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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...

Overview

The Tactical Assault: Legendary Battles™ are a great way to get even more enjoyment out of your Tactical Assault: Combat or Fantasy Cards. Each Legendary Battles Pack is a near complete print-n-play game – including scenarios, background information, maps and lots of game pieces – which can be printed out and used with your Combat or Fantasy Cards for hours of great gaming!

Topics for the Legendary Battles range from strictly historical to futuristic science-fiction, and from swords & sorcery to modern what-ifs. In addition, every Legendary Battles Pack includes extra game pieces to allow players to develop their own scenarios for the setting. All of this, in a compact format that can easily fit in a large envelope, plastic baggie or small box (for those battles on the go).

Whether you love the idea of playing your Combat or Fantasy Cards in a board game format, or are just looking for a convenient way to be able to get a game in when you are short on space, miniatures or time, the Legendary Battles are for you…

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Sunday, December 4th, 2011

Just a quick update on the upcoming Experience Cards expansion for the Combat Cards & Fantasy Cards.

Everything is progressing nicely, and the expansion should be available for download very soon. While the expansion seems simple in design, playtests have shown using the Experience Cards adds a whole new level of exciting detail and challenge to battles. It has also lead to some rather interesting scenario possibilities – more on that later though.

In conjunction with the release of the Experience Cards, there will be a new Legendary Battles utilizing the Experience Cards as well. This pack will focus on mid-war Eastern Front action during World War II and will again feature all of the maps and game pieces needed to play the included scenarios, as well numerous extra pieces to design your own scenarios.

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Friday, November 18th, 2011

Here are a couple of pictures from a game of the new Legendary Battles Pack #2 – The Xakkarri Wars: First Invasion in action. Enjoy…

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Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

It has begun…

The era of Legendary Battles is now upon us! We are very excited that the Basic Rules for Legendary Battles games have just been made available in the Free Downloads section of our website. These rules adapt the normal Tactical Assault: Combat Cards and Fantasy Cards tabletop miniatures rules for use with map based games, offering players a whole new way to enjoy their Combat and Fantasy Cards. These rules are also the starting point for enjoying all of the upcoming Legendary Battles Packs.

Very shortly the first Legendary Battles Pack print-n-play game will be available for purchase in our online store. It will include everything needed to play – except the actual Combat or Fantasy Cards – including a pair of scenarios, maps and lots of game pieces. All folks will have to do is print it out and enjoy hours of great gaming!

More Legendary Battles Packs will follow quickly covering topics ranging from World War II, science-fiction battles in the far future, historical what ifs as well as a host of cool sword & sorcery settings. Each will include all of the maps and game pieces needed to play (again, minus the the actual Combat or Fantasy Cards) in a very compact – and affordable – package. And, as an added bonus, in most packs there will even be extra game pieces to allow folks to develop their own scenarios using the packs!

So why wait? Swing over to the downloads section and start getting ready for your own Legendary Battles…

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