You guys know I'm always a big fan of games that have original themes. Well, I don't know if I've previously seen a game where you have a herd of mutating battle goats that you send to battle one-anot
You guys know I'm always a big fan of games that have original themes. Well, I don't know if I've previously seen a game where you have a herd of mutating battle goats that you send to battle one-another. Well, I can't say that anymore, as I know about Clash of the Battle Goats, a new card game that's up on Kickstarter now.
Create your herd by picking three goats. They are your main source of attack power, defense against enemy attacks, and counterattack. But how your goats start out might not be how they end up. Each turn there's a chance for the goats to mutate, gaining power as well as new abilities. Head-butt your opponent's goats into submission.
And if you have their previous game, Gruff, you can add Clash to it.
The campaign is already over their funding goal, so it's now set to work on breaking through stretch goals for the next 27 days.
Hello again TGN Readers and welcome once more to Saturday. With any luck, you're gaming. I know I am. We've got one of our guys in my D&D game moving to Ohio this summer, so we're trying to get in
Hello again TGN Readers and welcome once more to Saturday. With any luck, you're gaming. I know I am. We've got one of our guys in my D&D game moving to Ohio this summer, so we're trying to get in as many sessions as we can before he goes.
As per usual, we've collected together various review articles we've found during the week and present them to you here now.
In this week's articles, we've got reviews/previews of: Roll for the Galaxy, Gruff, Alchemists, Chaosmos, Elysium, Arboretum, Battle Sheep, Ystari, Spike, Patchwork, XenoShyft, Salvation Road, Tide of Iron: Next Wave, Stones of Fate, and Dungeon Crawler Fantasy RPG Miniatures Sets 1 to 3.
I think I can trace my excitement for custom dice right back to my earliest gaming experiences. Dice were supposed to be uniform, six-sided things that counted from one to six. The moment I saw that you could put other things on dice, my world was turned upside down. Icons? Pictures? Why stick to just six sides? Any shape you roll could be a die! What was to stop me shaving numbers into the dog’s fur and tempting her to roll about the hall floor to decide our gaming fates? Nothing, friends. Nothing.
The first time I heard about Roll for the Galaxy’s 111 multicoloured custom dice I had to be sedated. I don’t actually remember much of the day but Matt says they had to call an ambulance and I recall Quinns, Brendan and Leigh visiting me in a facility specially constructed and arranged to avoid reminding inmates of the platonic solids. Thing is, in that place we still had our black market deals that the staff didn’t know about. Ten pounds to touch a D12. Forfeit an evening meal to roll some X-Wing attack dice.
Once upon a time there were three billy goats, who were to go up a hillside to make themselves fat, mean and weird, and the name of the goats was Ol’Darby, Gusto and Gaptooth.
Okay it’s not quite the fairytale of the Three Billy Goats Gruff but the card game Gruff is about three billy goats and using those billy goats to hit your opponent.
When I first heard about Alchemists, a deduction game published by Czech Games Edition (CGE), I had a feeling that this game would definitely be in my wheel house. Alchemists is a game where players are trying to deduce the identity of 8 different ingredients while trying to also become the most famous potion maker in the land. One of the most noteworthy things about Alchemists is the use of an integrated smart phone app. Is this integration a gimmick or the real deal? That’s a question that needs to be answered, so let’s find out.
Alchemists is a worker placement and deduction game for 2-4 players that takes about 2 hours to play. Alchemists plays great with any number of players.
The universe is about to collapse, and your final hope lies in an ancient mysterious artifact, the Ovoid. Whoever controls this “cosmic egg” can shape the birthing of the next universe according to their own agenda. Players are secret agents from a handful of surviving worlds, zipping from planet to planet in special “amnion suits” that allow for interstellar travel, space combat and planetary landings.
Elysium is a game of set collecting and combinations in which players recruit cards representing heroes, items, powers and gods. These cards have many different powers and you can create powerful combination to earn gold (the help of the gods) and victory points (the favor of the gods). Each card belongs to one of the eight Olympians gods (a family), and shows a level (1 to 3).
Arboretum looks like a game you’d play with your grandma. You’ve got these pretty cards featuring a dozen different types of colorful trees, with each set numbered from one to eight. Who can make the prettiest and most score-efficient arboretum? Such a peaceful little game right? Nah. Arboretum is a tense game subtly focused on screwing over your grandma and anyone else who thinks they’re going to score a single point for their intricately planned tree pathways.
