Dice of Legends covers a variety of Historical games including Iron Ivan WW2, Warhammer Historical and various other independent wargaming including Superhero Skirmish Gaming!
Ah, brings me back to the fond memories of Saturday morning cartoon! Good stuff back then! The figures are very cool, but I wonder if they got the rights to this or they just said, let's make this?
Wow, found a sleeper on NBC while checking out things on Hulu called Revolution. This new Post Apocalyptic Series is about when all the power on Earth just tops and the world is dropped into chaos.
The story tends to flashback 15 years at some spots to give you background of events that happened then and how they are shaping the now. In this future, humanity has fallen into anarchy and militias and thugs rule most everything. The story tends to focus on one militia called the Monroe Republic that is run by a self styled dictator and former military Sergent that has seized power. There is also a small rebellion of "patriots" that seek to bring back the lawful system and justice between a plot of a sister trying to rescue her brother after he is taken by the Militia because their father perhaps knows how to restore power back which would be a valuable thing to someone that is insane with power.
I don't care to spoil it for you but the story is well done and I have to say from a hobby point WOW! There is some damm cool ideas here like vine covered Ferris wheel, a church half sunk in the middle of a lake and vine covered rail road cars to name a few things. Simply stunning background, I may go back to write down ideas later to come up with scenery projects.
Check it out! So far, there is just two episodes! I hope this stays on for a few seasons! PLEASE!
Ryan and I had our second game of Blackwater Gulch the last
night with a bit more knowledge now of the rules and fixed a few errors with
our list we piled our gangs out for round 2!
I brought a strong list of kit specialists:
1) Leader with Doctor, a pair of Level 6 Colt Pistols and a
Level 5 Winchester Rifle. His stats were: STR 3, QUI 6, STAR 6, INT 5, RC 6 and
MC 1. He had Duck and Cover, Quick Draw, Deadeye, Hearty and Really Tough.
2) Gunslinger with a pair of Colt Pistols (Level 6), STR 2,
QUI 6, STAR 3, INT 4, RC 6, MC 1. She had the skills of Duck and Cover, Run and
Gun, Quick Draw and Deadeye.
3) Wrassler (Hired gun, so got another 100 point character).
STR 4, QUI 6, STAR 6, INT 4, RC 1, MC 6. He had a pair of swords (level 6) and
the following skills: Duelist, Charge, Run and Gun and Really Tough.
4) Henchman with 1’s and 2’s for most stats but a STA 4 and
RC 6. Had a Lv 5 Winchester Repeater with Deadeye and Hearty skills.
5) Henchman with 1’s and 2’s with a QUI 4 and RC 6. Had Run
and Gun and Deadeye with a Level 6 Remington Long Barrel Shotgun on a horse.
6) Henchman with 1’s and 2’s for most starts but the same
QUI and RC as #5 and the same skills and a Level 5 Winchester Repeater.
Ryan had a Tong gang (didn’t get his sheet) but had about 7
in total including a Doc, Wrassler (leader), not sure if he had any other
professionals (I think there was one more). He had dynamite, throwing knifes, a
pick, swords and other goodies among his gang. No real ranged weapons and had a
kit design for close combat.
We rolled the deployment and got trapped and cornered. We
figured a straight up fight was best to still learn the rules. He won the dice
off and picked the center, deploying in the town street ready to use the
buildings as cover. I deployed near the edge of my corner on the line ready to
deploy to how he would move.
We rolled off and I got first move and it was game on. I
downed his strong guy with a pick axe with my leader firing at long range. This
set the tone for the game. I moved my leader and two other rifles along the
edge of town to shoot down the street and my shotgun mounted granny along with
the gunslinger and wrassler (martial artist) swung around behind the buildings.
Ryan tried to rush one guy down the street using cover but
was quickly shot down but the gunslinger slipping around the corner. As we got
to the third turn Granny rode out and blasted her shotgun at his leader putting
a wound on him. Then he promptly kicked granny’s ass right off the horse. Then
we had the Bruce Lee fight fest between my Tong (hired gun) vs his Tong (gang
leader) with my dual sword guy downing him. The gunslinger slipped around again
and shot both his tong with sword and then the next turn his doctor hidden
around the corner in another alley. His dynamite guy runs out of cover when I
had two riflemen right next to one another and he promptly rolls a 3 for
distance with 2 dice (d6 for throwing and another d6 for the strength skill), a
roll of 6-7 would have been bad for me! BOOM! Well, I moved a rifleman around
and shot him down quickly to remove another major threat. The last Tong engaged
my swordsman hired gun and bailed out once the rest of the gang was down. Only
granny was sucking dirt by the end of the game if I recall right.
Thoughts about the game:
Ryan had me worried with a hand to hand beast gang if he
could get in quickly I was finished. My only hope was to try to keep one step
ahead and go with my split gang concept. Leader + 2 henchmen with rifles
supports a fire lane. The leader had a pair of pistols if anything got close.
