature form. Hopefully I will have BETA V0.06 done by next Friday. Until then, have a good week.

It is with regret that I must inform you all that V0.06 BETA rules for Magic and Tech will be delayed until at best next Friday as life has gotten bust and I had not the time to work on my rules as much as I wanted.

But with that, how about some pics that helped inspire me to create this project.

As of now, I have no idea just how far I want to go with infantry and powered suits. It is without a doubt that there will be some units that will have a frame; no doubt about it but should I go with full-on powered exo-suits? That is the question.

Another thing I am hopeful to add are Mechanicus to the game. Both humanoid and walker/ multi-legged “spider” types. But such a thing maybe years down the road as I am having a hard enough issue trying to figure out how to raise funds to make the combat witches and infantry but that is another topic for another time. Until then, see ya all next week. I hope.

Here it is! Beta Version 0.05 for Magic and Tech is now up!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sxEndijhUS7qp3gkCrKC2u6z0jVazJ2K/view?usp=sharing

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jmmlfb2a6hkljn0/Magic%20and%20Tech%20V0.05.pdf?dl=0

I am hoping that the next update in two weeks will cover the beginning of the vehicle rules and a completed chart of magic spells for combat witches be finished. Until next time.

Infantry will be key for the game. Infantry as of now operate in their fire teams or a whole squad, pending upon national or branch doctrines. Still, the theme of a game is a fantasy setting with a near sci-fi twist so imagine elves but in modern combat gear. That is the sort of picture one can gather with Magic and Tech.

As one might of gathered, a lot of my inspiration comes from manga/ anime artists. Whether this will be the style going forward is unknown. The true goal is to create minis where there will be a male and female bodies in various poses with options for a number of races for heads and tail parts. Whether they be made out of metal or plastic depends on how things go.

As for how they operate in the game; infantry vs infantry can be a drawn out process with movement and terrain modifiers adding or subtracting to a base shooting score using a D10 times the weapons Rate of Fire. I wonder if I should make it very less attractive to fire ATGMs inside of a building by auto-pinning the whole team or anyone in the wall facing? Play testing should be most interesting.

V0.05 of the rules will be uploaded this Friday so catch ya then.

I wasn’t sure I’d get V0.04 which covers everything up to shooting done in time with the week I’ve had. Long story short, I’ve been caring for a sick cat whom died yesterday and this is why this project page has been silent all week.

Still, a promise is a promise and I’ve said I’d be ready with the rules once the spring clean challenge was over as not to interfere with them. Now that is over, now is the time to upload the latest rules.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wuozlnz0i66p7kk/Magic%20and%20Tech%20rules%20V0.04.pdf?dl=0

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DDRlTvFX89C-FBKo6kK14XOX31PVsSJD/view?usp=sharing

In two weeks, I’ll cover the rules out to close combat and add in the necessary templates and markers and such so anyone interested can really help me playlets the rules. See you then.

All rights goes to the artists and creators and such of these images. Images being used without permission and serve only to illustrate what has helped inspired Magic and Tech.

I think this is enough of a disclaimer.

Hard to believe I had gotten these images commissioned three years ago. My rough idea of what a combat with would look like.

I built this six years ago, long before I ever thought of the idea of creating my own game with the prospect of minis to go along with it.

I re-entered the wargaming hobby 7 years ago but I didn’t develop my own set of rules til I think 5 years ago with my own Mobile Suit Gundam game which turned out quite well as I still run it at local conventions. This in turn saw me create another set called Rifles To The Front which proved WAY to complex.

Rifles To The Front was borderline simulation as the squads were broken down into their sections and it involved a random activation and spotting and on and on. It did see me enter the awesome realm of 1/72 or 20mm wargaming.

Then I did another fan project for the anime/ visual novel series Muv-Luv which again proved successful. So a few years ago, when I heard that Shinobi 7 was gonna make a Strike Witches game and so far have not which is a total shame, the idea did cause me to worry and then a spark of genius!

Back when I was in middle school, I rediscovered my love of writing after an incident in elementary school that is a tale for another day and wrote my own totally insane collection of all that I loved at the time into a series called Narata. Well, it was WAY too much of a mishmash of so much that I stopped writing but the idea did not leave.

For those that do not know of the Strike Witches series, it is about young girls (WAY TOO YOUNG) using these magically driven devices to battle aliens and lets say the animation is not for everyone. I suspect this is why Shinobi 7 hasn’t done anything yet and with the idea of combat witches who are older and more military aged properly and dressed for battle and my long favorite Narata series floating about in my head, well, it cumulated 3 years ago into me rewriting Narata and I fit into it Combat Witches and even wrote several shorts called the Combat Witch Anthology which is being rewritten as well as writing my rules for Magic and Tech.

They say inspiration comes from taking something that you like and changing it to fit your vision. Well Magic and Tech is no different. Not only is it a more focused world than it was when I was in 7th grade but it contains elements of my favorite things as well that fit in the setting of the game.

Like I said, I have taken what I felt was a great idea but pervertedly executed series and tweaked it to fit my vision. Properly military aged girls who are military trained in the use of their Combat Magical Apparatus and are supported by regular units and same thing around.

When that was established and I began writing my first short, the idea of including other fantasy races came to mind. But that is a topic for a later time.

Since I’ve been spewing on and on, it is time to talk about the Combat Witches in depth.

The idea that I feel why Combat Witches would work instead of regular wizards and ages and such is one: good luck conjuring a spell and defend yourself from a bullet fired by a sniper or an artillery shell or an air strike.

Yes, magic still has its place but technology is more readily available for anyone who isn’t magically gifted. But still, by harnessing magical energy by those who are gifted and using that to enhance speed, strength, sight, etc, Combat Witches are still a highly effective unit on the battlefield.

Combat Witches utilize Combat Magical Apparatuses to fly, move on the ground or move underwater. Pending upon their training before hand or what their magical gifts grants them, combat witches can be used to snipe at long ranges with dual training on how to use their gift of sight and sniper school to make them super snipers to paralyzing entire squads within range. Some even can effect their bullet trajectory to a degree to hit at angles not available to conventional snipers to enhancing their own speed, strength, you name it.

There are also healers as well. They are placed throughout the army to aid medics as a combat witch would eventually run out of energy and would need to rest. Their endurance is depending on their training. Meditation and repetitive use of their powers and how to be efficient in their powers use depends on how long a combat witch can stay active before rest.

Combat Magical Apparatuses are not based on any vehicle/ aircraft/ ship/ sub/ etc. As much as I love the “mecha musume” genre (Gundam girls for example or Kantai or Azur Lane), I am staying as far from that as possible as combat witches are not representative of any ship or plane or even weapon. They are just women who want to serve their country and have the capability to do so in a unique way.

Tomorrow I will discuss the grunts and how they will function in the game.