The closing of Toys R Us has been rolling around in my head for months, I finally had some time to sit down and record it. I guess it's appropriate since it's Christmas time. I hope you enjoy it, thank you for listening!
Toys R Us bankruptcy press release
Vintage Toys R Us on Retro Junk
Sunnyvale Toys R Us on Computer History Museum (thumbnail photo)
Doug McCoy's Nintendo Get With It Kit video
Jean Shepherd's Route 22
Monday 24 February 2020
Sunday 23 February 2020
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a third-person action-adventure puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Ubisoft. Revealed in March 2003, it was released across Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox and Microsoft Windows in November 2003. The Sands of Time is a reboot of the Prince of Persia series, created by Jordan Mechner. Mechner served as creative consultant, designer, and scenario writer for The Sands of Time.
The game follows an unnamed Prince whose father sacks a Maharaja's city at the instigation of its treacherous Vizier. During the attack, the Prince obtains an artifact called the Dagger of Time, while his army captures an hourglass containing the Sands of Time. Visiting Azad to present the Sands as a gift to the city's ruler, the Vizier tricks the Prince into releasing the Sands, transforming the city's population into savage monsters. Together with the Maharaja's daughter Farah, the Prince works to correct his mistake and return the Sands to the hourglass. The gameplay revolves around the Prince's platforming abilities, broken up by fights with the creatures created by the Sands. A key mechanic in the game is using the Dagger to rewind time if the Prince makes a mistake platforming, and using it to kill and freeze enemies.
Concept work began in spring of 2001, after Ubisoft acquired the Prince of Persia catalog. After Mechner was brought on board, production began in June of that year. After the initial story draft was scrapped as it was too complex, the team began with four guiding concepts, including the ability to rewind time: this idea grew into the Dagger, the Sands, and the various powers related to them. Mechner's script drew inspiration from the Shahnameh, with the main focus on creating a simple narrative that worked with the pace of gameplay. The game used Ubisoft's Jade engine, originally designed for beyond evi Good & Evil, another game published by the company. Production was troubled, with the team facing problems with the engine structure and delays with environment assets, while also managing to create an effective tester network to seek out the game's bugs. In 2004, a version for mobile phones was developed and published in North America by Gameloft.
Upon release, it received critical acclaim, won and was nominated for numerous awards, and has been recognized by many as one of the greatest games of all time. Sales of the title were initially slow, but it eventually became a commercial success. Its success prompted the development of a sequel, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, which was released in November 2004. Further games set in the Sands of Time continuity have been developed, and it is generally cited as the reason for the Prince of Persia series' return to fame.
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Friday 21 February 2020
PB 5540, Star Wars The Arcade Game!
Greetings fellow droids, in this episode we take a gander at Star Wars the Arcade Game by Parker Brothers, a port of the Atari vector arcade game. If you think that's confusing, wait until you hear THE REST OF THE STORY. It's a fun one! Coming up next is Tomcat F-14 Flight Simulator by Accolade, a late 80s release. I would especially like to know if you had this game when it originally came out. Please send your thoughts to me at 2600gamebygame@gmail.com by end of day November 3rd. I can't believe it's almost November. As always, I thank you for listening.
Star Wars on Random Terrain
Star Wars on KLOV
Bob Smith interview by Kevin Savetz on the ANTIC podcast
Michael Becker interview by Scott Stilphen
Atari Age Trakball modified games thread
Star Wars Trakball Series in the Atari Age store
Stragglin' Jim's Star Wars controls hack
Dan Kitchen interview by Classic Gamer 74
Star Wars on Random Terrain
Star Wars on KLOV
Bob Smith interview by Kevin Savetz on the ANTIC podcast
Michael Becker interview by Scott Stilphen
Atari Age Trakball modified games thread
Star Wars Trakball Series in the Atari Age store
Stragglin' Jim's Star Wars controls hack
Dan Kitchen interview by Classic Gamer 74
Thursday 20 February 2020
Movie And TV Reviews: Lady Bird, The Post, Molly's Game, Goodbye Christopher Robin, Westworld, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
See all of my movie reviews.