The other group would use mass firepower (gunslinger), the shotgun (moving at 8”
on horseback) and the Tong hired gun (well sword) to deal with up close
encounters and short range fighting.
I think if Ryan had went into the buildings and used a bit
more blocking LOS scenery I would have been into trouble. A few aggressive moves
made it easy for me to exploit some easy targets. He had some bad luck with the
dice including the dynamite toss that could have been painful to me.
Here is a few pictures from the game courtesy of Ryan:
The town after we setup.
Towards the end of the game as my riflemen was advancing down the main street.
Mary Sue Ellen the Gunslinger catches a Tong off guard.
My hired gun (Tong swordsman) downs the Tong Gang Leader
Town shot towards the end of the game.
Another town shot.
My gang....
My Gang the Outlaws called the Misfits
(left to right) Henchmen (rifle), Henchmen (long shotgun), Hired Gun (Tong with swords), gang leader with rifle (guns under his coat), Gunslinger with two colts, Henchman (rifle)
Tong Gang
(left to right) Doc, Leader and the rest of the gang. Not sure who the last professional was.
This just hit me today in a random thought when looking at
various new things on Indiegogo and Kickstarter. So many good projects and some
not so much that made me wonder with the concepts of these and the high tech
world of the internet that we may be over saturating the gaming world. Look around
we have millions of models (perhaps more than insects in the world), tons of
books (including PDF and reader friendly ones) along with tons of board games
always flopping out along with billions of cards for various CCGs!
It is great that we can all find something we like, everyone
has different tastes. Then again, what if you are the only person with that
taste or one other? So, you have a pile of books, miniatures or board game that
sits around collecting dust with the sad hope of being used and enjoyed.
There are only so many hours in a day and gaming just taps a
small amount of that time as we are hit with family, friends, work and school
to just name a few things that munch on our ability to play games. In a perfect
world I would love to win the lottery, open my own mega game store and enjoy my
hobby all flipping day and travel the world with my wife. Maybe dabble in the bar/food
industry…..if anything wine or beer making! But I digress, how do we fit in all
those cool games? We can’t is the simple answer.
Look around you house, count the number of board games, miniature
games, amount of miniatures and such you may just be shocked if you take into
account the overall scope of things. Like food and other things we are
gluttons, we buy something because we want it, not because we need it. Now a
hobby is just that, not a need per se but not a luxury either. A hobby helps us
unwind, gives us a social outlet or at least one for our creative side to get
some exercise. Thus, it is mental health in the long run. Gaming is a good
thing as it can keep our minds sharp (sadly not our waistline). We need the psychological fuel of something
like this to keep us engaged and give us a break from the real world because
let’s face it…IT SUCKS!
You disagree it sucks? Do you REALLY LIKE TO GO TO WORK?
Pissing away hours of the day? Mix that in with sleep and you get a small
window for yourself (oh and can’t forget things like housework, homework, paying
bills, dealing with animals and such!). Think about that also.
Still, there is also a thrill of the purchase which is I
think the deadly thing with our wallets these days. Go online, find something
cool and click! Then it shows in your mail magically! Yay! So, where am I going
with this? Be moderate with your hobby and you will enjoy it more instead of
finding frustration that you have not played X game or Y game and selling it
off on Ebay or otherwise…..
Well, just 8 more posts away from hitting the magic 100th post! And of course there will be a contest Old West style! Details are still in the works and already three companies have stepped up to bat offering some goodies to give out! Keep your eye right here for more details.
I just got my shipment the other day from FRP games with a pack of Old Glory Cowboy Wars Tong and a blister of the Secrets of the Third Reich Russian Snipers to work into my Post Apocalyptic models I am building up! I will throw out some quick reviews on both to let people know what to expect from these two companies as I am a first time buyer of both brands.
On Thursday I am taking back out my gang v2 for another round of Blackwater Gulch against Ryan's revamped gang. Should be blood and violent this time around now that we have learned a great deal from the rules. Speaking of rules, they are free to download if you want to try them!
Click on over on my other blog link and help me pick a Blood Bowl Team! I have a great deal of time still, but I will have to order and paint them as well as get a few games in before I consider heading back to Alabama to take on the Rocket City Rumble Blood Bowl game, simply a great group of BB players and the first event I attended was simply amazing as I had a blast. What better than eating pizza, drinking beer and beating the crap out of another team on the pitch????
First, I have been running a test this past month, nothing official but I shut off Captcha for all my blogs for ease of postings. I got to thinking one day how flipping annoying Captcha is and my only thoughts is the designer should burn in hell for the annoyance.
That said, I am leaving it off until I get spam, then worst case I will change to moderator status.
In other news, I am nearing 100 posts for Dice of Legends. So, to celebrate I am working to get a few goodies as prizes. I am thinking a drawing and/or contest of some type to an Old West theme. If you know or are someone that wants to promote something Old West and would like to donate to the prize pool let me know.
