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Crooked Dice was set up to produce and promote the wargaming of all things Cult TV. We love Doctor Who, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Sapphire and Steel and James Bond (and all the rest!) In an ideal world we will keep producing rules and miniatures to allow these varied worlds to come alive in miniature on your tabletop. Just add dice.
Graeme (left) and Karl (right) are gaming geeks separated at birth to preserve the world from their unhealthy interest in old sci-fi TV. After dabbling with many sets of self made rules they have decided to unleash their Mac skills and throw down the D6 gauntlet to launch Crooked Dice.
When not gaming or watching old sci-fi TV, Graeme and Karl lie dormant – the very concept of other interests is alien to them. Between them they have 3 children and 2 wives, and live exactly 374.687 miles apart. They have met in person precisely four times.
Please be aware that we are literally a part-time 2 man operation – we write, design and produce all our own rules and website. We answer the emails and forum posts and do all the packing and shipping. Our output is small and perfectly formed – we run the creative end from our secret underground Living Rooms, on our Macs, and the office side from our secret err… office. Any bigger and we'll outgrow ourselves – we barely have room for our awards as it is.
All Crooked business decisions are reached only after countless emailed arguments and threatened lawsuits. One day we will publish the contents of our inboxes as memoirs, just for a laugh.
Now on to their most recent release, supplementing their "Time Life Security" range, which is a looks-wise homage to the old Captain Scarlet series:
Their previous releases include the alien conch kin and a crapload of head sprues to bring a little diversity to your ranks of minions and extras:
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And the new head Sprue combining three hard hats. Kev Dallimore painted these and added his customary gs beard to one of these - it's not on those sold
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2012/05/11 00:21:54
Subject: Crooked Dice releases - Time Lift Commander, TL accessories and TL cap head sprue
Reminds me immensely of the Thunderbirds Series for some reason.
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2012/05/11 00:25:59
Subject: Crooked Dice releases - Time Lift Commander, TL accessories and TL cap head sprue
Thunderbirds also receives a homage though. Then again, just about any old TV show and with their most recent expansion, On Location, big movie from that era gets a homage or tongue in cheek reference. Most are beyond me to pick up, I'm sadly not that British or old yet.
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2012/05/11 07:51:02
Subject: Crooked Dice releases - Time Lift Commander, TL accessories and TL cap head sprue
BrookM wrote:Seeing as the previous Crooked thread has sunk to the depths of N&R, here's a new one that I can update with the latest releases from Crooked Dice.
2nd page and 5 days since the last post is not exactly "depths of N&R". Guess you just want your own Crooked Dice thread, repeating what was posted there.
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Anyone know where I can get some of those cool Cpt Scarlett Vehicles from?
I don't know a thing about this show, but the stuff I've been tracking has me hooked, anyway.
I'd like some of those T bird vehicles as well, if anyone knows where to get them.
Along with that, those henchmen, do they come in sets of ten or twenty, yet?
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2012/05/11 17:35:57
Subject: Re:Crooked Dice releases - Time Lift Commander, TL accessories and TL cap head sprue
The game uses a D6 system called the Action Engine:
The action:engine is the name of our fast play rules which underpins both 7TV and the Doctor Who Miniatures Game.
The action:engine uses simple D6 rolls to achieve everything, so no hunting for odd dice to get playing. The mechanics are simple, modifiers are kept manageable, and everything is nice and grounded – you'll never need to work out half of 87% or anything similar.
The game is designed for 28mm miniatures and skirmish games – 12 to 20 models per side for an average game. Models are represented by archetypes – a profile detailing their physical and mental stats along with any special abilities and attacks they might get. The DWMG has fixed archetypes for each character, while 7TV lets you build these within a framework of guidelines.
The action:engine primarily deals with recreating TV-style action, so each turn you're likely to only be able to use half of your models, more if you've got leaders in the right places. This recreates the cameras rolling on certain scenes rather than others, and forces players to prioritise their activities each turn.
In a nutshell its a skirmish game that that pits good guys versus bad guys themed on classic TV shows and movies, with suitable event cards like "Commercial Break" and "Monologuing" to name a few that give you the edge while playing the game. Some things do differ though:
- At the start of each turn you die off to see who goes first.
- You can only activate up to half your models on the board, though with special rules and abilities you can activate more.
The rest is more or less the same as other games: you play objective based scenarios (or use VP's to determine the winner) using a cast of your own creation using over half a dozen archetypes per side, with again half a dozen co-stars to choose from and well over two dozen types of extras to fill out the casts.
