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"Invasion: Battle for Oil".

elasund, from the creator of Colonization... although Colonizers are better, I don't know.

P.S. There's no hoe or berserker there.
although maybe you can order them.

Fantasy battles – a great series of awesome little figurines. My best friend and I used to collect them. He had more because his parents were well-off, but somehow half of them were broken, and some were lost. And most of his figurines were completely uninspired:)
I had: a "Falcon" squad for little old-believer patriots, bought in Anapa; some high-tech "Typhoon" and "Hurricane" squads, which we bought a long time ago when the rules were very primitive; an obscure brigade called "Berkut" made up of peasant rabble with clubs, pitchforks, and axes, pathetic but with an overpowered artifact; and, of course, the gem – a squad of some augmented, huge space marines called "SUPER CYBORG GURONS," who had magic resistance to two elements, were fully specialized in ranged weapons, and had insane bonuses to melee combat. And these models were heavier than the others, so they were harder to knock over with a shot. I also had an entire Castle and many different weapons. True, the cannons broke over time, and the rubber bands for the crossbows were lost or torn.
However, we only played according to the rules once or twice; the rest of the time, we just used them as figurines.

We had many board games, and most of them are still gathering dust. I especially liked "Emperor"(olol). I had the first part, which was more hardcore, and my friend had the second part, which was for casual noobs:cool:.
It had an economy, construction, magic, and overcoming challenges. True, it had plenty of bolters and chainswords, and one of the soldiers looked exactly like a commissar. Everyone steals from Warhammer, everyone who can.

We used to make board games ourselves and play them. It was incredibly enjoyable; pure fantasy and "creativity," unlike what we have now. Now, not only is it hard to create something, but even playing existing games feels beyond my capabilities (or maybe it's just plain laziness, a sign of degeneration).

Wow, you're talking about something interesting, Vis. But the ultimate experience is playing games with no rules, i.e., pure fantasy... mostly with few rules and a lot of improvisation, but it was always interesting. Basically, something like what was in "The Bridge," which is why the movie resonated with me so much...

As for board games, we made one, although based on the Lineage universe, with three character classes, you choose a skill, roll a die, and whatever comes up is what happens. But that was just a minor thing; word-based games are much cooler.

Lok, was this you who wrote it?)
As I recall, in BF my favorite unit was the Cyber-monad "Varans"; I was insanely happy when I saw them in the store, but also wildly indignant that they were placed in one box with some—as I called them back then—"drevlyans" (lol), in short, with the Barbarian Company "Varang"
Also, I remember having Company "Norman", Division "Kaiser", Corps "Condor", Company "Matador", Legion "Amazons", Platoon "Stalingrad", Gang "War Dogs" (one of my absolute favorites), Unit "Rhodesia", Assault Platoon "Titan", Corps "Tornado", Goblin-company "Python" (also one of my favorites), and two more favorites, with two of each unit: unit "Warriors of Mithra" and Storm-Cluster "Canopus" (I also remember always laughing at that name and calling them "karapuzes," ahaha)

And I also played SkyTech, Robotech, Armored Infantry, Age of Battles, and maybe something else
Age of Battles isn't interesting, even though it's rich (larger-scale battles, many various attributes for people; maybe that's why it's not interesting, because it's tedious), I barely played Robotech at all, Armored Infantry was the most interesting
But I mostly collected BF

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However, we only played by the rules about one and a half times; the rest of the time we just used them as toy soldiers.

And I always played strictly by the rules, on the highest difficulty) I was constantly pestering my dad to play with me (and now once every six months I actually manage to convince him to game with me in mtg), I played often with friends and by myself)

At camp, two guys and I wanted to come up with a text RPG; we seriously started writing all sorts of things, thinking through the system, but then we argued about something, didn't agree with each other, then it became too much effort, so we never made anything)
In my childhood, I CONSTANTLY came up with all kinds of complete nonsense: sometimes some board games, sometimes new rules for those same BF, sometimes 3D chess, sometimes paper lego-something-or-other that you cut out of ordinary paper, and so on.
The main thing is that I never finished absolutely any of it((

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I remember, relatively recently (3 years ago? 4?), I started making my own text RPG, and I started doing it without having played a single text RPG, lol))

I'd be up for it, we could play.
I wouldn't mind playing some kind of RPG, like a mafia game, as long as it doesn't drag on for a thousand pages.

my brother was making a game based on some book, so everything was already outlined, it just needed to be implemented. It was about ships (another part was about infantry), and it was quite interesting to play.

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Vis, if you don't want to write a thousand pages, then join an FRPG (forum role-playing game), where everyone has their own thread. You'll only be writing there, along with the GM.

Arandor, did you at least write a sample story? What does it mean that everyone has their own branch?

does this have anything to do with games?

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even if I write something, I'll still let someone read it first. As for you, I don't know.

It's not related to the games, I'm just curious.
Maybe you could create an ERPOGE for us?

Do you think it's that easy? You can, of course, create some kind of nonsense where there are almost no rules, the world isn't well-developed, there's no system, etc., but what's the point? Creating a decent RPG takes a long time, and I don't even feel like it, because I don't like being a GM (or rather, I haven't even tried it).

If you're interested, you can ask me on ICQ.

Well, this is a matter of general importance to the Heroes community! So, there's no need to discuss it in instant messaging.
I'm not saying it's easy, but we could create a small expedition, for example.

I basically described the expedition, didn't I?

This is

some kind of nonsense with almost no rules, an underdeveloped world, and no system, etc.

Or is this

a decent, long-lasting RPG

hmm?