Being a teetotaler, I don't get much use out of drinking games, myself. But I do know that many of you out there love 'em. Well, here's a new one that puts you in a wild west town, looking to clean it
Being a teetotaler, I don't get much use out of drinking games, myself. But I do know that many of you out there love 'em. Well, here's a new one that puts you in a wild west town, looking to clean it up. It's called Alewood: The Bounty Hunting Drinking Game, and it's up on Kickstarter now.
From the campaign:
Alewood is the 30 minute bounty hunting drinking game where your pint is your pistol! In a town over-run by outlaws, you and your fellow citizens are deputizing yourselves and entering dangerous shootouts to reclaim your home... and collect your bounties. Alewood is the game where you are never forced to drink and your wit is as powerful as your pint. Drink to alter your shooting speed, play skills to forge your reputation & perform hilarious prompts to maintain a winning edge!
The game is over its funding goal, so it's on to stretch goals for the next 16 days.
Welcome to Sunday. Hopefully you had a good day yesterday. I had my character die in my D&D game, but it was scripted that way, as I am taking back over DM duties for the campaign. It should be a good
Welcome to Sunday. Hopefully you had a good day yesterday. I had my character die in my D&D game, but it was scripted that way, as I am taking back over DM duties for the campaign. It should be a good time.
Anyway, it's Sunday and we've got another batch of bite-sized stories to present to you.
This time we've got: Some more Installments of The Fiver from The Meeple Mechanic, Drill Sergeant free miniature for May at The Ion Age, Brigade Models Release 6mm Mercenaries, Fireforge website back online, BluBot Masking Stencils Kickstarter Stretch Goals Unlocking, Heroic Maps - The Sepulchre of Last Vigil, New 10mm Dark Age Barns from Escenografia Epsilon, and Great Escape Games: fantastic new 4Ground realistic trees.
Hello hello, internet! My name is Michael Milano and I am an English teacher living in Chiba, Japan. I am a ramen addict who loves to design, travel, and, of course, play BOARD GAMES!
Hey, my name is Rhodrick Magsino. I’m a Chicago native and have been working as a Supervising Sound Editor & Creative Producer for film for about 8 years. My passion for film derives all from my fascination of “immersion.” Great entertainment soaks you into gritty details of the world it creates. It’s that level of immersion that got me into gaming. It started with D&D and moved on to Arkham Horror, Resistance & any game with heavy thematics & clever mechanics.
Hello, this is Paul Quinn from Pixel Productions, I am part of the team responsible for creating the Zombie Mutation™ Board Game. I enjoy playing guitar, watching sci-fi and playing all types of board games.
10 Years ago, Chris London and Paul Quinn launched Pixel Productions with a passion for designing and developing products. Over the years, we have been involved with many board game projects for other companies.
Hi, I’m Ryan Wolfe and I’m a full-time dad and part-time starship designer living in Pittsburgh PA. I’m on the geezer side of the gamer scale, so I’ve been at it for a long time. I was in the video game industry back in the day but have been strictly table-top for a decade or so now. I’ve been creating ship deck plans and miniatures for role playing games and now I’m using those assets as the foundation for my first board game.
Hello, I am Hack. I am also known as Odd Hackwelder. I have been a graphic designer and artist for over 24 years. For the past year and a half, I have been focusing on game design, the new love of my life. I feel like everything I have done in my life has been in preparation for my career as a game designer and publisher, I am originally from Syracuse, New York. For over 10 years now I have been living in Taiwan with my wife and two kids. I run my own art school and teach at a private American High school.
Welcome to May 2015 at The Ion Age. After a frankly massive month in April we have a new free monthly miniature put into every order for free! A Drill Sergeant excellent for instructing your Planetary Militia or any other 15mm near future or science fiction troops. Click through to read more and see more images including a photo with the Steornade Battlesuit. Withdrawn from free June 1st. Thanks for Reading.
Following hot on the heels of our Desert Dome buildings that were released earlier this week, we've added our new 6mm Mercenary vehicles to the website today. There are eleven vehicles in total plus five packs - an army pack plus four varied company packs. These vehicles, designed by Zac Braham and Kirk Alderfer, have been one of our best sellers in 15mm and we hope that'll they'll be just as popular in the smaller scale.
