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Enough ACW for a bit. My latest Prince August moulds arrived and have been tested. LtoR Meisterzinn in later bicorne, Zinnbrigade w 1792 bicorne from PA Prussian NCO mould, said PA mould being converted to artillery officer, PA gunner with same early bicorne. (Juryrigged with plasticene to give me an idea what they might look like.) It wasn't the best of conditions, hot and humid so that sweat was literally dripping off my forehead into the mould and occasionally the melting pot. However, I managed to get enough bits to mock up some conversions and confirm that I'll be able to make some 1793 units that will look ok beside Meisterzinn. Oh and the Dragoons look Great! Bicornes coming for them as well!

The amazing libre 3D modeling tool Blender needs no introductions at this point. Suffice to say that what began as a humble Free Software alternative to most heavy-duty proprietary 3D software is slowly becoming a new industry standard. The newly released version 2.80 is a testimonial of this. The new release adds not only a much needed upgrade to the UI, but along comes an improved real time renderer and much more. All new features and improvements can be checked here . Finally, some of you might have already heard in the past few weeks the gaming industry titans Epic Games and Ubisoft have officially began sponsoring the Blender foundation with grant funds. These are welcoming news since it means Blender will only see better and more regular updates from increased sources of income. Even if the money comes from proprietary software business, libre developers alike can also reap the benefits. Blender can be downloaded for free on its official download page . Code license: GPLv2 Via...

Once again I sat down, looked at the still unfinished 20 turn game on my table and thought: "I have not done what I thought I was doing. Instead, I've gone  even farther off course.".  Reset! Simple scenario. Equal forces, 3 roads either side. Roll for entry point per division. Sieze an enemy road without losing any. The original plan had been to write a ruleset with as little  regimental detail and as few artificial command mechanisms as I could but instead, with each tweak or rewrite I seemed to have slipped ever farther back down that well trodden road. So,  I opened up a blank document and began again. I thought about what a revelation it had been 17 years ago when I first read Joe Morschauser and, after scoffing, tried playing his rules. Then I thought about how  much I had enjoyed, and been excited about, the games I had played using the very simple rules he inspired me to write. Rules which I had proceeded to regress until the rules were neither fast nor ...

A key Principle of War. Don't let  yourself be distracted by details or put the plan above the mission. I brought my coffee upstairs this morning and looked at the table covered in disorder markers which tended to blend in with the units.  What was the Aim again? Two turns later, with modified rules in play,  a Reb unit has  punched their way through the Yankee first line. Well, the rump of a Reb unit anyway. I started by wondering if I really did need to bring back a disorder status after having once again managed to banish it as an explicit state.  At this stage of battle with a close range firefight raging, it was hard for officers to get troops to cease fire and move forward unless the enemy started to give way. On table, it would be quicker and easier to just treat everyone involved in a close range firefight as being "disordered" without any markers. OK, so what about commanders and orders? What was a Brigadier's job? Essentially to coordinate his regiment...

I confess, I was struggling. Things either worked but were too fiddly for me these days, or they were easy but didn't work for this size of game let alone larger ones, or just didn't work at all! Swapping the variable length move for a simple activation chart got the movement.. ummh.. moving? Firefights proved a bit tougher since my mind was locked into various methods that had become standard but which failed the test one after another. ( yes, I know, it was a 1/72nd nightmare with the dead rising only to be shot again, and again and again. )  Eventually, I realized that none of my usual tricks were going to give me what I wanted for my ACW battles.  I started thinking broader, trying some brand new things until one of them started to remind me vaguely of a game I used to enjoy playing.  A bit more thinking, exploring, trying and adjusting and suddenly and I had what I needed and wanted. No need for marker dice to follow units around tracking hits, no sudden death from f...

Finally, battle is joined. I was a little disconcerted at first to find that various favoured mechanisms proved unsuitable for the task in hand. However, it  didn't take long to resurrect some even older mechanisms and the game is now flowing. Is it on the right track? We'll see!

  Top ten RPGs - I made a video of this. People who love text so much they would marry it, will be delighted to see this concise side-product of that video. A list of sorts. With thoughts that came to me after the fact. Especially nagging thoughts. The bestness of films is determined by their profitability. Which one can claim allows concluding the quality of the product. Maybe the marketing is part of that product. Whatever the case, none of this is applicable to the underground niche pro-tip specialized target audience-seeking open source games, where using the word choice "open source" is valid enough to stop writing and discuss philosophy. Thereby I declare that " best " means " complete-ish, playable, fun " which is 33%-66% objective. I present to you - in order of " not like in the video " - the best eleven minus one* RPGs that ever existed yet. RPG platforming is still a concept to get used to but for some reason It works well. As for...

