#Dan Verssen Games

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Collectible Dice Game

Original Release: 1994

Developer: Dan Verssen

Publisher: Five Rings

Original Platform: Board Game

Not played: Not enough information to recreate.

While I was able to recreate some of the dice used in this in Tabletop Simulator, I can’t find enough information on all the starter dice or all the needed symbols to make a version that can be played.

For the Collectible Dice Game, you had to buy two starter packs (the main two were Enterprise E and Borg Sphere) each game came with what you needed for one player. Some dice represent shields and status which you change manually, while others you roll to determine their strength. You could get booster packs to have alternative dice with different values to use instead.

You had dice that reflected the four areas of shields, the warp core output and integrity and power reserves. Then you had movement, repair and weapon dice for your main actions. Each ship also had special and command dice with unique abilities. It sounds like it would be a fairly in-depth game and could use different dice to take more risks – for example, a phaser that does a lot more damage, but is far more likely to miss.

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App Review - Pavlov's House

App Review - Pavlov's House @danverssengames - App developed by Bookmark Games which doesn't appear to be on Twitter. Thanks to @playersaidblog for the help!

One genre of games I haven’t really gotten into, mainly because I haven’t had the opportunity, is solo gaming. There are many great-sounding solo wargames out there, but the idea of spending 2-3 hours playing a game on the table by myself just doesn’t suit my current situation. Yet when I learned that one of the acclaimed solo wargames, Pavlov’s House (especially acclaimed by Grant at the…

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Kickstarter 12. 03. 2020: Pyramid Quartet, Gladius, Warcaster: Neo-Mechanika, Rival Restaurants: Back for Seconds, The Ming Voyages, By Stealth and Sea

Privateer Press je odlučio da doda još jedan svet u svoj katalog. Naime, ova kompanija vodi kampanju za Warcaster: Neo-Mechanika, igru koja bi trebala da predstavlja naučnofantastični pandan Warmachine igri. Španski izdavać 2Tomatoes nam sprema dva nova naslova u njihovoj seriji džepnih igara. Ovog puta novac se skuplja […]

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Castle Itter Review

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Sensor Sweep: Barbarian Prince, Borgia Blade, Hugo Awards

RPG (Tor.com): I’d even say it was the pinnacle of ‘80s solitaire fantasy games (I’m not sure that’s a huge category, now that I think of it). But Barbarian Prince is quirky and poorly balanced, and there are plenty of more recent solitaire games that have surpassed it. We should be talking about them instead. Like the superb Nemo’s War, or some of the great Leader titles from Dan Verssen Games, or the engrossing Charlemagne, Master of Europe from Hollandspielle.

Hugo Awards (American Thinker): The Hugo Award annually acknowledges the best sci-fi and fantasy. Martin was the toastmaster for this year’s award show, which was held via Livestream. As the host, Martin made jokes and quips throughout the show. He later said of his performance that, “Most of the stories I told last night were time-tested, in a sense. I have told those same stories before. Usually they get big laughs.” This time, Martin did not get big laughs. Instead, he offended the social justice community.

  H. P. Lovecraft (Book and Film Globe): In 2014, a storm arose over whether winners of the annual World Fantasy Award should continue to receive a bust of H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), designed by Gahan Wilson, in recognition of their achievements, or whether a more politically acceptable figure should be the emblem of the revered program. The World Fantasy Awards have long been some of the most coveted prizes for authors who write stories and novels in the weird, horror, fantasy, and slipstream genres.

RPG (Geek Native): At Power-Con today, a virtual convention for She-Ra and He-Man fans Mattel announced a Masters of the Universe RPG. Legends of Grayskull will be powered by Cortex Prime, the latest version of Cortex from designer Cam Banks. Masters of the Universe becomes the second hugely popular series Fandom’s Cortex has signed up as many weels, with Netflix’s The Dragon Prince also announcing an RPG called Tales of Xadia with the system.

Publishing (Legends of Men): Flashing Swords was one of the first series of Sword & Sorcery anthologies. The first was published in 1973. It lasted five for five volumes with the first two featuring some awesome Frank Frazetta cover art. The series was edited by Lin Carter, one of the best-known authors and champions of S&S, though his books don’t seem to be considered the cream of the crop in the genre. The fifth volume was published in 1981 with mediocre cover art. The series has been untouched since then until 2020 that is.

RPG (Tales of Flothmar): Burials of Teganshire Post 1 of 30. The number one campaign killer, in my realm of experience, is apathy for the game world. Burials of Teganshire puts in the work to help a DM avoid the Shiv of Don’t Care. Go to the crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to get your copy. Once apathy sets in, the campaign putters out. Goes splat. Deflates. Poofs in a puff of sadness (and sadness poofs are the saddest poofs of them all). Over the next several days, we’ll be discussing the player association to a campaign and ways a DM can jump on the verisimilitude bandwagon.

