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Wowshawk posted:Doesn't Noble Knight carry TTcombat stuff? They appear to, all though a lot of it is out of stock. This is not surprising. I've tried to get a couple of FLGS to see if they can order Dropfleet Commander stuff and apparently few US distributors carry TT Combat and what they do carry seems to be very limited. It's frustrating cuz I love Dropfleet and Dropzone but I can't seem to get it anymore. Rumbleslam looks so cool, too 
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So I finally bit the bullet. I bought Five Parsecs from Home 3rd edition from Modiphius press. My main hesitancy was paying for shipping from the UK, but I eventually caved. First impressions (of the included PDF version): The layout is much better than the previous edition!  Also many more tables, an expanded setting, more post-battle activities, a whole section on starships, nine appendix chapters and some really evocative art. Can't wait for the physical book to show up. I immediately zoomed into the Inspirations Appendix IX. First a small typo: UFO Enemy UNknown not Enemy Known. Secondly, citing the Foundation series by Asimov? Warp Riders by The Sword? Outstanding taste!
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FrostyPox posted:They appear to, all though a lot of it is out of stock. I think this is because TT Combat ceased production of all resins and therefore any larger kit that included resins at the start of the year due to the covid pandemic and not being able to ensure safe working conditions for employees. They decided to instead use this time to renovate and improve the layout of their production facility. They're supposedly gradually adding items back to the range, but they haven't made any further announcements.
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Dropzone is getting restocked this weekend and new units, also a balance pass. They just dropped a post on their community site.
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Helical Nightmares posted:So I finally bit the bullet. I bought Five Parsecs from Home 3rd edition from Modiphius press. My main hesitancy was paying for shipping from the UK, but I eventually caved. I had the same quandary, and also ended up biting the bullet and just paying the silly amount of postage. Played my first mission the other night. As a newcomer to the game, it was good, really does lend itself to a narrative. After just one pre-battle-post turn I have a rowdy crew who got into a fight with each other after ammo failures during the mission. Someone must have been slacking on ammo stock duties. But we did find a datastick with a possible quest on it.
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Atlas Hugged posted:I think this is because TT Combat ceased production of all resins and therefore any larger kit that included resins at the start of the year due to the covid pandemic and not being able to ensure safe working conditions for employees. They decided to instead use this time to renovate and improve the layout of their production facility. They're supposedly gradually adding items back to the range, but they haven't made any further announcements. Hopefully that's the issue, all though I recall that I had a lot of difficulty getting DFC stuff even before COVID. Hopefully that was only a temporary issue. I really want more DFC. DFC is so good
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Second turn of my 5 Parsecs campaign and captain went down to a pile of lucky 6s, we got the data delivered but he is out for d6 turns, ouch. Picked up 2 more crew from events, so we got a nice full boat, now to make some scratch to help pay for new guys and maybe some hospital time for the Capt. This is quite nice, the actual battles are fast and furious, not complicated at all, as it's more about the story, and the pre and post battle. Kinda what I wanted Necromunda to be, and what we ultimately modded our Frostgrave campaign into. Thought I started with way too much money (rolled alot of cash for my starter crew backgrounds) but I see now how cash could become slim, especially with 2 Bots on my crew, since they don't get xp and have to buy upgrades.
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Helical Nightmares posted:So I finally bit the bullet. I bought Five Parsecs from Home 3rd edition from Modiphius press. My main hesitancy was paying for shipping from the UK, but I eventually caved. Having a play list is a fairly long standing NWG tradition :-) And thank you for the purchase!
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Mr.Booger posted:Second turn of my 5 Parsecs campaign and captain went down to a pile of lucky 6s, we got the data delivered but he is out for d6 turns, ouch. Picked up 2 more crew from events, so we got a nice full boat, now to make some scratch to help pay for new guys and maybe some hospital time for the Capt. Money is not super scarce by default. Once the book is out in print, there'll be some options to make it tighter, probably in an add-on. Glad you had a good time though!
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There is a new release from Nordic Weasel games called Chrome Hammer Ascension. It is 100 pages and looks like there maybe Shadowrun in it's DNA. Maybe. I wonder how it compares to Reality's Edge and Hardwired. Only 13 dollars.  https://www.wargamevault.com/product/354627/Chrome-Hammer-Ascension quote:Sometimes you just want an elf and a ghoul to go shoot at each other in the cyberized back alleys of neo-berlin.
