Saturday, October 30, 2010
House of Horrors is a free, downloadable card game that uses the same mechanics as Avalon Hill’s Atlantic Storm naval game.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Friday, September 17, 2010
Utopia Engine is a very interesting-looking solitaire game. The author writes:
Utopia Engine is a free print-and-play dice game for one player. You play an old artificer named Isodoros who is attempting to reconstruct the Utopia Engine, a fabled device from the distant past and possibly the only hope for averting the fast approaching Doomsday. You must recover the machine’s six parts from six dangerous regions and assemble the Utopia Engine before the world ends. The game uses simple dice mechanics to simulate searching the wilderness, activating and assembling powerful artifacts, and combat with artifact weapons.
Requires a printed play sheet, two six-sided dice, and a pencil with eraser.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Gametasia is a collection of free print-and-play board games, for which you’ll need to provide other pieces like dice and chess men.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Monday, August 09, 2010
Airborne in My Pocket is a free, downloadable WWII board game:
The night before June 6th, 1944, during Operation Neptune, thousands of Allied troops were parachuted into enemy territory to prepare the Normandy landings. During that crucial night, amid the flashes of German anti-aircraft fire, many paratroopers were scattered a long way from their drop zones as their planes were either destroyed or unable to reach their drop points.
You are among those troopers. But as luck turns out, the winds have blown you directly where you are needed the most! As you were descending, you discovered a terrible sight: the Germans have installed two 24.0 cm Guns in a hidden bunker. Those cannons are set to fire at the beaches of Normandy. You alone can stop them from killing the Allied troops!
During your jump, you lost your equipment bag which contained all your necessary gear. The only thing you have left is your trusted Colt .45 and your ingenuity. As you fold your parachute, you look at your watch: it’s 0700, the landings are starting. Will you have time to sabotage the German battery before they decimate your comrades? All you need are some explosives…
This game started out as a variant of Zombie in my Pocket, but now has become its own game, with Event cards, inside and outside tiles, scenario cards, item tiles and character cards.
ABimP can be simple (Basic Game) or more involving (Scenarios & Campaigns), as the player wishes. Advanced Game and Scenarios allow you to play as American, British, Canadian, French and even German soldiers. And the expansions bring even more variety with alternate cards and locations.
So join the airborne! Fight the enemy! Win the war!
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Sunday, August 08, 2010
D-Day Dice is a free wargame in which
players are soldiers trying to organize improvised units for an attack against the machine gun nest. Each player starts the game with a unit of a few soldiers and nothing else. As the game progresses, he will collect resources and advance on the beach, sector by sector, as his unit grows stronger and deadlier. He will succeed… or die trying.
This game is designed to be played with regular dice (d6), but can also be played with homemade specialty dice. All you need is a score sheet with a small battle map.
D-Day Dice can be played solitaire or multiplayer co-op, where all players play their turn simultaneously (and can even trade dice).
Although built around dice rolling, this game is about resource management (soldiers, specialists, items and courage) and knowing when to move your unit. Resources are kept from turn to turn, so the players can plan ahead (and help each other out).
The first Battle Map is called Bloody Omaha. Other maps include Gold Beach and Utah Beach.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Smash Monster Rampage is a print-and-play board game with paper miniatures.
From the author:
The ‘Smash Monster’ is a huge monster, taller than the highest skyscraper, and it’s attacking your city. Mobilise your troops and exterminate the beast before every building becomes a heap of rubble. The victorious task force will score more hits and rescue more survivors than their opponent.
Game Overview
Players compete to rescue survivors and win the most ‘Monster Hit’ cards. The ‘Monster Die’ generates random actions for the Monster making the beast npredictable and dangerous. It sets buildings ablaze, creates devastating quakes and destroys everything in its path. Taking turns to move their Tank and/or Helicopter Units, players get into position to attack the Monster. Win ‘Monster Hit’ cards by successfully firing at the Monster and fulfilling the conditions on the cards. Act fast, if the city is flattened before the Monster is killed, the Monster wins!
Hat Tip to Martyn for the link.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Avalance Games offers the third edition of its Panzer Grenadier board game as a free download. There’s a lot of assembly, but its a good way to try it out with minimal cash investment.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Monday, June 21, 2010
I love Dr. Who. Here’s a solo game that lets you help the Doctor save the universe. From the game description:
‘Doctor Who’ is a paragraph based solitaire story game. You read various numbered sections one after another but the sequence of the paragraphs is determined by rules and tables. Each describes a new situation, or provides rules about the choices and actions you can make. There are plenty of events and situations, so each game will be a new, fresh experience.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Friday, May 07, 2010
Phylo is a free pokemon-like card game that focuses on ordinary, but real animals.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Of Monsters and Men is a free board and card game where you guide one of the mythic races of Europe to survival and victory.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Page 4 of 14 pages « First < 2 3 4 5 6 > Last »
Poll #3:
Cast your vote and then join the discussion to tell us why.
Miniature Wargaming is part of the "adventure games" hobby, which includes r ole p laying and board games. Wargamers recreate battles on the tabletop with toy soldiers, like a more complicated game of chess. Models range in height from 6mm to 28mm tall, with 15mm and 25mm being the most popular. There also is a growing interest in toy soldiers and military models, such as the 1/32 and 1/35 scale plastic soldiers from Conte, and Marx.
The most popular miniature wargames are fantasy and science fiction based, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine and The Lord of the Rings. World War II games such as Flames of War and Axis and Allies are new favorites. Other favorite historical periods include Napoleonics, the American Civil War, and ancients, such as Romans or Greeks. Other gamers enjoy miniature naval wargames, recreating battles like Trafalgar, Jutland and the Coral Sea.
Hobbyists research historical periods and paint their tiny soldiers in accurate uniforms. Others develop "historically realistic" rules sets or build scale battlefield terrain using model railroad techniques.
For pictures, visit the gallery.
Some of the bigger hobby companies are Games Workshop, which produces Warhammer, Wargames Foundry and Old Glory Miniatures. Wizards of the Coast produces several lines of pre-painted miniatures games, such as the Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures games, and a historical game with pre-painted miniatures: The new Axis and Allies game. Wizkids produces a fantasy collectable miniatures game, such as the Mage Knight and Heroclick fantasy games, the science fiction games MechWarrior and Rocketmen, as well as the quasi-historical Pirates of the Spanish Main.
|
|
|
|
|
|