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Do you have a burning desire to pick up a baseball bat and face off against things that go bump into the night? Because this is the game about you. When Nightmares Come pits five Hunters against zombies, ghouls and other beasties fit to crawl out of a portal.
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Continue reading “When Nightmares Come | Fortified Niche playtest!”World War I is, inarguably, one of the most pointless and disastrous wars in human history. But what if it got worse, with the Moon breaking apart, bringing back old gods and their blood-soaked magic into the field? What if the Great Powers still clung to their trenches even in the face of – and themselves enthusiastically deploying – supernatural monsters? Then the result would be something akin to A War Transformed, a World War I miniature wargame by Frederick Silburn-Slater, published by Osprey!
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Continue reading “A War Transformed | Fortified Niche playtest!”When worlds collide, new rulesets emerge! Such is the tale of medieval Lion Rampant getting adapted into fantasy Dragon Rampant which in turn evolved into Xenos Rampant, a skirmish miniature game of sci-fantastic battles for nearly any miniature that you have!
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What if the Goons4Hire4U gig economy app from the third season of Westworld was the premise behind a whole game? That’s what Reality’s Edge tries to tackle by updating the cyberpunk future to match more modern depressing trends.
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What are you, a statue? If you’ve got a collection of modern military miniatures, play Zona Alfa. If not, take a hike.
Who could have known that indie miniature wargames is niche that’s like 50% published by Osprey ? With this happy coincidence explained, here’s the companion piece for our Dracula’s America: Shadows of the West podcast episode.
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Fortified Niche is my (and one other good dude’s) podcast about miniature wargames you may have not heard of. Seeing how the general populace agrees that it’s good to play the game before you cast a pod about it, here are some Tabletop Simulator screenshots of us doing just that. This time, it’s the Napoleonic gothic horror of The Silver Bayonet.
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