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Thursday, November 7, 2019
Nostalgia Thursday - Chaos Wars (1987)
Thirty-two years ago, the super-simple four-page Rules According to Ral which were designed for Medieval combat were expanded into the thirty-page (approx) Chaos Wars (1987) for fantasy combat. Still a simple rule set by most wargaming standards but complex enough to present tactical options that mitigate dice rolls and remove a fair amount of the luck factor that plagues simpler systems. I picked this up from Wayne's Books through Amazon for about $20 and it included two of the Easy Reference Sheets, a sheet of Unit Stat Cards, and a Fall 1987 War Bulletin. Nice! A few months ago, I got the chance to play using these rules with Michael Shorten and you can read more about that fun time here.
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Nostalgia Thursday - Games Workshop Retrospective
There's been an update on "Dice Men: Games Workshop 1975 to 1985" by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson with Jamie Thomson, "a full colour, highly illustrated hardback 288 pages long, A4 (210mm x 297mm) printed on 140gsm gloss art stock, colour printed endpapers and bookmark ribbon." It's been a struggle getting definitive information on those early years and they are being careful to make sure it is complete and honest. Read more here.
Focusing on the roots of current tabletop gaming
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with an eye toward the last century and before.
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