Ludic Futurism
June 25, 2020 Leave a comment
Rob of “Rob’s Tabletop World” gives a really kind and enthusiastic overview of Brief Border Wars and talks about the graphics and some of the game subsystems.
Maurice Fitzgerald posts a short unboxing video for Brief Border Wars. First look I’ve had at how everything printed out!
June 19, 2020 1 Comment
Errata (like ants at a picnic):
Football War
Sequence of Play aid: per the system rules, Urban area always gives +2d6 for the defender.
Operation Attila
Setting up the Game: Cypriot forces, read ELDYK instead of GRK (couldn’t make the longer acronym fit on my original counters); Turkish forces, read KTA not TRK (later research uncovered the Turkish language acronym)
Third Indochina War
Sequence of play aid: per the system rules, Urban area always gives +2d6 for the defender.
Second Lebanon War
Setting up the game: Reference is made to placing 3 leftover Irregular units anywhere in Lebanon; actually it’s 2 Rocket and 1 Irregular, anywhere in Lebanon.
June 16, 2020 1 Comment
https://www.compassgames.com/brief-border-wars.html
Available and shipping as of today!
Still shows price of $52 so perhaps you can order quickly and save a few dollars too!
As was briefly discussed in the recent interview with John Kranz, I have been mulling over another set of four conflicts… nothing succeeds like a sequel (which is rather idiotically self-referential, now that I think about it).
June 12, 2020 Leave a comment
Screenshot from website.
Casey Bruyn is making a version of Winter Thunder, complete with Artificial Intelligence, that will play on Steam! Game is also playable 2-player “hot seat”, if you like. Due out the end of 2020!
He has already worked on Krim, a 1990s Ty Bomba game on the Crimean campaign that was in an early issue of Command magazine.
June 6, 2020 1 Comment
On the Tube of You, Edward from “Heavy Cardboard” (on the 6th anniversary of his show!) plays a COIN system game for the first time: Colonial Twilight. He does something a little different: he plays the short scenario and takes the role of Government, introducing and teaching the game as he goes, while the Peanut Gallery (everyone watching: including Volko Ruhnke himself for a while!) discusses and suggests the FLN moves. What a great idea to learn the game collectively!
He didn’t promise to play the game well, and you know what, I don’t play games particularly well either; never have. But the play and the learning of it is the thing, for me.
Thanks Edward! I appreciate it.
(note: the stream goes for about 7 hours since it’s his first COIN game, and he introduces everything about the game first… so feel free to skip ahead to the game itself. The main commenter in the Peanut Galley, Laura Guy, very ably played the FLN!)
June 3, 2020 2 Comments
Coming to an Orthicon Tube near you: John Kranz of Compass Games does a live online interview with me!
Mostly we will be talking about the Brief Border Wars Quad, coming out Real Soon Now from Compass, but maybe other things if John lets Unca’ Gran’pa’s mind and mouth wander….
Friday, June 5, 2020: 1700 Pacific, 2000 Eastern
Click on the above or below to set a reminder!
Tune in, maggots!
brtrain 
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