World Tank Museum, Fantasy Flight Games

E hei-los que já cá cantam!

No seguimento do anunciado na Press Release de Março de 2007, já foi lançada a primeira série de produtos World Tank Museum pela Fantasy Flight Games, respectivamente a Bulge Series (Platoon Packs, Single Packs) e Panzertales.

Todos este produtos já disponiveis no mercado nacional, se bem com quantidades algo moderadas. Lá por fora esta série de lançamentos parece estar praticamente esgotada (por exemplo no EBay todo o material listado tem desaparecido à velocidade da luz).

Devo dizer que já tenho na minha mão os Platoons Pack e um dos Single Pack, e como não poderia deixar de ser o livro Panzertales, e como esperado a qualidade está espectacular, não fosse tudo isto material produzido pela Kaiyodo.

Isto tudo em preparação para:

World Tank Campaigns™ (WTC) is a series of tactical games that employ cards, miniatures, and boards in a fast-playing action game designed primarly for solitaire, with one-on-one action as well. WTC is the brainchild of Dana Lombardy, designer of the award winning Streets of Stalingrad.

Our initial game in the series is BULGE Edition, with the second game in the series, KURSK Edition, slated for release this fall.

Germany’s last gamble to change the course of the war initially surprised the American forces, but it resulted in a major Allied victory. Now YOU play the role of a German or American tank commander directing a platoon of tanks with supporting forces.

BULGE EDITION

Each STARTER Set has everything you need to play SOLITAIRE and 2-PLAYER games:

• 2 historically accurate, incredibly detailed 1/144 scale plastic tanks
• Miniature tanks are pre-painted and fully assembled and include a historical information sheet about each tank
• 2 full-color battle “boards” unique to the Ardennes and the Sherman M4A3 and Panther G tanks
• 6 custom designed army-specic dice, plus standard d6 & d10
• 88 full-color playing cards make gameplay fast and exciting
• 55 die-cut play aid tokens (not show here), illustrated rulebook, and Quick Start Rules for the solitaire game

2 EXPANSION Sets include:

• 22 additional cards, a Jagdpanzer IV tank-killer or King Tiger super heavy tank with their own unique battle boards and scenarios.

Venham os proximos!

Alguns links adicionais:
http://www.world-tank-museum.com
http://www.world-tank-campaigns.com

AT-43: Novidades Julho 2007

Na ultima newsletter Cry Havoc Online #41 são anunciados os próximos lançamentos da Rackham para o jogo AT-43, que estarão disponíveis a 13 de Julho.

Teremos lançamentos para Red Blok e UNA, dos quais saliento os Death Dealer TacArms, que estão muito bem conseguidos, e ainda a novidade dos Reversible Gaming Tiles.

UNIT BOX : DEFENDER SNAKE	UNIT BOX : KOSSAK

ATTACHMENT BOX : KRASNYE SOLDATY	ATTACHMENT BOX : SPETSNATZ KOMMANDOS	UNIT BOX : DEATH DEALER TACARMS	REVERSIBLE GAMING TILES AT-43
	Cry Havoc, Volume 17. French edition only.

Wargames Painting & Modelling: Suplemento

Mais novidades sobre esta revista gratuita, dedicada aos assuntos de pintura e modelismo orientados para a vertente de Wargames.

Acabaram de lançar um suplemento - The Old West - ao seu segundo número, bastando mais uma vez visitar o WP&M Blog para efectuar o download:

Due to the number of Cowboy photos we were sent for issue 2 we were unable to publish them all in the magazine. Luckily I have been able to grab a few moments to put all the extra pictures into the very first WP&M Supplement… The Old West.

There are no painting guides in this PDF, just 11 pages of painted wild west miniatures for you to gaze at.

Battlefield Evolution: Wave 3

Battlefield Evolution
Mongoose Publishing

Desta vez apenas com um atraso de uma semanas relativamente à data de lançamento Europeia de 12 de Junho, a terceira série (Wave 3) de miniaturas e veículos pré-pintados desta novo jogo acaba de dar à costa, desembarcando em terras Lusas em quantidades que parecem cada vez mais pequenas e mais uma vez com um perfil muito, muito reduzido.

MEA - Middle Eastern Alliance



USMC - United States Marine Corps



EFTF - European Federation Task Force

Existindo ainda material adicional sobre as outras forças do jogo: PLA - Chinese People's Liberation Army.

Wargames Journal: De Volta as Raizes

A revista Wargames Journal volta às suas raízes, deixando a publicação bimensal em papel para voltar a um formato PDF, disponível para download gratuito.

