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Awesome! Would be cool if you checked out the new version of Rolemaster too, to get the "old and new". Rolemaster Unified.

Great game and a true test of intellect to play well! It is still published and a large number of people still play it regularly in the U.S. It is hardly unplayable and has relatively simple mechanics. Like Chess, it is easy to learn and difficult to master.

You explain SFB so well that your video deserves far more views than the 183 it currently has. Well done. 🙂

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Thanks Rob, starting to get my head around the rules and they do appear to be working well for us. Im sure the Orcs will have a different approach to our next battle.

Brilliant. Nearly put alexandera against them. But went with the deep ones. Always think of h g Wells et al....the germ of the ogre in folklore. 😊

The plot thickens. I'm loving this

Hello! Just subscribed/liked. You got me at "Innsmouth build". You might have listened to some of my stuff on "Tailes from the cryptkeeper". My own 'the lion at the turn of the tide' features "the little fishes" lol😊. Love your channel.

Cool! I’m keen on picking up a copy if these rules (since you never can have one ruleset too many 😅). Have you tried Triumph! by the Washington Great Company? That’s what we’ve been playing mostly for the last couple of years and we find it fun. Easy to learn rules. It also has movement distances based on base width. You roll for command points each turn which means that you’re probably not going to move everything each turn but it encourages grouping your units so you can take advantage of group moves. The rules are for historical battles originally but they have a beta version of fantasy rules which is kind of an expansion and that’s what we play. We mostly play in the Warhammer setting though since that’s where we come from gaming wise. Give it a try (and do a video on it 😉)! Thanks for posting this video, cheers!

When I solo'd a campaign, using Warmaster, I used the Solo Wargamers Guide. There's Commander Competancy rolls for how good a commander is; 1d6 I think, and it gave you results such as 'Great', 'Average', 'Poor', ect. I linked that to a Command Value from Warmaster, Great as 10, Average as 8, so on. It made it feel far more emergent having commanders with varying degrees of capabilities even in the same forces, and allowed for a few 'Ulric the Fool' characters to really outshine their old nicknames :D

Great video. I love wargaming in this style, the shifting and moving on the strategic layer really impacts the whacky type of stuff you can get involved in at the tactical layer

Soooo......about 50 years ago when I was a teenager I played a Starfleet game of some sort that needed a lounge floor or garden as a playing area. The ships were flat black silhouettes and were printed on a cardboard circle, they were about the size of a saucer I think. A string that must have been about 8 feet long extended from the centre and around the edge of each circle 360 degrees were marked - a bit like a 360 degree protractor. To fire at and hit an enemy ship you had to guess its bearing on the protractor, extend the string along that bearing and see if it crossed the silhoutte - so you might say "Fire two banks of phasers 60 degrees to port..." etc. Can't remember much else about it - but thanks for invoking the fond memory recall.....

Controversial opinion. Federation Commander > SFB. 😆. FC was my first proper designer game and I discovered it in 2009. As a child of the 90s i grew up with the PC game Starfleet Command, which i later learned was the digital version of SFB. I haven't looked back since!

I remember Henry from the meeples and miniatures podcast, good to put a face to a voice!

nice one, maybe the seller would do you a couple of extra wall sections or an odd tower that you could concert into a holded or damaged section.

Good video review - I do like John B's mdf, his range is massive and they go together well! Also VERY cheap :)

We played this a bit bitd. There was a lot to like about it. But it was clearly made by people who thought D&D was too simplistic, especially the magic system, and didn't rely enough on tables, and wasn't deadly enough. Lots of pc deaths in my few games. It's definitely extremely well organized and comprehensive. But the best part to me were the critical fail tables for weapons. Hilarious. Overall, tho, way too much for me, and I like math. But I've borrowed from it frequently, and it's a constant source of ideas and inspiration to this day.

That fortress does look good and I like the idea of matt varnishing it before painting, I've had the Devils own job painting mdf in the past, it didn't occur to me to think of this, so thank you for that. I like the T shirt, those were 2 very good films I recall his assistant was called Vulnavia.

TT Combat used to do various castle elements, a keep and battlements etc. Well worth a look at all their stuff if they're not on your radar. Also, TEMU have some great MDF and plastic models, I saw a whole medieval village for less than £30, but they didn't seem certain of the scale.

