Links
Boardgames, Member's Sites, Organisations, RPGs, Shopping, Wargames
Boardgames
Cheapass Games
The publisher of a number of cheap and cheerful
boardgames. Chris and Neil like them even if no one else
does. Rumour has it that Lee has also been converted due
to a particularly silly game of Give me the Brain. Look a
monkey!
Member's Sites
Greg's A Call to Arms site
A site for the A Call to Arms campaign at the Kettering games club.
He has now seen print in Mongoose Publishing’s in-house
journal, Signs & Portents with articles for
their Babylon 5 RPG.
Hutch's Wargames site
Simon's site has a large number of resources to download, including rules and scenarios for a wide variety of settings. Simon also offers a service to paint models and to build scenary on a commission basis - check out the extensive gallery for examples of the buildings that he has produced and models from his collection.
Organisations
British Historical Games
Society
Stuff about the BHGS will go here when I pull my finger
out and write it.
Eurolog
The dates for Battlemasters 2005 have been announced.
They are the 9th and 10th
of April, 2005. This Battlemasters will be slightly
smaller than previous years but they couldn’t leave
it 18 months until the next one. Why? Well it’s the
15th anniversary. Except silly
party games but no LAN this year. Unlike recent years the
con will be only two days.
Eurolog is the organisation behind the Battlemaster
gaming convention. They also usually attend GenCon and a
couple of other conventions through the year.
Battlemasters is also the home of the Call of Cthulhu
National Championship.
Sir William Gascoigne's
Fellowship
A mid-fifteenth century re-enactment group who portray
the common person during the period of history we now
call the Wars of the Roses (1450 - 1490).
Lets just say we have a memeber who always sees new games
as potential conversions to some aspect of the Wars of
the Roses.
The international amateur society for ancient and
medieval wargamers and for study of the military history
of the period 3000 BC to 1500 AD.
The SoA is run by volunteers for the benefit of their
worldwide membership. They publish a bi-monthly journal,
Slingshot, and sponsor various events, including wargames
tournaments. Their stand can be seen at many wargames
shows in the United Kingdom and abroad.
A number of us are also members of the SoA. In fact we
may even a committee member in our midst. Who am I
kidding, we have various ex-committee members and one
current.
Society of Fantasy and Science
Fiction Wargamers
The Society of Fantasy and Science Fiction Wargamers (SFSFW)
is an international body dedicated to promoting the
fantasy and science fiction genre within wargaming and
the hobby in general. Neil has been a member from the
first year it started, over ten years ago now. To his
eternal shame he has never pulled his finger out and
written anything for the journal, Ragnarok.
They also hold an annual convention, usually near
Birmingham, called Bifrost. This year Neil was there
helping to demo PP:E for BITS.
Role Playing Games
British Isles Traveller
Support
If you're a fan of Traveller, in any of its incarnations,
you need to be a member. Not just a group dedicated to
fan support of the game but also a licensed publishing
house of many fine Traveller books including the 101
series. Also the publisher of Power Projection:Fleet and
Power Projection:Escort.
Chaoisum
The publishers of the Call of Cthulhu role playing game.
Far Future Games
Owned by Marc Miller the original designer of Traveller.
They are currently reprinting all of the original
Traveller material.
QLI
The publishers of the new T20 game. The Traveller
Universe but using the D20 system.
Steve Jackson Games
SJG's produce many fine games including GURPS, a generic
role playing game. They also produce a number of
Traveller books using the GURPS system.
Attention
The forum has recently been up-dated. The site looks much
better now but you will need to re-register. I’ve
already put a mention up for the Kettering Games Club.
An online forum for UK role-players.
The Black Seal
Another excellent UK based CoC magazine. The Black Seal
restricts itself to the modern period and Europe as a
setting, particularly the UK, Ireland and France. Future
issues will examine other settings around the globe. The
first two issues are sold out and the quantities of the
third are low.
Shopping
Green Angel Games
Ran partly from a market stall at Kettering market and
kind enough to have a poster up advertising us.
Project Hydra - Northampton Games Store
Project Hydra is located on 116 Abington Street (the same road as Games Workshop) and is run by Tom, one of the Kettering-Games-Club members. It stocks AT-43, Hordes, War Machine, Flames of War, Warhammer, 40K and Magic product lines. You can also order online at www.projecthydra.co.uk, where you will receive a 15% discount off GW miniatures.
RPG Character Portraits
Club members can commission an artist to draw the character portrait for their RPG character with a 10% discount.
The Terrain Warehouse
A web-based company that sells wargames terrain,
including their own unique items. Club members ordering
from them will receive a discount.
Wargames
Heresy Online - W40K Forum
Heresy Online is a forum for discussing Warhammer 40,000 including tactics, army lists, painting and conversions.
Peter Pig
The publisher of the Rules for the Common Man range of
wargames rules and manufacturer of extensive ranges of 15mm
figures. Particularly well known for the AK47 Republic
and Poor Bloody Infantry II rules and their Modern
African and WWII miniature ranges.
Their latest rules set have just been released called Patrols
in the Sudan or PitS for short. Players take
command of British or native forces during the colonial
era. Yet to make an appearance at the club but a hand
full of member are building up forces.
Nice (and surprisingly cheap) attractive miniatures in
the 25mm range from Australia - Sabretooths and Raquel
Welsh style women, and now a range of feral elves...!
