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There are a few games that I’ve recently heard about that have gotten my salivary glands going. I’ll talk briefly about them.
Battleground: Fantasy Warfare: This is a card-based wargame, filling a slot that would normally be filled by a miniatures game. The advantage, of course, is that _Battleground_ is much, much cheaper and much, much easier to transport. For an entire army, you pay $12-15. For a second deck of units (some of them new) for that army, you pay another $12-15. And then, that’s it. You have every card for that army. There are currently four armies (humans, elves, orcs, and undead), and it is apparently entirely possible for two people to play with a single deck. Anyway, I’m excited because this is a way for me to try a genre of games that I’ve been wanting to try, but has been far to cost prohibitive for me until now.
Dungeon Twister: A very cool-looking game where two opposing teams of heroes must fight their way out of an ever-changing dungeon. It has a cool, card-based action system, characters with diverse abilities, and some neat concepts.
Anyway, I found out about these games via the magic of podcasting, which I have recently discovered that I enjoy very much. Some podcasts of note are Roll 2d6 and The Dice Tower. So there.