Are you familiar with Against the Darkmaster?

It's pre-apocolypse not post

I enjoy Mork Borg, great dark fun. The beauty of the rulebook is part of its appeal. There are a few games that have done this, the one i think tops Mork Borg in terms of the artistry in the rule book is Hell Night, a 80s Doom Metal Biker game. Like Mork Borg it is more of a one shot type of game but great fun at a convention.

It's funny to see popular D&D RUclipsrs trying to create "new" systems and rules without even knowing that Rolemaster existed and that those ideas already existed in that game. I played DnD, Rolemaster and one darker game... Aquelarre. Oh, also Vampire: the masquerade.

Rolemaster Unified came out less than a year ago and, while a large book, the actual process is much smoother than the original edition. The new bestiary is due out soon.

Rolemaster started as Arms Law and Claw Law which were intended to be an alternate combat system for D&D.

nice one Rob, been waiting for this episode, which flew by. I've seen Henry many times at shows I must pluck up the courage to say hello sometime.

great little skirmish from what I saw, felt a bit like a rival football manager checking out the opposition, and who knew the Dwarves have a bear which is of great interest.

This is fascinating, it reads like a novel, thank you for taking the time to explain it.

Hi Rob, we played a very successful club competition using the Lion Rampant rules, but its been a while since we've been able to take part in a club campaign, so thanks once again. Some real vintage figures on show here nice to see them still in use.

The character roll you made, is that a house rule for the campaign? In the rules if you roll less than 11 the character stays on the table and continues fighting. Also, you're supposed to roll every time a unit takes 2 or more resolve damage, not just when it's destroyed.

I'd love to know now you use spying and scouting, it sounds fascinating

Test of Honour is a very interesting game. They do have the 'bag of destiny' where the unit being activated is random, and each turn is also a little random. You can play it at any scale, but it is designed for 28mm.

I would probably use MDF for basing rather than card, but a good effect you got there Rob

Have to check this Out! The Achtung PANZER!

Looks an interesting game, I will have to give it a go, I ldid like what the event deck was adding to the game. We will have to set up a game of What a Tanker for you, there are some similarities.

Have you tried nail varnish remover to unstick the figures?

Great content - I call ‘shotgun’ for this journey! 👍

Looking forward to this

Very interesting - looking forward to the next one.

Thanks for the video.

Corrections... I found the Dixon weapons in a separate little pack. And it was the spray varnish not pva that stuck the bases to the tray!

Thanks Rob, keep up the good work, its been a while since we played a campaign and i think it may be a new experience for a couple of participants so they are still learning their role. Just think when you do the next one you will be able to match the players to a character. Ive done a few campaigns and part of the fun as an umpire is matching club members to historical roles!

Nice 'umpired' battle account! Looking forward to the main clashes.

Nice looking table

The Star Wars game looks amazing!

Looking forward to seeing how your early battles go. I'm just wrapping up my last 10mm fantasy army and am sorting out all the stats using the Fantastic Battles rules. Hopefully within the next month I'll finally be playing some actual battles. I tried some practice turns and it started to gel but nothing beats the real deal against an actual opponent. Come on undead! 💀🎉

Very much looking forward to a battle report from the campaign. Fantastic battles is such a good, fun game and well supported by its author - I'm always recommending it to people. Two friends and I are coming to the end of a campaign using the campaign rules in the rulebook - which work very well.

It's a great series of books

using less super glue is the key, a tip i saw and use, to keep the glue usable is to pour a drop on to a night light, no idea why this works but it does. Using a kicker certainly helps but im never sure the bond is as good.

I use zipkicker. What I do is a little dot of glue on one side, usually the main piece. Then, I take a brush and dab some zipkicker on the bit (in this case, the wings), and aim and push. It will set almost immediately, so you have to be quick! its my preferred method though. Once it's in place, I use a little more glue and let it get in there and cure. Zap A Gap is best for this stuff, IMO. With 10mm stuff, the reason glue doesnt set is there ends up being too much glue compared to the surface area of what you're joining, so it doesn't cure fast when you press them together. Sometimes if you just wipe a bunch of the glue off and leave just a little behind, it will magically work lol. Those are sweet gargoyles. Kind of want some. Too bad my most recent order just showed up and I am overseas :(