One might think I don’t like the French, judging from the number of French jokes that appear in Shock Force: Battles in the Remnants of America.  Careful observers will find in the comic strips in Shock Force II a character that recurs across several of them.  He’s a French gun-runner with stereotypical striped shirt, beret, handlebar mustache, and filtered cigarette.  He deals guns, gets killed, and is restored as a cybernetic zombie by DeadTech Systems.

I actually like pretty much anyone French I’ve ever known.  My favorites are the boys that run the Iron Dream Tournament.  This year, #5, included a great WarEngine tournament that’s only flaw would be the limitation of five participants.  Would there could have been more!

The Miniatures Page has documented Day One of the IDT WarEngine tournament complete with lots of photos of the figures.  There’s not a DemonBlade figure to be found amongst them!

Nobody likes a guy that plays like a wuss.  You know who I’m talking about.  This guy takes the longest range weapons he can, tweaks them to reach further, takes “Ignores Cover” on every weapon he can, and sits back to wait for you to come to him.

If I were in real combat, you can be damn sure I’d do that.  Kill the bad guys before they ever get close?  Damn straight!  It makes for a lousy game, though.  Here are some house rules to help turn your waiting game into your game of stupendous bad-ass-ness.

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I’m not shy about the fact that I really like the WarEngine rules.  I wrote them, after all.  So it makes sense that my favorite wargame experience was a WarEngine game.

Dave and I got together at his place in Atlanta (or was it at my place in Rockville?)  Dave had a huge number of orcs, lots of Games Workshop figures plus an eclectic mix of troops from other manufacturers.  Mine was also primarily a GW force, as I’ve always like rat-guys models, so had many, many Skaven I could put on the board.  I also had a bunch of Heartbreaker figures with spears that made great skaven-slaves and some rat-guys on giant mice from one of “R” companies (Reaper?  Ral Partha?)

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