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What Ho! And Away We Go

The latest in our series of downloadable skirmish games is What Ho! Its also the first to not have a free option, costing a minimum of 5...

How I Write Skirmish War Games: Multiplayer Problems

Traditional table-top wargames tend to set up as one on one versus competitive games, if they allow for more than two players it furtherm...

How I Write Skirmish War Games: Campaigns

In my anecdotal experience the journey from gamer to game designer goes something like this; New weapon/character/unit; New Scenario; New...

Legends: Making Tales

Legends is the second in our series of short miniatures skirmish games. It is a fast moving game of extreme events struggled over by indi...

How I Write Skirmish War Games: Narrative As Goal Not Excuse, Part 2 Narrative Rules

Narrative scenarios are all well and good but they are fundamentally an addition to an existing rules set and the best way to achieve a n...

How I Write Skirmish War Games: Narrative As Goal Not Excuse, Part 1 Scenarios

There is a sentence that turns up in various war games, it amounts to something like this: “if rules are unclear/confusing/badly written ...

How I Write Skirmish War Games: Chance and Punishment

Dice and probability are an inevitability in any war game, however a distressing number of games include it simply because "war games inc...

How I Write Skirmish War Games: Introduction and Manifesto

I've worked on a few miniatures war games now, written a handful and studied a whole bunch, as such I've formed a set of hopefully useful...

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Pitch and Yaw: Under Sail

Pitch and Yaw is the first of what will eventually be a series of short miniatures skirmish games. It is a fast moving game of asymmetric...

Urban Nights

Urban Nights is designed to allow multiple players to engage in a small playing area in relatively short time. It requires each player to...

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