We moved to a new blog.
A new blog where not only Fear of the Dark has a place, but also Frontline Heroes (and all the games that may come in a future). It was very difficult to maintain two blogs at the same time, so I decided to merge all the existing posts in this blog into a new blog.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience this may cause, but it was a necessary improvement.
I hope that we will continue to give life to the wargaming hobby and be able to help as much as possible.
As many of you know, I have been silent about Fear of the Dark because I have been working in a new wargame.
Well, the time has come and Frontline Heroes is available!
I don´t want to interfere in Fear of the Dark facebook Group or this very same blog, so I have created a separate facebook group that is going to deal with Frontline Heroes and ww2 miniatures and terrain.
Anyone interested in this new game is welcome to join the Frontline Heroes group on Facebook. In this group, we'll discuss all aspects of the game, including miniatures and terrain related to World War II. Here's the group link, and I hope you give it the warm welcome it deserves.
FRONTLINE HEROES FACEBOOK GROUP (CLICK HERE)
As I always say: I just hope you like it and have fun! I leave you now with an introduction to the game, its background, and rules.
FRONTLINE
HEROES: FIELDS OF NORMANDY
Frontline Heroes is a solo/PvP skirmish wargame set in World War II. In this game, our soldiers will be members of the Allied forces battling against the Nazi army on the European front.
Players
have the option to play solo, controlling one side and facing an AI
system that manages the enemy, or to engage in competitive mode
against a human opponent, with each player controlling one side of
the conflict. Additionally, the game can be played cooperatively with
multiple players acting on the same side, fighting together against
the enemy controlled by the AI.
As
a skirmish game with only a few miniatures (from 4 to 14 models per
side), Frontline Heroes offers missions encompassing stealth
assaults, direct confrontations, sabotage, and reconnaissance.
Players may also engage in small segments of larger battles,
determined by the outcomes of their characters' actions.
Players
take on the role of a small group of soldiers fighting for the Allied
cause in Europe against the Nazi army. Choose your soldiers, issue
the right commands, and accomplish the objectives of each mission.
Some missions may be completed without firing a single shot, while
others may involve intense life-and-death combat.
Now
is your chance to take part in the events that changed the course of
world history forever. Stand firm in the sands of the beaches, push
through the dense bocage, defend each of the rooms in the ruins where
you hide, climb the heavily fortified hills, seize enemy strongholds,
and eliminate your enemies one by one before it's too late. The
future of the entire world depends on you.
SOLO
vs COMPETITIVE MODE
Frontline
Heroes primarily focuses on solitaire mode, although it also offers
cooperative and competitive mode options.
Solitaire
mode involves a single player battling against an Artificial
Intelligence (AI) that controls the enemy forces and their decisions.
This mode emphasizes narrative and storytelling. The AI controls wich
enemy models activate, when and the actions they make. The player
doesn´t have to take any decision in this process.
Additionally,
cooperative mode allows two players to team up on the same side,
facing an AI-controlled enemy.
Competitive
mode follows the standard format of miniatures wargames, where two or
more players form opposing sides and engage in direct conflict,
aiming to defeat the enemy and eliminate as many opposing miniatures
as possible. It is a purely competitive mode. In this game, you won't
find exhaustive army lists to form different factions.
Instead, the system for creating the opposing factions is completely original and fun.
NORMAL
vs STEALTH MISSIONS
Frontline
Heroes features 21 missions, each specifying the miniatures that make
up each faction, the layout of the game table, the background
information, possible events, and everything needed to play a game.
Furthermore, each mission offers high replayability.
In
the game we have normal missions, as in any type of miniature
wargame, where two forces face off until one prevails over the other
through sheer force; and we also have stealth missions, in which we
must infiltrate a small group of soldiers into enemy territory to
accomplish certain vital objectives, such as sabotaging supplies,
capturing bridges or blowing up installations.
Frontline Heroes features a comprehensive rules system and 21 missions for solo or multiplayer play, presented in a nearly 200-page book. You can find it available on the Wargamevault platform at the following link:
BUY FRONTLINE HEROES (CLICK HERE)
EL JUEGO LO HE HECHO TAMBIEN EN ESPAÑOL, Y SE PUEDE CONSEGUIR EN EL SIGUIENTE LINK:
Do you remember those imaginary monsters that lurked under your bed when you were a kid? Well, I have two bad news: they were not imaginary and they are not hiding anymore...