Lady Bird: Greta Gerwig's first outing as a director is a smashing success. I have complicated feelings about Greta, in that I admire her intentions in writing and playing in quirky comedies, such as Frances Ha. However, I felt that her movies were not quite there yet, not quite jelled. The characters were too unrelatable, and the plots too chaotic and off-putting. This is the first one she really gets right.
Christine is a teenager who calls herself "Lady Bird" for no discernible reason. The movie is basically an arc in the life of Christine and her relationship with her mother as she navigates the last year of high school in Sacramento. She makes and loses friends, fights, makes up, and fights with her mother, and tries to get into a college on the East Coast that will get her far away from her family.
I have been a big fan of Saoirse Ronan, from Atonement to Hanna to Brooklyn. She and Laurie Metcalf, as well as the rest of the cast, give perfect performances. If there is any flaw to the movie it is that it could have been more: more sweeping, maybe have another deep relationship arc in addition to the main one. But that's hardly a flaw. Worth watching.
The Post: Hanks, Streep, and Spielberg give us another newspaper drama, this one about the publishing of the Pentagon Papers that broke the story about how a series of US presidents and higher ups were all lying about the Vietnam War, pretending that the US was fighting to liberate South Vietnam when they knew all along that the war could not be won and the real aim was to broadly fight China.
It's a good movie, if not a great one. Roughly on par with other newspaper movies I've seen, including Spotlight and All the President's Men., but with a narrower aim. The main conflicts are a) publish or not? and b) can Streep's female character assert authority at the paper without making a major blunder? Streep plays the owner of the Washington Post, a position she inherited from her late husband, and a woman bullied by her all male board. She is seemingly willing to let them bully her until she finally takes a stand. Hanks plays the chief editor who is pushing to report a story while the government wants to sue them for espionage.
If you happen to draw a parallel between the historic ideals of freedom of press versus a tyrannical, corrupt president and anything happening today it's because we once trumpeted these ideals very clearly. Reality has a bias toward the truth, which any amount of modern obfuscation cannot truly suppress. And it is good not to lose sight of the ideals for which we stand.
Molly's Game: If it's been a while since you've seen a Sorkin picture, you'll find it is like riding a bicycle. You will immediately be expecting to see Josh Lyman or Sam Seaborne walk in from some corner of the screen.
This is the story of a woman who uses some incredible insight, people skills, and brass balls to end up running a high stakes poker game for important celebrities and executives, first on the West Coast and then on the East. The enterprise lasts until the feds and the mafia move in on her. The story is told from a series of flashbacks interspersed with her finding a lawyer and navigating her legal case. It is based on a true story.
Jessica Chastain does a fine job in the lead role. Everyone else does fine, except Kevin Costner who seems out of place as her often distant but high pressuring father. Regardless, it is a Sorkin story, which means witty, clever, entertaining dialog and characters who are ten times brighter and more accomplished than most people you will ever meet. Well crafted with great cinematography.
Goodbye Christopher Robin: The story of A.A. Milne, his wife, and his son Christopher Robin, how the Winnie the Pooh books came to be, and the effect they had on their lives. Spoiler: on the one hand the books are the most successful children's books of all time. On the other hand, they destroyed the life of Christopher Robin and his relationship with his parents. The movie actually gives us a slightly happier ending than the real life events.
Milne's wife is shown to be a bit of a shrew, with just enough redeeming moments to make her two-dimensional, but not really likable. Alan Milne is more sympathetic, although he blatantly and blindly uses his son poorly without much thought. It's all pretty tragic.
It's a decent movie for what it aims to be, somewhere on the same level as Becoming Jane or Miss Potter. It is well acted and lovingly directed and filmed. It tells its story well enough. But it's not a very important story or movie, for all that, and only the falsified, slightly happier ending gives the viewer any kind of comfort.
Westworld (season one): I saw a few episodes of Humans and couldn't get into it. I was a little concerned about the level of violence I heard about in this series (I won't watch Game of Thrones). Somehow, the fact that the violence happens to robots makes it easier to take, although the question remains exactly whether the robots are or are not conscious, so you have to decide that for yourself if the violence is watchable or not.