In Battle Sheep, your flock of sheep is fighting against other sheep for control of the most pastures in the farmer’s field. Your sheep are not pacifists. You want to own those pastures and keep the other sheep off your turf by surrounding them and preventing them from moving in. Why share when you can have it all?
Today I would like to talk about my favorite new … Ahem, my favorite new game from this year … MY FAVORITE GAME FROM 2015 CALLED … WOULD YOU JUST ROLL YOUR DICE ALREADY!?
Step into the comic book world of Blake and Mortimer and be drawn into the mysteries of–
Wait, you’ve never heard of Blake and Mortimer? Really? Well, neither had I. Turns out it’s a Belgian comic featuring two detectives, the impulsive Mortimer and the straight-laced Blake, who consistently find themselves drawn into mysteries or trying to solve criminal cases.
Fortunately, you don’t need any backstory to play the game. You don’t need to role-play, and the mysteries aren’t continuous or set in any consistent world. All you need to know is: mysteries. Get ready to solve some.
You know I’d have a Johnny Cash line for this review’s title. Used to, songs about trains held a certain prominence in American culture. Lyrics often celebrated and lionized the mighty iron steeds so critical in building and sustaining this continent-stretching nation. And not just in poetic refrains. The music often imitated the mournful moans of a steam whistle or the beats the rhythmic chugging of hanger and piston. From the ballad of Casey Jones, to the old country Wabash Cannonball, to the swinging Chattanooga Choo-Choo, to the folksy City of New Orleans, to the soulful Midnight Train to Georgia, and the rocking Last Train to Clarksville, innumerable songs across every genre have recognized the railroad’s central place in the American story. It just so happens there have been a fair number of popular games about it, too.
Kahuna is an area control board game for two players. You play cards to place bridges (or remove your opponent’s) on islands to gain control of those islands and score VPs.
Have you ever been punched in the nose and thought, “Man, that was awesome. Gimme 2 more!” Xenoshyft Onslaught is going to kick you in the teeth, steal your lunch money, stuff your limp body into a locker, look amazing while doing it and you are going to love every painful second of it. Thanks Cool Mini of Not.
PHD has a play through review of Xenoshyft which is a hybrid blend of a cooperative, deck builder, tower defense game that challenges even the veteran gamer.
Salvation Road is the 5th game to be launched by Van Ryder Games. It is also the 3rd game (I believe) from the design duo of Peter Gousis and Michael D. Kelley. Van Ryder Games is located out the Nashville, TN area and is known for its solid solo games. Salvation Road plays very quickly in about 60 minutes and is very easy to learn and play almost immediately. Please note, I was provided a prototype of the game so the rule book, artwork and components may be much different that what I was provided.
If you’re a fan of small unit tactical WWII combat then you are likely familiar with a game that has been well known for years in the genre, Tide of Iron. If you’re not familiar with it or regret never picking up the now out of print game, you’re in luck because 1A Games has picked up the license and intends to not only continue the series but to grow it even further.
My mic was all kinds of messed up so I apologize in advance. It worked fine during the actual hangout, but for the playback over the air for YouTube somehow it was lost in translation. I shall try to do better in the future.
My mic was all kinds of messed up so I apologize in advance. It worked fine during the actual hangout, but for the playback over the air for YouTube somehow it was lost in translation. I shall try to do better in the future.
More fantasy RPG miniatures! The kind folks over at Dungeon Crawler have obviously heard about our addiction to pre-painted RPG miniatures as they have sent us some of their minis for review. We’ve been collecting pre-painted fantasy miniatures for RPGs such as D&D and Pathfinder for a long time, and have been enjoying the new sets from WizKids. We’re very excited to discover another company producing this kind of miniature and look forward to seeing the minis from Dungeon Crawler’s first 3 sets up close.
Hello again TGN Readers and welcome once more to Saturday. With any luck, you're gaming. I know I am. We've got one of our guys in my D&D game moving to Ohio this summer, so we're trying to get in
Hello again TGN Readers and welcome once more to Saturday. With any luck, you're gaming. I know I am. We've got one of our guys in my D&D game moving to Ohio this summer, so we're trying to get in as many sessions as we can before he goes.
