Fortified Niche

"Worse than brat summer"

- regular listener, 48

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Episode Notes

The pod has forgotten everything except how to fight and kill in Brimstone and Lead, a fast-paced measureless skirmish wargame by MummyLaundering.

Brimstone and Lead is available here:

https://mummylaundering.itch.io/brimstone-and-lead-arena

Find the companion post here:

https://www.barreldrill.com/brimstone-and-lead-review/

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Show editing by ⁠⁠Serf McSerfington⁠⁠

Show logo by ⁠⁠Kristina Amuan⁠⁠

Show intro/outro by Bevan Tanttu

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.

Battlegroup is available here:

https://www.battlegroup.uk/collections/ww2

Find the companion post here:

https://www.barreldrill.com/battlegroup-ww2-review/

Support Fortified Niche on Patreon:

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Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!

JcDent:

⁠⁠Barrel Drill blog⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠BlueSky⁠⁠

⁠T-shirt store⁠⁠

Show editing by ⁠⁠Serf McSerfington⁠⁠

Show logo by ⁠⁠Kristina Amuan⁠⁠

Show intro/outro by Bevan Tanttu
Find out more at https://fortified-niche.pinecast.co

This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes

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.

Battlegroup is available here:

https://www.battlegroup.uk/collections/ww2

Find the companion post here:

https://www.barreldrill.com/battlegroup-ww2-review/

Support Fortified Niche on Patreon:

⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/fortifiedniche⁠⁠

Follow Fortified Niche on BlueSky:

⁠https://bsky.app/profile/fortifiedniche.bsky.social⁠

Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!

JcDent:

⁠⁠Barrel Drill blog⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠BlueSky⁠⁠

⁠T-shirt store⁠⁠

Show editing by ⁠⁠Serf McSerfington⁠⁠

Show logo by ⁠⁠Kristina Amuan⁠⁠

Show intro/outro by Bevan Tanttu

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 design with unsuitable tools (Microsoft Word)

Force of Virtue is available here:
https://masterstrokegames.com
Jack can be talked at/to on the Force of Virtue Discord:
https://discord.gg/j4BGsVA56
Improve your algorithm by following the Force of Virtue Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/force_of_virtue

Support Fortified Niche on Patreon:
⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/fortifiedniche⁠⁠
Follow Fortified Niche on BlueSky:
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Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!
JcDent:
⁠⁠Barrel Drill blog⁠
⁠⁠⁠⁠BlueSky⁠⁠
⁠T-shirt store⁠⁠

Show editing by ⁠⁠Serf McSerfington⁠⁠
Show logo by ⁠⁠Kristina Amuan⁠⁠
Show intro/outro by Bevan Tanttu

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.

Find the Heroes of Stalingrad rules here:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/248188/heroes-of-stalingrad

Find the companion post here:

https://www.barreldrill.com/heroes-of-stalingrad-review/

Support Fortified Niche on Patreon:

⁠https://www.patreon.com/fortifiedniche⁠

Follow Fortified Niche on BlueSky:

https://bsky.app/profile/fortifiedniche.bsky.social

Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!

JcDent:

⁠Barrel Drill blog

⁠BlueSky⁠

T-shirt store⁠

Show editing by ⁠Serf McSerfington⁠

Show logo by ⁠Kristina Amuan⁠

Show intro/outro by Bevan Tanttu