Monthly Archives: May 2015
GrogHeads Central Command at Origins 2015
GrogHeads Central Command schedule for Origins
Note that not all of these listings are in the official GAMA program. We’re not sure why, either
| Event Name | Event Start Date | Event Start Time |
|---|---|---|
| GrogHeads Presents: Fields of Fire / Crucible of Force D-DAY! | Sat. 6/6 | 12:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Fields of Fire / Crucible of Force Game | Fri. 6/5 | 10:00 AM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Fields of Fire Game | Thu. 6/4 | 1:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Fields of Fire Game | Thu. 6/4 | 5:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Fields of Fire Game | Fri. 6/5 | 3:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Fields of Fire Game | Sat. 6/6 | 4:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Fields of Fire Game | Sun. 6/7 | 9:00 AM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Fields of Fire series Q&A with the Designers | Thu. 6/4 | 7:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Flashpoint Campaigns Q&A with the Designers | Sat. 6/6 | 7:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Learn to Play Flashpoint Campaigns with the Designers | Thu. 6/4 | 8:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Staff Wargaming – Flashpoint Campaigns Red Storm | Thu. 6/4 | 10:00 AM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Staff Wargaming – Flashpoint Campaigns Red Storm | Fri. 6/5 | 6:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Staff Wargaming – Flashpoint Campaigns Red Storm | Sat. 6/6 | 12:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Tide of Iron | Wed. 6/3 | 5:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Tide of Iron | Thu. 6/4 | 10:00 AM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Tide of Iron | Thu. 6/4 | 4:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Tide of Iron | Fri. 6/5 | 12:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Tide of Iron | Sat. 6/6 | 3:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Tide of Iron | Sun. 6/7 | 10:00 AM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Tide of Iron D-DAY! | Sat. 6/6 | 9:00 AM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Tide of Iron series Q&A with the Designers | Fri. 6/5 | 7:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Sergeants! Miniatures Game | Thu. 6/4 | 12:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Sergeants! Miniatures Game | Thu. 6/4 | 6:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Sergeants! Miniatures Game | Fri. 6/5 | 2:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Sergeants! Miniatures Game | Sat. 6/6 | 4:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Sergeants! Miniatures Game D-DAY! | Sat. 6/6 | 1:00 PM |
| GrogHeads Presents: Sergeants! Miniatures Game | Sun. 6/7 | 9:00 AM |
Come join the guys at Origins and play some wargames
Classic Reviews:
Aria – Canticle of the Monomyth Book II (Worlds)
Brant Guillory, 29 May 2015
An RPG book you could show off on an academic bookshelf. But what’s the payoff?
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The front cover is gorgeous.
Digging through my boxes of game books (if you ever want to know exactly how much game stuff you really have, pack up and move a few times) I found this old treasure.
I can remember when I bought it – it looked like what all of us gamers had been holding our breath for all these years: A serious intellectual take on role-playing, which addressed an adult audience in an adult fashion.
It succeeded on that level.
Aria Worlds addressed world design from the ground up, and you could do it in any one of a dozen different ways. You could first design the planet and the ecology and build up from there; adventurers expanding their world through their travels could start small and get bigger as they went; you could even (very easily) pick an historical period and adapt it to game term (Bronze Age, Iron Age, etc.)
The book did not address much beyond the initial age of gunpowder. It was intended as a fantasy game supplement. And it did this very well.
Prosciutto – Hamming it up with the di Parmas, Part 33
We’re back and porking our way through the ages.
In Part 32 Benvenuto finally realised his Father’s ambitions and took Sicily, becoming King Benvenuto. In this part, new strategies, planning and Alzheimers.
Our mission, should we choose to accept it. It occurs to us that concentrating in the southlands has bagged us little of the territory needed to claim Italy itself, only Sicily. Essentially were almost at ‘Square 1’, but Sicily was necessary to grant us enough prestige to take on the Holy Roman Empire when the time comes.
Heroes of Normandie – First Look!
Heroes of Normandie is getting all sorts of chatter around the web. What’s in the box?
Jim Owczarski, 13 May 2015
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I left Origins 2014 fairly heavily-laden (everybody here is coming to see us Grogheads Central Command this year, right?), but one game I left un-bought was Iello’s “Heroes of Normandie”. I’m a bit of a “Memoir ’44” obsessive, the fact that both my wife and son are willing to play it with me is likely argument sufficient, and the game as laid out on the demo tables at the convention read like a competitor so I spent elsewhere. I kept my eye on the game over the year since, though, drawn to its over-the-top graphic style and the representations of some that it played like a simplified miniature game with counters. So, when Amazon included it among its Tabletop Day sales items, I pulled the trigger. What follows is a bit of what’s inside.
Like I said, the box and everything within is, let’s say, dramatic. For this the game makes no apologies saying that this is World War II as fought in classic war films.
How do you not at least like a game that’s got Lee Marvin caricatures (inside)?