I am a huge fan of Evan Rachel Wood; she and everyone else do fine jobs. Unlike Humans, the stories are quite captivating, with a number of whodunits and what's going to happen nexts that got me hooked. The stories take place in the facility that creates and maintains the robots, as well as in the play world of Westworld, and they include scenes that occur as flashbacks from the robots' perspective, despite the fact that the robots are not supposed to have memories.
There is nudity, but respectfully done and never gratuitous. The sex scenes are all pretty unsexy.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season one): The next series from Amy Sherman Palladino (Gilmore Girls, Bunheads), this one succeeds better than Bunheads did. Bunheads had a few great scenes, but it was too unrestrained in ridiculous plot and ridiculous dialog, which made it hard to relate to. This series only has one Bunheads-style conversation that set my teeth on edge in episode two. Thankfully that was the only one.
Midge is a perfect 1950s Jewish housewife who is supported by her husband and who in turn supports his occasional forays into standup comedy. He's not good at it, and one day he decides that she is not supportive enough of him and he leaves her. She then discovers, albeit reluctantly, that SHE is good at comedy. Cue a lot of denial, drinking binges, and attempts to make a go at standup comedy, all the while continuing to navigate her 1950s Jewish family, neighbors, friends, children, and still husband, all of whom remain blissfully unaware of her secret life as a comedienne.
It's not as good as Gilmore Girls, which had the great triple relationships between the three women, as well as their suitors, husbands, and the funky Connecticut town Stars Hollow as color. The supporting characters here are not as fun, there is no funky community background. But we have a few great scenes with a young Lenny Bruce. The best scenes are the ones where she does her Lenny Bruce style-standup, something which could not really have happened in the time period of the show, and so represents a kind of wish fulfillment on the part of Amy and for the viewers.
Amy's dialog is distinctive, and it's fun to hear. I just wish the show also had a teenage daughter.
Lady Bird: Greta Gerwig's first outing as a director is a smashing success. I have complicated feelings about Greta, in that I admire her intentions in writing and playing in quirky comedies, such as Frances Ha. However, I felt that her movies were not quite there yet, not quite jelled. The characters were too unrelatable, and the plots too chaotic and off-putting. This is the first one she really gets right.
Christine is a teenager who calls herself "Lady Bird" for no discernible reason. The movie is basically an arc in the life of Christine and her relationship with her mother as she navigates the last year of high school in Sacramento. She makes and loses friends, fights, makes up, and fights with her mother, and tries to get into a college on the East Coast that will get her far away from her family.
I have been a big fan of Saoirse Ronan, from Atonement to Hanna to Brooklyn. She and Laurie Metcalf, as well as the rest of the cast, give perfect performances. If there is any flaw to the movie it is that it could have been more: more sweeping, maybe have another deep relationship arc in addition to the main one. But that's hardly a flaw. Worth watching.
The Post: Hanks, Streep, and Spielberg give us another newspaper drama, this one about the publishing of the Pentagon Papers that broke the story about how a series of US presidents and higher ups were all lying about the Vietnam War, pretending that the US was fighting to liberate South Vietnam when they knew all along that the war could not be won and the real aim was to broadly fight China.
It's a good movie, if not a great one. Roughly on par with other newspaper movies I've seen, including Spotlight and All the President's Men., but with a narrower aim. The main conflicts are a) publish or not? and b) can Streep's female character assert authority at the paper without making a major blunder? Streep plays the owner of the Washington Post, a position she inherited from her late husband, and a woman bullied by her all male board. She is seemingly willing to let them bully her until she finally takes a stand. Hanks plays the chief editor who is pushing to report a story while the government wants to sue them for espionage.
If you happen to draw a parallel between the historic ideals of freedom of press versus a tyrannical, corrupt president and anything happening today it's because we once trumpeted these ideals very clearly. Reality has a bias toward the truth, which any amount of modern obfuscation cannot truly suppress. And it is good not to lose sight of the ideals for which we stand.
Molly's Game: If it's been a while since you've seen a Sorkin picture, you'll find it is like riding a bicycle. You will immediately be expecting to see Josh Lyman or Sam Seaborne walk in from some corner of the screen.
