Mar 16, 2011
Exp: As Shane takes his first shaky steps back into wargaming, having discovered Ambush Alley at ConFESS some time ago and finally decided to take the plunge, the game itself is briefly occupying a strange position before its second edition but after lots of tweaks and spin-offs. Shane, humbug, Cillian, Stu, and Liam sit down (or stay sat down, for this was originally recorded as one episode alongside our review of Battles of Westeros) to talk about the ups and downs of martyring unbelievers and slotting hajis. Features:
- We talked about Battles of Westeros
- Ambush Alley
- Warhammer 40,000
- Necromunda
- Video of Liam playing Ambush Alley at Gaelcon
- Scale creep
- In media res, that's Latin, you'd have to be pretty clever to use that
- Fog of war
- Optimum range and effective range
- Ambush Z
- Ambush Valley
- Tomorrow's War
- Force on Force
- Proper explosives that aren't made from detergent
- Force on Force new edition
- Force on Force new edition on Amazon.co.uk
- Fistfuls of dice
- Liam mistakes Ethiopia for Somalia
- Cross-Town Traffic
- Ambush Z minis starter set
- Effective play first time
- Our episode on Lego board games
- Tweaking close combat for Afghanistan
- GI Samurai on BadMovies.Org
- Campaign play
- Solo play and the shared experience
- That's "craic", foreigners
- Space Crusade on BoardGameGeek
- Escape From Colditz on BoardGameGeek
- Last Night On Earth
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