IC-1501 – Mercenary Army Pack – £35.00 IC-1511 – Mercenary Light Tank Company – £8.75 IC-1512 – Mercenary Heavy Tank Company – £14.00 IC-1513 – Mercenary Infantry Company – £11.75 IC-1514 – Mercenary Support Company – £8.75 SF300-1501 – Shaman- £0.75 SF300-1501a – Shaman Firefly- £0.75 SF300-1502 – Sohei with DS Gun – £1.25 SF300-1502a – Sohei with Gatling – £1.25 SF300-1502b – Sohei with Heavy laser – £1.25 SF300-1502c – Sohei with Twin Powergun – £1.25 SF300-1503 – Magnus APC – £1.00 SF300-1504 – Legion MRL – £0.75 SF300-1505 – Warlock – £0.75 SF300-1507 – Wizard Jeep – £0.50 SF300-1508 – Ontos Tank Destroyer – £0.75
A number of new designs have been added to the BluBot Masking kickstarter, and more are planned, but your support is needed!
BluBot Masking Stencils are a painting aid designed for use when painting scale models and miniatures. They are ideally suited for use with an airbrush, but may also be used with a sponge, spray can or dry brush.
Check out BluBot Masking Stencils of Facebook for the most up to date design additions!
Contents: A small crypt built into rock, and containing several tombs and sarcophagi. Candles, skulls and grave goods decorate the plinths and tombs of the long-dead paladins.
Uses: Seek the wisdom of the Order, come and pay your respects to the ancient dead, destroy the evil force that has corrupted the mausoleum and filled it with restless spirits.
Also included is a 300dpi full size jpg, for poster printing or VTT.
Is available in the epsilon web the new reference in 10mm. This time we are created two barns for the Dark Ages period. The price for the two barns is €10 and we send the product painted and Ready2Play.
4Gound have released a delicious set of deciduous woodland trees that come ready to use out of the pack! These are not your usual toilet-brush model tree, but made for both realism and wargaming practicality. They are released on May 7th and available to order now from the Great Escape Games website.
There are 15 different tree sets available, and they may be purchased in bundles at a discount.
(From the 4Ground website): each 4Ground Deciduous Woodlands pack comes with enough double sided pre-primed scenic tree basing for all of the trees in the pack. The individual trees are secured to their individual round bases that in turn neatly locate within their collective woodland base (woodland bases can have locations for up to five trees).
This has two helpful advantages, allowing you to manoeuvre your troops through dense areas of woodland terrain, by easily lifting trees out of the way of oncoming troops and replacing them where they were before the troops were placed. The second advantage is that the edges of these woodland bases allow you to easily see where the boundary of your woods begins and ends (for larger wooded areas butt woodland bases up together).
Welcome to Sunday. Hopefully you had a good day yesterday. I had my character die in my D&D game, but it was scripted that way, as I am taking back over DM duties for the campaign. It should be a good
Welcome to Sunday. Hopefully you had a good day yesterday. I had my character die in my D&D game, but it was scripted that way, as I am taking back over DM duties for the campaign. It should be a good time.
Anyway, it's Sunday and we've got another batch of bite-sized stories to present to you.
This time we've got: Some more Installments of The Fiver from The Meeple Mechanic, Drill Sergeant free miniature for May at The Ion Age, Brigade Models Release 6mm Mercenaries, Fireforge website back online, BluBot Masking Stencils Kickstarter Stretch Goals Unlocking, Heroic Maps - The Sepulchre of Last Vigil, New 10mm Dark Age Barns from Escenografia Epsilon, and Great Escape Games: fantastic new 4Ground realistic trees.
Hello hello, internet! My name is Michael Milano and I am an English teacher living in Chiba, Japan. I am a ramen addict who loves to design, travel, and, of course, play BOARD GAMES!
