Syrian Civil War Tabletop Has anyone tried it yet

Had a really rough idea about playing refugees in the middle of a Syrian-esque setting. Mostly about supplies, trust and attempting to reach your destination.

>>50940825
I've played generic arab civil war wargames, not a specific Syria one though.

>>50940825
I did run a thinly veiled fantasy-syrian civil war campaign where the minority of elves who had kept control of their nation were being attacked through foreign funded proxies. Lots of alliances and backstabbing and betrayal. Kurds were dwarves ofcourse.

Turn one
>roll
For what?
>just roll
I rolled a 4
>you're killed in a precision drone strike. See you next week

>>50940825
Excuse me, why your pic doesn't show Israel and USA supporting ISIS?

>>50941155
There's no evidence of that, especially the Israeli's. But go ahead and post electronicintifada or stormfront or w/e

>>50941061
>Drones can't be evaded
>LOL I am so clever trying to defeat the entire point of your idea with "hurr drones"
kys

>>50941155
Because the US supports al qaeda/al nusra and the like, not ISIS. Or well, supported at least.

>>50941193
>There's no evidence of that
Aggressive terrorist group never attacking Israel right next to it and even receving medical care in Israeli hospitals. While at the same time both countries benefit greatly from ISIS existence as political leverage, arms manufacturers get big bucks from wasting expensive bombs on ISIS grunts. ISIS is just Taliban 2.0 but more tightly controled.

But go ahead and be a useful idiot.

>>50941229
US created it ISIS by removing Saddam from Iraq (he was an asshole but he kept such groups under control), destabilizing the Middle East further and quite possibly CIA funding and training this small start-up of evil.

But there are literally no rules for the game

>>50941262
>conjecture and no actual facts
as expected

>>50941262
Creating the conditions for something is not the same thing as actually creating something. But yeah, jihadist groups have been their go to means of "government change" in the mid east. But, to go with the theme in OP's question, how do you make an rpg campaign about that?

>>50941293
>how do you make an rpg campaign about that
Players must fund their cause by selling oil, loot (whatever luxury goods or antiques left) or something else (drugs,slaves,etc). You must ally with big powers to receive better weapons, equipment and training in advanced skills/perks.
Rival groups will come for your cash, territory and weapons, either to expand their influence and resource base or sent by other big powers.

>>50941283
O. J. Simpson was innocent for someone as dumb as you

>>50941341
>ad hominem
as expected

>>50941331
That sounds an awful lot like it would work in a grimdark version of star wars

>>50941359
So he was innocent after all

>>50941368
Come back when you learn how to argue properly, I'll be waiting

>>50941362
Now that I wrote it, it sounds a lot like big turf war with 2 big players and several smaller unfluential gangs

>>50941374
Come back when you learn how to use your brain. I don't expect it to happen anytime soon.

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>>50941383
You sound upset

>>50941388
I'm quite amused actually

>>50941378
Well, geopolitics isn't all that far removed from gang behavior, just on a way bigger scale. And the way nations are so incredibly sensitive to prestige fits the way gangs are sensitive to their imagined prestige too

>>50941396
So am I, you keep giving me all these replies, it's made my night.

>>50941397
Oh yeah, we can just straight up use Prestige and Badboy points from EU

>>50941412
>Walmart shut down their last store in your city
>IT IS AN OMEN

>>50941407
You are welcome. Keep your fresh (You)s flowing.

>>50941414
The economy, fools!

>>50941262
You are a muzzie, arent you?

>>50941547
Not at all.

>>50941560
Sure sound like one. Down to the whole "IS arent true muslims but jews and Israel and America are behind their creation and that is basically why the middle east is shit, it is all THEIR fault" mentality of a muzzie. Finger pointing and blaming others for their own shortcomings is pretty much the ur-muslim shtick.

Like the whole "sykes-picot is why I just slit the throats of this poor innocent family that did nothing wrong to me. artificial borders made me do this, reeeeee"-type faggots

>>50941588
That's a lot of projecting and stawmanning from you. Keep (You)s flowing.

>>50941280
The only sin is to lose and have your entire people wiped out.

>>50941601
Dont care, needed it off my chest. And shitty arab/muslim culture is pretty much to blame for much of the syrian crisis as as any major geopolitical player.

Here is your (((you)))

>>50941262
You're just speculating on Israel, not evidence

Also isrsel bombed them last week after Isis launched an attack. Just because You don't hear about something doesnt mean it didn't happen

>>50941341
Nope. Just "Not Guilty". You should learn English. Then maybe your arguments could be accepted as something beyond a elementary school student's daydreams.

I had a dream about being a Syrian refugee Wizard trying to cross the Turkish border once

>>50940825
I wanna play a badass Rojavan paladin

>>50941030
Were the Turks hobgoblins? Was the Daesh run by Drow losers?

>>50941155
I thought Israel and USA supported the Nusras, who oppose ISIL

>>50941293
The players are local groups funded by a foreign power to go after local authorities or rival groups

>>50941262
>Turkey demonstrably supports ISIS
>'GUYS! I FIGURED IT OUT! JEWS DID ISIS!'
>laughingkebab.jpg

>>50942697
whynotboth.jpg

>>50942528
At least Israel seems to be tsundere for Daesh as >>50941262 pointed out.

>>50940825
Kinda, I played a similar civil war set in the Ace Combat universe

>>50942504
>paladins that ethnicly cleanse people
that's not a paladin bro.

>>50942697
Go /home/ Vlad, yer drunk.

>>50940825
Buddy, my playergroups cannot even keep three factions straight, let alone a dozen.

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>>50941293
>how do you make an rpg campaign about that?
The whole situation (and the middle east in general) seems pretty friendly to games - there's lots of action, betrayal, trying to work out who you can trust to be on your side for long enough that you can backstab them first - hell, iirc ISIL even got a fair bit of their seed money from bank robberies, so you can have some heists.

I actually want to try that, something similar to AK47 Republic. It has tons of your dudes potential because of all the militias running around, each with their own background, allegiance, and often catchy electronic theme song.

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>>50940825

>>50940825
Ask /hwg/ for ultramodern rulesets and models.

Read the news, or check the Middle East General on /k/, for scenario ideas.

>>50941283
I really didn't want to derail an otherwise interesting thread with /pol/-tier discussion, but my autism was too strong.

Here's Obama outright saying US forces were training and arming IS Militants (ISIL or Islamic State in the Levant, as they were called at the time).

Doesn't prove that the US supports them now, but it is what it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2NkjNvwuaU

>>50952446
It isn't unlike how the US assisted Osam Bin Laden during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Pretty sad to see.

>>50940825
I think the various Arabs and other west/central Asian Mohamedeans win the prize for most confusingly similar flags.

>>50941155
>the Jews are to blame

Every ding-dong day.

boards.4chan.org/qst/thread/977266

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>>50954067
And that's why you never, ever should put letters on your flag.
US state flags suck too, often for the same reason.

>Last Aleppo's hospital is an eternal place rebuilt by the gods each time it's destroyed