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ROLE PLAYING AID

It has been brought to our attention that both the Combat Cards & the Fantasy Cards can serve as useful aids in running role-playing campaigns - especially to resolve combats that do not directly involve the player characters, but may still have an important bearing on the campaign.

Who hasn't played in a role playing campaign where the heroes set out on a mission or quest along with a company of the king's guard or a platoon of colonial marines escorting them?

The extra troops are not there do the heroes' work for them, but rather to support the heroes in some important role - such as keeping the escape route open from marauding orcs while the heroes explore, or by holding the alien monstrosities at bay while the heroes search a wreck site.

Unfortunately, playing out a side battle that doesn't involve the heroes, at the level of detail that most role playing games do, may prove impractical and tedious - and result in too much precious game time being taken away from the action involving the characters.

Yet the success of these troops and their mission is important to the story line and will eventually affect the heroes, so some attention should be given to their struggle and its outcome.

That is where the Combat Cards & Fantasy Cards can really be a life saver. With the simplicity of generic unit types, the speed of play, and the ease of teaching the rules to newbies, they can be an efficient and effective way to resolve those important side battles - without taking too much time away from the main adventure.

The narrative nature of the Cards also allow game masters flexibility in determining how important aspect of the battle will mesh with the role playing action as well with the role playing system being used.

(Some examples being: How many rounds went by before that alien nasty broke through the marines' lines and went for the heroes? Has an Eliminated unit truly lost all of its "damage points" or is just unconscious and clinging to life?).

Combine the core games with the appropriate expansion sets, and the feel and flavor of just about any role playing system can be emulated on the Combat Cards or Fantasy Cards battlefield.

So the next time your heroes are about to set out with an escort in tow, give some thought to how the Combat Cards or the Fantasy Cards just might prove to be a real help to you the beleaguered game master...

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We are really excited to announce the launch of a new line of products for us – the Tactical Assault: Game Tools™. The Game Tools are a line of gaming aids intended to help players get more out of their favorite games by saving them preparation time, giving them a variety of components to use and even by creatively adapting the way their games can be played.

While most of the products in the line will be designed with an eye towards their use with the Tactical Assault: Combat Cards™ or the Tactical Assault: Fantasy Cards™, all of the Game Tools are easily tweaked to work with just about any other game system or genre – from tabletop miniatures to role-playing and board games.

To illustrate the point (and to show off a bit) here is a preview one of our first offerings in the line:

Tactical Map Sets are a single map panel overlaid with large (30mm = 1⅛ inch) hexes for use with the Tactical Assault: Legendary Battles™ rules. What makes this product really unique however, is that the download file is built with layers that can be turned on and off to create a variety of different maps from just the one file (20+ different maps in most cases).

In addition the maps are designed to be geomorphic, so once they are printed out and trimmed up, they can be laid out in a variety of different ways. And since you can print as many copies of each map as you want, you can make those map layouts as big as you like!

(For more information on how to use the maps and the layer function check out the Free Instructions and the free Sample Map on the Downloads page.)

Now, you might say “Well, I don’t play the Legendary Battles rules…” or even “I don’t play any of the Tactical Assault games, so how will this product work for me?“. Well, here are just a few ideas:

Mecha Miniatures Games
The bases of these miniatures should fit nicely within a hex.

6mm (1/300) Or 3mm (1/600) Miniatures
When you don’t want to set up a full battlefield of terrain, use the maps as your battlefield. These miniatures too, should fit nicely within a hex.

Role Playing Games
Several maps placed together would make a quick and easy area of exploration for a party of characters, a base of operations, etc. Plus there is plenty of room to write notes in each hex as well.

Board Games
As a new battlefield for an existing game – especially games using the “block” style pieces.

…and everything else that folks will think up and share with us.

As new stuff in the line gets released over the coming weeks, there will also hopefully be a steady stream of articles on the site with ideas, tips & tricks and tutorials on how to use and adapt the different products, so stay tuned.

Until then, get your working gloves on and prepare to dive into the toolbox…

This entry was posted on Monday, April 1st, 2013 at 1:45 pm and is filed under Info....

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