Saturday, April 16, 2011

Thunderbolt/Apache Leader (GMT) Module

Thunderbolt / Apache Leader is an exciting solitaire game that challenges you to command teams of A-10 Thunderbolt tank-busters and AH-64 Apache attack helicopters on battlefields around the world.

You select the best mix of aircraft, weapons, tactics, and crew to suppress air defenses, neutralize tank columns, pound troop concentrations, and duel helicopter gunships.

A new TAL is currently available for pre-order from DVG:
Thunderbolt-Apache Leader at DVG.com

Thunderbolt/Apache Leader at BGG: BoardGameGeek.com
VASSAL: vassalengine.org

Downloads - VASSAL
TAL Module: ThunderboltApacheLeader1.2.vmod (v1.2 - 2011-04-16) by toposolitario

Downloads - Rules
Rules: TAL_Rulebook.pdf (2011-04-16)
WINGS - A look at TAL: WINGS A look at TAL.pdf (2011-04-16)

Screenshots

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Space Hulk: Death Angel Module

Space Hulk: Death Angel - The Card Game is a cooperative card game for 1-6 players. Set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, players take on the roles of Space Marines pitted against the increasing hordes of Genestealers.

Players choose from six different combat teams, each consisting of two Space Marines with different abilities. Each player receives three Action cards for each of his combat teams. After all of the Space Marines have fallen into formation, prepare for the first wave of Genestealers!

Game play is quick and easy-to-learn. Each game is played over a series of rounds, broken up into phases. During the Choose Actions Phase, each player must secretly determine which of the following Action cards they wish to play on their Space Marines: Support, Attack, or Move + Activate. You can't pick the same Action card next round, so choose wisely!
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Action resolution keeps all players involved while the overwhelming odds inspire them to work together to survive. The Action Resolution Phase consists of each player revealing and carrying out their chosen Action. The lowest number card goes first, which means Attacks are resolved after Supports. Support tokens enable Space Marines to re-roll, so make sure to cover your fellow Blood Angels!

The Genestealer Attack Phase happens after all the Actions have been resolved, so hopefully you thinned out the swarms since you have to roll higher than the number of Genestealers in the swarm to successfully defend. Finally, an Event card is drawn to spawn more alien adversaries. Once all the Genestealers have emerged from the darkness, its time to move forward, drawing a new location card. And then it's back into the fight!


Space Hulk: Death Angel at BGG: BoardGameGeek.com
VASSAL: vassalengine.org

Downloads - VASSAL
Includes the expansions

SpaceHulkDeathAngel.vmod (v2.0 - 2013-03-23)
ZIP password = bggames01

Mirrors:
megashares
bitshare
sendmyway
rghost
ziddu
gamefront
queenshare
1fichier
netload
hipfile
turbobit
tusfiles
crocko

Downloads - Rules & FAQ
Fantasy Flight Space Hulk: Death Angel Support Site

Screenshots


Saturday, November 20, 2010

Rallyman Module

After drawing your rally-track (by connecting sides of 1,2,3 or 4 boards that are each double-sided, one side with asphalt, and the other side with snow) you begin the race.

The movement system is simple : each die rolled, you advance one space. So you have 5 dice for each of the speeds and 2 of 'gas' to continue moving without changing your speed. Each die is playable once and only once each turn. When you stop your movement, you take a card corresponding to the last speed that you started: the higher your speed, the lower your time.
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The track has obviously straight lines and turning areas require a certain speed that you can pass with different manners (by skidding, sharp turning, ...).

You must roll the die because it determines the speed selected, but may show a "!" which will put you in danger. The 3rd "!" displayed, your car will risk going spinning off the road, resulting in loss of time (1'00''instead of the scheduled time on your card) but sometimes also damage to the vehicle as the landscape in which you go (grassland, mountain forest : loss of 0 to 2 of speed used in each round.

At the end of each round, each player adds his times for his total time. The winner is the player who accumulates the least time in total.

The ability to take risks to scrape a few seconds (and then release them to ensure a tricky) or the tire management (is it better to take slicks on the short portion snow tires or snow on the portion asphalt in a special joint ?) adds more to the simulation.


Rallyman at BGG: BoardGameGeek.com
VASSAL: vassalengine.org

Downloads - VASSAL
Rallyman: Rallyman.vmod (v4.0.1 - 2012-04-16)
4.0.1 – fixes bug where Custom Rally Zone B board was Zone A

v3 Legacy Boards: rallyman-v3legacyboards.vmdx (v1.0 - 2012-02-03)
(adds module v3 boards for previously saved games and v3 module compatibility)

Rally Sweden: rallyman-sweden.vmdx (v1.0 - 2012-02-03)
Rallye Monte Carlo: rallyman-montecarlo.vmdx (v1.2 - 2011-05-12)
Rallye de Suisse: rallyman-suisse.vmdx (v1.1 - 2011-05-12)
Finland Rally: rallyman-finland.vmdx (v1.1 - 2011-05-12)
Rallye de Corse: rallyman-corse.vmdx (v1.1 - 2011-05-12)

Downloads - Rules
English Game Rules: GB.pdf (v1 - 2010-11-20)
Soft Tire Rules (French): Rules update 2010.pdf (v1 - 2010-11-20)
Dirt Rules: dirt_us_rules.pdf (2012-02-03)


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Monday, October 25, 2010

Lost Cities Module

Lost Cities is a card game from the Kosmos two-player series. The object is to mount profitable expeditions to one or more of the five different lost cities. Card play is quite straightforward, with a few agonizing moments sprinkled through what is mostly a fast-moving game. If you start a given expedition, you'd better make some progress in it, or it'll score you negative points. If you can make a lot of progress, you'll score quite well. After three rounds, the highest total score takes the day.

Lost Cities at BGG: BoardGameGeek.com
VASSAL: vassalengine.org

Downloads - VASSAL

Module: LostCities.vmod (v1.1 - 2010-11-01)
v1.1 fixes the investment cards

Downloads - Rules
Game Rules (English): Lost Cities_gameRules.pdf

Screenshots

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Rosenkönig (War of the Roses) Module

Originally published as Texas by db-Spiele.

The battle between farmers and ranchers is fairly abstract. A single pawn travels on a square grid. Each player has a hand of cards face up. These each have a direction and a distance. The player can either draw a card and add it to his hand, or play a card. If he plays a card, then the pawn moves the appropriate distance to an empty square, and the player places one of his markers. Each player also has judge symbols that can each be used only once. The judge lets you move onto a previously placed opposition marker and reverse it. Players score points for each contiguous region equal to the square of the number of markers. If a player is not careful, such a move may be forced, as there is a maximum number of cards that a player may hold.
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Contains rules for playing with 4 (in two partnerships of two players).

Later republished 1999 as Rosenkönig by Kosmos, as part of the two-player game series. The republication also included a re-theming of the game. The setting changed from Texas to England, and the factions changed from farmers and ranchers to the factions of the Plantagenet family from the Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) - the Lancaster (red rose) and the York (white rose) factions in a similarly abstracted fashion.

Rosenkönig is part of the Kosmos two-player series.


Rosenkönig at BGG: BoardGameGeek.com
VASSAL: vassalengine.org

Downloads - VASSAL

Module: Rosenkoenig.vmod (v1.0 - 2010-10-17)

Downloads - Rules
Game Rules (English): Rosenkoenig.pdf

Screenshots