Good Random and Bad Random in Miniature Games

Totally Random

If you spend time reading miniature wargaming blogs or forums in the past year or two, you may have come across arguments that look like this one: “Game X has too much randomness. There is no point playing – no “player-skill” involved in playing – when arbitrary dice rolls decide the whole game.“ “Game X […]

DreadBall Season 3 Teleport – How I Would Have Done It

DreadBall Board

I vowed to post more often about DreadBall, mainly because it is a truly fantastic game! As the Season 3 Team beta-testing is in full swing, with plenty of beta-rules being posted by Jake Thornton on his blog, I thought I add my 2 cents on the teleporting Teratons. Disclaimer: I am no game-designer, nor […]

DreadBall Big Guys

DreadBall Alpha Simian Miniature

One by one, we’re getting more insights into one of DreadBall’s (literally) largest remaining mysteries: the multi-hex players. During the Deadzone Kickstarter, Mantic showed off some of their new-found skills with digital sculpts by releasing renders of the DreadBall Mech. An armed variant, I believe, will be made for Deadzone (and Warpath) as well. Now, DreadBall […]

Interview – Jake Thornton Talks About Deadzone

Mantic Games Deadzone Interview

Mantic Games are now running a Kickstarter for their Sci-Fi Miniatures Board Game Deadzone. Deadzone is Mantic Games’ fourth game on Kickstarter and, judging by its popularity so far, their most successful one yet. Like the fantastic DreadBall (which I hope to play next week at Mantic’s Open Day), Deadzone was designed – or better, is […]

Inbox: God of Battles Launch at Foundry Open Day

Inbox

I received a bit of wargaming news from one of my blog’s readers via my Contact Form this morning. God of Battles, a new fantasy miniatures game by Jake Thornton (a.k.a. Quirkworthy of DreadBall fame), is launching this weekend in Nottingham at the Wargames Foundry‘s Open Day. From Matt Alard via my Contact Form.   1. […]

Review – Ravage Gaming Magazine #5

Ravage Miniature Gaming Magazine #5 Review

Time to review the Ravage Miniatures Gaming Magazine. Or, more accurately, share my first impression. This is the first time I held and read this gaming magazine. The copy I have is the English language version released by CoolMiniOrNot.com. Specifically, I have issue #5 for December 2012 – January 2013 of this bi-monthly magazine. I […]