As per usual, we've collected together various review articles we've found during the week and present them to you here now.
In this week's articles, we've got reviews/previews of: Roll for the Galaxy, Gruff, Alchemists, Chaosmos, Elysium, Arboretum, Battle Sheep, Ystari, Spike, Patchwork, XenoShyft, Salvation Road, Tide of Iron: Next Wave, Stones of Fate, and Dungeon Crawler Fantasy RPG Miniatures Sets 1 to 3.
I think I can trace my excitement for custom dice right back to my earliest gaming experiences. Dice were supposed to be uniform, six-sided things that counted from one to six. The moment I saw that you could put other things on dice, my world was turned upside down. Icons? Pictures? Why stick to just six sides? Any shape you roll could be a die! What was to stop me shaving numbers into the dog’s fur and tempting her to roll about the hall floor to decide our gaming fates? Nothing, friends. Nothing.
The first time I heard about Roll for the Galaxy’s 111 multicoloured custom dice I had to be sedated. I don’t actually remember much of the day but Matt says they had to call an ambulance and I recall Quinns, Brendan and Leigh visiting me in a facility specially constructed and arranged to avoid reminding inmates of the platonic solids. Thing is, in that place we still had our black market deals that the staff didn’t know about. Ten pounds to touch a D12. Forfeit an evening meal to roll some X-Wing attack dice.
Once upon a time there were three billy goats, who were to go up a hillside to make themselves fat, mean and weird, and the name of the goats was Ol’Darby, Gusto and Gaptooth.
Okay it’s not quite the fairytale of the Three Billy Goats Gruff but the card game Gruff is about three billy goats and using those billy goats to hit your opponent.
When I first heard about Alchemists, a deduction game published by Czech Games Edition (CGE), I had a feeling that this game would definitely be in my wheel house. Alchemists is a game where players are trying to deduce the identity of 8 different ingredients while trying to also become the most famous potion maker in the land. One of the most noteworthy things about Alchemists is the use of an integrated smart phone app. Is this integration a gimmick or the real deal? That’s a question that needs to be answered, so let’s find out.
Alchemists is a worker placement and deduction game for 2-4 players that takes about 2 hours to play. Alchemists plays great with any number of players.
The universe is about to collapse, and your final hope lies in an ancient mysterious artifact, the Ovoid. Whoever controls this “cosmic egg” can shape the birthing of the next universe according to their own agenda. Players are secret agents from a handful of surviving worlds, zipping from planet to planet in special “amnion suits” that allow for interstellar travel, space combat and planetary landings.
Elysium is a game of set collecting and combinations in which players recruit cards representing heroes, items, powers and gods. These cards have many different powers and you can create powerful combination to earn gold (the help of the gods) and victory points (the favor of the gods). Each card belongs to one of the eight Olympians gods (a family), and shows a level (1 to 3).
Arboretum looks like a game you’d play with your grandma. You’ve got these pretty cards featuring a dozen different types of colorful trees, with each set numbered from one to eight. Who can make the prettiest and most score-efficient arboretum? Such a peaceful little game right? Nah. Arboretum is a tense game subtly focused on screwing over your grandma and anyone else who thinks they’re going to score a single point for their intricately planned tree pathways.
In Battle Sheep, your flock of sheep is fighting against other sheep for control of the most pastures in the farmer’s field. Your sheep are not pacifists. You want to own those pastures and keep the other sheep off your turf by surrounding them and preventing them from moving in. Why share when you can have it all?
Today I would like to talk about my favorite new … Ahem, my favorite new game from this year … MY FAVORITE GAME FROM 2015 CALLED … WOULD YOU JUST ROLL YOUR DICE ALREADY!?
Step into the comic book world of Blake and Mortimer and be drawn into the mysteries of–
Wait, you’ve never heard of Blake and Mortimer? Really? Well, neither had I. Turns out it’s a Belgian comic featuring two detectives, the impulsive Mortimer and the straight-laced Blake, who consistently find themselves drawn into mysteries or trying to solve criminal cases.
Fortunately, you don’t need any backstory to play the game. You don’t need to role-play, and the mysteries aren’t continuous or set in any consistent world. All you need to know is: mysteries. Get ready to solve some.