Fiction (DMR Books): If someone had told me three years ago that I would soon be singing the praises of Gardner F. Fox to anyone who might listen, I would’ve laughed in his face. At that time, I only knew Fox from his comics work for DC and from his sword-and-sorcery tales. I was never that big a fan of DC. While I do have a soft spot for Gar’s Niall of the Far Travels stories, I never cared much for his Kothar and Kyrik books.

RPG (Jeffro’s Space Gaming Blog): It didn’t matter, though. They were dead set on retrieving them now. Narjhan broke in to insist that I give him a payout for the Snakepede head he recovered previously. Rhedgar the Veteran needed to have his research into the nature of the Woman in Ice resolved. I revealed that she was a powerful sorceress in a previous Aeon. That she was known to have a powerful demonic henchman. Also, that she was imprisoned in ice by a powerful variant of the Spell of Forlorn Encystment that we really ought to get a name for soon. The players wanted to know more, but that is all they get for 50 gold pieces and a week of down time.

Fiction (The Dacian): Cadiz, 1811, a city under siege. Napoleon’s army surrounds the city, subjecting the population to daily bombardments. Inside the besieged city, swarmed with refugees, British soldiers, and rife with political turmoil, the mutilated bodies of several teenage girls are discovered. In the chaos of war, there is a killer loose in the city. Police Commisario Tizon, a brutal and complex man with a love of classic literature takes the case and tracks the killer across the chessboard of the city. His investigation crosses paths with a young woman who runs a successful mercantile company, a rough corsair captain, a French artillery officer, and a taxidermist turned spy.

Fiction (Woelf Dietrich): Clark Ashton Smith was considered one of the big three of Weird Tales, along with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft, and was a member of the Lovecraft Circle. An American poet, sculptor, painter, and intermittent author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction short stories, Clark Ashton Smith, took the fevered dreams of his childhood and laid them bare in his short stories and poetry. He chose his own path from a young age and left school early because it could not teach him what he needed to learn. It would just have been a distraction, which, although a romanticized way of looking at it, is probably not the whole truth. Smith’s health issues played a big part in his decisions.

Cinema (Jon Mollison): The Vast of Night. This was pretty good. It’s a slow-burn mystery set in small-town New Mexico way back in the lost golden age of the 1950s. The plot revolves around a technically literate high-school girl – one who feels organically smart rather than performatively so because screw you manbabies – and a street-smart DJ who stumbled onto some strange doings while the rest of town is pre-occupied with a high-school basketball game.  Yeah, it’s aliens, but the mystery remains, and the limitations of 1950s tech and social rules are played up to perfection.

Star Trek (That Hashtag Show): In 2015, on the podcast The Nerdist, Quentin Tarantino was asked what his vision for Star Wars would be. In true Trekkie fashion Tarantino answered that he would be much more interested in making a Star Trek movie. Elaborating on how the Abrams reboot series was an opportunity to revisit some of the classic episodes. Expanding such an episode to a feature film length that explored the concepts more. This remained a fun little encounter until 2017. When Deadline announced that JJ Abrams would produce a Star Trek film directed by Tarantino and written by The Revenant scribe Mark L. Smith.

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Reviewed By  Halden Designer Dan Verssen Artist Aaron Anderson , Wan Chiu , Jacques-Louis David , Miguel Santos , Dan Verssen Publisher Dan Verssen Games (DVG) Field Commander Napoleon from DVG games is an impressive game. From the moment you heft the huge 4” tall box you know there is a lot of game in here. The box is packed with tons of cardboard, loads of counters, rules and 7 Large Full-Color Maps (11" x 17"). The component quality is very good with nice design and a high gloss finish. The 7 unique maps are well laid out with lots of easily parsed information on the board itself. The game covers many of Napoleon’s campaigns, each of which can be played individually or chronologically as a large series of games. The earliest scenario is Italy 1796 and the final campaign is Waterloo 1815, there are 11 scenarios overall. This offers hours and hours of gameplay. The game set up has some basic common steps covered in the rulebook but each specific scenario will have their unique setup printed on the map. The unique characteristics are starting units, objectives, number of turns etc. Each scenario has its own challenges and all must be approached with different tactics and strategies. The turn sequence of a round of Napoleon is: France: Move – Move your troops to an adjacent area, this has no cost. Resolves Battles - This is the most complex area of a turn that I will only cover briefly. To set up a battle you roll for a Fog of War effect that will benefit either the French or the Enemy it will also determine how many turns the battle will last. You check for envelopment which basically means if one side has overrun the other than the battle is won before it begins and the weaker side is destroyed. Once that is settled you will assign battle plans, insights and place the forces involved in the battle onto the Battlefield. Force March – you can move forces that were involved a battle to an adjacent area, this will cost one supply point per force you move. Resupply - Referencing the resupply on the area of the scenario map gain the appropriate amount of supply points.  You can now use those points to refit injured units and purchase new units. Enemy: Orders – Roll a die and carry out the enemy orders listed on the scenario map. Resolve Battles – Resolve battles instigated by enemy movement. Resupply - Roll a die and carry out the enemy supply orders listed on the scenario map. This example of a turn is quite simplified and not intended to teach the game but to give you a feel of the flow. After a few rounds it is quite intuitive but the game depth comes from strategizing you campaign to achieve glory for the Emperor and for France! I really enjoyed playing some individual scenarios but found the game really began to shine when I started to play the linked campaign. It started to bring the vastness of history to life and gave my game to game choices deeper meaning as they would affect each ...

