Just when you thought I’d disappeared! Here’s a preview of the TiRoBEx rulebook. Currently listed as ‘the introduction’ – more to follow over the week…
War has always been man’s favourite pastime (at least when the women weren’t around) and ever since caveman A took a rock to beat caveman B’s skull in with it; mankind has been on a quest to develop new and more deadly weapon technology, our whole history is based around who could build the biggest and best ways to kill and destroy others.
Obsession with getting bigger and better weapons soon meant that an ordinary man was no longer capable of wielding their own power, first came animals, then tanks, but these were too slow or cumbersome. Later came the power armoured suits, yet even these were inadequate and so the era of the giant robot began.
The giant robots of the time towered over the battlefields and each had the power to destroy whole villages in a single shot, these colossal machines battled like gods slowly firing off volleys of super charged matter and deploying hundreds of missiles in great streams of death.
Then, no doubt after some little war that almost bankrupted a nation, the chancellor told his military that this way of things was too expensive. He must have given them a simple brief as to what he wanted done; shrink the size of the equipment and reduce the cost of these wars. Thus started the renounce of the infantry man.
Instead of having a single giant robot you could have fifty soldiers each armed with a weapon that could blow a hole in a tank. Everything started to shrink in size yet still retain, or even gain power. The giants of the past fell to the wayside as they were out manoeuvred and often outgunned by the hordes of micro-tech equipped men.
With micro fusion generators, plasma rifles and tents that could fold up to the size of a peanut, everything seemed to have reset to the older ways of man vs. man (even if one of the men could, with a flip of a switch, vaporise your house). But things never stay the same for long especially when it comes to weapons, the rapid development and advances in micro-tech resulted in a new form of weapon being developed and deployed.
The tiny robot system (TRS) quickly gained popularity, each TRS was smaller than a child, was lightning fast and well armoured, yet was still armed to the teeth. Soldiers on the battlefield soon dwindled once more replaced by hordes of TRS each one able to operate independently or remotely from a control centre on the other side of the world, flashwars are common between squabbling countries and mega corps as the highly mobile TRS can be re-deployed with ease.
Tensions are rising in the world as great powers try to manipulate or destroy each other in a bid to protect what is theirs and secure resource in a world fast running dry. The most treasured of these resources is tyridium the vital element needed to construct micro fusion generators the basis of all TRS. The winners of the battles to come will flourish while the loser will be forgotten and disappear into history.
Yeah, it’s probably littered with Typos, but it has yet gone of for a proof read… thanks to our resident Project Good Fluff writer Alex Munson for his input to this.