You know I’d have a Johnny Cash line for this review’s title. Used to, songs about trains held a certain prominence in American culture. Lyrics often celebrated and lionized the mighty iron steeds so critical in building and sustaining this continent-stretching nation. And not just in poetic refrains. The music often imitated the mournful moans of a steam whistle or the beats the rhythmic chugging of hanger and piston. From the ballad of Casey Jones, to the old country Wabash Cannonball, to the swinging Chattanooga Choo-Choo, to the folksy City of New Orleans, to the soulful Midnight Train to Georgia, and the rocking Last Train to Clarksville, innumerable songs across every genre have recognized the railroad’s central place in the American story. It just so happens there have been a fair number of popular games about it, too.
Kahuna is an area control board game for two players. You play cards to place bridges (or remove your opponent’s) on islands to gain control of those islands and score VPs.
Have you ever been punched in the nose and thought, “Man, that was awesome. Gimme 2 more!” Xenoshyft Onslaught is going to kick you in the teeth, steal your lunch money, stuff your limp body into a locker, look amazing while doing it and you are going to love every painful second of it. Thanks Cool Mini of Not.
PHD has a play through review of Xenoshyft which is a hybrid blend of a cooperative, deck builder, tower defense game that challenges even the veteran gamer.
Salvation Road is the 5th game to be launched by Van Ryder Games. It is also the 3rd game (I believe) from the design duo of Peter Gousis and Michael D. Kelley. Van Ryder Games is located out the Nashville, TN area and is known for its solid solo games. Salvation Road plays very quickly in about 60 minutes and is very easy to learn and play almost immediately. Please note, I was provided a prototype of the game so the rule book, artwork and components may be much different that what I was provided.
If you’re a fan of small unit tactical WWII combat then you are likely familiar with a game that has been well known for years in the genre, Tide of Iron. If you’re not familiar with it or regret never picking up the now out of print game, you’re in luck because 1A Games has picked up the license and intends to not only continue the series but to grow it even further.
My mic was all kinds of messed up so I apologize in advance. It worked fine during the actual hangout, but for the playback over the air for YouTube somehow it was lost in translation. I shall try to do better in the future.
My mic was all kinds of messed up so I apologize in advance. It worked fine during the actual hangout, but for the playback over the air for YouTube somehow it was lost in translation. I shall try to do better in the future.
More fantasy RPG miniatures! The kind folks over at Dungeon Crawler have obviously heard about our addiction to pre-painted RPG miniatures as they have sent us some of their minis for review. We’ve been collecting pre-painted fantasy miniatures for RPGs such as D&D and Pathfinder for a long time, and have been enjoying the new sets from WizKids. We’re very excited to discover another company producing this kind of miniature and look forward to seeing the minis from Dungeon Crawler’s first 3 sets up close.
Friday has once again graced us with its presence. We may be battered and bruised from the work week, but the end is here and your reward is a couple days to do whatever you want (well, not whatever,
Friday has once again graced us with its presence. We may be battered and bruised from the work week, but the end is here and your reward is a couple days to do whatever you want (well, not whatever, but you know what I mean). With any luck, your weekend plans include gaming. I'm hoping to throw down with some board games tomorrow night. Should be a good time.
Anyway, we've got our regular Friday feature of various bite-sized stories we've collected and present them to you here now.
In this installment we have: Some more of The Fiver from The Meeple Mechanic, 3D Printed Mounted Heroes coming to Kickstarter, Mission San Miguel 28mm PDF from Finger and Toe, Acheson Creations Releases Shoe House, New Orc Fort Terrain from LaserCutCard, ManorHouse Workshop Posts Update 24 on their Modular Underground Terrain Project, Little Red Riding Hood by Kabuki Models now available, New Battlesuit Gladius from Hitech Miniatures, Tabletop-Art previews new Hero Base WIPs, The creators of Another Stupid Game With Monsters interviewed on The Blunt Instruments, Kize Delta Squad released by Grinning Skull, and New: Sarissa Precision Destroyed Factory.
Hello! My name is Hrvoje Kordi?. I am devoted gamer and freelance copywriter.
Like most gamers, I always wanted to make a game myself. Luckily, back in the stone age I met three guys who shared that dream. After a couple of “in-house” projects, we decided to make Vaults.
The game development and playtesting lasted roughly 2 years and finally we are ready to share this game with the rest of the world.
