tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:31:01 +0000PaintingInfinityBoard GameRoleplayingStarship CombatRamblingsNewsGZGSession Report15mmDust WarfareDP9Firestorm: ArmadaHeavy GearFull ThrustImpressionsReviewSpaceStar WarsAARWFRP3LPLJovian ChroniclesPast and FutureSpartan GamesFilmVideo GameDiasporaKickstarterMouse GuardSci-FiYamatoBoard Game ReviewMarsTerrainX-WingAge of ConanDzCJapanLotRTORWargame ReviewWrap UpHow ToRPG ReviewTorchbearerHigh FrontierKhurasanLCGLovecraft40kBattlestar GalacticaCarl SaganDeadzoneDescentEarth RebornJudge DreddMordheimNetrunnerPreviewRunewarsSWIASquadron StrikeSystemaAndroidAttack Vector: TacticalEpicFigureGruntzLightning StrikeM:0MERCSMMOMYTHNecromundaRebel MinisRogue TraderStar TrekStarmadaTVTomorrows WarTwilight ImperiumVoidstrikerWFRPAE BountyAntenocitiArtCrimeBeastBios: MegafaunaBooksBurning WheelCold NavyCritical Mass GamesDelta VectorHasslefreeHoPHorus HeresyLegoMEQMJ12MagnetsMass EffectMcGOld CrowOld Stuff DayOldhammerPig Iron ProductionsPulpRavenstarRobotechSerenitySpaceXStar CitizenTacticsThe Uncharted SeasTheoryUpcomingVOTOMSWarhammer InvasionWith Hostile IntentramblingRoleplaying games! Miniature games! Board games!http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Martin)Blogger374125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-2861031253604998750Thu, 12 Jul 2018 22:26:00 +00002018-07-13T09:01:59.537+02:00Mouse GuardRoleplayingTorchbearer Recently I've been listening to the Reckless Dice podcast as they have played a few sessions of Mouse Guard and it reminded me again of how difficult some of the concepts of the game can be. Especially for players used to a more traditional roleplaying format. My immediate thought was to offer some advice about certain things to think about and what stumbling blocks to avoid and http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-mouse-guard-and-torchbearer-primer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-2691769211096267120Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:45:00 +00002018-06-04T23:45:04.848+02:00FilmReviewStar Wars On the 23rd I went to see Solo: A Star Wars Story, and I think it's the most enjoyable since the original trilogy! Unfortunately it was only me and five other people on the nine o'clock at premiere day. Hopefully this will change. But let's go back for a bit. Let's talk about what's happened since The Force Awakens - a movie I quite liked. First there was Rogue One and this one I was lookinghttp://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2018/06/on-solo-rogue-one-and-last-jedi.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-5283808673574084648Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:13:00 +00002018-01-11T14:13:16.803+01:00Past and FutureHaving looked back at the past year, it's time to gaze ahead and try to make out what games are hiding in the mists of tomorrow. Like last year, I'm going to try and think about which games I own that I really want to hit the table, and not just new, seductive titles. Board Games Ok, so let's start out with something new. At the moment there aren't that many must-get titles for 2018, but http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2018/01/future-2018.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-3291247239062224182Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:25:00 +00002017-12-30T15:25:02.202+01:00Board GamePast and FutureRoleplayingDamn, that was fast! Another year of lots of stuff happening, and also a few games played. In this post I will talk about what games I played (and didn't play) and generally how my gaming year of 2017 went. In the next post I will talk about what I'm looking forward to or hope to play in 2018.Let's have a look... Board Games There haven't been anything like our Imperial Assault campaign in http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2017/12/past-2017.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-1117936002889003101Thu, 28 Dec 2017 15:39:00 +00002017-12-28T16:39:52.300+01:00ImpressionsRoleplaying The other day Fria Ligan, aka Free League Publishing, released the Swedish alpha PDF to backers of their upcoming retro fantasy game Forbidden Lands. Of course the English version should be available soon as well. Still as the game draws heavily from the art of Nils Gulliksson, who was the illustrator of Swedish rpgs in the eighties and nineties, as well as some general themes and vibes from http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2017/12/forbidden-lands-alpha-pdf-first.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-8418525341030368471Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:16:00 +00002017-12-04T13:16:33.642+01:00RamblingsRoleplayingWFRP Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay through the ages... With news finally starting to trickle out from Cubicle 7 about the upcoming 4th edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay I've been thinking back a lot on my relationship with the game. I got into the miniatures end of Warhammer, 40k and their sister games back in the late eighties and even though I knew about the rpg end of Warhammer it seemed odd tohttp://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2017/12/warhammer-fantasy-roleplay-retrospective.