In the early days of 2020, as most of us were in confinement because of the COVID-19 pandemic, I found myself diving deep into Volko’s COIN series. My journey into the COIN system began somewhat by accident. I had played a couple of games, only with two players, and hadn’t enjoyed the experience. But as […]
Is A Gest of Robin Hood a COIN Game? Read Post »
Designer BlogsThree Days of Gettysburg Deluxe Edition’s design is picking up pace and is now moving through both alpha and beta testing of the current scenarios. These include the traditional first-day battle. However, multiple scenarios have different starting times for the whole July 1st fight. The first scenario begins at 7 AM and is designed with
Three Days of Gettysburg Deluxe Edition – Designer Update Read Post »
Designer Blogs, Development UpdatesWelcome back to Firefight Fridays. Last week in the eighth article I talked about the second scenario, “Between the Reich and a Hard Place”. To do that, we had to cover the basics of support weapons. Now as we move on this week we will look at the third scenario, “A Shot in the Dark”.
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Designer BlogsIt was a good year! Thirty-six individuals competed across a spectrum of five Revolutionary War games at RevCon during Prezcon in Charlottesville, Virginia last week. As always, players either played in only a single favorite game, in multiple games, or they competed in all five games in pursuit of the coveted “George Washington Award” for
RevCon 2024 After Action Report Read Post »
Convention Report, Designer BlogsWelcome back to Firefight Fridays. Last week, in the seventh article, I talked about my approach to scenario design, then about the history, design, and surface level strategies for the first scenario, “Done with Sand”. This week I will be doing the same thing, covering the second scenario “Between the Reich and a Hard Place”.
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Designer BlogsWelcome back to Firefight Fridays. Last week, in the sixth article, I wrote up an AAR based on our recorded playthrough of scenario 7, “To the Last Man, To the Last Cartridge”. This week we are shifting gears into the first in a multi-part series on the scenario design of Firefight Tactical. For this first article, since
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Designer BlogsWe intend to offer up our design notes regarding our simulation of the 2nd Russo-Ukrainian War, Defiance, beginning with Volume 1: Miracle on Dnipro: Kyiv & Chernihiv Campaign, from time to time. Given that we are designing a simulation regarding an ongoing conflict, it’s a first draft of history. Consequently, at least you’ll get some
Defiance Design Happy Hour: Modeling the Combat of 2nd Russo-Ukrainian War Read Post »
Designer BlogsWelcome back to Firefight Fridays. Last week in the fifth article we covered the major checks that occur in a game of Firefight Tactical. In doing so we finally finished talking about the core game mechanics, and in celebration we will do something entirely different this week. Firefight Tactical’s lead developer, Peter Evans, and I recorded a playthrough
Firefight Friday #6: Nowhere to Run Read Post »
Designer BlogsWelcome back to Firefight Fridays. Last week in the fourth article we looked at the core squad types and their functions. This week we will round out the core mechanisms and look at how checks work. This will be superficially familiar to many, but I promise there are some fun wrinkles in there. Many actions
Firefight Friday #5: Check the Rules Read Post »
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