Hey, my name is Rhodrick Magsino. I’m a Chicago native and have been working as a Supervising Sound Editor & Creative Producer for film for about 8 years. My passion for film derives all from my fascination of “immersion.” Great entertainment soaks you into gritty details of the world it creates. It’s that level of immersion that got me into gaming. It started with D&D and moved on to Arkham Horror, Resistance & any game with heavy thematics & clever mechanics.
Hello, this is Paul Quinn from Pixel Productions, I am part of the team responsible for creating the Zombie Mutation™ Board Game. I enjoy playing guitar, watching sci-fi and playing all types of board games.
10 Years ago, Chris London and Paul Quinn launched Pixel Productions with a passion for designing and developing products. Over the years, we have been involved with many board game projects for other companies.
Hi, I’m Ryan Wolfe and I’m a full-time dad and part-time starship designer living in Pittsburgh PA. I’m on the geezer side of the gamer scale, so I’ve been at it for a long time. I was in the video game industry back in the day but have been strictly table-top for a decade or so now. I’ve been creating ship deck plans and miniatures for role playing games and now I’m using those assets as the foundation for my first board game.
Hello, I am Hack. I am also known as Odd Hackwelder. I have been a graphic designer and artist for over 24 years. For the past year and a half, I have been focusing on game design, the new love of my life. I feel like everything I have done in my life has been in preparation for my career as a game designer and publisher, I am originally from Syracuse, New York. For over 10 years now I have been living in Taiwan with my wife and two kids. I run my own art school and teach at a private American High school.
Welcome to May 2015 at The Ion Age. After a frankly massive month in April we have a new free monthly miniature put into every order for free! A Drill Sergeant excellent for instructing your Planetary Militia or any other 15mm near future or science fiction troops. Click through to read more and see more images including a photo with the Steornade Battlesuit. Withdrawn from free June 1st. Thanks for Reading.
Following hot on the heels of our Desert Dome buildings that were released earlier this week, we've added our new 6mm Mercenary vehicles to the website today. There are eleven vehicles in total plus five packs - an army pack plus four varied company packs. These vehicles, designed by Zac Braham and Kirk Alderfer, have been one of our best sellers in 15mm and we hope that'll they'll be just as popular in the smaller scale.
IC-1501 – Mercenary Army Pack – £35.00 IC-1511 – Mercenary Light Tank Company – £8.75 IC-1512 – Mercenary Heavy Tank Company – £14.00 IC-1513 – Mercenary Infantry Company – £11.75 IC-1514 – Mercenary Support Company – £8.75 SF300-1501 – Shaman- £0.75 SF300-1501a – Shaman Firefly- £0.75 SF300-1502 – Sohei with DS Gun – £1.25 SF300-1502a – Sohei with Gatling – £1.25 SF300-1502b – Sohei with Heavy laser – £1.25 SF300-1502c – Sohei with Twin Powergun – £1.25 SF300-1503 – Magnus APC – £1.00 SF300-1504 – Legion MRL – £0.75 SF300-1505 – Warlock – £0.75 SF300-1507 – Wizard Jeep – £0.50 SF300-1508 – Ontos Tank Destroyer – £0.75
A number of new designs have been added to the BluBot Masking kickstarter, and more are planned, but your support is needed!
BluBot Masking Stencils are a painting aid designed for use when painting scale models and miniatures. They are ideally suited for use with an airbrush, but may also be used with a sponge, spray can or dry brush.
Check out BluBot Masking Stencils of Facebook for the most up to date design additions!
Contents: A small crypt built into rock, and containing several tombs and sarcophagi. Candles, skulls and grave goods decorate the plinths and tombs of the long-dead paladins.
Uses: Seek the wisdom of the Order, come and pay your respects to the ancient dead, destroy the evil force that has corrupted the mausoleum and filled it with restless spirits.
Also included is a 300dpi full size jpg, for poster printing or VTT.
Is available in the epsilon web the new reference in 10mm. This time we are created two barns for the Dark Ages period. The price for the two barns is €10 and we send the product painted and Ready2Play.
4Gound have released a delicious set of deciduous woodland trees that come ready to use out of the pack! These are not your usual toilet-brush model tree, but made for both realism and wargaming practicality. They are released on May 7th and available to order now from the Great Escape Games website.