Turn on your flashlight and hold on tight to your gun. Let's go down this staircase together into the dark cellar where you can hear things crawling...
Today we are going to focus on a not very usual setting when we talk about wargames. Horror, but not just any horror wargame, but those set in the works of HP Lovecraft. Most of them are skirmish wargames and are miniature agnostic, which means that they don´t have an official range of miniatures for the game, so you can use whatever miniatures you have.
Solo as this game is designed to be played alone, just you trying to make your warband survive another day. Although it could be played with two or even three players in cooperative mode, that is, fighting together against the forces of darkness.
This is not an usual wargame (competitive mode / player vs player) with some solo rules designed ad hoc, this is a solo game.
Horror as the supernatural and the mystery will be the common thread of our scenarios.
Our characters will have to face haunted houses, gangsters, supernatural beings drawn from the worst nightmares, groups of cultists who want to awake forgotten gods, mysterious murders, ancient curses, and dusty books that predict the end of the world as we know it.
Skirmish since the games will be played with just a few miniatures on a table with some scenery, although this game is not attached to any specific brand of miniatures and you can use any that you like. Forget about huge armies and lots and lots of miniatures on the table.
Another strong point of this game relies in its narrative aspect. The focus is on the story since the plot in each scenario will have a great narrative weight, not just fighting without any reason or random encounters of wandering monsters.
The scenarios will have a story that connects everything, all the events that happen will have a reason, and even may never be known by the player until the scenario is over.
Mythos Encounters is a miniature skirmish game of the Cthulhu Mythos. This is a cooperative game, in which Investigators work together to face the horrors of ruthless cultists, mysterious alien creatures and the elder gods themselves.
Your investigators can face enemies head-on, trusting in your strength and weaponry, or take a more subtle approach using stealth and gathering clues to gain an advantage.
Enemy creatures in Mythos Encounters change from encounter to encounter, and their behavior is determined by a variety of AI tactics.
As your investigators progress through each encounter, they will gain new abilities, equipment and allies that will allow them to face even greater threats. They may also gain permanent physical injuries or debilitating mental disorders.
Players build squads of valiant agents from the Threshold Agency - mankind’s only shield against the unimaginable forces that lurk beyond the veil – and do battle with the foul Lurkers, who seek to pave the way for the return of their dark gods. As Threshold squads progress through a broad range of scenarios, they will gain new abilities and equipment through an option-filled advancement system. Be wary though! The opposing Lurkers can tailor their forces to match Threshold’s level each game, selecting from over 50 devilish monster profiles lifted straight from the pages of the Mythos to present Threshold with a nearly limitless variety of challenges. As you advance, the injuries will mount, followed by the inevitable onset of madness, assuming your operatives remain stalwart and don't fall prey to the insidious temptation of darkness...
Journey into fear and beyond madness!
Lovecraft's Revenge is a tabletop game by Two Hour Wargames that plunges you into the world created by horror writer HP Lovecraft. It's about persons who dug a little too deep, driven mad by knowledge never meant for mortal minds. It's about places with thoughts and souls of their own. And it's about things whose very existence cackles at the laws of nature. These creatures defy accurate description, view people as mere insects, and can drive you out of your mind (sometimes literally) simply by standing before you.
This game can be played by any number of players; either solo, same side, or head to head.
In Lovecraft's Revenge, players control one or more characters in an rpg-like Lovecraftian adventure. Each adventure has a goal and the goal is attained by collecting clues and managing to survive the ordeal with mind and body intact. The game unfolds through a number of scenes at various general locations. Each location will likely have some kind of encounter. Some encounters will surely be of a combat nature, but others might involve solving puzzles or interacting with npc's within the adventure.
This is it for wargames based on Lovecraft´s works. The setting of the above games is strictly the setting created by HP Lovecraft for his books. The next wargames are classic or generic horror wargames that can be twisted easily into Lovecraftian horror. Even if you are not looking for a classic horror wargame they are worth a look.
Nightmares become real, and the dead walk the earth! All the monsters from man's worst nightmares come alive in this set of fast-playing horror miniature rules which is based on the popular, Origins-nominated Song of Blades and Heroes mechanics. Fight zombies, vampires, mad slashers, ghosts, werewolves, witches and other bloodcurdling monstrosities straight out of the folklore books and horror movies. Hunt for them - before they hunt YOU!
