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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5199325" data-attributes="member: 20741">You knew what I meant. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'm iffy on Iron Heroes too. Actually, no I'm not. I plain don't like it.My point was with reference to his development of mechnics, however, and not necessarily with the flavor, or implementation, as such.Yes I recall our Wooden Ships and Iron Men game that didn't happen at Gencon a few years back.I updated Wooden Ships and Iron Men with elements of <a href="http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5142/fighting-sail-sea-combat-in-the-age-of-canvas-and" target="_blank">Fighting Sail</a>, actually, as part of a home brew. Not many huge changes, but the big one I stole from Fighting Sail is that I changed the battlefield from hexes to squares. This sounds a little counterintuitive, until you realize that the Square can easily be used on the diagonal to give you 8 directions instead of just the four. Add in the diagonals and you get a bearing of North-East, easy peasy. It's more satisfying, imo. Play it on a deep ocean mat with a square grid using constructible ship minis from Pirates of the Spanish Main? It's pretty neat. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Still, I have difficulty in persuading guys in my RPG group to play Battlelore, (or Tide of Iron) let alone something as esoteric as a Napoleonic era / American Revolutionary War sea battle wargame. Anyways, point of <a href="http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=8&enmi=Tide%20Of%20Iron" target="_blank">Tide of Iron</a> is that they have these cool bases to insert your squad minis into, which also have a hook on the base so you can stick a counter in it to use as a marker. Add in all the cards and terrain and the maps pieces they have in the box (and expansions) and it is an exceptionally cool boardgame with a deep WW2 theme. (To be clear, it is still a boardgame -- it doesn't have sufficient granularity to be termed a "wargame", imo.) Whatever the case, Tide of Iron has just about the best "chrome" of any Fantasy Flight Boardgame (and that's saying a lot as they make some very cool products.). Mind you, it is an expensive game. *nods* And now we've gone way astray from the thread topic so I'll just shut up now <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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