Stick War:Total War

[homsar_:)]

Picture it. A full scale war of stickmen. it could be on the rome engine. it may sound silly, but to me, it's quite a good idea!

for factions, there could just be different colours, like red, blue, green, yellow, etc.
weapons could be stick versions of the ones in rome, or stationary utensils, like pencils, erasers, rulers, elastic bands, etc.

personally, i'd like this idea to come to life.

[jakobh94]

Sounds great and funny Any thoughts of a campaign?

[homsar_:)]

Not as such, no. i'm thinking it could be in the style of the world map or something like that. each faction could be a particular continent, like europe, asia, australia, etc.

i'm short on campaign ideas though

[Zigus Maximus]

Okey, let me help you expand on the idea

Tom, a little boy is bored during his history lesson. He draws a map of his imaginary world which is called Ugaragadubadu. There, a mighty stickman named Stickcus, leads a stickmen revolt. The stickmen were originally enslaved by the Black Stickbeasts, who fought a war of thousand pencils against their enemies. After many ink battles, the stickbeasts were finally defeated, and the rest of them fled to the mountains of cray'n, where they set up many small camps.

Although the stickmen were finally free, they divided into many small groups and each wandered off in their own direction. "The blue-pen stickmen tribe" claimed the west around many small islands. The Green-pen Ubadu Tribe wandered to the east. Stickus and his followers, the Black Biro tribe stayed where it was and took over the original lands which used to belong to the stickbeasts.

Also, we get more small factions such as the Pencil-Holders, White-Eraser Kingdom etc.

Cool idea. Skirmish troops - instead of javelinmen you could have pencil throwers, and instead of bowmen you could have... eraser bowmen xD

Cavalry would still remain with no problem

Black stickbeasts would have some really cool beasts

The models would be pretty simple, and there wouldn't be much lag. You would probably need to make new skeletons tho, although possibly you could use the old ones. Like the idea?

[homsar_:)]

Obviously

great idea man! you could be the chief ideas man if this mod gets published
for slingers, the slings could be replaced with elastic bands. swords could even be straightened out paperclips. but we'll come up with more as time goes by
for skeletons, there's a few i know of, such as a 2-handed spear one used in 'battles of asia' (awesome btw), or 2-handed swordsmen.
also, with the stickbeasts, there could be different sorts, like wolves, elephants, dinosaurs, etc. (they're incredibly original animals )

what're we gonna do about buildings though?

if there's gonna be any testing, count me out our laptop's gone bung and it's the ONLY windows computer in our home i can't do anything with it until it's fixed

if anyone knows how to fix a reboot cycle without the windows xp cd, let me know, or i'll describe it in full detail

[Septimius]

This is the funniest and genius concept I've heard of.

Would the stick men wear skinny clothes or the retro naked Biro look? Lol, you could rank the units in order of pen colour, black, blue, red, green and maybe some silver and gold for elite units.

It is a mod I would definitely play. I can just imagine the clash of stickmen. Good luck, you got my support.

[Zigus Maximus]

You know what, If Homsar approves, I'm bloody taking it on!!!

[Septimius]

Haha Who would you play as? Sharpies or Parkers?

[Zigus Maximus]

Parkers, good old damn Parkers ^^

[Septimius]

I'm a Bic man myself, they're tough, cheap and lots of them.

Coming to think of it wouldn't it be better if the factions were brands rather than pen colours? The copyright isn't really a problem. The name spelling could be changed i.e. Parker to Packa/Parka/Parcker, Sharpie to Sharpy/Sharpi/Sharpee etc.

We'll see what Homsar thinks

[homsar_:)]

it sounds good septimius, but it kinda clashes with zigus' original idea.
unfortunately, i can't do any types of testing at the moment. our only windows computer's busted, but it should be fixed soon
but when it is, i'll spend a while looking up pen brands

thanks for your support! we'll need as much support as possible. there can never be too much support!
for unit ranked pens, it could be in the descriptions, but maybe not on the actual battle-map. i wouldn't wanna trouble skinners/modellers with just making thousands of different stationary utensils, each with different colours and brands on them, unless they're willing to.
btw, they'll be in the retro naked biro look. classic!

[Septimius]

Fair enough. The campaign map, hypothetically speaking, would be quite awesome because of its potential to be more diverse than any other mod. The world of stickmen is almost infinite.

[Halie Satanus]

There was a previous attempt.

[homsar_:)]

There was a previous attempt.

i had a bit of a look, and it appears to be based more on a stickman version of vanilla rome, and more with wooden sticks. i assure you, this will be in the style of zigus maximus' idea (post 4 in the forum), so it'll be different, no doubt about it

[Septimius]

I had a look at stickmen-stupid war, but like everyone knows, no two mods are the same.

I am supporting the idea of an imaginary world of stationary. The campaign map could be of the standard rtw one, or of a new fantasy one. A place that would make Tony Hart proud.

[helmersen]

great idea!! You should get this done.

[Tia]

Nice idea!
I have a feeling it will be somewhat like this.

+rep!

[homsar_:)]

yeah! something like that!
i've played that game you've shown too. it's pretty fun.

we'll still need some help with things. our ONLY windows compy screwed up and is staying screwed up () so now i can't do anything to help sorry guys!

[Tia]

Sorry to hear that, I can't join as I'm making my own mod right now.

[Calisthenis of Dyrrachium]

I think this is a GREAT idea!! I'd be happy to do a map for Ugaragadubadu, if no-one else is doing it.

Keep at it!