Perilous Tales is a cooperative skirmish wargame of thrilling tabletop adventures. Not strictly a Lovecraftian Wargame, but can be easily twisted into a tentacled nightmare.
Fend off unknown beasts in an Arctic camp. Uncover evil doings in an abandoned church. Hunt the wild beast of the Hemwich moors. Ghosts, vampires, evil genius, Russian spies, witches, fiends from beyond the stars… You are only limited by your collection of miniatures and your imagination.
You create a band of heroes; using a flexible and simple character creation system; generate an episode and play it to its thrilling conclusion!
In each episode, the villain and its minions are controlled by the game, using a simple “programming” system. Each episode will have several objectives that your characters will be striving to complete before the time runs out or the plucky heroes are slain. The play area is beset with threat markets, which may be perilous terrain, or the terrible beasts that are hunting you.
In Perilous Tales, the emphasis is not always on killing, in fact often you are trying to take a critical photograph, recover a crucial artefact, or escape to achieve fame, fortune, or simply to live to another day.
Imagine a world where all of your deepest fears have come to life, a place where monsters, terrifying creatures and deviant criminals threaten your very existence and that of the entire planet.
You and your friends are the only ones that can stop these terrible plans… Will you succeed or will you die trying?
In Arkeo Obskura a handful of heroes (from the Modern or Victorian eras or even from the early 1900s) face incredible adventures populated by zombies, witches, mummies, ghosts, the forgotten, aliens...
The game system is easy to lean and intuitive and you don’t need a Master.
You can play solitaire or with friends in cooperative or competitive mode.
You will see your characters grow, buying new characteristics and equipment from one game to the next.
Chaos In Cairo is a fast-paced, skirmish-level miniatures battle game designed to simulate clashes in the Pulp-era of fiction. It tells the tale of warbands of rival antiquarians and their associates battling for items of occult power amidst the dusty streets of 1920’s Cairo, Egypt.
Chaos In Cairo is a Goal-System Game, based off of the same mechanics that power the SuperSystem: Superhero Miniature Battles game (specially tailored to fit the Pulp genre). It focuses on a clash between two unique bands of rival antiquarians, and complete game stats for these models are included. Additionally, an appendix is included featuring rules for character and henchmen creation, allowing players to bring in appropriate models from any range.
FISTFUL OF LEAD TALES OF HORROR
Fistful of Lead: Tales of Horror is not a standalone wargame but a supplement for Fistful of Lead (you will need a copy of the Fistful of Lead rules)
As with previous Fistful of Lead rules each player only needs 5 or 6 miniatures to start gaming. You can play 1 on 1 games or larger skirmishes with up to 6 or 8 players.
The main protagonists of Tales of Horror are the Vampires, Werewolves and other monsters from folklore and the horror films of the silver screen. This supplement describes the various creatures and provides traits and additional rules to allow players to use the Fistful of Lead rules to play Gothic Horror games, or any Horror genre.
Players will take on the roles of these Creatures of the Night, or the brave Hunters who pursue them
Well, this is it for now. You have now a lot of rulesets to check. I hope you sleep well tonight and nightmares don´t keep you awake.
I know that I may have not mentioned many wargames that I missed or forgot, so I would be really grateful if you drop a line by the comment section reminding me what I forgot.
P.S. I know I didn´t mention Achtung Cthulhu, because although it includes monsters and deities from the HPL works it doesn´t fit the Lovecraftian setting as is based in a weird ww2 background about the "secret war".
I wanted to play a scenario similar to a raid on Innsmouth, but Fear of the Dark rules are focused on narrative play with just a few miniatures, and when I tried to use many miniatures on the table the game used to slow down due to such amount of information and miniatures.
I have designed a ww2 solo/PvP skirmish wargame that right now is under proofreading by Steve Ireland (as you may notice english is not my mother language) to fix any kind of typo and grammar/style mistake (I am really grateful to Steve Ireland for helping me). It will be available in a month or two but I wanted to use this rulest to play this scenario as an advance of what is coming (I also want to make a weird ww2 version of the rules).
The rules work perfect dealing with big skirmishes: fun, easy, fast, dynamic and lethal...
Well, the scenario starts with some people disappearing in a small fishy coastal town in Massachusetts, after that some government agents sent to investigate are killed by a strange sect, a large group of disturbed maniacs that are hidden in the town. A large group of soldiers is sent to the town to arrest the members of the sect, acting at the very same time in several points of the town.
