Monthly Archives: August 2016
GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory #95
Plenty of tabletop gaming goodness for you this time ~
GrogHeads Staff, 19 August 2016
Swords & Sails (VR Soft)
$3k of $42k, ends 16 September 2016
Not even close to making funding – yet – this campaign just launched and includes options for a pretty cheap print-and-play-only copy, as well as a pledge level just for the metal coins included in the game. Yep, metal coins. It’s set in 1000AD, and allows 2-7 players to tackle rewriting the history of Europe as the French, Byzantines, Germans, Russians, or others. There’s an espionage mechanic that’s rare in a game like this, as well as your usual 4x goodness that let you build armies, fleets, cities, and more. Explore your way through their campaign page and see what you think.
Gaming Nostalgia – Potkin Wargaming
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Old-school computer wargaming. Really old. Not quite Bawb old, but close.
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Screenshot Feature: Steam Squad!
An alt-history wargame with some interesting graphics ~
Michael Eckenfels, 17 August 2016
If you’ve fantasized about a Steampunk game set during an era when humanity was actually just starting to leave steam-powered technology behind, you’re in luck. You’re even more in luck because the game is called “Steam Squad,” and is at heart a point-and-click, real-time tactical combat game set during World War I.
GrogHeads Checks Out Combat Mission: Final Blitzkrieg
Back to the front! ~
Boggit, 13 August 2016
Combat Mission: Final Blitzkrieg is a tactical wargame set on the Western front during the latter part of World War Two. Final Blitzkrieg is mostly about the Ardennes Offensive in December 1944-January 1945, but the game also has scenarios covering the earlier fighting in and around Aachen and the Hürtgenwald.
That “Oh, sh*t!” moment, as my US engineers wander directly into a minefield on the Westwall.
GrogHeads Reviews Munchkin Marvel
Superheroes come to the beloved Munchkin series. Is it Super fun? ~
Avery Abernethy, 11 August 2016
Munchkin Marvel is the 23rd core game in the Munchkin line sold by Steve Jackson Games. For those unfamiliar with Munchkin, it is a table top card game. You have an avatar. You can equip your avatar with armor, helmet, hand items, boots, and other items. You can obtain allies. However well or poorly equipped your character is you kick down the door. A trap may explode in your face. You may get free treasure. Or you may have a monster attack you. If you beat the monster you get its treasure. If you lose, you can try to run away. If you don’t run away successfully upon your loss, bad things happen. If you beat a monster you go up a level. Other things can help you go up levels. If you reach level 10 then you win. It is a pretty simple game.
What makes Munchkin such a fun game is the give and take between the players. Munchkin encourages both cooperation and back-stabbing. Many cards can be played to help your character, or can be played to strengthen a monster to defeat another player. There is a lot of wheeling, dealing, begging and whining within a munchkin game. You can split treasures, bribe, make promises, all in hopes of getting your lowly level one munchkin to level ten and victory.