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2012/05/12 07:19:14
Subject: Re:Crooked Dice releases - Time Lift Commander, TL accessories and TL cap head sprue
BrookM wrote:IIRC the Captain Scarlet vehicles are old OOP die-casts and model kits from aeons ago.
My brothers and I had all of those, also a bunch of SHADO vehicles from UFO. We even had Captain Scarlet dress up suits with shoulder signals that lit up with a battery, and cap guns.
Our Crooked Minions ran 3 quick-play episodes of 7TV at Salute 2012 (many times!), now we have expanded them and they're available in this 30 page PDF. Choose your sides in one of 3 exciting episodes:
Fiddler's Green: Hugo Soloman needs to make a call! Scares in England's green and pleasant lanes.
The Mist From Mars: Time Lift Security defend against an alien invader hitch-hiking a space capsule.
Canning Town Collar: DC Frank Skelton aims to nab the slippery Duchess down the docks. Shift it!
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2012/05/16 09:17:43
Subject: Crooked Dice releases - ROGUES' GALLERY available
It's interesting to note that the characters played at Salute were the cut down versions in the Cast sheets at the back, not the detailed ones in the actual episode guide.
It's a shame the fourth, larger, game wasn't included as an episode too. I'd have liked to find out more about that game as I didn't get to play it; I only got to play The Canning Town Collar
Agreed, this is an excellent supplement to our existing casts, really digging the double barrel shotgun.
By fourth, larger game, you mean "You Only Live Dice" correct? That's a store and event exclusive. Stores can purchase a promotion pack from Crooked that includes a pile of minis, quick-start rules for 7TV and the YOLD scenario.
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2012/05/16 10:22:28
Subject: Crooked Dice releases - ROGUES' GALLERY available
No the larger game at Salute 2012 was On Her Majesty's Crooked Service. I was a 6 way (3 vs. 3) attack the evil genius' lair affair.
I played it in the afternoon at Salute and had a great time. I was inordinately lucky (skilled ) in destroying the Gurus doomsday machine without loss - Go Dare Sisters!
I'm now a bit taken by this game and 7ombieTV and thouroughly recommend it to all.
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There was a whole article in the Salute 2012 booklet that described how they made their Captain Scarlet rolling table game - Scarlet Thunder for the 2011 show. I have attached a link to the Salute website (awesome pictures there too), if that doesn't have all the info you need I can dig out a copy of the show book and see if it has any extra details
Ah right, the mountain top assault! They did a nice bit of promotion leading up to that one, with plenty of previews and even a novelization of the events leading up to the assault itself.
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2012/05/19 09:12:42
Subject: Re:Crooked Dice releases - ROGUES' GALLERY available
The masters for June's armed astronauts went back for production yesterday. This pic shows the height compared to the previous Astronauts (third from left).
They're also working on a new site and webstore.
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2012/05/28 19:23:03
Subject: Re:Crooked Dice releases - ROGUES' GALLERY available
A rather cryptic / confusing post from their Facebook account: "Arse! I have managed to delete the Danger 5 trailer post… Apologies to all the Nazis, Dinosaurs and Nazi Dinosaurs out there who were all wanting to rewatch it."
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2012/05/28 21:20:24
Subject: Crooked Dice releases - ROGUES' GALLERY available
The super patriotic Albion Rocket Corporation protects the nation and her head of state* even in space and on the moon. With some heavy weaponry. 3 new Astronauts by Ian Mountain. Get the Deal or Single figures – one with a Pistol, one with a Rifle and one with a 'party fun' Rocket Launcher. Serious stuff.
*God save the Queen. With man portable high explosive rockets.
Sadly, the multiple view option is not available as of right now.
Also: June's Deal of the Month is the Frightening Scary Statue for only £2. That is WAY less than half price – buy one, buy loads! Get Stoned!
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2012/06/02 23:33:18
Subject: Re:Crooked Dice releases - Armed ARC Astronauts in Store now
From the Crooked forums, what we can expect in July: "Release Nine will be Solomon (Ian's just finished him), Kali and the Daughters of SHIVA - already seen."
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2012/06/07 21:49:49
Subject: Crooked Dice releases - Armed ARC Astronauts in Store now
"Crooked Dice North is off on holiday 9th-16th June, somewhere remote, inaccessible and very secret. Order deadline to make sure you get your orders in the post before the Store shuts for a few days is midnight Thursday night (7th/8th). Everything received in the Store after this point will get processed from Monday 18th June."
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2012/06/09 12:28:23
Subject: Crooked Dice releases - Armed ARC Astronauts in Store now
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