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  Author Interview with Matthew Davenport Author of Andrew Doran and the Scroll of Nightmares, and more Please tell me a little about your current work in progress.             Andrew Doran is an Archaeologist who studies the occult and tries to keep the monsters behind the veil from coming into our world. Unfortunately for him, it would seem that everyone else in the world is trying to do the opposite. This most recent work, Andrew Doran and the Scroll of Nightmares, pits him against a new enemy, a nightmare god from an alien world. In the first several books, Andrew has fought destiny, the horrors of war, and just about anything Lovecraft has dreamed of. This time around, he’s beginning to see that his actions have consequences and that not everything can be solved with a spell and some luck. We will also test how far he is willing to go, where his line on “too far” is, when it comes to protecting the world. Where did you...

  The play testing continues with the Wreck at the Ruins scenario. This is a great scenario. It's fun and doesn't take too long to play. It's the third scenario, and changes the flavor from musketeerian to Barsoomian. I won't give the complete details here because I've given an AAR of the scenario before using a previous iteration of the rules. I think the rules are even better with the latest changes. Here are the high points of the rumble between red and green warriors searching for the prize. The green warrior at the top of the picture, Bak Badja, shoots Mardos Tors in the foreground (or maybe it was in the leg or the side) for a serious with a radium gun. Mardos Tors dashes for cover. During his search for the Melihum Princess, Bak Badja disturbs the white simian  - it attacks The combat dice for this combat –they each wound the other, and Bak Badja, in desperation, races for the exit before the simian can grab or whack him again. Meanwhile, Han Tadron finds...

  Interview with Bruno Martin Soares  Author of  Laura and The Shadow King Please tell me a little about your current work in progress. My latest book, LAURA AND THE SHADOW KING is about a little girl fleeing from her cruel captors with her mother in a post-apocalyptic Southern Spain and Portugal devastated by a pandemic (two, actually – one after the other). And then she is saved by Special Forces team Shadow. Laura is a special girl who can make all the difference to find a cure, so the invading Russian army will not let her go easily. People usually notice my strong female characters and the girl’s mother, Maria, is someone to be reckoned with. The second volume of this two-part miniseries will come out at the end of the year. Here’s where you can get it: https://amzn.to/2Tb9628   Where did you get the idea for this book or series?   I like militaristic stories and wanted to do a Special Forces tale in the wake of my series THE DARK SEA WAR CHRONICLES...

 Musketeers and Cardinal's Guards meet once again to exchange pleasantries and blood samples I've played this scenario before. It's the first of the dozen or so scenarios I've created for my skirmish rules. Since I've made some fundamental changes to the method of resolving combat and other things, I figured that I should try it out on the first scenario. So once again, it is the rescue from the hangman's noose. Andre, D'Hubert, Arnaud, and Paul are musketeers on a mission to rescue a friend from the Cardinal's Guards and the hangman's noose. The musketeers are in blue. The guards are in red. The white circles mark the location of objects hidden to help the musketeers. The guards can't take any action, other than looking for the musketeers in the crowd, until they spot the musketeers or the rescuers do something to draw attention to themselves. I've dispensed with the crowd for simplicity's sake for this test. The hangman is played by a p...

 Leipzig (the never-ending battle) continues. In a nutshell (which is a strange place for a massive battle), the French artillery has demonstrated itself to be the most effective arm on the battlefield. No matter how bad the odds, the French guns almost always prevailed.    Around 1400 or so, the Allies brought up another corps of soldiers, artillery and cavalry in the center. They had to throw the troops already occupying the space forward to pound the French defenses. The early attacks met with little success and cost the Allies more casualties than they caused. Nevertheless, the constant attacks began to take a toll on the French center. At the same time on the Allied right, Russian cuirassiers (unpainted gray horsemen) charged the French positions behind the forward town. The charges were repulsed and the heavy cavalry suffered from the artillery fire both behind the town and along the hill. The artillery bombarding the town had the wrong size shot or the gunners were...