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I am halfway through finishing Five Parsecs from Home and I decided to let the random tables whip up a crew for me. Since I am terrible at making up names, I also turned to an online randomizer for scifi names. The results surprised me at how much they made up a cohesive and interesting back story. Randomized elements from Five Parsecs are in bold. I picked my first randomly generated crew member to be the leader, sight unseen. quote:Bjorn Ivannox is the captain’s name. He grew up in a wealthy merchant family, but for him a safe and comfortable life was not in the cards. His family was brought low and raided by a criminal element, that he has vowed revenge on. To prosecute his personal war against the criminal enterprise he has become a spacefaring nomad, bouncing around the galaxy from planet to planet in his retired troop transport ship; taking on all sorts of work to fund his mission. During his travels, Bjorn has acquired a Nano-Doc which he uses to keep himself in fighting shape and ahead of his addictions as he quests among the stars. The way this works mechanically is that each crew member rolls on the Background, Motivation and Class table. For Bjorn the results are Wealthy Merchant Family, Revenge, and Nomad respectively. Revenge as a Motive gives Bjorn +2xp and a Rival, which I rolled for randomly and came up with Criminal Element. Nomad for a Class allows Bjorn a shot at the Gear table, which generated a Nano-Doc. Some of the other weapons I detailed (Infantry Laser, Scrap Pistol, Colony Rifle) were rolled up randomly when figuring out the Crew Equipment. I just plopped them down in a character’s description wherever they seemed to fit narratively. Also, I rolled for the ship the crew is on and got a Retired Troop Transport. Overall Five Parsecs provides a lot of randomized details before and after the combat turn that are very useful for putting into a narrative story or roleplaying game. Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Apr 24, 2021 |
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My 5 Parsecs crew got caught in an ambush by their rivals, who happen to be a soulless taskforce (tough, well skilled alien robot hivemind) armed with Hyper blasters and Infantry lasers on a slippery landing dock...it was a bloodbath, with only one shocked crewman left standing, covered in alien bio-liquids. Luckily we hurt them enough that they left the system, fearing our reprisal (they were removed as a rival). Next mission might be even more dangerous, as I have only 4 crew available to go, and one of them broke his machine pistol. Really enjoying the game so far.
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Mr.Booger posted:My 5 Parsecs crew got caught in an ambush by their rivals, who happen to be a soulless taskforce (tough, well skilled alien robot hivemind) armed with Hyper blasters and Infantry lasers on a slippery landing dock...it was a bloodbath, with only one shocked crewman left standing, covered in alien bio-liquids. Luckily we hurt them enough that they left the system, fearing our reprisal (they were removed as a rival). Next mission might be even more dangerous, as I have only 4 crew available to go, and one of them broke his machine pistol. Really enjoying the game so far. For all I worry the battles are too easy, that's a hell of a start, like being an extra in the Terminator film future-war scenes.
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Someone's got the Mörk Borg skirmish game, Forbidden Psalm, in stock in the UK. The Guerrilla Miniatures guy did some videos and it looks pretty neat as super grotty mordheimgrave with solo and coop options. There's a PDF version on itch.
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Yeah that sold out as I was clicking add to cart.
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The good news is that America should see copies become available "Soon." (According to the creator on Reddit.) The bad news- I bought the digital and it breaks tone and character a bit. Not a deal breaker, but there's some cringey elements of gamer monkey-cheese in there:  Sure, [NOT APPLICABLE] the Monkeybutt - you are definitely a character appropriate for the bleak world of Mörk Börg.
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Flicking through the preview of their RPG they are at "here is some raw meat for no reason" level trying too hard.
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MORK BORG is kinda supposed to be ridiculous, just the kind where it's ridiculous to people observing from the real world, in setting it's all treated seriously
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The miniatures game is 3rd party and didn't seem to get the tone. The RPG is definitely over-the-top and absurd, but in a "using severed fingers as currency" way - not "Tim the Pew Pew" zany names way.
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So what's the selling point of Mork Borg anyway? That hermit Dave joke should see you banished from writing community and left to wander the wastes for 5 years.
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 If you looked at the cover and said "gently caress yeah, more of that!" it's more of that. The skirmish game might work to that end, but you're going to be working around a lot of cutsey and whimsical nonsense. For example, there's a monster entry for "animal cultists." Mork Borg RPG expectation:  Skirmish game reality: Evil squirrels and bunnies and chipmunks that want to END THE WORLD. The zany NPC wizard has a mission where you thwart them.
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*enormous disappointed sigh* I guess I'll be substituting the original tone as much as possible.
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JcDent posted:So what's the selling point of Mork Borg anyway? My understanding as someone very curious about it is that it's OSR without being written by Nazis and wants to be the most metal retroclone of them all while also being inclusive with its audience. I'm tempted to buy it on that premise alone knowing that I'll likely never play it.
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It's got super clean and well-organised layout in the example module and the quick reference sheet and then there's the d10 starting weapon table which covers four pages. The whole main section of the rule book is an arty brvtäl mess which changes style every other page but it mostly works.
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I don't really care about Mork Borg but that website let me know the new Mothership module was released so thanks for that!
