Savage Worlds Finale in the Levant

On Monday evening, down at CLWC we had the finale of our Savage Worlds Pulp Weirdoes game based in 1920s Post-Mandate Syria. 

My one eyed, one armed French adventurer faced off a gang of marauders & an armoured car, with a swash buckling all or nothing charge. With help from other characters Capitaine mal Maison  just about survived the shoot out being wounded several times.

Savage Worlds is a slick RPG system which translates very well on to the tabletop. It was a joy to play games with some amazing handmade terrain that really brought the campaign to life.

Savage Worlds in French Mandated Syria

The role playing game Savage Worlds has a lovely system of ‘edges’ and ‘hindrances’ in character creation which gives added depth. It provided me with an opportunity to build a character to suit one of the favourite miniatures in the collection; A one eyed, one armed French Officer who had previously only every been employed as an adjutant in Chain of Command games. Pictured below: 

Captaine Jean-Pierre mal Maison back story is; after being horribly wounded in the battle of Verdun, he was spurred by his fiancée, heart broken he left France for Syria in an intelligence gathering role for the colonial administration and Gendarmerie.

In the first instalment I attended of the game set in 1920s French mandated Syria down at Central London  Wargames Club my one-eyed, one armed French Great War Veteran was back in action. Great fun sneaking around and popping off shots at Turkish Bandits while attending to discover sub plots and intrigues.  

In the following Bank Holiday game, once again, Captaine mal Maison finds himself and his companions in a spot of bother, being sprayed by a Rolls Royce armoured car in the desert. 

Time for a hasty retreat, considering he was there to gather intelligence. Great fun as ever. 

 Further Reading:  

James Barr,  A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East, Simon & Schuster 2012.