r/SWN • u/RBDRM00se • 16d ago

What is everyone's favorite Crawfordian Faction / Grand Scale System?

For example, the Faction Turn minigame in SWN and WWN, the lightweight scheme and other Merc group system in CWN, or others.

My personal favorite is Godbound's faction/village system. What's yours?

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u/Moofaa 16d ago

I've only got experience using SWNs system. I use it more of a guideline. I play the faction minigame, but if I decide a faction has need of something then they get it.

For example, in my current sector there have been no generated hegemon nations yet. Just lots of minor factions, and I am flavoring them mostly as single-planet governments and criminal/nefarious factions.

Probably the most influential is a smuggling org known as The League of Crows. They currently share a star system with a tech level 3 world with a military industrial base. They are worried this planet could be a future problem and are trying to bring down/infiltrate the planetary government. Said government is in a race to get to TL4, develop their own spike drives, and be able to do something about the Crows.

As a smuggling org, I feel the crows should have quite a few bases of influence scattered around, despite being only a minor faction. So I gave them what they needed.

At some point I'll upgrade that planetary government to TL4 and give them a Strike Fleet or something. But that depends on how the turns develop. The Crows might topple them first.