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Movie
Simulations
- Highlander In the movie
"Highlander" immortals battle for supremacy and can only be killed if their head
is chopped off. The Immortal who does the chopping receives that immortal’s
"immortality energy", so here are some game rules to simulate that movie. Every
man for himself, if you tag someone out you may reset your sensor and the "dead"
player must go to the dead zone. If 2 or more players are firing on the same opponent and
it is unclear who scored the final hit, then neither may reset there sensor. Winner is the
last one "alive".
- Star Wars/Jedi Knight/Light saber
One player on each team is a Jedi Knight. He wears a sensor, but his gun
is"holstered". His only weapon is his light saber. The light Saber can be a toy
one, or one of those 5 ft long "pool noodles". One touch from the lightsaber and
you are out. The Jedi knight may block shots by covering hissensor with the light saber.
The obvious Jedi tactic is to ambush or chargewith the light saber covering the sensor,
trading 1 or 2 tags per kill. Theobvious anti-jedi tactic is to fire from more than one
angle, difficult toblock 2 lasers, or fire when he strikes with the light saber.
An anternate version allows the Jedi to use his gun too.
- Alien In the movie "Alien" we
find that "they" are not little green men, but big black and pissed off. They
also have no weapons except there incredible strength and acid blood. To simulate this
type of combat 1 player is the Alien who has 10 hits on his sensor, no gun and hides out
in the playing area, preferable a dark house or building. The remaining players are the
ships crew who have a gun, but no sensor. The Alien "kills" you if he physically
tags you. A special rule to make it more like the movie is that all the crew members are
solo agents, no 2 can be together in the same room, or closer than 50 ft to each other.
The best ratio of Alien to Crew is about 1:5-7. This game is especially good if you have
more players than equipment because one set of gun and sensor is enough for two players.
- Aliens In the movie "Aliens"
there is a squad of Colonial Marines vs the swarm of Aliens. This is best played with a
large group >10. 1/3 to 1/4 of the players are Aliens and the rest are the Colonial
Marines. Same number of hits per Alien (10 laser tags) and Marines (1 physical tag). Still
tag a Marine to kill. Mission goals-Marines must find the girl and get her out, while
finding the nest, killing the Queen and destroying all the eggs. The Queen may reset her
sensor once, so thaty it takes 20 laser tags to eliminate her.
- Predator In this movie an alien hunter
with night vision teaches a group of Commandos what it is like to be the hunted. This game
must be played at night. One player is the Predator, he has a sensor with 10 hits, may
reset once, a gun and no flash light. The rest of the players are the Commandos who have
sensors with 10 hits, a gun and must carry a flash light that must be on at all
times (try taping the flash light to the gun). The Predator goes out and hides and the
Commandos have to find him and tag him out. Best ratio is 1:5-7. A high tech version would
have no flash lights, but the predator gets to use Infra red scope ($200-400)
- The Rock A group of army terrorists
have plan to launch a nerve gas missile at San Francisco. A team of Navy Seals have 15
minute to find the missile launcher and disarm it. There are several way to do this one.
Simplest: The terrorist commander has the disarm key, so the Seals have to tag out the
commander and find the launcher and disarm it using the key. Complicated: have a
combination lock be the launch device and 3 of the terrorists have a 3x5 card with one of
the 3 numbers to the combination. The Seals have to tag out the 3 terrorists who have the
3 numbers (the tagged out terrorist then has to hand over the 3x5 card), find the launch
device and figure out the correct sequence to disarm the launch before time is up.
- Star Trek/Borg Assimilation Two borg
armies are fighting for leadership of the borg hive. Each team has a borg leader who can
repair any damaged borg from either team. The borg will obey which ever leader repairs
them, even the borg leaders must obey the leader that repairs them. The game continues
until all borg are united on one team.
- Terminator One player is the
Terminator and his sensor has the full number of hits. He is hunting the humans. If he
gets tagged out he has to retreat 20 paces and reset his sensor to the full number of
hits. When a human is tagged out, then he becomes a Terminator too. This game comes in two
"flavors", Terminator TEAM or Terminator SURVIVOR.
In Terminator TEAM the humans act as
a team and work together to stall the inevitable win by the Terminator. The winner is the
player who is able to win as the terminator in the shortest amount of time.
In Terminator SURVIVOR
the humans are not a team and are only interested in being the last one alive. The last
human alive is the winner and gets to be the Terminator in the next game.
It is very important to set
specific boundries so that the humans don't stay alive be simply running far away (boring)
This game is best played with a small number of players (4-6).
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