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Holy historical wargames, Batman! We just got a huge shipment from Dan Verssen Games! Proud to be one of the only stores in the country to be able to have these! Warfighter, Field Commander, pretty much the entire Leader series, and much more! Come by and check them out, only @ToysOnFire  .  https://www.toysonfire.ca/shop?search=Dan%20Verssen%20Games%20(DVG)  . #boardgames #wargames #history #solitaire #danverssengames #dvg #warfighter (at Toys on Fire)

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Tabletop Simulator Warfighter-PLAZA

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Tabletop Simulator Warfighter-PLAZA

Game Details Title: Tabletop Simulator – Warfighter Genre: Casual, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy Developer: Berserk Games , Dan Verssen Games Release Date: 4 Mar, 2017 Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/468723/ Release Name: Tabletop Simulator Warfighter-PLAZA Game Version: First...

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A Warfighter Story and Review -- Baker and the Drug Huts

A Warfighter Story and Review — Baker and the Drug Huts

Below is a thematic story “review” based on my recent solitaire session of Warfighter by DVG. Warfighter is a card-based tactical game of modern warfare, focusing on smaller groups of soldiers who are undertaking missions through enemy territory. As Warfighter is appreciably thematic in its presentation and mechanics, the game is also a terrific story generator. I am continually impressed at the…

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Kickstarter of the Week: Warfighter - WWII

Kickstarter of the Week: Warfighter – WWII

Dan Verssen Games (DVG) brings their popular tactical card game series Warfighter to World War II!

Warfighter – WWII is an easy to learn tactical card game for 1 – 6 players that plays in about an hour and can be enjoyed solitaire or cooperatively with your friends against the system as you complete squad-level combat missions during World War II.

The Kickstarter has different reward levels for…

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Dan Verssen Games Zero Leader Wargame Kickstarter Funds in First Day

Zero Leader places the solitaire player in command of a Japanese air squadron in the Pacific during World War Two.

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[Read Full Review] Warfighter: The Tactical Special Forces Card Game from Dan Verssen Games allows 1–6 gamers to take on missions from hostage rescues to taking out high value targets, using Player Soldier, Non-Player Soldier and  Squad Soldier cards. Players select their strike force using these cards after choosing a mission or objective and use Action and Terrain cards to carry out their chosen assignment. The missions are challenging and, with 240 cards, no mission is likely to play the same way twice. The game comes with six miniature figures and six unique, bullet-shaped 6- and 10-side dice.

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Kickstarter Septembar 10: Colonialism, Dark Domains, Horizon Zero Dawn, Football Highlights 2052, Drinks & Daggers …

Nije dugo prošlo od naše najave za Horizon Zero Dawn Kickstarter kampanju, a Steamforged Games je već skoro pa zgrnuo milionče. Dan Verssen Games se vraća sa trećim talasom karata za popularni Warfighter Modern. Gryphon and Eagle Games posle bejzbola prelazi na američki fudbal u Football Highlights 2052 […] from Pitchwise.net: Kickstarter Septembar 10: Colonialism, Dark Domains, Horizon Zero Dawn, Football Highlights 2052, Drinks & Daggers …

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Four Air Leader Expansion are Up on Kickstarter for Dan Verssen Games

Right now you can pledge support for new gameplay additions to Phantom Leader Deluxe, Israeli Air Leader, Hornet Leader, and B-17 Leader.

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Our Favorite Board and Card Games of 2019

Jeff shares a dozen of his favorite board/card games of 2019 from GMT Games, Ares Games, Spaceballoon Games, AEG, Grey Fox Games, Paizo Inc, Dan Verssen Games, Flying Pig Games, Tiny Battle Publishing, and Starling Games.