This is one of the missions that took place that night...
The soldiers are deployed in the surroundings of the harbour, where a large group of maniacs are supposed to gather. Their objective is to arrest as many of them, including one high priest of the sect.
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Some time ago I bought a set of city walls from Rubicon Models. I thought it was a great set and not expensive at all, so I decided to give It a go.
The box included four identical sprues, enough to make Up to 60 cms of walls.
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As most of the terrain pieces they are quite easy and fast to Paint, and once painted they look top on the gaming table.
I took pictures of the walls besides a 28mm miniature from Black tree (the same size as warlord´s miniatures) and they look top side by side.
Fear of the Dark skirmish wargame is back with a second edition!
After a year and a half from being published an improved second edition is available: Rules have been checked and modified, the AI controlling the enemies has been made easier to use, layout has been improved, typos have been corrected and checked...
Fear of the Dark 2nd edition is now available and it is made of two books including the whole set of rules (tokens, cards and everything needed to play), eight scenarios and a short campaign...
More than 260 pages full of chances to fight nameless horrors...
Fear of the Dark is a narrative solo wargame of skirmish battles using miniatures set in the worlds of H.P. Lovecraft and designed to play solo or full coop.
Narrative since the plot in each scenario will have a great deal of narrative weight, everything will have a reason in these scenarios.
The background of this wargame is set in the worlds of madness created by H,P, Lovecraft, where a strange universe of gods and monsters underlies our reality, twisting our world upside down and throwing ourselves into a bottomless pit of madness.
Solo since Fear of the Dark is designed to be played solo, although you can play with more people as long as they work cooperatively.
The AI will decide which enemy miniature will activate and which actions will it make, so, you don't play both sides, you just play your side against this AI, but I have to warn you... That damned AI is good at it... This is not going to be easy...
Skirmish since the games will be played with a few miniatures on a small table with some terrain.
If you want more information on Fear of the Dark just visit the post made to explain what this game is about:
Or you can visit Fear of the Darkfacebook group by clicking this LINK.
Fear of the Dark is available through Wargamevault, and you can buy it for 10€/11$ cliking in this WARGAMEVAULT LINK.
Hi! I just wanted to let you know how every project is going on:
1. I already started editing the layout design for the second edition of Fear of the Dark, I Hope It doesn't take too long, but It's a more than 260 Pages file: the ruleset, 8 scenarios and one campaign...
The rules Will suffer some changes (the AI Will be easier to use) and some things Will be clearly explained. The layout design Will be slightly modified as well.
Apart from that, the Game Will be written without gramatical mistakes or typos.
As you know I'm not an english native speaker, but several members from the Fear of the Dark Facebook group have taken their time to help me and correct the text so that It is properly written.
The Game Will be published in two separate books: one with the rules and four scenarios and a second book with four scenarios and the campaign.
Everything Will be uploaded to wargamevault and Will be free for all those Who already had bought Fear of the Dark.
2. New scenarios for Fear of the Dark... well... I have a lot of ideas, but two of them are really appealing: one dealing with a fishy town similar to Innsmouth and another one dealing with an expedition in the sands of egypt.
I have developed all the possible "paths" in the first one and just need to write it down. I´ll be playing this one this week or the next one, as soon as I have all the terrain ready.
Remember: keep your deep ones ready...
(and as an addition this scenario will include a skirmish battle between US soldiers and hoards of monsters, as a preview of the following project ↓ )
3. The ww2 (and weird ww2) rules are working properly. After a lot of playtesting most rules have been changed once and again, but it seems that I have reached a point where they are stable and work as I want. Nevertheless I may make some changes as I keep playtesting the rules.
With the rules almost finished it just would need a lot of scenarios, and as they are quite simple to write (not as Fear of the Dark ones) I hope I can write a few and have the ruleset finished in the next few months.
After that it would need a long photography session and some time of edition to make the layout.
This project is going to take more time than I expected, as I´m trying to do my best and dont want to make mistakes or leave aside important aspects of the game, but this game is something I really want to do, and I want all of you to play and enjoy it.
And this is it...
Of course I dont know how long will it take me to do each of these projects as I, the same like you, also have a real life that needs time (job, kids, social life, everyday problems...)
I hope I have time and go step by step to finish all of them as soon as possible.
