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(08-17-2011 11:11 AM)samuraitrev Wrote:  @OD what is this Hell project? I would like to hear about it.

Well a year plus to respond but here it is;

The Hell Project(Unter dem Doppel Adler in Hölle)
-Under the double Eagle in Hell-

The Campaign

The purpose of Unter dem Doppel Adler in Hölle
is to provide a background to generate
battles between the 17th Century Holy Roman
Empire & the Forces of Hell.

The Empire seeks to conquer Hell Level by Level &
the Demonic forces seek to stop them.The futility of
actually conquering Hell is lost in the religious fervor
& real politic of the times.It amuses his Satanic Majesty
to let the mortals try.

Roll d6 to determine Game

1-5-Linear Campaign(Minatures using BattleLore & 10mm
WarMaster figs)

6-Special-Roll d6
Odd= Lost Cities of Rome(6mm minatures using the Battu
Board Game).
Even=New Jerusalem-Roll d-6

1=Play ARCANA(Card Game from FFG)
2-4=Play Claustrophobia
5-6= Play New Jerusalem(The Cadwallon Board Game)

The Basic Background Fluff:

The brutality of the 30 Years War reached new heights when
General Tilly's Imperial Forces sacked the city of
Magdeburg in 1631 & set off an orgy of rape,pillage & plunder.
So great was the blood shed that it steeped into the earth
in such vast quantities that it opened a portal to Hell.

The victorious Catholic forces lost no time in exploring
this gaping portal & discovered to their horror it
was a Hell Gate.Brief clashes with demonic forces
who resisted the humans exploration soon reached
the Imperial Court at Wen and the Pope in Rome.

Emperor Ferdinand II anxious not to be distracted
from his crusade to rid Protestantism from the Empire,
was disposed to order the sealing of the portal.
Pope Urban VIII was however appalled at the blasphemy
of the Hell Gate.He also was seeking ways to limit
the power of the Hapsburg's who although Catholic
presented too much concentration of power in their control
of both Spain & The Holy Roman Empire.This power
threated the Papal States in Italy which were sandwiched
between Spain & the Empire.

Pope Urban decided the Hell Gate was the perfect
distraction to keep the expansive Ferdinand occupied.
The Pope invoked a Crusade to cleanse Hell & requested
that Ferdinand provide the forces.

Ferdinand reluctant to put aside his campaigns in Germany,
nevertheless could not ignore the Papal obligation
placed on him.He therefore instructed General Tilly to
make some forces available for the conquest of Hell.

Thus the cleansing of Hell was begun as a poor stepchild
effort,the Emperor supporting it enough to show his
obedience to Papal wishes but not enough to interfere
with his war against the Protestants.

The whole thing is based on The Helldorado Minatures
Game world but follows Dante Hell as to the 9 Hells.

OD