Review: Warhammer Quest: Adventure Card Game

Let's take a look at Fantasy Flight's newest dungeon crawler card game - Warhammer Quest: the Adventure Card Game.

The game-play is similar to FFG's LotR card game, except there's no deck-building mechanic, and everything comes in one box (although I'm sure expansions are planned!) 

It's a full cooperative fantasy dungeon crawler, with the "bad guys" controlled by AI rules. The game comes with two "rulebooks", similar to many of FFG's recent offerings. 

One book contains a simple walk through of game play, and the second book is basically a dictionary of every term in the game.

The game comes with several pre-designed quests cards for you to complete, and also includes one free-form quest for endless replayability. One side of the quest cards will tell you how to set up the missions, which monsters to use, and which locations you'll explore, with a few random monsters and locations added for variety. In addition, it explains the victory conditions and what you get for succeeding if playing in a campaign setting.

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Bolt Action - AAR: Germany v USSR

Another Bolt Action Battle Report from Cbax featuring the Germans and the USSR.

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Star Wars Armada - Video Review: Grand Moff Tarkin Has Been Sent to Suppress a Pirate Fleet

This is a game of Star Wars Armada we played, allowing other people to build our fleets for us. The Rebel fleet has a lot of flavor, as Judson intended it to represent a pirate fleet operating on the fringes.

There is a slight audio problem early in the video, but that issue has been resolved.

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Bolt Action - Creating Greatcoat Japanese in 28mm (Part 1)

When we think of Japanese soldiers in WW2 we most often envision veteran jungle fighters in threadbare, tattered thin cotton uniforms charging out of the jungle in a last ditch effort to slow the unstoppable allied island hopping campaign as it drove unrelentingly towards the Japanese mainland. It is an iconic image that has been portrayed on television, in countless books and numerous films. Although this popular image was an accurate portrayal of some Japanese forces, it is not representative of a huge number of the Japanese soldiers that fought in WW2.  The War for Japan started in the early 1930's in Manchuria, throughout China and along the Russian border. Areas not known for their warm and temperate climate. Clearly the soldiers that fought there wore something that was a little more appropriate to their environment.  In the case of Japanese soldiers, many wore greatcoats over their standard uniform.  Wanting to make something that looked different on the table top, I sought to recreate soldiers wearing these uniforms and cold weather gear. 

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Bolt Action - Baconburgers Podcast: Episode 2

The Baconburgers Podcast: Episode 2

In an unprecedented move the Baconburgers have been given a green light to record a second episode. We tackle the hard topics with some rules, hobby, events and a look at operation Mercury! We also catch up with Craig from Laser Touch and eloborate on "Baconburgers With Cheese." 

Enjoy!!

WARNING: This episode contains adult language and themes! BEWARE!!!

You can also find this episode in your friendly, local iTunes store or download it HERE.

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Bolt Action - Review: Rubicon M8 Scott

Cbax brings you a review of Rubicon Models M8 Scott.

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Bolt Action - Beginner's Guide to Making Forests

By Anthony "Anfernee" Mason

  Recently I based up another batch of trees I'd purchased from an ebay store in China for the tabletop. I've probably based about 150 trees this way now and it's quite effective for the small amount of work. I've got enough to make a pretty solid forest table and still have a few more waiting in the wings to be done. So I thought I'd slap together a quick basic guide for those new to the hobby scene who want to add some great looking terrain to their tables.

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Bolt Action - Ghost Army Podcast Episode 14

In this super-sized 14th episode, the guys talk about painting tips and tactics before bundling up warmly to converse with our very own King Of The North, C-Bax. From there, the conversation gets deep into the .Net Season 3 rules changes, Japanese forces outside of the island hopping campaign and how to effectively set terrain up on your table top. We invite you to cuddle up with loved ones by the fire and enjoy this holiday season offering from Down Under!

Happy Holidays!!!

You can download this episode from the iTunes store or directly from HERE.

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Meeting Your Waterloo with “Blücher”

”It is an amazing thing when you bring together good friends, a beautifully detailed 8’ x 12’ terrain board, thousands of awesome looking 15mm miniatures, and a great set of wargame rules to tie them all together to play out one of the most iconic battles in history. That’s what happened when a group of Kentucky wargamers refought the battle, the full battle, of Waterloo in commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the historic battle.

The Waterloo Battlefield in 8' x 12' glory!

The host for this event was Mike Pfanenstiel, perhaps the most prolific wargamer in the state of Kentucky. Mike had built an amazingly detailed and massive wargame board of the Waterloo battlefield and populated that board with over 4000 15mm Napoleonic Miniatures in 91 different units. It was a splendid visual spectacle, even before dice began to roll.  We are truly blessed to have a wargamer like Mike as part of our group!

The French are ready to commence the assault!

To relive this most famous of battles, we used “Blücher” by Sam Mustafa as our rules sets (See my previous rules review). Coincidently, Mike was the lead for the Kentucky playtest group for this rules sets. Mike Pike was is main sparring opponent for these playtest efforts with some lesser support from me in the earlier stages. It was great having a lot of playtester experience going into this game, but really the rules are so easy and straight forward that our two new “Blücher” players, Don Blevins and Charles McKellar had no issue jumping right in a full up Waterloo as their first experience with these rules.

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Star Wars Armada - Video Report: Another Double Header sans Ackbar!

Game One featured a Nebulon Phalanx led by Garm Bel Iblis ambushing a Motti Star Destroyer strike force.




Game Two was an Ozzel-led anti-fighter Imperial battlegroup against a Rieekan led MSU (Multiple Small Unit) Rebel build with no fighters! Keep an eye out for a fantastic maneuver by the Demolisher that altered the game dramatically around 3 minutes in.

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