Civil War: The Scenario

[Captain America]

Seeing as how the summary of the comic story was so d**n long I thought it'd be best to make a separate thread for the actual scenario portion.

What began such an idealogical earthquake? A team of 6 super heroes known as The New Warriors were filming a segment of reality TV series in Stamford, Connecticut, to increase their popularity. The segment consisted of foolishly attempting to take down a house full of villains near a school. Unfortunately one of the villains inside, Nitro, had the ability cause explosions.

The ensuing battle between the New Warriors and the house of villains resulted in Nitro’s explosion—along with the explosion of the hundreds of innocent bystanders. Scores of innocent kids were accidentally killed, resulting in more than just bad PR for all super heroes.

Fueled by the pain from the tragic mistake and fresh fear of what other tragedies may occur from super heroes’ accidents, the government pushed the Super Human Registration Act through Congress. This act required all super heroes to give up their secret identities and register their names and powers with the United States government. The super heroes then must choose to give up vigilante justice in place of being used by the government as a crime-fighting tool, or give up using their super powers altogether. The Act did not affect X-Men mutants, who largely stayed neutral during the Civil War.

The Act thoroughly divided rest of the Marvel super hero Universe, drawing big names such as Dr. Strange, the Fantastic 4, Spider-Man and the Avengers to take sides. The pro-registration team was headed my billionaire Iron Man (Tony Stark) and included Mr. Fantastic, Bishop, She-Hulk, the Wasp. A number of other heroes including Spider-Man eventually defected to the anti-registration side. The anti-registration side was symbolically led by Captain America and included super heroes Daredevil, Invisible Woman, and Storm.

Iron Man’s team felt they were working for the greater good by preventing more instances of accidental violence, while Captain America’s team of underdog resisters fought to restore civil rights. Iron Man was backed the government super hero peace-keeping task force known as S.H.I.E.L.D., who helped Iron Man round up non-registered heroes in order to lock them a super secure prison until they gave in to registering.

PRO-REGISTRATION FORCES

Iron-Man (General)
Mr. Fantastic
Yellowjacket
Thor-Clone
Ms.Marvel
She-Hulk



ANTI-REGISTRATION FORCES

Captain America (General)
Luke Cage
Wolverine
Hercules
Falcon
Cable
Cloak
Dagger

More to be added in later on. Characters will all have a one time in game use of a super-power, aside from Generals, their powers will always be "ON".

Missions will involve capturing and holding strategic points, prop acquisitions, a prison break and more.

[Iron Man]

Ok so we have a while to plan this out really good and get the field prepared. We also need to set a confirmed date. We also need to start to figure out how many ppl we to allow.

[Captain America]

We need to get a general idea of how many will actually show up and be interested in playing. I threw a thread up on the Discussion section of the Facebook Group page.

[Captain America]

We need to work out something to revolve a mission around battling for control of the fort we just built.

We need to set a time limit for the game or at least a general idea. We don't want to overload the game with too many missions.

[Captain America]

I'm going to sit down and read through just the core mini-series of the event and jot down notes as I read it and make note of what characters are actually prominent for each side. I'll try and post up some info before I go to bed tonight.

[Captain America]

After playing Albany Scenario Club's Infinity Wars scenario, I decided that following their mission block format would probably work best for this game.

What we need to do, however, is determine time limit for the overall game so we can figure out exactly how many Mission Blocks to write up. At ASC, the Mission Blocks run a minimum of 30 minutes and a maximum of 90.

It'd also be good to know what the current status of the field is, as in structures and a basic layout.

[Captain America]

Here's some ideas so far:

3-5 control points, simply flip sticks. Each worth 25 pts, tallied up at the end of each mission block.

Props worth 25 pts, main objectives 50 pts, subject to modification depending on the mission block.

Potential Mission Block: Prison Break!

The small fort we built will function as the "Prison". The Pro-Reg forces will want to defend this point while the Anti-Reg will want to capture it. A prop would be placed somewhere on the field, preferably by a non-player (Momma Steele or Pop Steele come to mind) that would function as the key to turning off/on the prison's automated defenses, allowing it to be defended/captured. Rewards for the team who succeeds in finding said prop, to be verified by their team's general, and then bringing the prop to the fort will earn either resurrection bands or perhaps to be easier only headshot elimination in the next block.

[Iron Man]

Status of the field- on hold till next year. This will give us time to write a game up, make props, and so on. It will also give us time to find pallets for bunkers and wood for the other forts.

[Captain America]

Alright. Extra planning time is fine. Need to figure out what buildings to make and where they will be positioned.

[Captain America]

Trying to think out some of the random Mission Block ideas I keep getting. I want to somehow have a hunt for Mjolnir to tie into Ironman, Mr. Fantastic and Yellowjacket cloning Thor and having said clone turn out to be a murderous psycho. Perhaps if Pro-Reg finds it one Anti-Reg has to switch sides and become Clor, the Thor clone and if the Anti-Reg finds it a Pro-Reg switches sides and becomes the one true Thor? Not sure on the switching sides thing really.

[Captain America]

So here's the basic four Mission Blocks I've got for the moment for CIVIL WAR...

1) The Battle of MetroChem - first battle between the two factions, as Team Tony sets a trap for Team Cap, and Ragnarok is unleashed as the secret weapon. You can represent this with one smaller team trying to escape a larger surrounding force (and even the teams out afterwards with people defecting to Team Cap in horror over Goliath's death).

2) The Battle of Yancy Street - Team Cap attacks a prison convoy transporting captured superhumans, and guarded by Team Tony. Here, you have one side guarding objectives representing prison transports, and the other side trying to capture them. Optional extra: one of the objectives contains a bomb planted by the Mad Thinker, but no-one knows this.

3) The Prison Break - Team Cap infiltrates the Negative Zone prison, but it's a trap! Team Tony is waiting for them. But Team Cap knew that they knew! Here, your Team Cap side are trying to get break through Team Tony's lines, to reach the prison control room and unlock the cells. Both teams should contain a traitor (Tigra and Hank Pym, respectively) for the Secret Invasion portion.

This leads right into...

4) The Battle of Manhattan, the final conflict of the Civil War, in which you need no objectives beyond both sides "fight to the bitter end", (unless you can actually get non-combatant "civilians" to protect and/or to run in and convince Cap he's wrong, though not likely. I doubt anyone would seriously want to put down their guns and be civilians LOL). I'd still use capture points for this block however.

[Iron Man]

Cap those mission blocks sound great! We would have to figure out exactly what we need as far as buildings. We have 1 so far that you and I built. I'm going to try and see if I can find a descent aerial shot of my back yard and draw over the top of the pic as far as trails and the one fort is right now.

[Captain America]

Three buildings minimum I'd say, unless we just have a respawn point at each end of the field.

I'd like to have at least 2 base-like buildings and a tower. Even if the tower was just two stories it'd be cool. I'd suggest for anything beyond one floor we cement the support posts into the ground for stability and safety.