Song of Blades and Heroes tryouts

Hi all,

and sorry for posting so infrequently in the last months.
Still, me and my gaming buddies are planning some cool things for the next months: in fact we discovered a new brand of rules we all are really IN LOVE with: I'm talking about Andrea's Sfiligoi Ganesha Games rulesets.

We knew about GG but never tried anything before and... damn, these games are really good!
You can really play your game in a couple of hours and the mechanics themselves deliver lot of fun... in fact, while being incredibly easy to manage (a couple of turns to teach players how to play and bookkeeping near to not-at-all), you will spot some very subtle findings able to make your game quite unpredictable: in other words, you need some strategy or you are dead.

At the moment we played 3 or 4 times with Andrea's fantasy rules, and Affro recently bought a copy of Mighty Monsters and Samurai Robots Battle Royale... so you can imagine how we look forward to play again!

Plans for the future:

- other fantasy 28mm games with SoBaH

- a 15mm Sci Fi Project using Flying Lead (I already own a copy, I only think we'll need to trimmer rules down a bit since it is quite dense in our opinion compared with other GG rulesets)

Lastly, I put together some of the -horrible, I admit- pictures taken from one of our last games... please enjoy an example of punished hubris :D

Cheers
Andrea

Not dead yet - and BatRep

Hi,

long time has gone since I wrote my last post because of real life calling... and Skyrim.
It always has a role in procrastination.
BUT... I'm still here and in these months I had some good gaming with my mates Affro, Mr BBocci (if you don't know his masterpieces, you should go to: http://www.artflakes.com/en/shop/matteo-bocci) and Yuri, so my patient girfriend will not hear me telling her about game rules for a while.
Maybe.
Btw: we fought a great scenario prepared by Yuri with the rules of THW CR3 using 15mm minis. The backgound and rules were GREAT, but we had very unlucky dies in our hands and in the end there were not much action.
The plot was about finding/neutralizing gunrunners with a stealth approach and then kick the buyer's a$$ as soon as they appeared... quite fun!
The scenario was full of Yuri's greatly painted 15mm civilians and since we are a bunch of good guys the engaging rules were focused on civilians preservation.

Here are some pics:

Our layout :). Next to us some friends were playing some boardgames.

First building, first room to clear. Paper maps are Yuri's and they may be from Cyberpunk -but not sure, I have to ask him again-.

ME:
"Where are the bad guys? Tell me!"
- roll d6
"I don't know"
"Oh."
- Guys, can I shoot him?
- No. Rules of Engagement. We are supposed to be the good guys.
- Damn.

Mr BBocci:
"Where? Tell me!"
- roll d6
"I don't know"
"Umf."
- Guys, can I shoot these two?
- No. Rules of Engagement. We are supposed to be the good guys.
- Damn.

Affro's team explores the tabletop trying to reveal a PEF

Affro's team gets miserably lost in the swamp

Some people look to Affro's team and think no one will go back home

Affro's team approaches the last shack.
No one from his team came back home (5 Sahadeens inside with a LMG).

However, in the next batrep I'll post you'll see Affro taking his revenge... against me.

Cheers
Andrea

End of 2012's Hero Quest

Happy new Year!

It’s been a long absence but I’m back - and we all are here, despite all Maya’s previsions...

Not much gaming in these last months, still I’d like to share few pics of the nice Hero Quest game me and few  friends had during the night of the last 2012 day!

Since I was very lazy around 2 am, my thanks go to Francesco and his mobile phone..

This is the crucial point of the game: the Heroes have found a Nurgle sorcerer (warhammer fluff is still fantastic fantasy background in my opinion…), coming with a personal guard of Chaos Warriors and a mutated dog (a beast that tore apart -and I mean dead, dead, dead- 2 players before being taken down... ok, here you see him down because of a "sleep" spell, but it woke up the turn after in a baaaaad mood)

 

A Mage summoned Djiin helped a lot in beating the bad guy but in the end the 2 surviving heroes were left just 1 Body Point each.. a very tough but funny game!

For this new year, I’d like to put together a couple of things:

-          Add some scenarios to Secret wars (if anyone tried it, please kindly send me a comment)

-          Maybe -I still don’t know - create a quick and fast conversion to play HeroQuest with WH40k background. I know there is/was Space Crusade –or StarQuest- out there, but it is does not have exactly the same feeling Hero Quest has... (WH40k HQ should in my opinion look closer to a very simplified “Inquisitor” game)

Cheers,

Andrea

No Nerd's Land presents: SECRET WARS

Hi all,

very busy month at work, still I'm about finishing up NNL free game system, which now has a name: SECRET WARS! It might be not the most original name out there, still it makes sense with the dungeon crawling and cyberpunk feeling of the game... and I quite like it!

while I complete some stat cards and try understand how to put the pdf rules and game aids on my blog (really, if someone has any idea about it... O_o), I'm glad to post here a playtest in which you can start have an idea what will be the game!

