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#1
Tabletop AARs / Re: Scorpion and Wyvern 1870
Last post by MengJiao - Today at 12:07:57 PMQuote from: ArizonaTank on Today at 08:57:49 AMSo what do you think of the rules? I am kind of interested in finding something like Yaquinto's old Ironclads...a game I truly enjoyed. GMT's Iron and Oak left me a little cold.
Yep. Oak and Iron was curiously unexciting. However, I've approached the business of ironclads from a different angle this time around and I might have been more tolerant of Oak and Iron...but what's past is past. The thing is until the last year or so I've never liked miniatures much. But then I started tinkering with the idea of dioramas for book trailers. On impulse, I got some nice 1:600 ships...and the thing is, ironclads are pretty good in the miniature realm (slow, short range, absurd things like ramming and spar torpedoes etc.).
Okay so, for me, what is cool about the sail and steam system is the very nice ship "cards" and the 1:1200 printable models.
The rules are crude but effective and if you have the time and space and tolerance for miniatures (paper ones -- I do glue them to cardstock, I guess I could print them on cardstock but gluing seems to be my thing with little boats)
oh and LOTS of 10-sided dice...the rules seem okay and pretty simple.
The guns and armor seem to work reasonably well and have a more satisfying level of detail for penetration and damage and so on than in Oak and Iron.
#2
Computer Gaming / Re: Kingmakers
Last post by Rayfer - Today at 09:16:46 AMQuote from: Jarhead0331 on Yesterday at 08:37:52 PMHoly $hit this looks fun. It reminds me of the plot from a Turtledove novel. Travel back to medieval times...with a pickup truck and an AK!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2109770/Kingmakers/?queue=1
The Steam trailer is insanely great.
#3
Tabletop AARs / Re: Scorpion and Wyvern 1870
Last post by ArizonaTank - Today at 08:57:49 AMSo what do you think of the rules? I am kind of interested in finding something like Yaquinto's old Ironclads...a game I truly enjoyed. GMT's Iron and Oak left me a little cold.
#4
Tabletop AARs / Re: Scorpion and Wyvern 1870
Last post by MengJiao - Today at 08:49:17 AMQuote from: MengJiao on Today at 06:47:01 AMHMS Scorpion and HMS Wyvern were originally built for the Confederacy (and they show up in
Fall of the Samurai). After the mess with CSS Alabama , they were bought by the Royal Navy (after briefly being Egyptian and making a big profit for the middlemen involved)
Anyway, here we suppose an alternative world where the Confederacy saves Mexico from the rapacious French using those Ironclade turret ships versus the more conventional French Ironclads Thetis and Joan d'Arc. Of course in 1870 the Spartan beauty pageant poems where Thetis rules the seas had not been found and Joan wasn't yet canonized to full sainthood so North Carolina II and Mississippi II should have some metaphysics on their side:
Nearly invisible in the murky ocean of alternative time-ime-ime things are getting critical: the French are running straight and lining up their guns and have blown a lot of the upper stern off of Mississippi II. The Confederates have slightly better guns and slightly better armor, but the French are slightly faster and quite capable as rams so the Confederates want to keep the range at about 500 yards to avoid surprises and do some damage:
#5
Books & Reading / Re: What are we reading?
Last post by ArizonaTank - Today at 08:04:30 AMJust finishing: Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson
Fascinating telling of John Wilkes Booth's nearly two-week evasion as he attempted to go deep into the South, and from there possibly Mexico.
The book does a great job bringing the era and people to life, making the story seem relevant and contemporary.
The author also fills in many gaps that most other books gloss over.
The book was the inspiration for a TV series on Apple+, but as with most book-to-TV series, the book is much better, and more focused on the crime, escape and capture.
