Between 1968 and 1970, wargaming pioneer Charles Grant wrote a serialized wargames guide in Meccano Magazine. The serial is now available as a free download. This serial eventually became his classic Battle: Practical Wargaming.
Month: July 2021
Making Leaf Bases From Birch Seeds
As it turns out, Birch Seeds, when taken apart, make amazing scale model leaves for basing and other terrain projects. it reminds me of something John Hill, author of Johnny Reb and Squad Leader once said to me about wargames modeling: Nature reproduces itself in miniature.
Flick The Ship Print and Play
Flick The Ship is a free print and play game where you flick a pencil tip across a paper map to gather treasure, upgrade your ship, fight opponents and more. It is quite involved and looks like fun.
Arkham Express Board Game
Arkham Express is a quick play adventure game set in the Lovecraft mythos. From the Board Game Geek description:
Arkham Express is a cooperative dice-based game designed by David Willems. Players are working together to gather clues, kill monsters, close gates and eventually defeat the Great Old One (Cthulhu).
Players will select characters, each with a unique special ability. During a player’s turn they will roll 5 dice with unique symbols on each side, after rolling they have the option of re-rolling 3 more times. If the “Monster” symbol is rolled on a die it is locked and cannot be re-rolled. If 3 Monster symbols appear a new gate opens and a monster appears in Arkham. The other sides of the dice include movement points, clue tokens (used to close gates), healing, and combat symbols (used when fighting the monsters guarding the gates). Each player must carefully choose how to use their symbols to move around and try to close and collect six gates. If six gates are open on the board the players automatically lose.. However if the players manage to close six gates Cthulhu awakens and players must try to defeat him with their remaining items and abilities.
Eye Candy: Malifaux Table
An amazing Malifaux game table