Tag Archives: GARPA
Skull Tales: Full Sail! ~ Kickstarter
An exclusive look at the prototypes in action ~
GrogHeads Newsdesk, 23 May 2018
The guys over at Eclipse Editorial have an exploding Kickstarter that’s reeling in pledges like a pirate chases booty.
The Skull Tales: Full Sail! pirate-themed boardgame mixes a combination of naval adventures at sea with individual actions ashore, and crew & ship management in between. As of now, there’s over 3400 backers that have pledged almost $400,000 toward the game, including a couple of our own GrogHeads.
We’ve got an exclusive look at the game in action with some of the printing press prototypes, thanks to the guys at Eclipse, and Draco Designs.
GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory #94
After a summer hiatus, here comes GARPA! ~
GrogHeads Staff, 05 August 2016
The Last Hundred Yards (GMT)
p500 $38, MSRP $59 – not there yet
Because what you really need is another tactical level WWII game, right? But this one includes a significant dose of battlefield chaos and an emphasis on the decisions made by the men on the ground far more than the technical capabilities of their gear. Early feedback from GMT’s Weekend at the Warehouse is positive, so check it out.
GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory #89
GARPA returns for more pre-order goodies ~
HOLDFAST: North Africa 1941-42 (Worthington Publishing)
$21k of $2500, ends 15 March 2016
Worthington’s Holdfast series is back. After Russia and Korea, they guys head to North Africa. The standard Holdfast features are back, with fog of war, fast play times, and engaging turn sequences that keep players constantly guessing about what’s up next. Like every other North Africa game, you need a table that’s about 24 inches wide and 28374652938762 feet long, but you’ll be chasing panzers across the sands before you know it. Rumble over to their campaign page and you can fire off your pledge.
GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory #88
Here’s GARPA, our fortnightly bundle of pre-ordering goodness! ~
Pendragon: The Fall of Roman Britain (GMT Games)
p500 $65, MSRP $95
It got funded in a few days, so it is going to press. The latest entry into the COIN series keeps giving us counterinsurgency warfare from off the beaten path – no Malaysia or Sri Lanka here. This entry brings in a greater level of economics, and boffo-keen (though ahistorical) castle meeples. Scots and Saxons are among the factions that vie for power and veterans of the COIN system already know how to play. Liberty or Death sold out in a hurry, and that’s after all the p500 orders were delivered. Get this now, or miss out and be the laughingstock of the forums when you look for sympathy.
GrogHeads Advanced Research on Projects Advisory #76
OK, so we’ve got something completely different for you this week.
Brant Guillory, 4 September 2015
Hawk The Hunter (Terry Marcel)
$19k of $500k, ends 1 OCT 2015
Remember the old fantasy flick Hawk the Slayer? Of course you do. You totally plundered it for campaign ideas for your early no-prefix D&D games. Jack Palance chewing scenery. The hokey rapid-fire elf-archer effects. The cross-necklace-of-course-it’s-a-hidden-knife saving the day at the end. Well it’s taken them 30 years, but they finally got around to trying to make the sequel, and they’re kickstarting it. You can start at $5, and score the RiffTrax quip-along, and top out at a couple of grand that gets you a part in the movie. Why are you still here instead of pledging the campaign? Oh right, you’re here to watch the movie.