There are 15 different tree sets available, and they may be purchased in bundles at a discount.
(From the 4Ground website): each 4Ground Deciduous Woodlands pack comes with enough double sided pre-primed scenic tree basing for all of the trees in the pack. The individual trees are secured to their individual round bases that in turn neatly locate within their collective woodland base (woodland bases can have locations for up to five trees).
This has two helpful advantages, allowing you to manoeuvre your troops through dense areas of woodland terrain, by easily lifting trees out of the way of oncoming troops and replacing them where they were before the troops were placed. The second advantage is that the edges of these woodland bases allow you to easily see where the boundary of your woods begins and ends (for larger wooded areas butt woodland bases up together).
Wednesday. Is there a day that personifies the progression of the week more than Wednesday? We've made it through Monday and Tuesday. Thursday and Friday are ahead. Stuck in the middle is Wednesday. S
Wednesday. Is there a day that personifies the progression of the week more than Wednesday? We've made it through Monday and Tuesday. Thursday and Friday are ahead. Stuck in the middle is Wednesday. Saying "it's all downhill from here" isn't exactly the right phrase, but you get the gist of what I'm going for.
Anyway, we've got another set of bite-sized news stories for you for today.
In this bunch we have: Hydra Miniatures posts Retro Raygun Preview Video, Recon Force Alpha PDF From Finger and Toe Models, Alewood - A Modern Tabletop Drinking Game Preview, some new installments of The Fiver from The Meeple Mechanic, Sally 4th Releases Public House from range of photorealistic building kits, Tabletop-Art Previews Upcoming 32mm Bases, Queen of Hearts WIP & New Bases for your miniatures by Kabuki Models, Kromlech New Release - Legionaries Pistols, New Release: 15mm Stalingrad/Russian Buildings from Novus Design Studios, New 6mm scale superheavy tank pre-orders from Gregster's Lab, and New Steampunk Bases From Fat Spider.
We have begun our countdown to the launch of our Retro Raygun rules on Friday, April 17, 2015. Retro Raygun is a tabletop adventure game that uses our 32mm retro sci-fi miniatures. This full-color, 102 page rulebook is full of evocative artwork and lavish photographs that caprture the feel of the Golden Age of Sci-Fi. The book features the full game mechanics, force lists for Galacteers, Robot Legion and Valkeeri, six scenarios, and a Galactic Bestiary featuring an assortment of slithering aliens. Retro Raygun will retail for $40.00 and will be available from the Hydra Miniatures webstore and Wargames Emporium, our retail partner in the UK. Hobby shops who want to stock our Retro Raygun rules and miniatures can get them from our distributor Warpath Games (Golden Distributing). We've had a blast developing Retro Raygun and we hope you enjoy it as well!
Across the laager bikers were reclining into their seats, closing the cockpit canopies, logging on to the squadron net. Lt Van Steem hummed to himself as icons representing his team began to turn on. In a moment he blinked at the all-squadron icon, signaling ready status to Dragoon Operations. It was time.
When you need fast, stealthy recon then you need the Mk VII Cheetah armored bike armed with a Gatling and a missile launcher in each of its two wing pods. Unlike contemporary ninja-style bikes, the Cheetah’s driver’s reclines in an armored cockpit like a modern fighter pilot. When the Cheetahs function as light cavalry pursuit, they can be equipped with a Mk IV missile turret capable of carrying eighteen multi-function missiles. Each bike has a quad-rotor drone slaved to it. Opposing the bikes is the Omni-Planet Industries Moray Monowheel. Fast and maneuverable, the Moray is paired with a Skate Monowheel drone. The four Recon Force Alpha models come in six color versions: two solid colors (gray and olive drab); three camouflage (urban, desert, and multi-use), and an un-textured version for coloring to match your forces.
Alewood takes drinking games to a sophisticated level! Like many older gamers, I enjoy have a few beers during my all night gaming sessions. I wanted to make a game where you can drink a pint but the amount you drink or don't drink changes how you play the game. As if the pint glass was a component of strategy.
I made a few dozen versions but this is the one that stuck. Alewood–A Wild West tabletop drinking game where your pint is your six shooter!