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-6419698375660431421Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:37:00 +00002017-11-27T13:37:18.738+01:00AndroidBoard GameImpressions The city falls. Yesterday I went to my first JIGG (Japan International Gaming Guild) board game meetup since 2010 and it turned out there were still a couple of familiar faces hanging around, and a bunch of new ones of course. It was good being back and playing games! I started out playing a couple of games of Roll for the Galaxy, a game I own but have only played twice, and it reminded me of http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2017/11/new-angeles-first-impressions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-3458941021056082157Sun, 19 Nov 2017 14:47:00 +00002017-11-19T15:47:56.976+01:00Jovian ChroniclesRoleplayingSession Report On approach to Slumbering Eidolon. We left our heroes just as they had helped uncovering a secret space station in close Jupiter orbit. Having spent some time at Joshua Station it was now time to recalibrate the linear frame and warm up those reactors! The time for blazing spaceships and darting exo armours has come... SPOILERS for Odyssey SEED below! En route to the secret space station, http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2017/11/jovian-chronicles-odyssey-seed-part-4.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-2317621145408536150Fri, 10 Nov 2017 01:00:00 +00002017-11-21T12:49:56.847+01:00Jovian ChroniclesRoleplayingSession Report Jovian vivarium style colony. Time for part three of our space adventure saga! No cheesey drama this time around, just the cold hard facts. While fun to write now and then it makes an event that took 45 minutes to play take up an entire post. Following from part two, let's see what happened next. As always SPOILERS for Odyssey SEED below. Our three JAF pilots stayed with the now pacified http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2017/11/jovian-chronicles-odyssey-seed-part-3.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-7530969921396609878Fri, 20 Oct 2017 01:15:00 +00002022-02-06T23:29:45.449+01:00Jovian ChroniclesRoleplayingSession Report Someone's in trouble. I can't blame you for thinking our Jovian Chronicles campaign (or this blog, for that matter) was dead as a door nail, as the only session report so far was posted way back in March of 2016! Fear not though, we're just extremely slow burn players. In fact we played another three sessions over this past year which I'm just now getting around to chronicling. Thanks to http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2017/10/jovian-chronicles-odyssey-seed-part-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-6512729624915597094Thu, 29 Jun 2017 21:00:00 +00002017-06-29T23:00:29.233+02:00InfinityPaintingInstead of blogging I've been busy with a number of different games related projects. Some of them are too early to talk about but one that I have been focusing on is just lots of fun to share - I've painted a bunch of Infinity minis and played through the Red Veil intro campaign with my buddy Claes! Woop! I think I've mentioned earlier that we split the Red Veil starter last year and were http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2017/06/getting-back-into-that-infinity-groove.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-2209800181189174987Mon, 06 Mar 2017 23:45:00 +00002017-03-07T00:45:52.658+01:00Jovian ChroniclesKickstarterStarship Combat The ships in the basic pledge. Long time readers of Fire Broadside knows that I've been a fan of Dream Pod 9 in general and Jovian Chronicles in particular since nineties when the first (proper) edition of the roleplaying game was released. After getting the core book I managed to snag the Ships of the Fleet line of books that I read and re-read several times as the ship designs not only http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2017/03/jovian-wars-hard-sci-fi-spaceships.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-9201576273559765192Fri, 10 Feb 2017 22:39:00 +00002017-02-10T23:39:32.240+01:00Board GamePast and FutureQuite a bit late, but I am back to have a look at the year ahead and what games I'm excited to play (and buy). Hopefully it'll be more of the former than the latter. Eek! Board Games The game I'm probably most exited to get my hands on is First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet by Ignazy Trzewiczek and Portal Games. Mars was the big new board game theme last year and in the end thehttp://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2017/02/future-2017.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-7486061925275947664Fri, 27 Jan 2017 21:01:00 +00002017-01-27T22:01:01.355+01:00NewsRoleplayingWFRP I'm jumping the gun a bit here, but it's all so exciting I simply can't help myself! Yesterday Grim and Perilous (makers of Zweihänder) reported that a large European publisher had got world wide distribution rights to Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. A few hours of frenzied speculation followed where names such as Modiphius, Mongoose and... Cubicle 7 came up but it was soon inadvertedly http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2017/01/breaking-cubicle-7-aqcuires-warhammer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-1503719585313141848Sat, 31 Dec 2016 16:51:00 +00002016-12-31T17:51:17.107+01:00Board GamePast and FutureAnother year behind us and it's time to have a look back at what came and didn't come to pass during my 2016 gaming year (I'll simply refrain from talking about all the horrible non-gaming related stuff that has been going on and focus on the fun stuff!). As always the board games far outweighs miniature and roleplaying games, but that is only to be expected. So let's get stuck in with the top http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2016/12/past-2016.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-2915532162531819653Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:50:00 +00002016-11-23T23:39:08.751+01:00AARStar WarsSWIA Uh-oh... And we're back with some high adventure from a galaxy far, far away! With only four(?) missions left of the core campaign the heroes are getting more powerful at the same time as the Empire is deploying more of its elite troops. If you need to catch up please check out part one and part two of the campaign. I only needed to paint one additional model for this session - Carnor Jax, I http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2016/11/star-wars-imperial-assault-campaign.