Original Campaign Recruiting Message

This message was sent out to the SWANews list on March 25th, 2008
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Hello Northeast Gamers,

I was introduced to a great game at last month's Total Confusion convention: Battleground: Fantasy Warfare (BFW). The manufacturer, Your Move Games, is a Massachusetts company, and they were onsite to showcase their game.

BFW is like a miniatures game, but the cool innovation is that your units are printed on 2D cards. You can have a whole army's worth of units in single deck of cards in your pocket. Aside from the nice presentation, the rules are very good too. Annother innovation is that casualty hits are marked right on the card with dry-erase marker; at the end of the game, wipe your cards clean and you're all set for the next time.

There are currently eight fantasy armies/factions: The Men of Hawkshold (feudal humans), Orcs, Undead, Ravenwood Elves, High Elves, Dwarves, Lizardmen, and the Umenzi tribes (like Zulus with magic). There will be more armies in the future, and historical earth sets are in development (Roman Punic war is coming soon). Each army has at least a dozen different unit types, and their unique special ability. For example, Orc generals can "lash" their troops to move faster and fight harder. The Undead can heal their units by creating new troops from the battlefield dead. Good stuff!

You can learn a lot more about the game at the official BFW web site:
http://www.yourmovegames.com/battleground_index.html

This site includes lots of detail on each faction, discussion forums with hundreds of posts, and even a Flash animation showing how game play flows.

I was so impressed with the game that I contacted Your Move Games to ask how I could help promote BFW. They would like us to be one of their Beta playtest groups for the new Campaign system they're developing.

Just from showing the game to a bunch of folks around the SWA, we've already got over eight potential players lined up. But there's always room for more. We'll be starting some time in the month of April, and we'll probably be meeting on Saturday and/or Sunday afternoons. Location will probably be Zombie Planet game store, or the Studio of Bridge and Games, or a mix of the two. We'll see who's playing and what works best for the group. If we get enough players, we may even have more than one group, for better flexibility with scheduling and such.

If you'd like to give the game a try, some of us will be getting together this Saturday. Newbies welcome!

If you're interested in either this weekend or the Campaign idea, please reply to this message, or contact me directly.

Dave Cheng