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TECHNOLOGY CARDS & CAMPAIGN FACTIONS
The Technology Cards can be a great tool for giving each faction in a campaign a unique "flavor" by assigning them certain technological conditions that must always be applied to their units.
This flavor becomes especially pronounced if the technological conditions are exclusive to each group, and no other faction can utilize them in the campaign.
Of course, faction-based technologies are still limited by the normal restrictions (e.g. some technologies may only be applied to certain unit types, etc.) and will affect each unit's final point value as normal.
What makes the assigning of faction-based technologies different though, is that every unit must have it applied if allowed (i.e. it is not an option).
Here are some examples:
Star Marines Mercenaries (Technology: Steeply
Sloped Armor)

Gormel Aliens
(Technologies: Flame Throwing & Inefficient Crew Positions)

League of Star Guardians (Technology: Very High
Rate of Fire)
If you then combine this use of the Technology Cards with other expansions being used in a similar fashion (e.g. the Personality Cards, etc.) you can create some pretty distinctive opposing sides for your next campaign.

What are they?

The Tactical Assault: Combat Cards™ are a new and innovative way to approach your more modern themed miniature gaming. The Combat Cards are designed to bring all of the detailed elements of land warfare – including the fog of war – to the tabletop in a narrative card-driven format that is easy to play yet full of challenges. To be successful you must be creative in your strategies, flexible in your tactics and attentive to the ever changing battlefield.

The Combat Cards can be utilized for just about 20th century and beyond historical period, any science fiction setting, for any scale of miniatures, any sized battlefield and for any size of battle – ranging from the smallest skirmish action all the way up to massive operational level maneuvers.

Inspiration…

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

Here are few pictures from a another recent playtest – this time for Set II of the Technology Cards. The battle was set somewhere in southern West Germany in the summer of 1982. With the UK distracted by the Falklands War, the Warsaw Pact decided to try and seize a little more industrialized territory for itself.

The battle was fought using 6mm Micro Armor (some of which was actually purchased in 1982…). Enjoy!

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Inspiration…

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Here are a few more pictures to go with the Combat Cards battle report The Battle Of Al Haddaf available in the Free Downloads section.

If you have read the battle report, see if you can figure out at what point in the battle they were taken.

Good luck & enjoy!

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Inspiration…

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Here are a couple of pictures from another recent playtest, this time involving elements of the Combat Cards, the Technology Cards and the Legendary Battles. We are very excited about how the map turned out, even though almost every scenario requires careful attention due to the brutal natural of the house-to-house street fighting.

Well, keep your head low and enjoy!