Fortified Niche

<h1>Episode Notes</h1> <p>The pod has forgotten everything except how to fight and kill in Brimstone and Lead, a fast-paced measureless skirmish wargame by MummyLaundering.</p> <p>Brimstone and Lead is available...

<h1>Episode Notes</h1> <p>The pod tries to remember what they were taught about Auftragstaktik in Battlegroup , a World War 2 wargame for platoon-and-bigger actions in 20mm by Warwick Kinrade. </p> <p><br></p>...

<p>For this episode, former/sometimes pod host Cassa interviews game designer Jack Gassman of Force of Virtue fame, talking about putting virtue into rules, the influence of riding horses on game develop, and doing game...

<p>The pod crew reminds themselves that there's nothing for them beyond the Volga as they engage Heroes of Stalingrad, a war game board game from Devil Pig Games. </p> <p><br></p> <p>Find the Heroes of Stalingrad rules...

<p>The pod crew drills endlessly to fire three shots a minute in Sharp Practice v2, the Napoleonic/black powder large skirmish game for 40+ miniatures from Too Fat Lardies. </p><p><br></p><p>Find the Sharp Practice...

<p>The pod crew readies rayguns and rapiers to take on Space Weirdos and Sword Weirdos, two "skirmish heartbreakers" – one for sci-fi, the other for fantasy. </p> <p><br></p> <p>Find the Space Weirdos rules here:</p>...

<p>The pod talks about friendship and feelings with their space slug wingmen before soaring out to fight in Mobile Frame Zero and Mobile Frame Zero: Intercept Orbit, Lego-based games of, respectively, mecha and space...

<p>The pod crew readies their electrobinoculars to observe the forces massing for Star Wars: Legion, a mass combat sci-fi wargame from Atomic Mass Games. </p> <p><br></p> <p>Find the Star Wars: Legion rules here:</p>...

<p>The pod crew learns to accept battalion-level casualties to keep their divisions rolling forward in Eisenhower, "a tabletop game of the great battles of the European and Mediterranean theatres of the Second World...

<p>The pod is hiring any woodland critter with fire in their belly and a blade in their hand for Burrows & Badgers: Second Edition, a "skirmish game of anthropomorphic characters" by Michael Lovejoy. </p> <p><br></p>...

<p>The year saw Fortified Niche and pod crew face many challenges - and a few games! What were the good ones? Did the lads learn anything? Did Jc's audio quality have to be that bad? Can love bloom on the battlefield...

<p>The pod forgets the concept of infantry as they rush their steel behemoths into the fray in Hypersteel Nightmare, a miniature skirmish game of brutal vehicular combat across the multiverse.</p><p><br></p><p>Find the...

<p>The pod says "hello" to Ford and partial-fucking-dice-spend to defeat the Nazis in Chain of Command 2nd edition, the long-awaited update to TooFatLardies' hit World War 2 wargame.</p><p><br></p><p>Find the Chain of...

<p>The plod pledges to defend Umberland till their last card and their last echo in Malediction, a deck-building miniature wargame from Loot Studios. </p><p><br></p><p>Find the Malediction rules...

<p>The pod gets their halfling mercenaries ready for another expedition into the dark woods of ArcWorlde 2nd edition, the "narrative fantasy battle game" from Warp Miniatures!</p> <p><br></p> <p>Find the ArcWorlde rules...