The Week In Gaming
RPGs
Monte Cook takes a look at customization in Customized Complexity for Legends & Lore.
Official Rules and D&D Errata Updates are out.
Wargames
New from GMT Games. Combat Commander: Resistance!expands upon CC: Europe and CC: Mediterranean by adding partisans and their war behind the front lines. This fourth volume of the Combat Commander series features special rules and components for fighting with Partisan forces against the Axis nations of Europe. Price: $55.
Kickstarter Program Offer from the creators of Time Flux. This is a 2-4 player card game in which each player is represented by a “Time Traveler” who has special abilities as you travel through time by moving in and out of “Eras”. You can freely download a pre-constructed deck to play this game now! [download here] This is a Kickstarter Funding Program offer where you sponsor the product release.
Coming up next from Against the Odds. Issue #34 featuring the insert game, Right Fierce and Terrible. This game covers the intriguing, mostly unheard of naval battle from the Hundred Years War called “Right Fierce and Terrible.” But all copies will also include a second game as an added bonus. Schwarm! is by the same designer as RF&T, Jeremy White (and co-pilot Mark Aasted). This is a solitaire game depicting some German fighters trying to pick off a stray B-17, and comes as a free bonus in ATO #34. Subscribe now for 4 issues of Against the Odds Magazine to receive this bonus game.
Navajo Wars is available for preorder from GMT Games. For more information on the game, the history and culture behind the game, check out the game’s Designer’s Notes Blog.
New from High Flying Dice Games. Blitzkrieg Met: The Battle of Stonne is the is the fifth game in the Blitzkrieg in the West Series, and as with the others features outstanding graphics by Bruce Yearian. The game has one sheet of 180 single-sided, unmounted counters, one 11 by 17” map and eight pages of rules/charts. Price: $11.95 (or $15.95 with mounted counters). Send email to phrohrbaugh@hotmail.com to place your order.
New from Marshal Enterprises. The Battle of Halle, 1806 is a free, print-n-play La Bataille series game that marks the first in their “Recession Series” games that are all offered free of charge. The Recession Games will be a series of lesser-known corps on corps battles from both the Wars of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The reason for the release of the Recession series is because, according to Marshal Enterprises, “everybody needs to save a buck.” [download here]
Preorder from Toxic Bag Productions. Space Monster is is a two-player card-driven boardgame that pits a group of human astronauts against a predatory extraterrestrial life form that has breached their commercial freighter on the way back to earth. Preorder Price: $35 (save $15).
New from Worthington Games. Band of Brothers: Screaming Eagles is a squad level game of WWII West Front combat following the exploits of the 101st Screaming Eagles. Game includes five double-sided geomorphic boards, three counter sheets, a 16 page scenario book, rules, die, and player aid cards. Game is still available at the preorder price of $40 for two more weeks (save $20).
