“Is it twue what they say about boawd games wif ‘bwack’ in the title? (opens box)…Oh…it’s twue! It’s twue!”
– Lily Von Shtupp, upon receiving her copy of Black Orchestra, 2ndEdition…or so I imagine, anyway
TWERPS was a semi-tongue-in-cheek RPG/adventure game in the early 90s that was a very flexible system for whatever adventure goodness you could want. Different wordbooks expanded into specific genres, and their take on ‘Mechs was a solid parody of Battletech, but a decent game in its own right, too.
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It seems that the solitaire wargame market for submarines is picking up steam (a harr a harr) in the last few years. Silent Victory, Silent War, Target Bearing 023 Degrees, Operation Drumbeat, The Hunters…there’s plenty of options, including this title, Raiders Of The Deep from Compass Games.
Based on the same system that The Hunters and Silent Victory use, Raiders Of The Deep puts you into the role of a German submarine commander in World War I. This is a very intriguing prospect to me, being based in World War I, when submarine warfare really came into its own. Some of the German submarines at the outbreak of war were tiny things that could hold maybe 15 sailors and two torpedoes, but they evolved quickly over the following years of The Great War. Continue reading
This was the first ad to run in Dragon Magazine for Magic: The Gathering, and the games business hasn’t been the same since.
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Were your teeth clenched from the action, or because you were recreating the brutally-cold winter?
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