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About Fantasy
Hard to say if Warhammer ever had the good edition. If memory serves, the recommendation for Warhammer Fantasy Battles is playing 5th edition with 6th edition army books. Still, a lot of people agreed that changeover to Age of Sigmar was not it, chief. Some of those people made The 9th Age, a game of rank-and-flank fantasy battles!
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Continue reading “The 9th Age | Fortified Niche playtest!”The beauty of running your own podcast is that you can choose to break the rules at any time. For example, we said that we’d only review games at their most basic – no expansions. But this time, we’re reviewing SAGA: Age of Magic, the fantasy supplement for the French medieval skirmish standout SAGA (second edition).
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Continue reading “SAGA: Age of Magic | Fortified Niche playtest!”Some creators have a lot of trouble with nagging fans, but Fortified Niche is still small enough that it’s actually cute and helpful when our listeners reach out. In the case of Molly, she really wanted us to review Moonstone, a fantasy skirmish wargame of fairytale combat.
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Continue reading “Moonstone | Fortified Niche playtest!”I got into miniatures way too late to appreciate Warhammer Fantasy Battles. Yet I would agree that the world rather than the game is the main attraction of the fantasy counterpart to Warhammer 40K. So while it’s super sad that Games Workshop (under the thrall of Tom Kirby, may he never find peace) exploded the Old World and replaced WHFB with 15-year-old’s first fantasy setting (Age of Sigmar), we had reasons to rejoice: WHFB was finally released for official Total War treatment. Too bad both of the games in the series were made with the most cowardly decisions at every step.
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