Fortress: Ameritrash Blog

The Ionian Sea, normally a bright blue, is today an angry gray. The water roils and heaves as it breaks in fury against the pillar of stone that lies a short distance off the coast. A maiden shrieks in terror and strains at the bonds that hold her chained fast. A man, his robe as white as his long flowing beard, stands near to the water line and raises his hands to the heavens. They tremble as does his voice. "Oh great Neptune," he cries, "accept this our sacrifice and take mercy upon us!" ...

I've decided to start inflicting my opinions on a blog here. I will mostly cover stuff I don't see already here. I will mostly just discuss games, I don't have any specific objective in mind.   My Observations; of Mordheim City of the Damned   Games Workshop are probably still a bigger industry in the UK than the entire board game industry, bigger than roleplaying too, possibly bigger than both combined. I don't have sales figures, but the have more highstreet store frontage than either of the other...

  ConnCon, the convention that we North Eastern F:ATies have pretty much claimed as our own is about to wrap up and it was a damn good time. I arrived on Thursday and had a full four days of solid gaming. It will come as no surprise to people that have actually played with me that over that length of time I did not win a single solitary thing. That's one of the cool things about playing games with cool people is that the winning is really unimportant.  That being said, I have...

I'm not sure if it's because I'm cheap or because I'm a natural-born skeptic, but when it comes to gaming, I'm what one might call a "late adopter". I didn't get an Xbox 360 until 2010, I didn't start playing Heroscape until Wave 6, and I didn't get Mage Knight: The Board Game until about 3 weeks ago. This is especially true with anything collectible or "living", because the price for buying into a miniatures game is very high if you make a poor choice.  So, while I played Fantasy Flight's X-Wing Miniatures game...

In the game, Fields of Fire, you take on the role of a company commander in the 9th US Infantry leading your men through various battles in World War II, Korea, or Vietnam. That sounds like pretty standard fair for a war game but this game is anything but standard. Ben Hull, the designer, has a unique take on the subject. It is in that unique vision that the triumph and the tragedy of this game lay. ..................................................................... "You must unlearn what you have learned." - Yoda Fields of Fire jettisons...