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From the DP9 Forums:
Hi!
Dream Pod 9 and VBAM Games have made an arrangement allowing VBAM Games to produce a sourcebook using the Jovian Chronicles setting.
I just wanted to introduce myself to the Jovian Chronicles community here at the DP9 Forums. My name is Charles Lewis and I have been selected by VBAM Games to write the Jovian Chronicles sourcebook for their Victory By Any Means campaign system.
Once completed, VBAM:Jovian Chronicles will allow players to vie for total control of the solar system. Combat can be resolved with either VBAM's strategic level combat resolution system, or guidelines will be included to show how to translate a VBAM encounter to Lightning Strike, 2nd Ed.
I welcome any comments and suggestions the JC community might have. While I am not an "old skool" Jovian Chronicles player, I am familiar with the setting and hope to do it justice. My intent is to allow you to take your Jovian Chronicles campaign to the next level and settle matters between CEGA, the Venusians, and the Jovians once and for all!
-Charlie
posted by Rivetgeek at
1:05 PM
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10 Comments:
Does this make anyone else want them to license making 1/500 capital ship models to one of those brilliant people now producing nuBSG garage kits? Because I want an Alexander or a Corsair /bad/...
Don't even get me started on a line of 1/10 exo-suits or 1/48 interceptors...
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Anonymous, at 1:41 PM
Well if you did not read the news portion of DP9's site, I almost went right past it since it was 30 some odd days before it was last updated but that is deffinatly Fed 2nd as the latest news update...
scroll down a bit or you would miss the JC news.
"And you'll get a preview of the new Jovian Chronicles minis for the new Blitz version of the game coming out this summer. Jovian Chonicles Blitz will have 2 levels of game play, the first will be a fleet level where the existing Spaceship minis are used along with new fleet counter minis (about 15mm tall) to represent squads of Exos, Fighters or one of the new Aces. Fleet counters will include 2 Wyverns for CEGA Exos, 2 Pathfinders for JC Exos, 2 Wraiths for CEGA Fighters, 2 Lancers for JC Fighters, 1 Dragonstriker for CEGA Ace and 1 Stormrider for JC Ace. When fleet counters come within 2 inchs of one another, if desired, then the second level of the game starts with the individual full size Exos, Fighters and Aces, but not the ships."
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Frank Foulis, at 12:05 AM
Yeah, ever smaller stuff for a game nobody ever actually gets a chance to play. I'd prefer full models!
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Anonymous, at 6:33 AM
I actually think that if this is done right, people might play the games. There's a decent-sized hole in the science-fiction wargame market that this could fill (just like there's a good-sized hole in turn-based computer games for a good science-fiction game). Models I wouldn't complain about either, it might actually get me to collect a few and build them.
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Rivetgeek, at 7:41 AM
the Model niche is hard to sell too unless there was say an anime called Jovian Chronicles or even a decently made Manga.
As far as done right. DP9 has had chances before and let the opportunity to slip.
Though what I see on the horizon for them is nothing but good.
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Frank Foulis, at 3:23 PM
Aside from the wildly psychotic version of the Confederation displayed in Lightning Strike, I really like most all the published JC material. Call me nuts. I don't love the mechanical errors, the silly way the SotF books show older variants by cutting off bits of the aesthetically complete one, but by in large I like having material on geeky space crap, giant robots, big-ass ships, and the solar nations.
But who are these people who buy minis for a game for which players are so sparse?
Since when were you so close to Chicago anyways, Jolan?
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Anonymous, at 3:57 PM
Always have been close to Chicago. Born and Raised here.
I knew about 15 guys at one store down south who were into LS. But when the new mini's stopped for both HG and JC they went right back to Btech when Ironwind started up new stuff for the line.
The LS storyline was all but cut when they redid the books into one book and did a Retcon to say it never happened.
As has been pointed out in my locations JC has had a problem with not having a specific goal within DP9. Thus every writer who did something for them had thier own take on the setting and it just got through.
What you get is a hodge podge of ideas that seem to sometimes contradict each other.
For instance the one thing that STILL erks me to this day and I can get really worked up about is CEGA and its planet book.
You have this idea that CEGA is a single government body. It is in fact a coalition of nations under a uber form of UN. Erks me so bad I gotta end this comment now :)
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Frank Foulis, at 9:01 PM
See, myself I like the fact that there are member nations within the CEGA. It makes it like Soviet Russia, where a unified front was always presented to the outside world but there was tons of conflict brewing internally. It gives it more character.
"In Jovian Confederation, you don't get much space. In CEGA Navy, space get you!"
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Rivetgeek, at 9:36 PM
So whatever is the official continuity these days? Is the hand-of-the-author smashing of Kurtzenheim via Gilgamesh still in play?
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Anonymous, at 10:42 AM
As far as I know, the events of the Chaos Principle are canon. The near future events of Lightning Strike 1e, I'm not too sure of.
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Rivetgeek, at 11:13 AM
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