WARGAMES JOURNAL NEWS - GOING BACK TO OUR ROOTS!
We have some very exciting news here at Wargames Journal.

You may know that our heritage is as an on-line resource for Wargamers all over the world and each issue of our downloadable version of Wargames Journal was typically downloaded over 20,000 times. We moved to a print magazine almost a year ago and although that’s also proved to be extremely popular, we still get lots and lots of requests for a downloadable magazine.

We have therefore decided to go back to our roots and revert to publishing a downloadable PDF magazine which will be free of charge.

We are now in the process of contacting all our subscribers and arranging refunds for issues they have paid for, but will now be available to download free of charge. We’re also contacted advertisers because the reduced cost of producing an online magazine means that we can reduce our advertising rates as well. If you’re a subscriber or an advertiser – or would like to be an advertiser – and have any queries, please contact katie@rebelpublishing.net

Rest assured, the magazine will still be full colour A4 size and still include the rich content that is there today We look forward to providing all the exciting features you love, but making them free of charge again.

All the best,
Neil Fawcett
Editor

Wargames Painting & Modelling

Mais novidades sobre esta revista gratuita, dedicada aos assuntos de pintura e modelismo orientados para a vertente de Wargames.

O segundo número acabou de ser lançado, basta visitar o WP&M Blog para efectuar o download.

Alguns dos assuntos abordados neste segundo número:

Brent “Da Great Queeg” Watterson reveals how he paints his white-washed AFV’s.

There is the second of our WWII camouflage articles. Carl Robson quickly shows us how he paints SS Autumn Oakleaf camouflage.

Our “Themed Galleries” for issue 2 are all about Cowboys, with plenty of examples of painted gunfighters and desperados.

Tannhäuser: Video de Apresentação

A Fantasy Flight Games publicou no seu site um video bastante interessante (em formato QuickTime) que apresenta parte da história por detrás do jogo Tannhäuser, cuja versão inglesa irá ser lançada por esta empresa lá mais para o verão de 2007.

O video mostra as diversas miniaturas pré-pintadas que acompanham o jogo, e apresenta uma breve explicação inicial das regras de movimento e linha de vista do jogo.

A dar uma vista de olhos.

Frontline General News: Junho 2007

A edição de Junho de 2007 da Frontline General™ News já está disponível online deste o inicio deste mês.

Fica aqui um pequeno apanhado do conteúdo desta edição:

June 1, 2007: This month, the newsletter presents Part II in a series on land-based Anti-tank warfare, this time from a historical WWII German perspective. In this article, you’ll read about various weaponry and methods used by the Germans to combat the constantly evolving threat posed by allied tanks on the battlefield. Throughout the article, you’ll read how each weapon introduced relates to the game, with a total of four new Frontline General Unit Cards previewed along the way. Near the end, you’ll read a brief study on the famous Tiger I heavy tank and its impact in the game, since a discussion of anti-tank warfare would not be complete without taking a look at tank vs. tank engagements.

A progress report on the game’s completion is also provided in the Editor’s Notes section.

I want to send a special thanks to Alan Hamby this month for his gracious allowance to use several of his Tiger I photographs. Check out the link to his excellent website in the newsletter. Enjoy Issue 9!

Battlefield Evolution: Previews Wave 4 e 5

Battlefield Evolution
Mongoose Publishing

Já apresentadas à algum tempo no site oficial, aqui fica uma referência à constituição da terceira e quarta séries de lançamentos de miniaturas e veículos pré-pintados deste jogo, a ocorrerem em finais de Julho deste ano, e nos meses seguintes:


Wave 4

• EFTF British Army Future Lynx
• MEA Zulfiqar 3 Main Battle Tank
• PLA EQ2050 Air Defence System
• USMC AH-1Z Super Cobra

Wave 5

• EFTF German Leopard 2 140mm MBT
• PLA Sniper Teams
• USMC Stinger Teams
• MEA Snipers & Revered Leader

Com as próximas séries teremos a introdução em jogo de veículos aéreos, nomeadamente helicópteros, e peças anti-aérea.

De salientar que as imagens são de protótipos, não apresentando ainda as peças de produção final que estarão à venda.

BattleTech Reloaded

A Catalyst Games publicou no seu site informação sobre os seus futuros lançamentos Classic BattleTech: o Classic Battletech Box Set e Starterbook: Sword and Dragon.

