The Quest for the Golden McGuffin
On Sunday I met up with Ninjasaurus Rex for a game he has been working on in recent months. Inspired by Jason and the Argonauts , he has turned his attention to Classical Greece, but with all the fantasy elements of the quest for the golden fleece thrown in with a heavy nod to Ray Harryhausen. He has been painting some 28mm figures for the game and you can see more about them on his BLOG . Theres no point me going over old ground. However, the game is a skirmish based on Warhammer Fantasy Battle Third Edition , which was probably the last good version of Warhammer before all the special sauce made it unplayable. The new version uses the same stats for armies as in WFB , theres no point reinventing the wheel. But, by amassing all the die rolls in to one (roll to hit, toughness versus strength, saving roll, etc) Warhammer becomes a bucket of dice game that is now fast play. In an attack, the attacking player takes the number of dice equal to the characters Weapon Skill and Weapon Stren...