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Sometimes you have to push a game to it's limits to see if it breaks (like we tried with 45 spaceships a couple of weeks ago). So last night we packed my 8' x 6' table with miniatures until it was veritably groaning under the weight of terrain and miniatures to play test some more Fistful of Lead: Big Battles. We used Steve's huge Star Wars collection and included a fair number of vehicles, making an exception this time on unpainted minis to get as much as we could for the 6 players. As a reminder, Big Battles uses the...

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Last night we had a small battle by Basement General standards, but it was another play test of "Big Battles". Revolutionary forces were trying to capture a government gold shipment stowed away at the local leader's hacienda. They were also looking for a local priest to save him form Federal custody. The Federales needed to reinforce the lightly guarded gold and capture the priest who had been preaching insurrection to the locals. For this game, all troops were the same grade with no unit traits other than the mounted troops and a machine gun. Officers had traits.  The sleepy village...

Fistful of Lead: Big Battles play test Star Wars Just today, in my basement, not far away... I had a really enjoyable play test for Fistful of Lead: Big Battles (working title) earlier today with Basement General Steve and his wonderful collection of Star Wars miniatures. those that follow the blog will know we've done several play tests with large amount of troops and players, but I wanted a smaller go at it 2 players and 7-9 five man units a side.  Imperial forces: 6 units to the Rebel 8 We used stats for the troops pretty much as it...

With the release of the new Star Wars film, it was only fitting we tried another go at our space fighter combat rules based, yes, on the Fistful of Lead game engine.Since our last game we've refined a few things and made a test simple build system so players can make ships from their favorite universe. We used the same scenario but let players "draft" their squadrons from 3 factions. Mercenaries could be used by both sides. The Fleet: 6 players, 33 ships on the table I ended up with 3 TIE fighters, a TIE Interceptor, a TIE defender and...