Basic overview is that you work together to add hit points onto outlaws but only 1 of you can win the trophy by dishing out the final blow. There are three major resources in the game; Beer, Money & Abilities. Many of these resources are shared and must be recycled back into the community for forward momentum, thus giving the game a fragile balance of power. It’s all about teamwork, deception, resource management and well-timed executions... and you might get a little tipsy during the process.
The game is in its in the final stages of testing/balance adjusting. The kickstarter will launch April 21st. I will also have a booth at C2E2 that weekend to promote the game and campaign. It's open to heavy drinkers and non-drinkers, you get to bluff/lie & role play and it's growler friendly:)
Alewood is 2-6 players and takes an average of 30-45 minutes to play.
Hi, I’m James Ernest. I’ve been inventing tabletop games for about 20 years, publishing most of them through my company, Cheapass Games, and also creating games and doing freelance work for most of the major hobby game publishers.
I started in the hobby game business as a technical writer for Wizards of the Coast, helping draft four versions of the Magic: the Gathering rulebook. I launched Cheapass Games in 1996 as an outlet for a handful of unpublished board games, and over the next 15 years I released about 100 games through Cheapass. These included Kill Doctor Lucky, Lord of the Fries, Button Men, BRAWL, Give Me the Brain, and many others.
Hello! My name is Seth Johnson, and though I’m originally from Wisconsin I spent around a decade working with WizKids and other game companies in the Seattle area before hitting the road as a freelance game designer. As in literally on the road: my wife and I lived and worked in 188 square feet of Airstream trailer for a couple years (somehow managing to squeeze in more than one game per square foot!) and only settled down a year or so ago after the birth of our newest playtester, my daughter, and our move to the San Francisco area.
I might be best known to gamers as the long-time lead designer on HeroClix, or to Calliope Games fans as the designer of Double Double Dominoes, but I’ve been working in the game industry for about twenty years.
I’m Matt Forbeck, and I’m a best-selling and award-winning author and game designer. I started out editing and designing games about 26 years ago, and I co-founded and ran Pinnacle Entertainment Group a while back. We published games like DEADLANDS, BRAVE NEW WORLD, and lots of others.
The kit cost £17.50. Walls are made from 3mm Medite, base and roofs from 2mm MDF, forming a good solid structure. The base measures 200mm x 300mm, the building 150mm x 200mm. The roof is removable to allow figures to be placed inside.
Lots of cool and new Bases available at Kabuki Models!
Soon you will see Little Red Riding Hood available in our store and in the meanwhile we're working on the next Big Sister, the "Queen Of Hearts". 54mm as usual, designed by Alessandro Trombetta and digitally sculpted by Greg P. Onychuck, currently done at 60%, we are working on pose and facial expression.
Our newest release for 2015 takes us to the Russian Front-specifically the summer of 1942 in the Don Basin/Stalingrad region.
We have created 8 new 15mm models which represent structures commonly found not only in the Stalingrad area of operations but are typical to the entire Soviet Union during WW2.
The release includes 2 factory ruins (Nail Factory w/lift out floors & Red October Tractor Factory) Russian farm house, Peasant House and a rural workshop-all feature lift off roofs and detailed interiors. Our Stalingrad release rounds out with a primitive wooden bridge typical to all of WW2 Russia and a 2pc set of plank board livestock enclosures.
1073 – Russian Peasant House $16.00 1074 – Russian Farmhouse $18.00 1075 – Russian Workshop $16.00 1078 – Livestock Enclosures – 2ea $10.00 1079 – Red October Factory Ruin $36.00 1080 – Nail Factory Ruin $41.00 1081 – Timber/Wood Bridge $15.00 1082 – Low Stone Wall – 6ea $10.00
The series is now available for order from our website-wholesale inquiries welcome.
Fat Spider have added "Steampunk" to their range of Lipped Resin Bases, available in 30, 40 and 50mm and in pack sizes similar to their existing range. Best Painted with lots of Brass, Copper and Steel.
Fat Spider have also added a 30mm regular round base to their ever popular Cracked Earth and Rock Design.
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