Tag Archives: Modern & Near Future
Video: Urban Operations – First Look!
Cyrano dives into to the new MOUT/FISH game from Nuts! Publishing~
Jim Owczarski, 24 July 2017
What’s inside the box? Let’s take a look…
And so how does it play? We’ll let Cyrano get back to us on that one.
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Origins – Proving Ground Games
The award-winning minis heroes are back at #Origins2017 ~
Michelle Owczarski, 16 June 2017
Gigantaur (don’t call him Godzilla!) in the front, and Heather & Mark Brown of PGG on the left, in the background.
Even with a brisk demo schedule and booth sales exponentially better than last year, Proving Ground Games’ Heather Brown gave me a few minutes to chat.
New this year is Crucible of Force, which brings PGG’s Fields of Fire engine to World War II. It’s available for purchase now. Hive, Queen and Country will be seeing Kickstarter orders filled soon, with a full release by end of 2017. This includes materials for RPG, miniatures and a supplement for vehicles. Coming soon via WargameVault, the demo scenarios run at Origins will be released in packs for Fields of Fire and Crucible of War in PDF format.
Proving Ground prides itself on games that are easy to learn, are well-researched, and provide an enjoyable gaming experience for all players. The rules are tested against extensive “rules lawyering” as a way for their system to be an entry to historical miniatures gaming.
Heather said that Proving Ground is pleased with the 2017 convention so far. The perception is that attendance is up, people are smiling and happy and buying, and that con staff were ensuring things were running more smoothly than in years previous. She was critical, however, of the mix of available events, citing a lack of diversity in LARPS and a general lack of historical miniatures. While there are more sessions, there are many repeats, versus original events.
The best part of the convention, though, “Someone brought me a pie!” (It was chocolate, walnut and bourbon, and it came all the way from New Mexico.)
Ed note: Proving Ground’s Movie Monster Madness variant for their Fields of Fire rules was part of our kids’ program this year.
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Vietnam ‘65 vs Afghanistan ‘11 – Two sides of the same COIN?
How do the two counterinsurgency games stack up? ~
Boggit, 10 June 2017
Developed by Every Single Soldier and published by Matrix/Slitherine
The opening screen summarising the game parameters. A player can tweak these in the options screen.
A couple of years ago I did an article on Every Single Soldier’s debut release – Vietnam ‘65. At the time I thought with a bit of tweaking and updating of the game engine they could make a decent Afghanistan game, which is exactly what they have done. So what is different and how does it play out?
Defenders of the Last Stand – First Look!
8th Summit’s post-apocalyptic free-for-all ~
Michael Eckenfels, 3 June 2017
In terms of good old fashioned board game mayhem, what games come immediately to mind? Car Wars, certainly (and it just happens I wrote more than a few nostalgia pieces on that very game in the last many months). Nuklear Winter ’68 (Lock n’ Load Publishing) is yet another. Waste Knights, Last Battle: Twilight 2000, The Omega Wars – just to name but a few – with any of them, you’ve got a wide range of different systems, complexities, and entertainment that all bring a good and ruined Earth to the table as a backdrop.
The artwork alone could give you radiation poisoning, but in a good way.
News! Armageddon War hits Kickstarter
Check out the latest from Flying Pig Games ~
GrogHeads Newsdesk, 05 May 2017
Flying Pig Games have launched their most recent Kickstarter campaign
Armageddon War: Platoon Level Combat in the End War, is live on Kickstarter. The latest offering from serial successful-Kickstarter campaigner, Flying Pig Games, Armageddon War is set in a dark, not-too distant future.
Following disease, famine, and economic collapse among the world’s first-line powers, conventional war erupts in the Mid-East for what arable land remains. Old allies join the carnage, and the war grows, pitting age-old adversaries and their new friends against each other. Armageddon War depicts the chaos in the midst of this war.
