Aug 122014
 

Heavy Gear Blitz - Tabletop Wargaming - Beta Rules Cover Small WebWell it’s the last day til Gen Con. It is going to be an amazing show. If you’re a Heavy Gear fan or interested in Heavy Gear I have one more thing to say.  Today August 12th I will bring you a handful of videos on Heavy Gear including a Flip Through (4:00P.M. E.S.T.D. on YouTube) of the New Heavy Gear Blitz Beta Rules for Tabletop Wargaming. The Heavy Gear Blitz Beta Rules are the most anticipated event of the show for me.

Heavy Gear is a combined arms game that is set in the future, where humans pilot armored battle suits into battle. The settlers of Terra Nova have been cut off from earth and they struggle for political power. This often creates hostile actions that can lead to war.

 

The planet of Terra Nova isn’t too different from our Earth. It has jungles, forests, mountains, lakes, and a vast desert that runs through the center of planet that separates the north from the south.

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Box Breaking 111 Dementalism from Off the Cob Productions

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Aug 112014
 

In this Box breaking Matt looks at Dementalism, a wacky game of memory. Dementalism is the game child of Andy Hopp and Off the Cob Productions. Featuring the art of Andy Hopp.  Andy is also the manstermind behind Low Life and half a dozen other games.

 


Leare more here Dementalism.

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Box Breaking 110 Regular Show Fluxx From Looney Labs

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Aug 112014
 

In this Box Breaking Matt takes a look at Regular Show Fluxx. Regular Show Fluxx uses Fluxx rules to create a card game in the Regular Show world. Fluxx is produced by Looney Labs.

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Box Breaking 109 Templar from Queen Games

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Aug 112014
 

In this Box Breaking Matt takes a look at Templar from Queen Games.  Templar is a board game that focuses on hiding treasure from the king.

 

 

My first box breaking on a Queen Games Product – how awesome!  I hope to have a written review up shortly after I return from Gen Con

 

 

Alien Uprising: X-14 Expansion

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Aug 112014
 

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$14.99 SRP

 

The X-14 Expansion introduces a new character to the Crew known as X-14. She is a headstrong android who’s been programmed to help her shipmates any way she can. Also included is a new Character Sheet as well as 11 personal Crewman cards and a custom sculpt of X-14 herself. Tighten up your nuts and bolts!

CountDown to Gen Con 2 Days Left.

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Aug 102014
 

With only two days left I’m super anxious, I want to give out prizes, see friends, make new ones, and play some games.  In fact I’ll be running an event that materialized from my kickstarter, a scavenger hunt. While the hunt is largely for the backers there are a couple of ways others can join. The first is to be asked by one of the backers to play. The other is for you to find me on Friday and mention this article, I have three slots that I can award out.

All players will receive a set of cards that have instructions on the back. Most of these involve exploring the exhibit hall to play a game demo at particular booth. Since it’s a scavenger hunt there are a few quests like find your favorite cosplay and get a picture with them.

When the exhibit hall closes all players will meet near the stage for a drawing. I have a quite a few prizes to give away like Mage Wars core set, A looney labs bundle, The Amega Weapon, and more.

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Alien Uprising: Zothren Expansion

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Aug 102014
 

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Alien Uprising: Zothren Expansion

$34.99 SRP

 

BUGS! Everywhere! The Crew has encountered more trouble as they travel through Space. Can you and your Crew take on more Zothrens and survive the Alien Uprising?

 

Contains:

23 finely sculpted Zothren aliens:                                                                                                     -2 Archers

-9 Slashers                                                                                                                                                  -2 Scavengers

-2 Tunnelers                                                                                                                                               -2 Champions

-2 Brutes                                                                                                                                                      -2 Leaders

-2 Scouts                                                                                                                                                      1 brand new scenario and Wound tokens!

Numenera: Technnology Compendium

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Aug 102014
 

Numenera: Technnology Compendium

$39.99 SRP

 

The namesake of the entire game line, the “numenera” are artifacts, oddities, and little bits of almost magic-like technology left to the Ninth World by a billion years of previous civilizations. Now the Ninth World’s foremost expert, the redoubtable (though perhaps not entirely sane) Sir Arthour, brings nearly 1,000 new items to the Numenera gaming table!

 

The Technology Compendium contains 400 new cyphers, 225 new artifacts, and 300 new oddities. For the players, it introduces a new race: the artificial intelligence. And it includes extensive GM advice on integrating incredibly advanced technologies into your game.

3 Days to Gen Con

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Aug 102014
 

With only three days left I have way too much to do. The excitement is building.

 

Today I’d like to focus on RPG’s that I’m looking forward to; Numenera and Mindjamer.

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The internet has been buzzing about Monte Cook’s Numenera well since before the kickstarter. The world he has created must truly be phenomenal. It features an amazing setting, where a future earth is a playground of past technology. The humans use these artifacts to achieve all kinds of weird.  Numenera uses a fast play character system that allows players to enter the story more quickly than other games.

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Mindjamer is another Science fiction RPG  that looks more than promising. Set in the far future this game uses the Fate Core System. Like Numenera it is a story focused game. But since it is a complet rules set it does include some really cool rules sets, like starship construction.

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If you’re a science fiction role player looking for a new experiences these two worlds should fill your cup.

 

Tomorrow I might rest, but I look forward to writing you again.

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Alien Uprising

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Aug 092014
 

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Alien Uprising

$69.99 SRP

 

Tensions have been high with the alien “bug” races of the galaxy – the Zothren – and your ship has crash landed on the planet Hive IV, one of the more renegade “bug” planets. You quickly set up perimeter force fields and begin surveying the surrounding terrain for debris from your ship, only to find it scattered everywhere. Then you see them – at first only a few “bug” scouts, but then the numbers begin to increase all around you: archers, slashers, and even the monstrous brutes. This is more than a scouting party; this is a war party! They begin to attack the shields as the crew starts to retrieve debris. The SOS has been sent and a ship in the sector has responded, but can it get to you before the “bugs” overwhelm your crew? Can you repair parts of the ship and use it as a defense? Can you repair the hull and fire up the engine to lift off? It’s all in the hands of the crew – your hands.

 

In Alien Uprising, the player crew must either hold off the Zothren attacks until the rescue ship arrives, or repair the ship and lift off from the hostile planet before being destroyed. To achieve either of these goals, the crew must work together, using their unique skills and chosen actions to perform a number of tasks, defend themselves, and retrieve and repair equipment and the ship.

 

To establish the actions available each turn, the first player rolls custom dice, then each player chooses an action for the turn, starting with the first player. The available actions include combat, engineering, reload/recharge first aid, scout, and wild; the dice also have an alien icon that shows the speed of the enemy while limiting the actions that players have available to them. Players also have unique character skills, and the game can be set to higher levels of difficulty for more experienced players.

 

1-5 players

Ages 14+

90-120 minute play time