This is the story of a woman who uses some incredible insight, people skills, and brass balls to end up running a high stakes poker game for important celebrities and executives, first on the West Coast and then on the East. The enterprise lasts until the feds and the mafia move in on her. The story is told from a series of flashbacks interspersed with her finding a lawyer and navigating her legal case. It is based on a true story.
Jessica Chastain does a fine job in the lead role. Everyone else does fine, except Kevin Costner who seems out of place as her often distant but high pressuring father. Regardless, it is a Sorkin story, which means witty, clever, entertaining dialog and characters who are ten times brighter and more accomplished than most people you will ever meet. Well crafted with great cinematography.
Goodbye Christopher Robin: The story of A.A. Milne, his wife, and his son Christopher Robin, how the Winnie the Pooh books came to be, and the effect they had on their lives. Spoiler: on the one hand the books are the most successful children's books of all time. On the other hand, they destroyed the life of Christopher Robin and his relationship with his parents. The movie actually gives us a slightly happier ending than the real life events.
Milne's wife is shown to be a bit of a shrew, with just enough redeeming moments to make her two-dimensional, but not really likable. Alan Milne is more sympathetic, although he blatantly and blindly uses his son poorly without much thought. It's all pretty tragic.
It's a decent movie for what it aims to be, somewhere on the same level as Becoming Jane or Miss Potter. It is well acted and lovingly directed and filmed. It tells its story well enough. But it's not a very important story or movie, for all that, and only the falsified, slightly happier ending gives the viewer any kind of comfort.
Westworld (season one): I saw a few episodes of Humans and couldn't get into it. I was a little concerned about the level of violence I heard about in this series (I won't watch Game of Thrones). Somehow, the fact that the violence happens to robots makes it easier to take, although the question remains exactly whether the robots are or are not conscious, so you have to decide that for yourself if the violence is watchable or not.
I am a huge fan of Evan Rachel Wood; she and everyone else do fine jobs. Unlike Humans, the stories are quite captivating, with a number of whodunits and what's going to happen nexts that got me hooked. The stories take place in the facility that creates and maintains the robots, as well as in the play world of Westworld, and they include scenes that occur as flashbacks from the robots' perspective, despite the fact that the robots are not supposed to have memories.
There is nudity, but respectfully done and never gratuitous. The sex scenes are all pretty unsexy.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season one): The next series from Amy Sherman Palladino (Gilmore Girls, Bunheads), this one succeeds better than Bunheads did. Bunheads had a few great scenes, but it was too unrestrained in ridiculous plot and ridiculous dialog, which made it hard to relate to. This series only has one Bunheads-style conversation that set my teeth on edge in episode two. Thankfully that was the only one.
Midge is a perfect 1950s Jewish housewife who is supported by her husband and who in turn supports his occasional forays into standup comedy. He's not good at it, and one day he decides that she is not supportive enough of him and he leaves her. She then discovers, albeit reluctantly, that SHE is good at comedy. Cue a lot of denial, drinking binges, and attempts to make a go at standup comedy, all the while continuing to navigate her 1950s Jewish family, neighbors, friends, children, and still husband, all of whom remain blissfully unaware of her secret life as a comedienne.
It's not as good as Gilmore Girls, which had the great triple relationships between the three women, as well as their suitors, husbands, and the funky Connecticut town Stars Hollow as color. The supporting characters here are not as fun, there is no funky community background. But we have a few great scenes with a young Lenny Bruce. The best scenes are the ones where she does her Lenny Bruce style-standup, something which could not really have happened in the time period of the show, and so represents a kind of wish fulfillment on the part of Amy and for the viewers.
Amy's dialog is distinctive, and it's fun to hear. I just wish the show also had a teenage daughter.
Life Lessons From PUBG
PUBG. The first thing that comes in mind after listening to it is a battle-royale game. But PUBG has some connection to real life. We can learn many things from PUBG. PUBG can motivate us a lot. Below given are 20 life lessons that we can learn from PUBG:
1. The blue zone is just an illusion. Life never gives a second chance. If anyone goes away from this world, then the person never returns.