Any feedback or comment is welcome,
Cheers,
Andrea

BatRep: FUBAR small battle

Hi all,

a couple of weeks ago I finally have had the opportunity to try the FUBAR "one page" set of rules (the best place to learn about it is Chris K. blog Basement Gaming Bunker).
Although my taste is more for the THW "Reaction System"style of play, these rules have the good thing to be simple without being trivial, with mechanics which are very easy to understand for anyone who has played before any miniature game... and allow you to put on the table everything, from giant robots to bugs, tanks, or whatever you may think to with no much "homework" to do before play.
What I tried (with my very patient -and terribly competitive- gf) is a small skirmish but in my perception these rules are great for quite large battles as they focus on the units more than the single men.
Below the batrep (as usual, I lost. But this time it was better this way as Dani is not what you would call a good loser, and I love to see her smile! :)

un paio di settimane fa sono finalmente riuscito a provare il set di regole da una pagina FUBAR (il miglior posto in cui trovare informazioni a proposito è il blog di Chris K. Basement gaming Bunker).
Sebbene il mio gusto personale sia più orientato al Reaction System di THW, queste regole hanno la caratteristica di essere semplici senza scadere nella banalità, con meccaniche facilmente comprensibili da chiunque abbia mai giocato "a miniature"... e soprattutto permettono di schierare praticamente qualunque cosa, da robottoni giganti, a mostri alla alien, carri armati e qualunque altra cosa senza troppi compitini in cui perdere ore prima di giocare.
Quello che ho provato con la mia paziente (e terribilmente competitiva) ragazza è stata una breve schermaglia. Credo però che queste regole diano il meglio se impiegate per grandi battaglie, dal momento che si focalizzano sull'unità, piuttosto che sul singolo uomo.
Sotto, il resoconto (come al solito ho perso io.. ma meglio così perchè la Dani non è una che prende bene la sconfitta, ed adoro vederla sorridere!)
PS: le regole di FUBAR sono disponibili anche in italiano, tra le risorse del Gruppo Yahoo dedicato.


Cheers,
Andrea

BatRep: HeroQuest!!!

Hello!

just to start: ok, I AM cheating. This blog is supposed to be a Sci-Fi oriented one... and Milton Bradley's HeroQuest, The Greatest Boardgame Ever Made is not really even a "wargame"... but I can't resist publishing the game I have had last night with Affro and Matteo: thanking the great website Ye Old Inn I set up and played with them a nice adventure (Inn of Chaos) and we did had a lot of fun!

The adventure was about a Chaos warband that has established in a Inn after killing the Innkeeper and all the people inside. The Chaos sorcerer plans to build up an undead Army (starting from the bodies of the Innkeeper and other unlucky dudes!) and rule the Land.

But he didn't consider the four Heroes coming to rest in his Inn...





We used different minis from the original ones to add a bit color (my originals are unpainted).
HeroQuest is ALWAYS HeroQuest. A great game, the first I played and still MUCH more fun than a lot of others!

Cheers,
Andrea

BatRep: Battle at Monster&Co

Hi,

as promised here's my first batrep involving the terrifying Aberration Prime!
Unfortunately we made just a few pics, anyway, this was the situation:

An abandoned research site has been taken from a well armed group of rebels looking for a loot. They don't know about the experiments the Alliance was managing underground neither why the site has been abandoned... Before being locked down by AI systems, the site launched a desperade SOS request... Now a patrol has been send to investigate. But time is runnig out: the armour-plated doors connecting the undeground labs to the outside will not resist a long time against the frenzied Biological Weapons that are now crawling in the blood-stained corridors!

I played with 6 people (!) everyone having control of 3-4 troopers and divided between Attackers (the Alliance) and Defenders (the Rebels). The ruleset is CR3, with some material from CR2 and some draft tables and stats I made...






So... I think this will start a new adventure soon!
Stay tuned!

Cheers,
Andrea

BatRep: Battle at the Gym

Hi,

after the great satisfaction I had from playing CR3 intro game with Affro, I repeated yesterday the same "patrol" scenario (same forces involved but different terrain) with Paolo.
Paolo manages the gym I nonchalantly attend and he's a big fan of historical wargaming and a very pleasant person to play with.
We played in the tabletennis room close to the kickboxing training room (where some people were having their lesson!!!)

Please enjoy the... Battle at the Gym!


At this time a lot of very big people with boxing gloves were surrounding us to understand what we where doing... O_O

Two or three of the big guys were at this time quite interested in the battle going on...


After a very short time Paolo had a full understanding of CR3 rules...



and the battle lasted a couple of hours!

After the game Paolo was enthusiast of the rules and he asked me a copy I had on hand of an introduction to Ed Teixeira's system called MG42 (2nd world war scenario).
With the next games I'm planning to start a campaign, I still need to decide with the people involved if it will be in 15mm or 28mm!

Just a note... if we'll play in 15mm I will have to improve Sahadeen's Reputations as they were no match for our Kill Teams!!

Stay tuned!
Cheers,
Andrea