Sci-Fi
Federation Commander: Distant Kingdoms — Review
Federation Commander: Distant Kingdoms is a new expansion for Amarillo Design Bureau’s Federation Commander tactical sci-fi board wargame. Similar to their previous expansions Distant Kingdoms comes in an 8 1/2″ x 11″ format with a color cardstock wrapper. Inside are two mounted map boards featuring small (5 hex) and large (7 hex) gas giants, 40 1″ and 108 1/2″ full-color counters, sixteen laminated ship cards (including two large battleship cards), and finally a sixteen page rulebook. Read the rest of this entry »
Federation Commander Draft Rules — Now Available
Amarillo Design Bureau now has the Federation Commander Reference Rulebook Draft 3 available in its online store. It is a new Federation Commander rulebook that incorporates all of the errata. The Draft 3 version,
contains all of the rules from all of the products, laid out end to end in rule number order. It does not contain ship descriptions or scenarios. All published rules updates/changes (errata, addenda, whatever) are included, but these items (marked with a star) are the end of the sub-rule they apply to. The original rules text remains as it was, with the rules update added to the end rather than being “written through” the text.
A proper new, integrated, version will be available in stores in March 2009. It will be titled, Federation Commander Reference Rulebook (5th Edition).
AT-43 — New Scenario
Rackham released a new AT-43 scenario, Traffic Jam. It uses two of the game maps and has some interesting weather effects.
Babylon 5 Miniatures Available Again
IronWind Metals now has the old Mongoose Babylon 5: A Call to Arms miniatures available. They are remastering many of them so only the core units are currently available but they say they will have the entire range available again over time. We have not seen any of them yet so we cannot say how well they look.
See the announcement and the current selection in the IronWind store.
See the original Mongoose Publishing announcement about dropping the line.
Update: Well now it looks like they are going away again as Mongoose is not renewing the license for Babylon 5. Production will cease at the end of June 2009. See the announcement.
Updated: 8DEC08
40K — Large Man Test
Games Workshop released an…ah…interesting video on their new Citadel Realm of Battle modular plastic gaming board.
AT-43 — Cog Army Book Preview
Rackham, in Cry Havoc Online #111, provided three pages from the upcoming Cog Army Book. The pages show the platoon patterns, heroes, and company equipment.
The Rackham website also has another four-page excerpt that covers the A-Volution troops. Those are the big size three Cog troops in exosuits.
[Updated: 21NOV08]
AT-43 Tactics — Review
Rackham recently released AT-43 Tactics: Tactical RPG. Tactics’ physical appearance is typical of the other AT-43 books and is a 64-page, 8 1/2″x11″, soft cover, full-color book. It also includes a page of perforated heavy cardstock counters. Instead of including cards, as some other AT-43 expansions have done, Rackham this time simply included a page with the card art that you will need to photocopy and cut out. Considering none of the cards are actually used as cards in this game but as map overlays (doors and objectives) this works out just fine. Read the rest of this entry »
AT-43 — More Cogs
Rackham gave us another look at the upcoming Cogs for AT-43. Cry Havoc Issue 109 has a full page of fully painted Cogs. Featured are the Sharpshooters and the Gunslingers.
AT-43 — Rackham Factory Views
Rackham posted some pictures from its factory. Most interesting for AT-43 players are the shots of the Succubus Golgoth.
Warhammer 40K 5th Edition Vehicles & Buildings — Podcast
The guys at 40K Radio put together a nice tips and tactics segment on vehicles and buildings in Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition (Episode 15). The podcast goes over the changes to the vehicle rules, how vehicles are now handled in 5th Edition, the new buildng rules as well as tips and tactics for their use. Fast forward to 46min into the show to get right to the topic.
The View from the Turret 
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