I maintain that the development for this game was spark by some art piece with tacticool wizards. Don’t @ me about it, I said and I won’t take it back. Tom Francis has done what every game journo wishes they could do – become a successful game creator – and his newest piece of work is a banger. Tactical Breach Wizards is an operational gameplay success and a strategic-level writing achievement.
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Come to think about it, we don’t really have that many games about being space pirates. Why? Is it because space pirate fights are always supposed to be unequal? Well, the pirates of golden age of Caribbean piracy didn’t care about such things and you won’t care either as you play Blood & Plunder!
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From the earliest days of mankind, warlords and kings alike dreamed of playing a ruleset that was matched with a kickass range of 3D-printable miniatures. This lofty goal has been finally reached by Full Spectrum Dominance, a sci-fi wargame by Giacomo Pantalone and Federico Valsecchi.
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It’s so sad that the Battlfield series has to be taken behind the barn due to contracting a lethal case of CoDitis. But we can remember the good times before the CQC expack by playing The Battlefield: Miniature Modern Warfare, a Brent Spivey game that owes as much to DICE as to dice.
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I love cats, you love cats, everyone on the internet loves cats. That’s why we’re all playing a children’s video game about kittens. That’s right, it’s Little Kitty, Big City time on Barrel Drill dot com.
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First, they made Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War. Then they decided that the engine and the experience would be better suited for a game with a shorter title. And that’s the Zephon demo experience.
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Here’s an idea for you: you can play a game that has but a single book released for it. There’s nothing stopping you. A game doesn’t have to have expansions coming out every few months. Just play what you have. Play Stargrunt II from 1996.
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I’ve been describing miniature wargaming as “toy soldiers with rules” foe year. So why not bring another perennial childhood joy into the fold? Gaslands: Refueled gives you THE reason to take our your old model cars, glue on some guns and skulls, and give it post-apocalyptic paintjob. That’s right, Death Race comes to your tabletop!
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This game title is capitalized weird, right? You’d expect initial caps. But this is a game from Eastern European indies. You can allow Let bions be bygones have some weirdness. But, weird provenance or not, you’ll be hard-pressed to find an excuse for bugs.
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Get in, loser, we’re going to Italy. The Borgias are on the rise and there’s money to be made while commanding small bands of mercenaries. So if you have the virtues necessary to lead men on the field of battle, take up Force of Virtue, a Renaissance skirmish miniature wargame.
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