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Here’s my experience with the PnP version available at Wargame Vault...
While the maps are sized for letter-sized paper, the card files, counter sheets, and rule book are not, they require legal size paper. The backs for the cards are not laid out to align with the fronts; rather than 6 cards x 3 cards (for a total of 18 cards/page), the backs are 3 x 3 (for 9 cards). By putting two layouts to a page, I was able to get the backs sized to match the fronts, but they didn’t align, so a further hassle in cutting and pasting.
Also, the cards are mini-cards (approx. 46 mm x 64 mm). The back graphics are not properly justified and are misaligned. There are no cut marks for slicing the cards apart.
The Victory Condition cards and backs are all on a single sheet (again, legal size), but not aligned in such a way to make cutting & pasting easy. Rather, some of the individual cards will need to be done separately.
Not home printer, home crafter friendly. ...
Rating: [2 of 5 Stars!] |
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![Naval Thunder: World War II [BUNDLE]](https://www.wargamevault.com/images/2624/95186.jpg) |
Naval Thunder presents the basics of naval combat in a very easy-to-play format. Ship movement is simple to learn and play, but at the same time it captures the essence of the critical factors in changing range, speed, and direction.
Gunfire and torpedo attacks are nicely tailored to range bands which differ by ship class and gun type. Hits and resulting damage are straight-forward, with the excellent twist of Critical Damage. This accords well with my view on naval combat in the WW2 era - sometimes a ship would take a number of hits that do little damage while at other times one or two hits doom a ship. Some damage, such a fires, flooding, and listing, can extend across turns, gradually wearing down the ship's resistance to further structural damage.
A nice plus to the Critical Damage resolution is that offensive and movement capabilities do not degrade in a straight line. So a cruiser might have very heavy hull damage, and in danger of sinking, but the entire main battery may s...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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EDIT: I found a solution to printing at 25mm scale on Anrdoid, so I'm increasing my rating. The answer is PrinterShare Pro; the free version can't even test-print these files, but for a few dollars the paid version does it properly, without shrinking by 10%. 25mm comes out very close to 25mm, maybe 1% undersized. Still, I'm not giving this product 5 stars, because... A) The rooms, while very good, don't use all available tiles on a printed page. B) The remainder of the page is filled with 1-or-2-square items which, while useful, are often duplicated from page to page; with a little imagination the room pages could have included DIFFERENT space-filling items. C) As hinted at in (b), you end up with far too many of various small items after printing the room pages; how many spiral staircases or exclamation-marks can you reallu ses at one time? D) One item is badly UNDER-represented after printing the room-pages: the void-edge. If you need a strip to mark the edge of explorable space ["Th...
Rating: [4 of 5 Stars!] |
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What to say? These paper minis are perfect, . 17 unique figures. excellent dynamic poses, excellent colors ... another low sci-fi military unit introduced in the game ... A pdf document of over 50 MB, ready for high quality printing, a dozen pages including settings, lore, platoon description, soldiers' statistics, instructions ... a truly complete and rich final layout.
Is this products' series perfect? We are getting there. ;-)
In order to be able to use these gorgeous paper minis in other settings and with other wargames rules, it would be necessary to change the color of the eyes and, also for all other products, the uniforms colors.
a multilayered pdf document would be perfect. :-)...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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Optimates et Populares features a really interesting and engaging gameplay concept that manages to capture the feeling and ideas of late Roman republican politics quite well. Both players try to outmatch each other in their influence in the senate, in the election into high political offices, in their relation to the plebs, the legions and the merchants. Bribery, murder, spectacles for the masses, legislative actions, the possibility of "vetoing" the opponent's political efforts and much more generate a very interesting, multi-facetted experience. Every single decision has its consequences. I especially like the fact that the game works almost completely without the luck factor (there are only two instances where luck is important), almost the whole game works like a very intricate balancing of powers, every step is risky, every plan can fail. While the Optimates-player (the old, corrupt nobility) tries to keep as much of the "status quo" as possible by hindering reforms, the Populares...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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