We know that once we are killed, we cannot return to the game. Though how much rich we are, we should accept that we are dead and no one in this world can save us.
2. Nothing is yours in this world. After your death, the scopes, weapons, clothes etc. that you collected in your life will remain here.
What is the meaning of life if we don't enjoy it? There are more things to do in life than just running after something!
3. Never underestimate your enemies. You can never know who can kill you, at what time and where.
So don't underestimate your enemies and prepare to beat them before they beat you.
4. The more resources we have, the more we survive.
Start collecting resources and information about your enemies The more you collect, the more chances arrive that you beat them.
5. Sometimes you need others to revive yourself. So kill your ego and make your relationship stronger.
Often people break their relations just to satisfy their ego. But relationships are far more important than our ego. Ego will make us alone in this social world.
6. It doesn't matter how strong you are. If you are not individually strong, you can lose any time.
Teamwork is good but there will a time when you have to fight alone. At that time if you are not individually strong, you won't live long.
7. You can never know when, how and where you can be attacked, so always be alert.
You should be alert at all times. Enemies can attack at any moment and from anywhere. A little mistake can risk your life.
8. You have to either win or lose in your life, there is no option to run away.
You have to either kill the enemy or get killed. There is no option to run away. Running away proves that you are no more than a loser.
9. Never leave your task undone or half-completed.
Found your enemy? Just kill him or else he will kill you. Don't just let him go or he will be the cause of your death.
10. You have to kill your enemies as soon as you see them otherwise they will kill you.
Found your enemy? Just kill him or else he will kill you. Don't just let him go or he will be the cause of your death.
11. Act or react whenever you get a chance.
Count your actions. Act when your team needs your help. React when you find an enemy.
12. Always take calculated risks, never aim blindly.
Take risks but don't just shoot blindly. If there is no reward for taking risks you better move away. Also, the reward should be worth the risks that you take.
13. Being in a shelter for some time will save you from enemies but to save yourself from the zone you have to get out of your comfort zone.
Collect your weapons and equipment and just continue fighting, killing all enemies in your way. Come out of your comfort zone and achieve everything.
14. Always try to be away from negative energy otherwise they will attack and kill you.
Negative people will spread negativity everywhere. It is your duty to keep a distance from them. Be positive no matter what happens.
15. We should help our friends whenever they need help.
It is also our duty to help our friends whenever they need us because if they have saved us it's our duty to pay them.
16. Never let your enemies know your position or plans.
Don't let your enemies know your future plans. Implement them secretly and let your success make the noise.
17. No work is completed with frustration, so try to remain cool and make quick decisions.
Frustration and being angry is one of the reasons that you fail successively. Try to be calm and prove them wrong when you get the next chance.
18. In the last, the guy who is smartest, powerful and brave will win the chicken dinner.
The guy who thinks smartly does proper plans and implements them correctly gets to taste the chicken dinner.
19. There is always one winner.
You have to become that winner in order to taste chicken dinner. You have to defeat them all and become first.
20. Never depend on someone in your life. Follow your passion and show your talent to everyone in this world.
Never depend on your friends/ family. Be independent, be strong, be unique and the world is yours.
So next time you play the game, think about it and motivate yourself. PUBG is not only a game but a motivational tool. Learn these life lessons from PUBG.
What motivation have you learned from PUBG? Comment us below as we are very curious to know it.
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| Motivation from PUBG |
1. The blue zone is just an illusion. Life never gives a second chance. If anyone goes away from this world, then the person never returns.
We know that once we are killed, we cannot return to the game. Though how much rich we are, we should accept that we are dead and no one in this world can save us.
2. Nothing is yours in this world. After your death, the scopes, weapons, clothes etc. that you collected in your life will remain here.
What is the meaning of life if we don't enjoy it? There are more things to do in life than just running after something!
3. Never underestimate your enemies. You can never know who can kill you, at what time and where.
So don't underestimate your enemies and prepare to beat them before they beat you.
4. The more resources we have, the more we survive.
Start collecting resources and information about your enemies The more you collect, the more chances arrive that you beat them.