Recommend the book for anyone interested in the era.
https://www.amazon.com/Manhunt-12-Day-Chase-Lincolns-Killer/dp/0060518502/ref=sr_1_1?crid=392ETKMC5V1YA&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dnp1CgaJLzzV8D2qMeHmFArMuNgrUE_z8sK2ETeFnwiiqXXarh4nisHRc1XqmbGh89Dfy4SwrwUlMD04jXRyii6KbmXOVBu76uh8iEy66M1Iv_TywDPILzH2tlg1-3VJENAlngtlvNtgLKm2gecZzh72qixoFN42qHkyrZ8JpJT2ZvfCowgTkCDjup_LxvFZvz-aurFBxkKDJINkSViqzXK-u4yAkzWEkR5TiqIx8Eo.QQ94ZuNMTNPfFL7hqo9-E5b0Lx0COrXKIR0RUCwimys&dib_tag=se&keywords=manhunt+the+12-day+chase+for+lincoln%27s+killer&qid=1715172550&sprefix=manhu%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-1
Fascinating telling of John Wilkes Booth's nearly two-week evasion as he attempted to go deep into the South, and from there possibly Mexico.
The book does a great job bringing the era and people to life, making the story seem relevant and contemporary.
The author also fills in many gaps that most other books gloss over.
The book was the inspiration for a TV series on Apple+, but as with most book-to-TV series, the book is much better, and more focused on the crime, escape and capture.
Recommend the book for anyone interested in the era.
https://www.amazon.com/Manhunt-12-Day-Chase-Lincolns-Killer/dp/0060518502/ref=sr_1_1?crid=392ETKMC5V1YA&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dnp1CgaJLzzV8D2qMeHmFArMuNgrUE_z8sK2ETeFnwiiqXXarh4nisHRc1XqmbGh89Dfy4SwrwUlMD04jXRyii6KbmXOVBu76uh8iEy66M1Iv_TywDPILzH2tlg1-3VJENAlngtlvNtgLKm2gecZzh72qixoFN42qHkyrZ8JpJT2ZvfCowgTkCDjup_LxvFZvz-aurFBxkKDJINkSViqzXK-u4yAkzWEkR5TiqIx8Eo.QQ94ZuNMTNPfFL7hqo9-E5b0Lx0COrXKIR0RUCwimys&dib_tag=se&keywords=manhunt+the+12-day+chase+for+lincoln%27s+killer&qid=1715172550&sprefix=manhu%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-1
#6
Computer Gaming / Re: Groghead Game Donation Thr...
Last post by Toonces - Today at 07:40:27 AMrss334 would be a good fit for that key. He's a bit of a naval warfare junky.
#7
Tabletop AARs / Scorpion and Wyvern 1870
Last post by MengJiao - Today at 06:47:01 AMHMS Scorpion and HMS Wyvern were originally built for the Confederacy (and they show up in
Fall of the Samurai). After the mess with CSS Alabama , they were bought by the Royal Navy (after briefly being Egyptian and making a big profit for the middlemen involved)
Anyway, here we suppose an alternative world where the Confederacy saves Mexico from the rapacious French using those Ironclade turret ships versus the more conventional French Ironclads Thetis and Joan d'Arc. Of course in 1870 the Spartan beauty pageant poems where Thetis rules the seas had not been found and Joan wasn't yet canonized to full sainthood so North Carolina II and Mississippi II should have some metaphysics on their side:
Fall of the Samurai). After the mess with CSS Alabama , they were bought by the Royal Navy (after briefly being Egyptian and making a big profit for the middlemen involved)
Anyway, here we suppose an alternative world where the Confederacy saves Mexico from the rapacious French using those Ironclade turret ships versus the more conventional French Ironclads Thetis and Joan d'Arc. Of course in 1870 the Spartan beauty pageant poems where Thetis rules the seas had not been found and Joan wasn't yet canonized to full sainthood so North Carolina II and Mississippi II should have some metaphysics on their side:
#8
Computer Gaming / Re: Kingmakers
Last post by Sir Slash - Yesterday at 10:21:10 PMFinally, Flak 88 Mounted Elephants! 
#10
Computer Gaming / Kingmakers
Last post by Jarhead0331 - Yesterday at 08:37:52 PMHoly $hit this looks fun. It reminds me of the plot from a Turtledove novel. Travel back to medieval times...with a pickup truck and an AK!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2109770/Kingmakers/?queue=1
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2109770/Kingmakers/?queue=1