Wargaming Posters from the India Wargamers

India Wargamers have, among other things, given us great wargaming posters over the past years.

These guys have some great files on their website, like battle reports, rules, and interesting how-to articles.

Check out the medieval variant for Piquet they published, as well as the nice campaign setups.

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Matrix Game for World of Greyhawk skirmishes?

Matrix Games


Why not, I say. The only thing is that I would have to find a willing victim to play against, since the idea of coming up with arguments and counter arguments seems like a little too much Sybil level schizophrenia to me.

But consider, the next time in your RPG you have a local Baron getting uppity against his feudal overlord, and it comes to a skirmish, battle, or war. Using a matrix game to resolve it could be really interesting, can be accomplished quite quickly, and could generate some really interesting side results to affect the RPG campaign.

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Queen of the Celts

Queen of the Celts from Avalanche Press is their wargame of the conflict between the Romans and the Iceni. You know, the celts of Britain who were led by the very able Queen Boadicca. I know, before you even think it (much less write it), that there are other alternative spellings of her name. And don't get me started on acceptable pronunciations. But given the alternative artwork (shown above) that you can order the game with on the cover (see the web page for the normal, retail version of the artwork), I think that her name should be pronounced Bodacious.

The game itself is part of the Rome at War series, and really looks quite good. And as the publishers know, everyone loves a celt. Especially one with (historically debatable) a figure like shown above.

Tags: wargaming, celts, romans

More Castles and Crusades - in two weeks

Castles and Crusades continues for the adventurers, in two weeks, with more dungeoneering and then back on the road to Kreftheim.

Expect heavy spiders, with a spot of giant bears, and continued norker influence. That is the weather report.

Tags: Castles and Crusades, rpg, norkers, spiders, bears

Pope, Gilmore, and Nords - on the road

Castles and Crusades campaign update.

The Pope of Pain (Jaques Guerrable, Paladin of Ehlonna) and Gilmore Badgerbreath (Gnome wizard of no great stature) traveled along the Rakers mountain pass from Vanehold Castle towards the Dwarven stronghold of Kreftheim in our Castles and Crusades game. They were joined by Nords the Dwarf.

Along they way they met Goatboy, and rescued him from a bear trap.

Then they were ambushed by some giant ticks. Then they fought a great bear. Then they killed some norkers (goblinoids), and looted a dead Dark Elf.

All in all, a good night.


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Goatboy joins C&C adventuring group

Every great adventuring group needs an npc. The Castles and Crusades adventuring group met and rescued a Satyr from a bear trap in the adventure on Thursday night (april 3). Now, rescuing a satyr is nothing special, but then the players got to thinking that having one around might be interesting and somewhat useful. Hence, I am making up the NPC of Diomides the Bard. Also known as Goatboy.

Tags: satyr, rpg, Castles and Crusades

Gnomes in 4ed AD&D

Uncle Bear has an article pointing out that WOTC has decided to drop Gnomes as a pc.

One more reason for me to stick with Castles and Crusades. I don't mind using rules from 1st and 2nd AD&D, but once the game lost its TSR label, it went down hill, in my opinion.

Dropping Gnomes? They gotta be nuts.

Tags: dungeons and dragons, gnomes