5. Sometimes you need others to revive yourself. So kill your ego and make your relationship stronger.
Often people break their relations just to satisfy their ego. But relationships are far more important than our ego. Ego will make us alone in this social world.
6. It doesn't matter how strong you are. If you are not individually strong, you can lose any time.
Teamwork is good but there will a time when you have to fight alone. At that time if you are not individually strong, you won't live long.
7. You can never know when, how and where you can be attacked, so always be alert.
You should be alert at all times. Enemies can attack at any moment and from anywhere. A little mistake can risk your life.
8. You have to either win or lose in your life, there is no option to run away.
You have to either kill the enemy or get killed. There is no option to run away. Running away proves that you are no more than a loser.
9. Never leave your task undone or half-completed.
Found your enemy? Just kill him or else he will kill you. Don't just let him go or he will be the cause of your death.
10. You have to kill your enemies as soon as you see them otherwise they will kill you.
Found your enemy? Just kill him or else he will kill you. Don't just let him go or he will be the cause of your death.
11. Act or react whenever you get a chance.
Count your actions. Act when your team needs your help. React when you find an enemy.
12. Always take calculated risks, never aim blindly.
Take risks but don't just shoot blindly. If there is no reward for taking risks you better move away. Also, the reward should be worth the risks that you take.
13. Being in a shelter for some time will save you from enemies but to save yourself from the zone you have to get out of your comfort zone.
Collect your weapons and equipment and just continue fighting, killing all enemies in your way. Come out of your comfort zone and achieve everything.
14. Always try to be away from negative energy otherwise they will attack and kill you.
Negative people will spread negativity everywhere. It is your duty to keep a distance from them. Be positive no matter what happens.
15. We should help our friends whenever they need help.
It is also our duty to help our friends whenever they need us because if they have saved us it's our duty to pay them.
16. Never let your enemies know your position or plans.
Don't let your enemies know your future plans. Implement them secretly and let your success make the noise.
17. No work is completed with frustration, so try to remain cool and make quick decisions.
Frustration and being angry is one of the reasons that you fail successively. Try to be calm and prove them wrong when you get the next chance.
18. In the last, the guy who is smartest, powerful and brave will win the chicken dinner.
The guy who thinks smartly does proper plans and implements them correctly gets to taste the chicken dinner.
19. There is always one winner.
You have to become that winner in order to taste chicken dinner. You have to defeat them all and become first.
20. Never depend on someone in your life. Follow your passion and show your talent to everyone in this world.
Never depend on your friends/ family. Be independent, be strong, be unique and the world is yours.
So next time you play the game, think about it and motivate yourself. PUBG is not only a game but a motivational tool. Learn these life lessons from PUBG.
What motivation have you learned from PUBG? Comment us below as we are very curious to know it.
Some Work From Zach
A collection of Zach's works
The Great White Ape of Barsoom
He did a good job on the white fur
Woola, the Calot
I forget which Barsoomian critter this is...
A Chaos Warrior
Also, the flank of a Banth (Barsoomian lion)
Chaos Beastman Army Centaur Banner
Another Chaos Beastman. Zach has an entire army of these fellows
Wednesday 19 February 2020
Italian Wars Campaigning
An interesting question came up on the Twitters whilst I was chatting about my review of the Furioso rule set, what about a Campaign System ? You know each player is a Condottiero building his forces and manoeuvring for position, fortune and fame in late 15th Century Italy, that sort of thing.
Well sit back, I think I have found it.
I present Dell'arte Del La Guerra from a Company who are new too me Real Time Wargames. I found them during a random search on the Googles, I couldn't find much information or reviews about them on the tinterwebnet so I took a punt.
The book has a Campaign System for up to 6 players to take the role of a Condottiero in the late 15th Century in the years leading up to the French Invasion in 1495 (or invitation depending on your viewpoint), everything I mentioned in my opening paragraph.
They are avaliable as a PDF for around £10 from Wargames Vault (you would need to print and mount the game cards this way) or direct from the company as a printed version complete with gaming aids for £20 (link below)
https://www.realtimewargames.com/product-page/dell-arte-della-guerra
I bought the printed version and if it's your thing I would go for that version as will become plain during the review.
