Fulminata reviewed Tomorrow's War by Shawn Carpenter
Review of "Tomorrow's War" on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This is [b:Force on Force|9347003|Force on Force|Shawn Carpenter|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rUmktsMWL.SL75.jpg|14230362] set in the future. The core rules are the same with additions added to handle futuristic elements like power armor and full sharing of tactical information.
The focus of the system on troop quality rather than weapon statistics makes the transition from Force on Force to Tomorrow's War fairly seamless.
Like Force on Force, this is a scenario driven game. There are no points values for forces.
My only real complaint is the provided background, which the authors state is not "official." It's the kind of background I'd expect from a game written in the 80s. Today, it's hard to suspend disbelief in a future timeline where the US has remained a leader of the free world for over two hundred years, and where every nation that isn't allied with them is painted as a communist or socialist boogeyman.
Fortunately, …
This is [b:Force on Force|9347003|Force on Force|Shawn Carpenter|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rUmktsMWL.SL75.jpg|14230362] set in the future. The core rules are the same with additions added to handle futuristic elements like power armor and full sharing of tactical information.
The focus of the system on troop quality rather than weapon statistics makes the transition from Force on Force to Tomorrow's War fairly seamless.
Like Force on Force, this is a scenario driven game. There are no points values for forces.
My only real complaint is the provided background, which the authors state is not "official." It's the kind of background I'd expect from a game written in the 80s. Today, it's hard to suspend disbelief in a future timeline where the US has remained a leader of the free world for over two hundred years, and where every nation that isn't allied with them is painted as a communist or socialist boogeyman.
Fortunately, it's easy to overlook the background and focus on the rules.
Since I blasted Force on Force for the number of typos it contained, I should point out that I noticed far fewer such errors in Tomorrow's War.