Monthly Archives: September 2015
GrogHeads Reader Feedback Survey, Fall 2015
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GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory #77
Hey now, it’s been a few weeks, so we thought we’d throw another GARPA at you. Plus, y’know, we had it on the schedule and all…
Brant Guillory, 18 September 2015
Mech Deck (Patrick Fahy)
$19k of $75k, ends 1 October 2015
These guys may have over-reached with the funding goal, but it’s because they’re committed to the quality of the manufacturing. “Manufacturing what?” you ask. Customizable, multi-component, build-your-own mech-walker-battle-droid-giant-fighting-thingees (trying to avoid inadvertently violating someone’s copyright here, work with me). It’s a hex-and-minis skirmish game, but with mech figures that you can literally assemble on-the-fly to customize your arms, torso, legs, and “backpack” (back of torso) to make your own mech and then duke it out for bragging rights, or beer. There’s some card-based randomizing as well as a geomorphic map. Stomp over to the campaign page and fire off your pledge.
Gaming Nostalgia – SSI Computer Wargames
Folks dug the Nostalgia ads so much that we’re keeping them around, and just changing the day. Look for our blasts-from-gaming’s-past to show up on #tbt from now on, and occasionally some other day, just to keep you on your toes.
Ah yes, the early days of computer gaming. Remember the TRS-80?
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Birth of the Federation, an AAR, Part 15
CHAPTER XV: CONTACT! (FINALLY!)
A breakthrough in Construction! Phase Transition Bonding. Whatever that is. Oh wait, let’s read the description:
“Phase transition bonding merges two pieces of material by temporarily changing the phase of one item., When the phase distortion is reversed, the two pieces are inextricably merged, and the density of their intersecting volume is doubled.”
This allows for both Industrial Replicators and Type 4 Mass Replicators. Upgrading to newer versions of Mass Replicators can be a very expensive proposition. Well, expensive, in that it takes for-freakin’-ever to do it. This is why having a good, solid agricultural base is so important: you can drag people off of their farms, sometimes kicking and screaming, to working in a factory somewhere. Ah, the choices of an autocracy.
Modern Land Battles – First Look!
Jim Owczarski, 16 September 2015
It is sobering to note that the original “Modern Naval Battles” card game dates back to 1989. It and its offspring have remained one of the more successful titles in the canon of Dan Verssen. I must confess myself, however, to be not the greatest fan of modern naval battles so I’ve somehow managed to give it a miss all these years. Now, however, comes this box in the mail and matters are different:
Oh…my…
It’s not the “Field Commander” or “Tiger Leader” monster box and it’s all together lighter than either. Inside is a rule book, a sheet of counters, a wee bag of four 10-sided dice, and a lot of nicely-done cards.