The Contents
First thing to say is that the book also has some tabletop rules within them, this review does not cover that part of the publication, I am happy with Furioso at the moment. 1st off a video covering the physical content of the book.
For those who don't do the Utube here are some stills of content. The use of the cards becomes clearer when watched in conjunction with the game play video.
Above are the game mats included in the printed version, we have,
- A fast play sheet for the tabletop rules
- A chart for recording current financial details of the players and the City States involved.
- A campaign chart for army movement.
- A Chart for recording passage of time during the Campaign
A set of Unit Cards for each of the Condottiero, defining two units from that army, they are printed on decent card and are good quality. Each of the 6 players have 10 cards each.
Next up are three sets of cards, one each for the two schools of warfare in the game. These are specifically for the tabletop rules and are used to influence game play, however I don't think they would be too difficult to adapt to whatever rule set you use.
The third deck are objective cards, these are drawn at random each game year and provide a focus for the campaign.
Above is a picture of the remaining cards in the set, there a unit cards for the City States (50 cards) plus a number of cards representing the French Invaders.
The rest of the cards are for use on the Campaign Charts shown above, things like markers for money on the finance chart, army position markers, debt markers for money owed etc
In fact everything you need, bar a few dice and a deck of playing cards. There are hundreds of cards here and for me, well worth the extra 10 quid.
Campaign Game Play
The next section covers an example of the set up and workings of the Campaign, I have done this solely on the Utubes as it's much easier to present that way.
Hopefully that will have given you an idea of the rule set and how they might work for you. Don't forget they include a tabletop rule set as well.
The movement map for the armies is very straight forward and some may miss a more traditional map based system but it's a nice simple way of working out Army Movement and we will definitely be giving it a go.
I'm off to raise (ok paint) some more troops for his Holiness, "Viva il Papa"
Thursday 13 February 2020
Brave Browser the Best privacy-focused Browser of 2020
Out of all the privacy-focused products and apps available on the market, Brave has been voted the best. Other winners of Product Hunt's Golden Kitty awards showed that there was a huge interest in privacy-enhancing products and apps such as chats, maps, and other collaboration tools.
An extremely productive year for Brave
Last year has been a pivotal one for the crypto industry, but few companies managed to see the kind of success Brave did. Almost every day of the year has been packed witch action, as the company managed to officially launch its browser, get its Basic Attention Token out, and onboard hundreds of thousands of verified publishers on its rewards platform.
Luckily, the effort Brave has been putting into its product hasn't gone unnoticed.
The company's revolutionary browser has been voted the best privacy-focused product of 2019, for which it received a Golden Kitty award. The awards, hosted by Product Hunt, were given to the most popular products across 23 different product categories.
Ryan Hoover, the founder of Product Hunt said:
"Our annual Golden Kitty awards celebrate all the great products that makers have launched throughout the year"
Brave's win is important for the company—with this year seeing the most user votes ever, it's a clear indicator of the browser's rapidly rising popularity.
Privacy and blockchain are the strongest forces in tech right now
If reaching 10 million monthly active users in December was Brave's crown achievement, then the Product Hunt award was the cherry on top.
The recognition Brave got from Product Hunt users shows that a market for privacy-focused apps is thriving. All of the apps and products that got a Golden Kitty award from Product Hunt users focused heavily on data protection. Everything from automatic investment apps and remote collaboration tools to smart home products emphasized their privacy.
AI and machine learning rose as another note-worthy trend, but blockchain seemed to be the most dominating force in app development. Blockchain-based messaging apps and maps were hugely popular with Product Hunt users, who seem to value innovation and security.
For those users, Brave is a perfect platform. The company's research and development team has recently debuted its privacy-preserving distributed VPN, which could potentially bring even more security to the user than its already existing Tor extension.
Brave's effort to revolutionize the advertising industry has also been recognized by some of the biggest names in publishing—major publications such as The Washington Post, The Guardian, NDTV, NPR, and Qz have all joined the platform. Some of the highest-ranking websites in the world, including Wikipedia, WikiHow, Vimeo, Internet Archive, and DuckDuckGo, are also among Brave's 390,000 verified publishers.
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