Hi, My name is Brent Critchfield, I am a video game artist, monster goat trainer, and the designer of Gruff. My company, Studio Woe, is located in Santa Monica California where we strive to create catastrophic levels of amazement.
I have been in the video games industry for over 10 years. I have worked on a wide variety of games including Warhammer 40k (Dark Millennium Online), Darksiders 2 and am currently working on a competitive online PC-game. During all that time I have wanted to create a card game that combined the elements, I loved from my favorite games. We began work on Gruff in earnest three years ago when I took the card game engine that I had been working on, and the mutant goat art project that Virginia (our Illustrator) was working them on and squished them together into this mutant hybrid game, Gruff!
Imagine 3D Miniatures was born with the idea of using 3D printing capabilities for miniature creation and design. Under this idea they have developed their first line of 3D printed customizable fantasy miniatures: Mounted Heroes.
Mounted Heroes works with a miniature creator available on the website with which you can customize different characters by choosing between different pieces – boots, helmet, armor, etc. – to form the desired miniature, either mounted or on foot. It is also possible to select both the material and the scale in which you want to print it in.
The main idea of Mounted Heroes is to offer the possibility of customizing characters on foot and also their mounts, offering a wide catalog of them.
Although the project is still on beta version, the miniature creator is fully operational and you can customize both human and orcs and the available mounts for each race. However, the store will not be open until fall 2015.
Mounted Heroes, present on social networks since last March, will launch a Kickstarter campaign next May 20, 2015 with which hopes to raise the funds needed to improve the project and take it forward with as many races and mounts as possible.
Finger and Toe Models announces release of the 28mm PDF Mission San Miguel
Founded to close a gap between Mission San Luis Obispo and Mission San Antonio, Mission San Miguel is a typical California mission with a large adobe sanctuary and block of monastic cells. The model is sixteen inches long, nine deep, and a bit over five high. While it represents a specific California mission, when combined with the Finger and Toe Adobeville and Presidio sets, it can complete an adobe village in many parts of the world.
Acheson Creations is pleased to release its next Fantasy Worlds product the Shoe House
This 6 inch (15 cm) tall by 6 inch (15 cm) diameter tower in 28mm scale is available for $25USD.
This is the Shoe House from our Fantasy Worlds Kickstarter and is now available for sale in our web store. Coming next from the same Kickstarter will be the Mushroom Forest and the Bridge of Sorrows.
LaserCutCard has released an orc scrap fort. The fort is built up of components that can be purchased separately to make as large a fort as you wish. The components are: the gatehouse set, the tower set, the wall set and a bastion set. The entire fort (including one of each component) is available for $38. All components are available individually.
After a long wait, we finally have estimates of the molds in steel and sprue in hard plastic The time to do a couple of accounts and we will let you know what it will cost during the Kickstarter, box base the dungeon and the Goal for start the KS. I tell you now that you will be impressed with the base price of the box and its contents. I am also all too unbalanced … still a moment of patience. We leave you to the vision of these images that are further variants of our walls and future accessories.
28 mm scale Battlesuit "GLADIUS " Flavius pattern . Can be use as realy heavy support for Your troops. This is high quality , resin miniature which comes unpainted and require assembly. Feet to the top of head dimension 60mm 1) Body 2) Left arm 3) Right arm 4)left panzer fist 5) Right panzer fist 6) Gravitron gun 7) Targeter 8) backpack 9) chimney 10)pipe
WIP: The set will include 2x 40mm round lip bases. On the floor laying conquered and destroyed banners, perfect for a heroic pose of your hero or warlord. The motifs are particularly suitable for the Viking Age and the Dark Ages.
Grinning Skull is back! First new second wave 28mm releases sculpted by Will Grundy into his range now at Alternative Armies. The alien Kize suitable for space opera, post apoc or any other settings these are weird and fun miniatures. They are released as singles at just 1.00GBP each and a squad pack with a saving. Click through to read more and bigger images. Blows my mind!
Sarissa Precision produce a wide range of wargaming terrain – and we carry pretty much all of them! This week we have a brand new release that’s ideal for Bolt Action players, whether you battle amongst the shattered ruins of the Russian front, or amid the occupied nations in North West Europe…
The Ruined Factory features an internal walkway (providing an ideal hiding-place for your snipers!), a removable roof to provide easy access, etched detailing (making it easier to paint) and stacks of details that make it the perfect addition to your tabletop terrain collection!
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