"Are condemned to repeat it"  (Attributed to George Santayana) Unless of course they keep a blog and by clicking the ACW label they can check back over old versions and proposed versions of the rules, read accounts of wargames played including post game analysis, and contemplate old plans and conclusions and compare them with where I'm at now. Is it just me or does the Butternut and Grey Minnow overlooking the Yankee cavalry remind anyone else of the ghost of Jeb Stuart and the Haunted Tank ? I've saved my self some trouble there over the last two days. In fact the nostalgia factor had me on the point of going back to where I was 5 or so years ago until I read why I changed my approach slightly. It wasn't because the rules weren't working ot that I didn't like them. It was because, although smaller than what I am planning, the games were too incremental and process focussed ( as in too much die rolling and too few command decisions ), took too long to reac...

For this month’s interview we sat down with Alex Gleason, creator and developer of Vegan on a Desert Island , an upcoming libre action/puzzle RPG. The game follows the story of Rachel, a vegan girl who shipwrecks on an island, and becomes embroiled in a quest to uphold her own conflicted values against the interests of the island’s many talking animals. A newcomer on the scene, we spoke with Alex on what inspired him to create this project, along with his views on activism, software freedom, game development, and of course, life. FG: Tell us a bit about yourself and your project to begin with. Alex: My name is Alex Gleason and I'm making a game called Vegan on a Desert Island (VOADI). It's a puzzle-adventure game with emphasis on art, music, and storytelling. The game is about Rachel's journey, which I modeled after some events in my life involving animal rights activism I organized in real life, including all its conflict and turmoil. It's a linear story meant to be ...

Its a hot, muggy, summer week, in excess of 30C in the shade, a wargamer could imagine himself in southern Pennsylvania in July 1863.  From 2015 Too hot to work but with the heat pump, not too hot to play inside. Time to plan and set up  a  battle, not a skirmish but a battle with the table full of troops. Time to revisit the ACW. Before I do though, I'm going to spend time doing some organizational work such as recording names of commanders and regiments, marking stands again to ID regiment and brigade for ease of set up and pack away. The Commanders and Regiments will not necessarily be given strictly historical names nor will they be restricted to fighting in the battles that their namesakes fought in. These are after all Wargame ( or Toy ) armies! I'm also going to revisit my ACW rules given that the forces in hand are now expecting to be reinforced over the next few years. In preparation, I've been rereading old rules and old posts under the ACW label  to review...

for the Bold Fenian Men! Bold Fenian men have joined the Rebel Alliance. There are two survivors of the original Fenian company raised some 20 years ago (the nco and the chap loading) but with an issues of  fancy new green coats and natty blue trousers for new recruit and old veteran alike the unit is now ready to take the field at the first opportunity. "Pay them back woe for woe, give them back blow for blow Out and make way for the Bold Fenian Men!" Yes, I know,  I'm supposed to be working on 40mm French Revolution heads and moulds.......  Work, work, work.........

A new tool named CoreCtrl aims to be the first friendly libre GUI application to customize CPU, GPU and other hardware settings for GNU/Linux. This is exciting news for all gaming enthusiasts and developers who seek a way to optimize hardware efficiency without having to go down and dirty into console commands or accessing the BIOS directly. The developer Juan Palacios describes the app succinctly: CoreCtrl is a Free and Open Source GNU/Linux application that allows you to control with ease your computer hardware using application profiles. It aims to be flexible, comfortable and accessible to regular users. You can use it to automatically configure your system when a program is launched (works for Windows applications too). It doesn't matter what the program is, a game, a 3D modeling application, a video editor or... even a compiler! It offers you full hardware control per application. Support-wise, only AMD GPUs seem to be on the list for now, but different vendor cards are plan...

The King's County Tabletop and Boardgame Society holds a quarterly Tabletop Games day in Kentville NS and have always made our little group of wargamers welcome. That's me in the X-Wing shortly before I grab the bonus weapon and......... get blown up! Again! Kingcon was their first go at a weekend long convention so we happily accepted their invitation to take part.  My main contribution was to run some Old School miniatures games of the "One Hour, walk up, learn and play" sort. On Saturday morning I laid out Chrsyler's Farm (War of 1812) and a small Prince Valiant wagon train ambush. For my convenience I used a single ground cloth divided in half so I could run both games singlehandedly if there was enough interest. I really did intend to take a picture..... The plan was to hang around for the afternoon and try some non-wargame games but 'stuff' came up and I had to head home early both afternoon. I got to chat with friends, acquaintances and some new fac...

Cortex Command is a mess, but in a good way. This bizarrely entertaining strategy blend has been undergoing continuous development since the early 2000s, having had its first main release in 2012. Seven years later, its creators decided it's time to let the community have a say. Just one day ago developer Data Realms announced on the game's Steam page it was freeing the game's code under the GNU Affero License v3 . While this release does not include any of the game's data or graphics, meaning you still have to purchase a full copy or replace them with your own, it is nevertheless welcoming news to see game studios embracing Free Software licensing, enabling users to modify the game at their own will. The game itself is as fun as ever. An ungodly hybrid between X-COM, Terraria, and Starcraft, Cortex Command is one of those games whose chaotic approach to physics simulation can lead to some pretty hilarious moments. The game pits several factions in a messy planetary w...

