Historia – First Look!
Italian publisher Giochix has shipped this Summer’s Kickstarter project, Historia.
Brant’s copy is here and he shows us the innards.
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12/10/14
Tag: 4X
11/6/14
A Distant Worlds AAR – Part 6
By Brandon “Kushan” Johnson, October 9, 2014
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I have a minor problem I didn’t notice until now: my fleet range is atrocious. That cuts down on the options I have for targets. The only viable ones are the Gulrath Territory, Grand Iskabar Authority, and the Yirphunea Supremacy. The former two would stretch my fleets’ fuel limits. The Yirphunea are closer, but I would be going up against their home world defenses.
For now I’m going to run covert operations against all three focusing on the Yirphunea. If I can catch them while their fighting someone else I might be able to catch their homeworld without significant troops or ships to support it.
10/10/14
GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory #55
GARPA hits the speed limit!
Toulon, 1793 (Legion Wargames)
Preorder price $50, MSRP $70
An area-based game of Napoleon’s siege of the city, this game spans the latter half of 1793, and includes rules for multi-player, international cooperation, spies, and logistics. The usual ‘siege’ necessities are present, to, of course – forts, attrition, and defensive positions all matter – but there’s a bit of room for the defenders to counterattack and maneuver if the attacker leaves the wrong opening, so it’s not a pure ‘tower defense’ scenario, especially since the whole game opens up with the French maneuvering into position for the siege in the first place. The map is designed to evoke the period maps of the Napoleonic age and, well, you can see for yourself, eh? It’s on preorder for $50 right now, so grab it before the price goes up as it goes to press.
10/9/14
A Distant Worlds AAR – Part 5
By Brandon “Kushan” Johnson, October 9, 2014
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Dawn of a new year. I’m now 5 years in. Private sector seems to be doing OK, although it doesn’t have a lot of cash on hand at the moment, despiteits healthy revenue stream. Not really surprising my state income is in the red, then. It’s a good thing I cancelled those colony ships since I don’t need right unproductive colonies dragging me farther into the red.
09/26/14
GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory #54
Hey now, hey now… you didn’t really want to start saving for Christmas shopping, did you? You really wanted to blow it all on these fine pre-orders and crowdsourced games instead!
Sea Kings (Worthington Publishing)
$4800 of $15k, ends 1 Nov 2014
Worthington makes some of the best lightweight wargames in the business, with hits like Hold the Line and Band of Brothers. Sea Kings looks like it’s going to take that track record to the age of Vikings and give you a great little empire-builder that looks like a Euro with it’s cute wooden pieces, but whose theme actually means something and evokes a real time and place. A combination of card play and area movement, Sea Kings is something that grogs can whip out with the non-wargaming crowd to still get a historical challenge when forced to play with a table full of folks that can’t spell “ZOC”. Sail over to Kickstarter and conquer your fear of pledging.
