Three months after the destruction of ITRC's Erasmus Base - officially a reactor problem - the crew of the deep space recovery tug Haimei have been allowed to go about their business, although all believe they are under closer surveillance
I decided to run short game using the World of Darkness RPG system by White Wolf, perhaps as a prequel to running something more serious like Vampire or Werewolf. This was just an opportunity to see if we could get to grips with the rules.
Last week we had a go at One Hour Skirmish Wargames by John Lambshead. I had originally planned to play a bigger Darkest Africa game but have misplaced the askari units I needed for my scenario. That will need to wait until another day.OHSW…
I'm currently still tinkering with the idea of a Mighty Empires campaign for Warmaster, and have been flicking through the 1990 rules. These are written very much with Warhammer Fantasy Battle in mind, so will require some tweaking when it
Player absence from our regular Pendragon game meant an opportunity to continue with my episodic Alien game this week. The crew of the Haimei was again assembled by its employer, the Interstellar Transport and Recovery Corporation, for a mi…
I'm pondering the possibility of starting a Mighty Empires campaign having owned the original game since it came out in 1990. I've never played it, but it struck me as potentially possible to manage a campaign with three empires using Roll2…
We returned for a second session of Rangers of Shadowdeep since it seems to fit a demand for a co-op miniatures wargame which can be completed in an evening. The game is an interesting hybrid of GM-less RPG and skirmish wargame.The next mis…
We finally managed to play Rangers of Shadowdeep, which turned out to fit the bill for our regular RPG group. We wanted a co-op tabletop miniatures skirmish game in which we could use some of our existing fantasy figures. Rangers, by lauded…
This week we tried out Tomorrow's War, which is the now out-of-print science fiction variant of Force on Force by Ambush Alley Games and Osprey. We have played FoF a couple of times before, once using an Iraq scenario, and once a battle of
This week we were playing some Vietnam War platoon level, with The Nam rules from Caliver Books. The Nam uses the same system as Living On The Front Line, also from Caliver Books. I will start this post with some thoughts on the rules, and
In this post I will be taking you through the generation of a sample crew for Five Parsecs From Home, which may form the basis for a future science fiction skirmish campaign. I am using the completely random generation method, with a six me…
This year we have resolved to try to play a tabletop miniatures game of some kind every month. Painfully aware that it was the last week of February, we finally managed to get our first game away. This was Stargrave, one of our go to games