SPECIAL NOTICE
Malicious code was found on the site, which has been removed, but would have been able to access files and the database, revealing email addresses, posts, and encoded passwords (which would need to be decoded). However, there is no direct evidence that any such activity occurred. REGARDLESS, BE SURE TO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS. And as is good practice, remember to never use the same password on more than one site. While performing housekeeping, we also decided to upgrade the forums.
This is a site for discussing roleplaying games. Have fun doing so, but there is one major rule: do not discuss political issues that aren't directly and uniquely related to the subject of the thread and about gaming. While this site is dedicated to free speech, the following will not be tolerated: devolving a thread into unrelated political discussion, sockpuppeting (using multiple and/or bogus accounts), disrupting topics without contributing to them, and posting images that could get someone fired in the workplace (an external link is OK, but clearly mark it as Not Safe For Work, or NSFW). If you receive a warning, please take it seriously and either move on to another topic or steer the discussion back to its original RPG-related theme.

The Wargaming Thread

Started by David Johansen, February 22, 2017, 08:57:19 PM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages 1 ... 3 4 5
User actions

Gronan of Simmerya

#60
March 04, 2017, 02:25:41 PM
On a slightly different note, anybody at GaryCon will be able to play all sorts of miniatures.  The historical stuff never fills up, come on in!
You should go to GaryCon.  Period.

The rules can\'t cure stupid, and the rules can\'t cure asshole.

chirine ba kal

#61
March 07, 2017, 09:28:59 AM
Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;948917On a slightly different note, anybody at GaryCon will be able to play all sorts of miniatures.  The historical stuff never fills up, come on in!

Seconded! Gary Con has some of the very best 'ye olde schoole' miniatures gaming around!

Gronan of Simmerya

#62
March 08, 2017, 02:59:49 PM
Quote from: chirine ba kal;949789Seconded! Gary Con has some of the very best 'ye olde schoole' miniatures gaming around!

Last year I was on the opposite side of the table from Mike Reese, author of TRACTICS, in a TRACTICS game.  Mike is also a retired US Army treadhead.

The game was called for time... the ref's car broke down, not his fault... but after the game I went and saw things from Mike's side of the table.

Crap on toast, we were gonna get shredded.  He had a platoon of Fireflys set up in a perfect flanking ambush when we came over the ridgeline.

Nice to know the taxpayers' money for training him was well spent.
You should go to GaryCon.  Period.

The rules can\'t cure stupid, and the rules can\'t cure asshole.

David Johansen

#63
March 08, 2017, 06:20:05 PM
You know, I've never actually gone to a convention.  Some guys here held a decent Warhammer tournament once and there were two entertainment / comic conventions going on at one time for a couple years until they put each other under.  I should write an Ego Wars game where reality always wins in the end.  Really, I'd rather go to something more gaming specific.  Call me a weirdo but I feel the other stuff always over-shadows the gaming.

My shipment of the new edition of Flames of War is held up in a very real blizzard right now.  I may have to delay my release day events or something.
Fantasy Adventure Comic, games, and more http://www.uncouthsavage.com

Voros

#64
March 11, 2017, 03:45:59 AM
Noticed when reading the 70s and 80s books of Designers and Dragons that The War of the Ring and Battle of Five Armies are actually pretty old wargames from that era. Anyone played the reissues?

Tristram Evans

#65
March 11, 2017, 04:52:09 AM Last Edit: March 11, 2017, 04:57:46 AM by Tristram Evans
Quote from: Voros;950601Noticed when reading the 70s and 80s books of Designers and Dragons that The War of the Ring and Battle of Five Armies are actually pretty old wargames from that era. Anyone played the reissues?

If you mean the GW War of the Ring and Battle of the Five Armies wargames, those aren't re-issues, they just happen to have the same names.

War of the Ring was an adaption of GW's LOTR miniature game to cover larger battle scenarios with units instead of individually based models.

Battle of the 5 Armies was an adaption of Warmaster to the Hobbit scenario in 10mm. On the plus side, it had the most beautiful plastic 10mm miniatures I've ever seen in my life.

The 1977 War of the Ring wargame was a card and counter game from SPI based on the Bakshi animated film.



I'm not familiar with any previous Battle of the Five Armies wargame, but it seems likely than one if not many more were made throughout the years.

David Johansen

#66
March 11, 2017, 08:39:11 AM
Didn't SPI do an unlicensed version of War of the Rings at one point?  Anyhow I friend of mine had it, I liked the three player version with Saruman holding out against the west and Sauron.

There was also a game by Darlene (of DMG succubus and Greyhawk map fame) called Riddle of the Ring or something like that.  ICE did a Fellowship of the Ring game and, I think, a Hobbit game in the eighties.
Fantasy Adventure Comic, games, and more http://www.uncouthsavage.com

Voros

#67
March 11, 2017, 09:05:29 AM Last Edit: March 11, 2017, 09:11:25 AM by Voros
Thanks Tristram, I assumed they were reissues or updates like Cosmic Encounter or Fury of Dracula.

@David, a quick search suggests that the ICE game was called Riddle of the Ring. Card-based, looks cool but going for a fortune these days.

A game with art by Darlene sounds terrific. I think her art is among the best of the early D&D school.

Things certainly get confusing as there are a load of Tolkein themed games all with similar or the exact same names. This site seems to be a good resource to sort them all out.
Print
Go Up Pages 1 ... 3 4 5
User actions