Once again I show the trait that led my PT sergeant to nickname me the Late Mr. Macfarlane. None the less, I am still here in the pink a year and 9 days after my "little incident" and have every hope and expectation of continuing to do so for at least another decade or so. Since I haven't painted any 40mm Bleu's yet, ( soon, soon ) here's the traditional Scruby 22mm one again. Looking back and ahead, this has been one of very few of my adult years in which there has been no major upheaval either at work (don't miss it) or home or hobby. The plan is: "Steady as she goes!" The only hobby commitment I have is to show up at Huzzah with 12 40mm French Revolution units for A Gentleman's War. Two down, ten to go. I'm going to shoot for an average of two units a month to give me time to exercise them before they go into action. First task is to do a bicorne head and a new head mould for bicornes and round hats so I can start converting. Should leave ...

No no, nothing to with carousing and the like. The first tabletop convention is happening in Kentville this weekend. So Nova Scotia gamers who happen to see this: COME help the hard working organizers to make it a success! https://kingcon.ktabs.ca / There will be every sort of board game from classic family to the latest releases, wargames both board and miniatures, scifi, fantasy, RPG, some of the popular recent wargame releases and even some classic old school historical miniatures. OK one anyway. Hasty layout to try my latest, more old school, version of Crysler's Farm (War of 1812). Game to be test played on Thursday. I was planning on being there as much as possible and try something new but domestic duties are going to limit me to Saturday and Sunday morning. If I can lure anyone in, I'll be offering one hour "walk up and try it" sessions  for 1 to 4 players. War of 1812 and Prince Valiant. If not I'll be busy anyway.

I have finally finished converting my 1775 Royal Highland Emigres to 1793 Black Watch. Mostly this consisted of building the bonnet up into an early version of the feather bonnet, and repainting a few details. Sources on details of Highland uniforms in the 1790s are scarce, vague or  contradictory. For example,  the feather bonnet developed during this decade but pictures vary from a few feathers to your common Napoleonic version. I decided to go with the latter since a trial version with just a few feathers didn't look quite right. Then there was the red hackle or plume. When in doubt go with the legend they say and when I was a young lad in the Black Watch of Canada Cadet Corps, we were told that tradition has it that during the Duke of York's retreat to Holland, the Black Watch repulsed a charge by French Dragoons then plucked their blood soaked plumes and attached them to their bonnets. Souvenirs from my days as Corps Sergeant Major before heading off to Military College i...

One of our affiliate websites OpenGameArt (OGA), a free repository for public domain and copyleft licensed art, has just begun hosting this year's Summer Game Jam. To all libre developers looking for a challenge, this is your call to arms. The rules are simple: participants are to create a game which independently of length and genre must use 6 art assets already available at OGA. The type of engine or code license used is up to the creator, but any artwork from the repository employed, along with any derivates, must comply with the specific licensing of each. While this does not mean any game submitted to the jam will be libre, there's a good chance some will be, so regardless of whether you are a game developer or not, it would be wise to keep an eye on the contest results. It is also worth applauding OGA's initiative as a way of fostering usage and creation of Creative Commons licensed assets, and to spread word of the cultural benefits of open development. Further info...

TROOP TRAIN AMBUSHED!  Dominion government blames Origawn Rebels for Blue River Incursion and urges calm. MILITIA MOBILISATION BILL INTRODUCED IN PARLIAMENT .  AMBUSHED ! Our correspondent Russell Williams has filed this report from Hastee Junction in the Blue River District. ------- It was late on the first when we rounded the bend and caught out first glance of Hastee Junction since we had passed through last fall to fight the Rebels. The optomists among us hoped we would take the lefthand track to pass through Brooklyn with perhaps a day's leave for those with family in that County but I felt sure that we would go right, up past Sloy Lake to take the Moose Bay Ferry. There was a good crowd gathered at the station which was unusual but we put that down to Dominion Day celebrations. Our hopes were high that we would be allowed to disembark and join the celebrations before continuing on.  Those hopes were soon shattered by a storm of rifle bullets from the hills on both s...

July 1st is a National Day of Celebration in the Dominion of Faraway, the official anniversary of the transformation of the nominally independent Kingdom of Faraway effectively ruled by the Faraway Trading Company to a Consitutional Monarchy ruled by an elected Parliament. Wars don't always allow for holidays though and the lead elements of Colonel Ross's brigade celebrated as well as they could crammed into open cattle cars on their way from the Origawn Territory to Brooklyn to join the Fort Henry Relief Force. As they approached Little Junction in the Blue River District, a crowd was seen to be gathered around the station. A Dominion Day celebration?  Perhaps  they were gathering to cheer the troop train as it passed? Well, why not? The Blue River Rebellion  < link > was long past and the area is now part of the Dominion with representatives in parliament. There is no reason to suspect that these troubles in the Origawn and the North West have stirred old causes. ...