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Chicago Skirmish Wargames was selected as one of the playtesters for "Apocalypiticum", the upcoming Post Apocalyptic ruleset from Ganesha Games. It shares the same basic rules mechanics as their popular "Song of Blades and Heroes" game, one of our club's favorites.

The club gave it a go last Thursday. Here's an AAR and my observations of the game I played. I hope to soon have additional feedback from
the other two folks who tried out the rules that evening.

http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2012/02/playtesting-apocalypticum-forthcoming.html

Of course our comments may not entirely reflect the final product that emerges post playtest, but it's been a good experience so far. We're going to play it again at the next club meeting on the 23rd.

A few pics to pique your interest.

Terrific figures that are full of character, I really like the oriental straw hat of the Ruin Raiders and the motherboard worshiping figure of the Tunnel Cutthroats. Great table too. Looks like the rules ended in not many deaths, which is too bad

Glad you liked them.

As for the few deaths, I've been speaking to the game's creator and it looks like we need to play more aggressively. We've been hanging back and shooting away at each other from behind cover as though we were playing Tomorrow's War, when the game is designed to encourage you to knock a figure down with firing and them finish him off with another firer or close combat.

We're giving it another round of playtests tonight and I'll report back with our results.