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Fortified Niche is a podcast about miniature wargames you probably haven't heard of and definitely haven't played. JcDent - 🇱🇹 Cassa - 🇦🇺 DM/e-mail us about your cool new game https://bit.ly/fortified-niche

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Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 9d

Fortified Niche is finally a maximum roll-of-1d4-years old. And as every year, we use this opportunity to reminisce about the best games we reviewed last year.

Oh, and there will be some major news at the end, so stick around.

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81 - The Four-Year Anniversary Nichee Awards Episode

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Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 21h

Unrelated, but someone should force Studio Tomahawk to make a social media account so we could bully them to make more V for Valor stuff.

Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 21h

Battlefront games have all the production values and official mini support that actual good games lack while having none of the interesting rules that would make them worth playing.

At least 28mm World War 2 has Bolt Action: it's not the best, but it's good enough and well-supported.

JcDent (he/him) @jcdent.bsky.social · 21h

Love how in the Nerd Game Sphere - outside of board games - the large, lavishly officially supported, huge production values and accessible player base things are all bad.

TTRPG? DnD.
Miniature games? 40K.
Large WW2 games? Flames.
Larger WW3 games? Team Yankee.

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Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 21h

Me, wishfully hoping for a plastic-supported Cold War Gone Hot game set in the late 1950s.

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Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 1d

What, and lose all the recordings when blip.vidler goes down? Fuggedaboudit

Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 1d

If the pod survives and once things on the ground settle down the little, I'll be looking to move it somewhere that isn't Devil Bezos' own Spotify. Any good ideas?

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Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 1d

Love the ship names on bases

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Ed Maxwell @edpaintskrieg.bsky.social · 1d

In the Lysander sector last night - the T'au, battered from the Battle of the Eventide, try to sneak a key commander past the Imperial blockade, only to be beset by unexpected Ork pirates. A desperate and chaotic battle ensued, and though many T'au escaped, the Emissary ship was destroyed.

The T'au fleet, laid out for a game of Battlefleet Gothic on a space board. There is an Emissary-class diplomatic vessel, supported by a range of renegades, mercenaries, and privateers.

On Turn 2, an Ork Kill Krooza orders All Ahead Full and lands directly in the middle of the enemy fleet, firing both broadsides. Despite doing considerable damage, the Emissary ship survives and the Ork ship overshoots the following turn.

Chased by Ram Ships and a Krooza, the Emissary ship closes on the board edge it needs to escape over...

But losing initiative at the last moment, the Orks go first and launch a ramming attack which destroys their target.

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Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 2d

There are plans to workshop a variety of new favs.

Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 3d

The only space marine game Cassa will play.

Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 3d

SURPRISE!

I had an idea on Tuesday for how to do the Perfect Space Marine RPG, so I wrote the Perfect Space Marine RPG.

It's both a shitpost and a dead serious game. And it's, uh... 34,000 words long?

Anyway enjoy!!!

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Oath of Moment

【OATH OF MOMENT】 An Astartes Roleplaying Game They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be...

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Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 3d

Personally I'd much rather know my dollar is going to talented artists who can make more of what I love.

Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 4d

Wow that sucks!!

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DB @davbayless.bsky.social · 4d

Warcradle reply. Only addresses their in-game alt-history narrative, and nothing to address the guy posting "Lost Cause" BS.

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DB @davbayless.bsky.social · 4d

I joined the Warcradle Games discord after hearing they had new plans for Wild West Exodus. Unfortunately, I found someone pitching "Lost Cause" BS and the Warcradle rep won't come down against it. Very disappointing and meaning I won't buy into the new edition. (Warcradle reply in second post).

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Saucermen Studios @saucermenstudios.com.au · 4d

The latest Kickstarter from Saucermen Studios launches TOMORROW!

Beyond the Trenches of Despair is a huge 3D printable terrain set with bunkers, trenches, ruins & more.

Join now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sau...

#tabletopgaming

Painted by @miniaturegamemontage

Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 5d

MyMiniFactory coming out against CAD (Clanker-Afflicted Dipshits).

People deserve good minis crafted by enfleshed souls like @porble.bsky.social and @thelazyforger.bsky.social, not slop from sub-dropshipper intelligences.

Introducing SoulCrafted: Dare To Be Human

STL files for 3D designers and makers, share free and paid guaranteed 3D printable models. Download high-quality 3D print files for tabletop gaming, toys, gadgets and more for your 3D printers.

www.myminifactory.com

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Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 5d

We're not the type of podcast who could answer that lol

Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 6d

...also, isn't this like at least the second/third story of "and then the Chinese partner ran away with our molds"?

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Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 6d

Gather round, children, for a bonkers uplifting tale of INDUSTRY LORE

wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/a...

A Note from the Founder of Wargames Atlantic - Tony Reidy/Hudson Adams

I’m happy to announce that Wargames Atlantic will be refunding the backers of the Defiance Games Kickstarter from 2013. Details for backers are at the bottom of this note. You're probably asking why w...

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Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 7d

Petition to make Plastic Soldier Company change their name to 3D Print Resin Soldier Company to be more in line with reality.

Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 7d

If you see this, quote post with your favourite Pokemon
(wrong answers only)

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I Would Like To Rage 🇨🇦 @iwouldlike2rage.bsky.social · 7d

All set for table 3 of Kampfgruppe Von Luck.
#chainofcommand #spreadthelard #wargaming

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Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 7d

Same thing happens with DnD: it's the Big Game that some people believe is the Only Game, and it's also bad.

Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 7d

It's OK to hate it for normal reasons [people should play better games rather than The One Industry Giant (bad)]

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Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 9d

81 - The Four-Year Anniversary Nichee Awards Episode

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Fortified Niche @fortifiedniche.bsky.social · 18d

Due to miscommunication etc. the Nichees ep is not coming out TOMORROW. You're probably gonna have to wait a week.