Author Archives: Quirkworthy

The Future Of DreadBall

We spent some hours yesterday talking about the next steps for DreadBall and I managed to sneak a quick photo of Ronnie’s explanation of his vision. I don’t want you to get too excited yet, but I couldn’t keep this … Continue reading

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Deadzone Campaigns Again

A couple of tweaks in this section. Firstly, the strike force goes up to 140 points rather than 100. This gives a great deal more soak to the force and more choice to the player. Coupled with a change in … Continue reading

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Blaze Away Damage In Deadzone

As we’ve talked about before, it makes some sense that damage should be possible with Blaze Away attacks. I’ve tried a number of solutions to this and had abandoned all of them for various reasons. The main problems were that … Continue reading

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Mars Attacks Playtests

Been playing quite a bit of MA of late, working through the core system and tinkering with a card deck as an option if the Kickstarter goes nicely. All the previous games I’ve done with Mantic have gone bonkers on … Continue reading

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Coming Up…

A few bits and bobs to come over the next few days. Deadzone: Blaze Away that can cause damage and a slight change to campaigns. God of Battles: a report on the tournament and details of the campaign day I’ll … Continue reading

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DreadBall – Threatening & Gotcha!

Since the DB3 rules have come out on pdf there has been discussion over whether there is  a mistake in the Threatening rules on page 31.  I’ve spent some time trying to get to the bottom of this and here’s … Continue reading

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Deadzone Campaign Rules

My recent lack of posts has been largely down to sorting through all the comments and feedback for Deadzone and incorporating it into the final version of the rules. I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who … Continue reading

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Spending More Money ;)

Just backed another intriguing looking French game on Kickstarter. This one’s called Color Warz: Dark Threat. Apart from anything else it’s got (yet another) set of counters for the Heroes of Normandie I’ve also got coming 😉 It’s a fresh … Continue reading

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Fun & Frolics

A brief note between deadlines to say a big thank you to the brave souls who came for yesterday’s God of Battles tournament. I enjoyed myself immensely and though it had the perfect atmosphere of competitive fun. I took loads … Continue reading

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Big Day Tomorrow

Well, I say big. It’s probably the same size as other saturdays in reality, it’s just that we’ve got a God of Battles tournament at Foundry, which is quite exciting. I’ve got no idea how many will make it and … Continue reading

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