05 June 2010

Death Angel

A card based version of the beloved Space Hulk Game?
Scalable from solo to up to 6 players?
The only thing not to like is that it hasn't been released yet!

The mission seems impossible. Survival seems unlikely. Failure is not an option.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite_sec.asp?eidm=118&esem=1

04 June 2010

Little Soldiers

There is now an Australian retailer for Incursion and Secrets of the Third Reich: Little Soldiers in South Australia. I met Martin from Little Soldiers recently at Little Wars- a great fellah who is planning on putting on a Demo game in Melbourne in August, which will be a hoot and I'm looking forward to it already of course!

So Aussies should drop by Litle Soldiers for all your SoTR and Incursion needs!
http://www.littlesoldiers.com.au/

WW2 on Facebook

This is pretty funny- WW2 facebook style: http://www.fogu.se/?p=1190
Warning - contains colourful language

01 June 2010

Jurassic Reich - detailed report

The forbidding Castle looms over the countryside:
Including a variation on the "Eagle's Eerie": 4 German Players were arranged with 1 in the castle commanding the Pterowaffen and some infantry, and three others with an Infantry squad and a group of 5 Kriegclaws. I commanded the German far right and was in charge of the Dinolaager. Attacking in the still morning air were three Allied players, each with two high calibre infantry squads. As the Allies advanced, Nazi film direktor ”Dino” de Laurentis was trying to finish off his propaganda masterpiece. Early, long range fire from the Allies shook the morning and alerted the Germans to the invaders' presence. Owen (commanding the Allied centre) scored first blood with a long range bazooka shot frying up some raptor steaks! So easy it seems he even did it with his eyes closed. The centre and right flank became a swirling advance to contact, pitting the heroic and heavily armed Allies against the Nazisaurs! On the right, two squads of Kriegclawstrapped a bunch of Amis in a barn. Any Amis who came out got chomped, and dinos that put their heads in got them singed with flamethrowers! Impressively, this GI hero held off two Raptors simultaneously! This lead to much Commando Comic style quotations... On the extreme right, some GIs had commandeered a Truck and were driving up to the castle's gate, menaced by the Pterowaffen! And the Nazi centre, stopped cold by Owen's heroes and their withering fire across the road and bridge, redeployed using the amphibious capabilities of the big lizards Big alas!they were too late- a large explosion came from the castle as the GI infiltrarors destroyed the ancient artifact that made the dino presence possible. All this was but a minor distraction to me on the far right though. Seeing thebottleneck in the villiage, I swung my kriegclaw into the rear of Owen's troops withut mercy- lunch time for Fritz! With that the game concluded - the Allies had successfully attacked the castle, while the Germans had protected both the propaganda film and the dino-laager. Overall a win for the players who all had a ball!
Thanks again to Alan and Greg for a fantastic game - a Man Cave double thumbs up!