Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Hiding in the bushes

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Today’s hobby was a visit to https://spellenspektakel.nl/
It was great to see how wargames were taking more floor space.

The depressing bit was seeing the things the 40k tournament used for their terrain.
I thought the cardboard L-shaped terrain was an unfortunate incident somewhere, but I got the distinct impression that the terrain had been deliberately designed to be that flat and boring.

What made it even more odd was that there were two tables for Legion games that were filled with pretty terrain. There was even a trader selling 3D printed terrain that appeared to be the source of the painted terrain on one of the tables.

I did see a demo of ‘Test of Honour’, which meant I now have one more game on my list of things I want to own. The mechanics reminded me of ‘Bolt-Action’ with a twist.

I probably would have bought a few #MAWM bits, but then I spotted Asmodee booth with Shatterpoint at #FireSale level of pricing. As such I am now the owner of the starterset, one extra dice set and 3 squad boxes for the grand total of less than whatever that starter set costs. They also gave away a few boosterpacks for the starwars cardgame, but I suspect that’s a carefully designed ploy to trick people into buying into that game.

@pagan8th and you haven’t had a fellow player scream at you for telling the GM an enemy attack ought to have done more damage ? 😉

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Solo rules ?
I’ve been keeping an eye on wargames that have them, but I have yet to try any of them.

Port Royal is another game that has solo rules as part of the core rulebook, which is really nice.
I think the various *grave games are also playable ‘solo’ as the rules do feature third party monsters that makes thing interesting even if you don’t have an actual human opponent. ‘Corespace’ and ‘The walking dead’ have those options as well.

Cheating isn’t an issue if the game has easy to follow mechanics for running the ‘AI’ of the enemy. The more the behaviour depends on the player working against his own team the less likely those rules are going to be fun to use.