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Atlas Hugged posted:My understanding as someone very curious about it is that it's OSR without being written by Nazis and wants to be the most metal retroclone of them all while also being inclusive with its audience. I'm tempted to buy it on that premise alone knowing that I'll likely never play it. I mean there's plenty of OSR stuff that isn't made by Nazis, indeed most of it isn't, they just happen to be a very loud and obnoxious tiny minority, like how it is with most nerdy things if we're being honest unfortunately
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The OSR attracts a lot of them because they get to pretend things were better in the glorious old days blah blah.
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I grabbed Planet28 and Brutal Whatever. Thoughts on these?
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Does anyone know of a good 6mm scifi ruleset? I have decided that I like the grandeur of 6mm a lot more more than the detail of 28mm and want to move myself in that direction. I've played some historicals in the scale and love it. I've decided against Epic Armageddon or a resized Dropzone because they're both very deeply tied to their settings and making it more generic might take some work. Horizon Wars didn't quite fit for me since I never got comfortable with the firing mechanics. Perhaps I just need to give it more time. If anyone has experience or opinions about LaserStorm, Future War Commander, Quadrant 13, or Dirtside 2 I would appreciate the information.
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You could try the Battletech games. They're intended for ~6mm scale stuff, and the infantry is basically generic "dude with gun" until you get to power-armoured infantry.
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One of these days I'll get around to playing Strike Legion and its larger-scale cousin Planetary Operations again. A little fiddlier than some of the 6mm I've played, but cool games. It's been years though, sorry. Nordic Weasel has a couple of options. Never got Laserstorm to the table, but FiveCore Brigade Commander might work if you don't mind reskinning modern. I didn't end up liking Future War Commander that much, despite that line of games being reasonably popular.
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Played Dirtside 2 a few times. It's solid; good design variety and a lot of weapon options. Uses a lot of counters, which I know some people baulk at, and a "draw results from a cup" system for damage resolution. If that's not an issue for you then there's a decent armour game under there.
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I like LaserStorm. Here's what I said about it a while back.Springfield Fatts posted:It comes with a list of premade generic units, but there's two ways to make your own: Assembly Line and Workshop. Assembly Line is pretty basic, pick a class (infantry, tank, skimmer, walker, etc) and purchase gear from couple dozen already created weapons. The Workshop is when you get in depth, able to add stats and traits to units and customize weapons. So that awesome Tyrannosaurus could easily be statted up as a close combat monster with a huge laser cannon and flame breath if you wanted.
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Thank you all for your information. I'm now leaning into the idea of going with LaserStorm and plan on trying to test it out with a friend on VASSAL sometime in the next few weekends. Future War Commander seems to generally have the reputation of being lackluster. If LaserStorm doesn't feel right after a few games I'll probably shift to trying Dirtside 2. edit: and maybe Strike Legion works its way in there, too. gently caress, too many good options. EverettLO fucked around with this message at 20:10 on May 25, 2021 |
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EverettLO posted:Does anyone know of a good 6mm scifi ruleset? I have decided that I like the grandeur of 6mm a lot more more than the detail of 28mm and want to move myself in that direction. I've played some historicals in the scale and love it. Horizon Wars is a 2-10mm company-level game that incorporates ground forces, aircraft and the titans of the battlefield - mechs. Whether you want to pit a handful of mechs against each other in quick clash of patrols, or line up combined-arms forces for a huge battle, the game remains fast-moving and enjoyable. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/193700/horizon-wars-science-fiction-combined-arms-wargami
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The pdf of Five Parsecs from Home just got released on Wargames Vault for $20! https://www.wargamevault.com/product/358938/Five-Parsecs-From-Home--Solo-Adventure-Wargaming?src=hottest If you want to see a well produced skirmish battle with background in the Five Parsecs system, check out Copperfrog's video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OLQiT1LSO0
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FYI the PDF is also on Modiphius, and Ivan has said he gets a bit bigger cut from there. Also he's done a blog post about what's in Five Parsecs's next expansion. and meanwhile, I'm just trying to get a physical copy without shipping from the UK, because I want a physical nordic weasel book damnit.
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I've just started on the dangerous path of returning to my first miniature army, 90's Orcs & Goblins, and I'm planning to go down two paths at once: scouring the Internet for second hand pre-2000 minis, and looking at smaller brands that make "old school style" orcs and Goblins. This far I've found a few nice alternatives, like Knightmare Miniatures, Red Bard Miniatures and Aenor Miniatures. Anyone out there who have some favourite old school O&Gs I should check out?
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Warmonger/Wargames Foundry has some orcs, among other fantasy and historicals.
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Loxbourne posted:Played Dirtside 2 a few times. It's solid; good design variety and a lot of weapon options. Uses a lot of counters, which I know some people baulk at, and a "draw results from a cup" system for damage resolution. If that's not an issue for you then there's a decent armour game under there. Second this, it's a really solid game and you can whip up stats for just about any fictional force with ease. The die cup resolution, and using the full range of polyhedral dice for opposed rolls puts some people off, but like Loxbourne said, there's a very good generic 6mm rule set there.
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