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-5559424729380355194Tue, 08 Nov 2016 20:33:00 +00002016-11-08T23:46:13.085+01:00Heavy GearPainting Last month Heavy Gear enthusiast and general nice guy Brandon Keith Fero organized a Heavy Gear painting competition over at the Terra Nova DMZ FB group (head on over if you are even remotely interested in Heavy Gear - it's a great group of people!). At first I felt too busy with Imperial Assault and Infinity to join up, but the more I thought about it the more I wanted to do it! For me the http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2016/11/painted-grizzly-for-heavy-gear.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-640246245936495783Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:00:00 +00002016-10-10T13:00:10.542+02:00AARStar WarsSWIA Pew pew! Time to chronicle the next part of the campaign! With time being quite limited for a few of us we have only managed to play another three missions, but we're still having fun and this means that there is (probably) only three more missions to go before the grande finale! If you need to catch up, part 1 of our campaign chronicles can be read here. As I've finished everything from the http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2016/10/star-wars-imperial-assault-campaign.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-6122931851057222932Wed, 14 Sep 2016 20:40:00 +00002016-09-14T22:40:45.925+02:00Board GameNewsRoleplaying What has long been suspected by the community has now been confirmed by Fantasy Flight Games; they no longer has the license to produce games based on Games Workshop properties and will stop selling any of their current GW based games on February 28th 2017. So... panic and pandemonium among the (rather large) crowd who really like what FFG has managed to do with the different GW IPs. Still, wehttp://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2016/09/which-gw-based-game-to-get-from-ffg.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-2029372290237902584Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:30:00 +00002016-08-29T13:30:34.200+02:00AARPaintingStar WarsSWIA Helloooo! Long time, no see and all that! Well... let's get into it, shall we? About a month ago I got the urge to try the Star Wars: Imperial Assault skirmish game. I've had the core box of SWIA for more than a year but had only got to play it with my nieces which was fun, but didn't really provide the full experience. I don't exactly remember why the inclination to try the skirmish http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2016/08/star-wars-imperial-assault-campaign.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-3212757645746409884Sun, 05 Jun 2016 19:05:00 +00002016-06-05T21:13:03.839+02:00JapanJovian Chronicles Hello! Long time no see and all that. It's weird, every time we go to Japan for a few months I think "great, I'll have a lot more free time to blog and read through all those roleplaying books I want to review!" but then it doesn't turn out like that and in a way I actually have less free time than when I'm back home, working. Very weird. So please excuse the long silence. Now we're back in http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2016/06/back-from-japan-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-5324372518085653742Wed, 06 Apr 2016 12:46:00 +00002016-05-12T20:06:44.020+02:00Jovian ChroniclesReviewWargame Review Last week I had a look at the first wave of fleet scale JAF releases for Jovian Chronicles and Lightning Strike and this week I'm reviewing the CEGA releases! We have the old school Wraith fighters, the stopgap Syreen exo armor and the new mass produced Wyvern exo armor. I put some more background info in this review, as the game is still an unknown for many readers. I'll be going back and http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2016/04/jovian-chronicles-fleet-scale-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-6842557867718823644Mon, 28 Mar 2016 07:54:00 +00002016-05-12T20:10:18.800+02:00Jovian ChroniclesReviewWargame Review Today I bring you a review of the first wave of the new Jovian models for the fleet scale version of Jovian Chronicles and/or Lightning Strike! I have the first wave of CEGA models as well, just waiting to be assembled, but I thought it would be better to split the review into two parts. These models have been long in the making, with a teaser picture of the fleet scale fighters appearinghttp://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2016/03/jovian-chronicles-fleet-scale-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-5543710358997022204Fri, 18 Mar 2016 14:05:00 +00002016-03-21T12:25:22.513+01:00InfinityNews"Whats this now?! I thought you'd stopped reporting Infinity releases!" I hear you say. And yes, I've retired those particular posts at this point in time, but that doesn't mean I get all excited at the end of the month or whenever we get a new sneak peak. It has now been 9 months since I wrote about the last releases and there's been some spectacular stuff added to the range since then. I http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2016/03/infinity-release-highlights.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816649425171456382.post-387445552344358438Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:58:00 +00002017-11-21T12:48:15.293+01:00Jovian ChroniclesRoleplayingSession Report I only snapped one picture while we played but it really captures the session perfectly! It finally happened! Before jetting off to Japan we managed to squeeze in our first session of Jovian Chronicles - a game that has sat on my shelf, unplayed but not unread, since 1997! As you can see we're playing with the first edition rules, although I might steal a few things from Core Command when it http://firebroadside.blogspot.com/2016/03/jovian-chronicles-odyssey-seed-part-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Martin)5