Fistful of Lead News

The Royal Revenant Hunting Society's Annual Hunt With city's sewers overflowing with undead, it was time once again for the RRHS Annual Hunt and Fall gala.Attending were the usual notables.  Lord Oliver Throckmorten and his cadre of big game hunters.  Sir Percival Smutts, adventurous inventor, returned from his Mars expedition.  Nefarious Professor Thaddeus Nightshade and his minions.  Sir Reginald Ramsey, gallant rogue, and team of nere' do wells.  From Prussia, Baron Von Hammerfaust  Col. Elias Hackney, ret. and his loyal veterans.  The prey.  The hunting ground  All the disturbance has brought some locals out to watch.  The hunt begins. There...

Fistful of Lead: Big Battles... ...or what we're calling it for now. Last night was another playtest for our rules for playing larger scale Fistful of Lead games. We're trying to keep the same mechanics for the most part, so that players familiar with FfoL can jump right in to larger battles. For this run through I dug out a fraction what used to be my GASLIGHT armies. An Anglo-French army was battling a German force for control of a key crossing. At the end of six turns we checked to see if night had fallen. I present the Battle...

I think I can say, based on the number of times I was asked "You're doing this again next year, right?" that WWW was a success. We had folks from Colorado, Nebraska and of course, my Game Masters from California and Minnesota. The venue was great, if a little dark in places, which can easily be remedied, and our hosts were gracious and kept the beer flowing.   Friday night, Thomas Foss of Skull and Crown Strategems ran his venerable "Starship!" game with his lovely handcrafted ships. Judging by the roars, it went well. (I was busy running my game)....

Fistful of Lead: Galactic Heroes- Star Wars We a great playtest of our Star Wars FfoL Galactic Heroes game for Wiley Wargame Weekend. A group of underworld types were holding a Rebel leader, ready to sell to the highest bidder. Hive of scum and villainy  Some locals  Darth and his personal guard. Read up on these guys.  Close up of the great cards done by Steve  Pour out your beers for General Veers. First one to go down. This boy almost got loose! Great game. Tons of "Pew, pew, pews!" Luke captured the Rebel leader after some negotiation, but didn't...

Wasteland Warriors game and post RECRUITs download. Our WW game was subtitled "the Redemption of Orange Julius". For as long as I've owned this ancient piece of lead, who started out as an original Necromunda miniature, Orange Julius has died countless times on the tabletop battlefield. Usually in the first or second turn. It seemed like he was cursed. Then, out of nowhere, this weekend, he became a killing machine. Whatever met his awful gaze was blasted into oblivion. Has the curse been broken? Only time will tell.  Warleader Arturus surveys the battle  Robots and Replicants  Lancelot leads the charge...