Showing posts with label Free Stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free Stuff. Show all posts
2:27 PM
Nifty!
As you might know if you are a long term reader, I am quite besotted with the idea of the postcard game concept. There are a few of them out there-- Postcards from the Revolution, my own Galley Warfare one, Last Stand at Martain, Moscow Defended, etc. Into the ranks walks Hohenfriedeberg, a nice little (simple) game set in the time of Frederick the Great. The graphics are very nice and the postcard (it's not really a postcard, I doubt you could mail it) prints out well.
From the site:
This free hex and counter wargame is about the "Battle of Hohenfriedeberg" which took place in 1745 during the Second Silesian War between Prussia and Austria.
The rules for the game are based on the nice little game "Postcard from the Revolution" by Mike DeSanto.
Here you can download the pdf-file that contains everything you need to play (except a six-sided die)
You can find the download page for Hohenfriedeberg here. You will need Acrobat Reader to view and print the game. Beware, the document is sized for A4 paper.
2:45 PM
Battle of Honey Springs
From LPD Games
Lawrence Duffield (the one man in the one man band that is LPD Games) has offered up a rather nice looking free game on his webserver, LPD Games: http://www.lpdgames.com/index.html The new company has yet to release any commercial products, but at least four of them will be available in July of this year: Gettysburg, Across the Wide Missouri, Grant's Early Battles, and The Battle of Honey Springs (Deluxe Version).
The graphics and presentation of the material is top notch; I could follow the rules (from a quick glance online), rather easily. The graphics and use of color would rival any commercial product now being published, and has a certain "Clash of Arms" look to it. I find the finished games (available in July) to be a bit out of my personal price range at 56 dollars (prepurchase price), but the quality is certainly there to justify the sticker price.
Best of all, the regular (non-deluxe) version of Honey Springs is available for free download, here: http://www.lpdgames.com/gamehsbacw.html. The game is presented as a PDF download and will require some construction. A Cyberboard gamebox is also available for PBEM.
I love free downloadable wargames (duh), but one of this quality is a rare bird. I suggest you snap it up.
12:24 PM
Another cool postcard game!
A new joint release from @games online and Riachuelo Games. Unternehmung 25 is a Mail postcard game covering the WWII Axis invasion of Yoguslavia. This free 5x8" postcard game takes only 30-60 minutes to play. (culled from Consimworld Press.. and reposted here because I love Postcard games).Available as a free PDF download (3.26 MB)
3:46 PM
Free for the Download
If you're in the laissez-faire mode about games with questionable subjects, then you should not have any problem taking advantage of a great new FREE board wargame download from the designer of the controversial RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE. All that is required is Adobe Acrobat 7.0, an internet connection and a color printer.
Paul Rohrbaugh's brand new FREE DTP style game of armor battle in the middle of Burma.
Prolific game designer Paul Rohrbaugh designed A Master Stroke: The Battle for Meiktila, March 5-14, 1945 to cover the battle in Burma that resulted in the final liberation of Mandalay and Rangoon. Not a fight in the impenetrable jungle, this was a mobile battle featuring tanks in the armor-friendly central plain of the country.
What follows is a complete desktop-published board wargame; all that you the player have to do is download, print, assemble and provide the six-sided die, plus a coffee cup to hold the activation markers. What you do not have to provide is money, as A Master Stroke is 100% free. (quote: Jim Werbaneth)
Complete game HERE
Map by Jim Werbanath HERE
Check your soul HERE
