Monday, 18 April 2022

Golgotha's Games - Turning Top Trumps World of Tanks into a wargame

 Herewith, turning Top Trumps World of Tanks into a wargame. Top Trumps is not a great game, tank Top Trump games are better and at least a good way to familiarise younger audiences with different tanks. Whilst playing Top Trumps World of Tanks edition with my son I thought well let's liven this up a bit and turn it into a wargame. He then said well let's use some of our tanks to represent the cards. 

Rules. 

Use normal playing cards for the initiative in suit order, jokers included. Use 2d10 as percentiles for all rolls. 

As can be seen from the card above the tanks have been given the following stats, namely:

Firepower - Roll 2d10 so percentiles, in order to hit something this Hellcat would need 23%. If both actions are spent shooting this can be either 2 attempts to hit so two chances at 23% or one doubled so 46% chance of hitting.

Mobility - Convert into inches for movement so the Hellcat above would be able to move 8 inches (round up) this is 16 inches potentially in a turn if both actions are used for moving. 

Survivability - Minus to the attacker so if the Hellcat were shooting at another Hellcat it would only have a 21% chance of knocking it out. 

Spotting - Used for shooting and firing at targets behind cover, the Hellcat, therefore, spots on a 60%. Spotting is also used for range so the Hellcat can fire 60 inches. 

Top Trump Rating - Can be used as the points value to make both sides vaguely equal in strength. For the game below we did not bother with this. 


The official computer game of World of Tanks can be found here: https://worldoftanks.eu/en/game/download/





















2 comments:

  1. Fantastic idea 👍👍👍👍

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  2. Worked relatively well and was over very quickly - so much more fun than a standard game of Top Trumps - cheers Keith.

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