nordicweasel

Stay home, stay safe

The world is still standing still, so keep staying home.

I hope everyone is safe and sound.

For April, I am hoping to see the release of Knyghte, Pyke and Sworde, our medieval rules. Then there'll be more small packs for the assorted games as we work through the month. 

I have some pretty big news to discuss, but I can't speak about it just yet. Sooooon.

Lastly, I am working on a big technology guide for Renegade Scout, which will have a ton of weapons, gadgets an...

New game to try out

Cheers gang. 

While working on the medieval rules, I also dusted off an old topic to give you all something to work with, while you are in isolation.

https://www.wargamevault.com/product/308041/Five-Kilometers-From-Leipzig-beta-version 

This is black powder rules using the Five XXX From YYY system. They are very slimmed down, its a 13 page "...

We're in the bundle of holding!

Nordic Weasel got invited to hang out with the big boys from Kenzer and Shawn Tomkin (Ironsworn) in a solo-oriented bundle of holding.

Get four Weasel titles, and a bunch of other super cool games AND help support a charity that provides medical equipment to hospitals.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/SoloGames 

Five Men at Kursk free

To help people who are stuck at home, Five Men at Kursk will be free all week. 

https://www.wargamevault.com/product/174545/Five-Men-at-Kursk 

Five Klicks update

Thanks to your support, 1.01 is live. 

This removes the stupid blank page and clarifies a few bugs in the character creation section. 

Rules are added for the mysterious "Enemy" that you can end up with, and the "begin with a roll on the item table" entries are now clarified to mean "choose one of the four item tables in the character creation chapter and roll on that.

Simply go download your purchased file again from the Wargamevault.

Thanks gang! 

Cheers and stay safe

Me and my wife both came down with some pretty bad colds. Actually thought it was flu for a while, but its clearing up again. Knocked me right on my butt though. 

But I suppose since everyone is supposed to stay indoors anyways, I'm doing my part!

I hope everybody is staying safe. I know its pretty crazy out there with the virus and all.

Once I am back on top of things,I am about half-way done with a big cool thing for Renegade Scout: An equipment pack which will both c...

Five parsecs 1.15 available

Some Patreon updates are new content, some are game updates.

As promised, we weren't going to have a massive rules update for a little while. 1.15 fixes some typos in the text, allows you to purchase some basic weapons directly and clarifies equipment carrying.

Full notes at https://fivemennormandy.blogspot.com/2020/03/five-parsecs-115.html 

The update is available...

Dum de dum

Was hoping to have the first post up for March today but the plague hit our house hold, so it may be tonight or, most likely, tomorrow.
If you like cyborg-zombies for Five Parsecs though, it'll be your jam. 

How are you guys liking Five Klicks so far?

Five Klicks is here!

This one got rewritten a lot, but I think the extra work has paid off. The full version of Five Klicks is now available.

https://www.wargamevault.com/product/304968/Five-Klicks-From-the-Zone-Chapter-1  

If you bought the beta test, you should have received an email with a code, provided you receive email from the Wargame Vault. If not, email me at nordicweas...

The future of Renegade Scout

If you have thoughts on the mechanics of Renegade Scout and where you would like to see them go, or not go, please read this blog post and then get in touch with me :)

https://fivemennormandy.blogspot.com/2020/02/renegade-scout-idle-thoughts.html 

Renegade Scout Battle Games

This pack is not a unit pack, rather it is a complete set up sequence for standardized battles, heavily inspired by the 40K 2nd edition rules. 

It includes standard setup rules, a mission system with 6 randomly selected missions, a victory point (and handicap) system, simple rules to play the 6 missions as a campaign or league and a ton of options to add to your game.
Free for folks at the 5+ dollar tier.
Otherwise, go grab it here 2020-02-11 02:35:45 +0000 UTC View Post

February

Greetings folks. After the unfortunate events of last month, things didn't work out quite as intended. 

The plan is to start February with part 5 of the Five Leagues story, along with a new job type for Five Parsecs.
The first Renegade Scout update will be the mission / battle set up system.

I'd also like to get the conversion guide done.

Once those are out of the way, I have something exciting I am working on for Five Leagues, forming the first major expansion pack...

Renegade Scout...tomorrow

The Precursor pack ended up being a bigger mouthful than I'd anticipated and I want to double-check things so while it's basically done, I won't upload it until tomorrow.

It covers a bit of background for the "Exiled" Precursors that roam Fringe space, 2 new squad types, 2 new personalities (including a high-level Caster and a rather powerful melee character), 2 new Skills and 2 new Command Decisions specific to Precursor forces.

And 10 Artifacts that can be used as interesting tr...

Next

Precursor units for RS will be next. This weekend for sure, I'm not sure if I can them finished by tonight though.

The plan is 2 character models, 2 squads and a large supply of gadgets and mystical items for them to play around with. This pack will cover Precursor "adventurers" and exiles, not the homeworld military forces.

Five Parsecs Salvage Jobs

Okay, so this is one of the steps towards a bigger, unified Five Parsecs: Salvage Jobs.

This takes the set up sequence and mechanics from the Salvage Crew rules, polishes them off so they are integrated with the way From Home works now and lets you use the same crew for both kinds of jobs. 

The missions are now another "job" type alongside quests, rival missions etc. and take advantage of both the unpredictable elements from the original salvage crew, plus the new updated ene...

Sooth Sayers for Five Leagues

The first magic using class is now available for Five Leagues.
It can be purchased here https://www.wargamevault.com/product/299861/Sooth-Sayer-A-Five-Leagues-character-expansion 

If you are a 5+ dollar Patron, please check the Patreon posts to find a discount code.

The year in hindsight

https://fivemennormandy.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-year-of-weasel-or-at-least-another.html

Thought I'd share this here. A look at the next and past year.

Some bad language involved. 

Welcome to the new year!

So starting the Patreon was a bit of a whim really to see if it'd work.

So far, we've done some huge updates to Five Parsecs, the first 3 chapters of the Five Leagues campaign and 3 Renegade Scout packs.

We also did the Old Kin and Psionics packs as general releases.

I had hoped to do a fourth Renegade Scout pack but that didn't quite work out.
Still, I feel that's a pretty good start to things and I'm excited to see what we can continue to make.

I am going ...

Five Leagues update

A number of updates for Five Leagues, available to everybody :)

Updates include: 

Loot table revamped a little bit.  

5 new items have been added to the game (and the trade and loot tables) 

The magic item Jealousy rules have been tweaked slightly. 

The equipment rules now explicitly list which items "overlap" and cannot be used together. 

Gold Coins are renamed to Gold Marks

Happy turkeyday tomorrow

Hope everyone has a nice turkey day tomorrow and get good food and good company.
I'd hoped to get the Five Leagues campaign start uploaded today but that didn't happen, so look for that probably Sunday.

On the upside, I will have a little surprise for everybody tomorrow so make sure to check in.

Squad Hammer Core

While this isn't patreon specific, I thought you guys might like to see it regardless
https://fivemennormandy.blogspot.com/2019/11/squad-hammer-core-peoples-edition.html 

Squad Hammer Core is now PWYW /and/ it now includes a license to sell and distribute your own versions. 

Pretty cool huh?

Renegade Scout pack 1 available

Pack 1 for Renegade Scout is now available. Patreons at the 5+ tier will have a free download link for it, everyone else can grab it for 2.99 from the Wargame Vault.

https://www.wargamevault.com/product/295269/Renegade-Scout-Patreon-Pack-1 

Within the pages you will find 3 "army list" type units ready for play in any Renegade Scout game, complete with weapon optio...