Classic Battletech Box Set

• 24 unpainted plastic BattleMech miniatures (some assembly required)
• One 12-page full-color quick-start rulebook will have you into the action in minutes
• One 64-page full-color rulebook
• Inner Sphere at a Glance, a 48-page full-color book containing universe background and BattleMech technical data
• One 32-page book of pre-generated BattleMech Record Sheets
• One 16-page full-color Painting and Tactics Guide
• Two heavy-duty cards of compiled tables
• Two 22” x 27” full-color mapsheets, with two different maps printed on either side of both mapsheets
• Two six-sided dice
• One full-color, poster-sized map of the Inner Sphere circa 3067

Fictional Reality: Junho 2007

Já se encontra disponível para download o número 28 da Fictional Reality, edição de Junho de 2007:

FICTIONAL REALITY IS A QUARTERLY GAMING MAGAZINE THAT COVERS MINIATURE WARGAMES, BOARD GAMES, TERRAIN BUILDING, SCULPTING AND EVEN ROLE-PLAYING GAMES. FICTIONAL REALITY IS ALWAYS FREE AND WE'RE ABOUT TO START OUR EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLISHING.

THE JUNE 2007 ISSUE OF FICTIONAL REALITY IS NOW AVAILABLE AND CAN BE DOWNLOADED BY CLICKING ON THE COVER TO THE LEFT. INSIDE YOU'LL FIND THIS AND MORE...

BATTLE REPORTS: STAR MOGUL AND WARMACHINE VS. HORDES

GAME REVIEWS: MICRO ARMOR WWII, HORRORCLIX, ALL THINGS ZOMBIE, CINEPLEXITY, AND MORE

MINIATURE REVIEWS: REAPER, HASSLEFREE, CORVUS BELLI, ABERRANT, 3D-MINIATURES, AND MORE

TERRAIN WORKSHOP: SCI-FI BUILDINGS

THIS ISSUE IS RATHER LARGE SO YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE FIRST HALF HERE IF YOU LIKE AND THE SECOND HALF HERE.

Signs & Portents Wargamer 45

A Mongoose Publishing publicou no inicio do mês de Junho o número 45 da Signs & Portents Wargamer, a sua revista gratuita (formato PDF) sobre wargaming, orientada para a sua linha de produtos, claro.

Este número tem o seguinte conteúdo:

A bit of a Babylon 5 special this month, with two new scenarios for A Call to Arms, new League ships, and an article on scratchbuilding Soul Hunters and using them in your games.

As well as that, we have a superb battle report for Battlefield Evolution, featuring the SAS, and another for Mighty Armies.

More secrets of the Forth are unveiled for Starship Troopers Evolution, we continue our trek into the Cursed Earth with Gangs of Mega-City One, and conclude the Zapasnovan War campaign for Battlefield Evolution, meaning you can now play the whole thing back to back!

Wings of War Miniatures, Reloaded

Não consegui resistir à primeira leva de Wings of War Miniatures que tinha adquirido e acabei por adquirir as miniaturas restantes desta primeira série.

Devo indicar que a Runadrake possui em stock todo o material editado do jogo Wings Of War - se bem que cada vez menos, o sucesso tem sido bastante significativo - incluindo as três caixas editadas do jogo, os boosters de expansão, e a primeira série de 12 miniaturas à escala 1:144.

Aqui ficam mais umas imagens da segunda leva de miniaturas que acabei por adquirir:

E aproveitei a oportunidade e completei a colecção Wings of War com a aquisição do Wings of War: Burning Drachens.

Battlefield Evolution Rulebook

Battlefield Evolution
Mongoose Publishing

Mais umas imagens da segunda série (Wave 2) de miniaturas e veiculos pré-pintados que acabaram de dar à costa, em quantidades muito pequenas e mais uma vez com um perfil muito, muito reduzido.

MEA - Middle Easter Alliance





Tem um certo charme, estas miniaturas... é o mínimo que se pode dizer.

O manual de regras avançadas foi lançado como previsto em meados de Maio de 2007, e já se encontra disponível para compra em sites europeus, não havendo uma data ainda prevista a nível nacional.

Battlefield Evolution Advanced Rulebook

Welcome to the battlefield of the near future!

Battlefield Evolution is a fast-paced and easy to learn miniatures game, with enough tactical depth to keep you hooked for years. You will command small forces based on real world armies of the near future, and attempt to overwhelm your opponents with tactical skill and a healthy dose of luck!

Based on supposition and projection of real world armies in the near future, this game features new technologies that are just around the corner – you will be among the first to experience how such weapons and equipment can affect the modern battlefield from the point of view of a soldier. There are several different armies to collect, each with a wide range of units and tactical abilities

This rulebook provides many advanced rules such as battles involving emplacements, air units, artillery, minefields, lots of new scenarios to test your tactical capabilities, army lists, and a complete campaign system.