Nights of Fire: 60% off, for David Turczi’s birthday only!

Today only:

In honour of David Turczi’s birthday, Mighty Boards is selling Nights of Fire for 60% off!

Great Ghu, that’s only $18!

https://mighty-boards.com/1/9/products/Nights-of-Fire-Battle-for-Budapest

Buy, folks, buy!

If not for me, do it for David… he recently welcomed a child into the world and he’s gonna need every royalty he can get!

 

Nights of Fire: best European Wargame nominee, 2020!

Nights of Fire has been nominated in the category “Best European Wargame” by the worthy organizations Tric-Trac d’Or and OPJH ! Not sure what this means in the greater scheme of things but it’s nice to be recognized.

Copies are on sale from Mighty Boards! at $45.00 the copy:

https://www.mighty-boards.com/1/9/products/Nights-of-Fire-Battle-for-Budapest

(also, the expansion set of miniatures and cards to play the link game with Days of Ire is also still available, at $35.00)

Melodice: playlist for your favourite games

Now here’s a clever thing!

Melodice.org will assemble a Youtube playlist of favourite musical pieces based on player submissions. Let this play while you are playing, to set the mood.

You can search for different games, so here are two I found for A Distant Plain and Colonial Twilight, and two I made for Nights of Fire and District Commander Kandahar:

https://melodice.org/playlist/a-distant-plain-2013/

https://melodice.org/playlist/colonial-twilight-the-french-algerian-war-1954-62-2017/

https://melodice.org/playlist/nights-of-fire-battle-for-budapest-2019/

https://melodice.org/playlist/district-commander-kandahar-2020/

History Chat Podcast: Days of Ire/ Nights of Fire

Jason Perez and Liz Davidson (who posted a review of Nights of Fire some time ago on Beyond Solitaire, here: Nights of Fire: video review) have a long discussion on the games Days of Ire and Nights of Fire for the first 25 minutes, then spend another 25 minutes discussing the broader historical context and background of the Hungarian Revolution.

Jason puts in a good word for the Red Army expansion kit, which besides miniatures includes material for a campaign game that links the two – so the end state of the first game sets up some conditions for the second, and characters may or may not survive to do things in the sequel.

This is a really great exchange to examine both game and history! Go and have a listen.

Nights of Fire: review by Table for One

A very nice review by Fredrik Schulz at the Table for One site (dedicated to solo gaming), on Nights of Fire and its solo “Konev” system.

https://tableforone.me/blog/review-nights-of-fire-battle-for-budapest-mighty-boards

Nights of Fire: video review by The Players Aid

https://theplayersaid.com/2020/04/12/video-review-nights-of-fire-battle-for-budapest-from-mighty-boards

Grant Kleinheinz reviews Nights of Fire, particularly how you work the “Konev” deck of cards which makes a very interesting Artificial Intelligence for a solo game.

Grant did a long interview with me a couple of years ago with much more about the game itself:

https://theplayersaid.com/2018/02/19/interview-with-brian-train-co-designer-of-nights-of-fire-battle-for-budapest-from-mighty-boards-coming-to-kickstarter-soon/

Thanks Grant!

Nights of Fire: video review

Liz Davidson of “Beyond Solitaire” does a short review of Nights of Fire.

She really liked the theme and the challenging nature of the desperate situation, but would have liked a closer connection to the events relating to the physical locations on the board and thought the final turns of the game (as the Insurgent’s options and numbers dwindle) dragged a bit. Fair enough. But on balance, she liked it!

The Influential Fifteen

photo: Henle House.

In one of the better “that was the decade that was” pieces I’ve seen, over at The Players Aid blog, Grant Kleinheinz has posted his list and impressions of the 15 most influential board wargames he has played in the last decade.

https://theplayersaid.com/2020/01/07/15-most-influential-wargames-of-the-decade-2010-2019

Winter Thunder gets a shout-out, as do two of the COIN series games!

In other news, I had some unstructured time off at the end of December, so in between watching a lot of TV and movies with my wife I got some testing and development work done on Civil Power and Strongman. Getting quite pleased with them!

Compass Games recently announced that the release date for the Brief Border Wars quad will be February 14, 2020. Sneak preview of the game’s cards above. So look out for that!

EDITED TO ADD

Not to be outdone, Rocky Mountain Navy posted his top picks for influential wargames of the 2010s and picked Nights of Fire as advancing the state of “waro” games (or “weuro” games, as I have also seen it).

https://rockymountainnavy.wordpress.com/2020/01/09/rockymountainnavys-influential-wargame-from-to-2010s-h-t-to-playersaidblog-for-the-idea

 

Nights of Fire here at last!

Just ecstatic, yass…

 

At last, my designer copies of Nights of Fire have arrived!

Very pleased with the production overall, and the great artwork on the map, pieces and player aids.

Lianne was wowed by the “toys”, too! That submachine gunner does look just like Yul Brynner….

Nights of Fire: Unboxing video

Today on Moe’s Game Table: Maurice Fitzgerald does a very nice unboxing of Nights of Fire.