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$23 Castle Board (Alternate Title: How I learned to love secondhand shops)
While one is a more current Hogwarts, the rest are Fisher Price little kid toy kits (from 20 years or so back) plus a random girlie princess palace (see previous post for it in all its pink glory). I...
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Tank Mordhiem: Activation Musings
The Background My 'Tank-Mordhiem' is a skirmish game where tank crews are kinda the 'ships' of a post-apoc style wasteland. Stalker-Mad Max-Pirates-Mortal Engines meets Fury. Basically there are...
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Tankhiem: Dieselpunk Post-Apocalypse
The backgroundWW1 rages 1914-1918. Widespread use of poison gas and chemical warfare cause radical changes to weather patterns - frequent storms, and toxic rain. Vast tracts of Europe are left...
View ArticleGame Design #92: Complexity v Detail v Realism, Decisions and "Flow"
While sitting in the car pondering my tank rules, I was thinking about where the rules would be allowed to be complicated and detailed, and where they are not. I.e. I didn't mind complex activation...
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Wargame Eras & Eternal Projects
I remember my first wargame. It was an accident. Interested in history, I bought a book Battlegame Armada - that happened to have a map and counters embedded inside. It had fleets and a hex map of the...
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Battletech Alpha Strike Box Set (Rules Review)
The Package:"One of the best and most complete box sets I've seen - it has it all, for a good price."The Rules:"If you have to add lots of house rules to make it good - it's not good."/post The...
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Tankhiem - Detection & Combat (+ Spaceships)
Well, I've settled on Activation C (with some tweaks); and now I'm working on detection and combat. Since it's only ~12 units max, and usually 4-8 per side, I'm allowing myself the same level of...
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Revisiting Jet Wargames 2023 #6: More on Activation & Detection
PROBLEM #1: ACTIVATION I've laid out my aims here. The aim is for somewhat unpredictable activation, with better pilots, undetected planes and higher energy giving an advantage. A commentator laid out...
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LoTR, Samurai & Tanks
Not simultaneously though. But is is a cool idea for a setting... be right back...Due to reading my 7-year-old Lord of The Rings (just finished RoTK, whew it was an undertaking and a half!) I have...
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LoTR: 3D Prints
A quick post to show a few 3D printed LoTR I tried. With many 'bread and butter' troops becoming Forg$world or simply out of stock, or at best a few stiff poses of 20-year-old design... why not?Goblin...
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LoTR: Easterlings in 3D + 'Battle Companies' Thoughts
I've often wanted to bolster my rather bare Easterling army and finally - thanks to 3D printing - I can afford to. First some squishy glass cannons. Acolytes of the Dragon Cult. I think I recall they...
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Lord of the Proxies
I've a week's holiday and a few projects ahead of me. My son wants some 6mm 100-Years-War armies for his birthday. An unusual 8th birthday present, but *shrugs* apparently dad's superior wargame 'toys'...
View ArticleWargames I Should Love... But I Don't (Game Design #92)
I have been digging through my cupboard, finding rules to match with unfinished projects (hoping for 'inspiration').Taking out some Gripping Beast vikings, I was eyeing my Ragnarok ruleset - but then...
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Game Design #93: Musings on Movement
Movement makes games fun and dynamic. Think of the reverse: a camping sniper in a FPS. Or a stationary artillery unit who simply clicks on enemies to delete them. They can be effective, but are not...
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Middle Earth/Lord of the Rings SBG - Great Entry Point for New Wargamers/Kids?
Anyone who reads my blog will notice a heavy ME:SBG influence in my painting and playing the last year or so. This is mostly due to painting and playing with my kids. I spent a while deliberating what...
View ArticleGame Design #94: Boring & Unfair - Campaigns & Skills
When thinking about Ragnarok and its identical vanilla human warbands, it reminded me how the first few games of a campaign (or specifically a Bloodbowl season) are a bit dull.The reason? No one has...
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Pizza Box Challenge: Cheap Medieval Terrain
The nearest foamboard supplier is 30min away, and it's $10 an A2 sheet. The actual pink foam other modellers seem to effortlessly obtain for sculpting cliffs etc - well here in a rural Aussie town,...
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Game Design #95: Deployment - More than Just Plonking Down Models
I often feel both terrain setup and deployment are seldom emphasized in wargames. Terrain is vital in most IRL battles - often, who arrives at said terrain first to achieve the optimal position. I'm...
View ArticleGame Design #96: Minimalist Indie Rules: Style over Substance
I've noticed a trend towards stylishly presented games with a strong mood and evocative imagery - but not much game behind it. No, this is not GW or the big companies. These are indie games. Usually...
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15mm Free Pizza Box Terrain: Factories & Workshops
The rules say any empty pizza boxes in our house must be turned into terrain which can be used for multiple projects. Now my 8-year-old son is deeply interested in our dieselpunk post-apocalyptic...
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