Aaaaaand getting an age of sail hex game made me start googling micro-scale Lego ships.
Aaaaaand getting an age of sail hex game made me start googling micro-scale Lego ships.
This is an interesting theory, but I notice the author has to omit one of the most important Heinlein novels to make...
Originally shared by Curt Thompson This is an interesting theory, but I notice the author has to omit one of the most important Heinlein novels to make it work. Time Enough For Love was written in the very early 70s and was a straight (heh) extrapolation of the chaotic and frenetic zeitgeist of that era. http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2012/11/the-joke-is-on-us-the-two-careers-of-robert-a-heinlein/
Oh. Oh, wow. Seeing those made me realize I was missing something I didn't even know I wanted. Here I thought mecha were the only micro-scale legos I cared about.
ReplyDeleteNice. I dig micro-scale stuff.
ReplyDeleteI think the one with the castle is the most pleasing for how small it is. And that island fortress. Noice.
ReplyDeleteThe bigger ones are very nice though. Probably wouldn't fit in a hex too well.
Casey Garske Agreed, that fortress is super sweet.
ReplyDeleteI briefly got pretty into that Pirates of the Spanish Main pop-out 3D card ship tactics game. I made a drop cloth with old-timey map lines and compass rose on it, some 3D terrain islands, and I colored in the edges of the punched out cardstock ships. I really wanted to develop a more robust strategy game with colonies and trade and so forth to frame the pretty basic (but fun) tactical maneuvering and fighting.
If you've got a set of rules you like and can find them, they may not be as neat or customizable as legos, but they're pretty cool.
I had a buddy who had a ton of Pirates of the Spanish Main. That was a few years before I read the Aubrey/Maturin series though, so I never got into it. It seemed really neat.
ReplyDeleteCarlo Bottiglieri !
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