10 Mighty Men

Taking a timeless classic and making it something not worse! … I think …

Ages: 7+

Players: 2

Interesting Features: How and when you choose to use these variations is up to you.  Use them one at a time or all together – it’s your call.  Use only the ones you like and ignore the others.  Use nothing but these special pieces if you are feeling particularly foolhardy!

Extras Needed: A Mancala board, 48 “neutral” coloured stones or tokens, assorted stones or tokens in distinct colours (see rules).

DOWNLOAD: 10 Mighty Men

Printing Suggestions: Pretty straightforward – one piece of paper with the rules printed on both sides. The second file is designed to be printed on a sheet of standard business cards.  Each card has the information for One Mighty Man, and are meant to be kept in front of the player for easy reference during any game where said piece is being used.

Extra:

DOWNLOAD: 10 Mighty Cards

Designer’s Notes: Tom Wham, designer extraordinaire, has been an inspiration of mine for a long time (my apologies if this connection is less than flattering for Mr. Wham … providing inspiration does not make you responsible!)  I first discovered the joys of Mr. Wham’s hilarious and charming  designs with the great game “Planet Busters.”  Recently Mr. Wham came up with a brilliant variant of Backgammon called (obviously) “Whamgammon“.  This got me thinking that there are many other venerable games which could be updated in similar fashion … and so here is my first attempt.  Again, Mr. Wham, while in a way responsible for the game before you … is in no way to blame for the game before you.  I will take that credit myself.

Coffee Table Caverns

No longer are the dark bowels of the under-earth the exclusive haunt of poor graduate students who are forced to live in their parent’s basement. Now it is the realm of strategic battles, unearthly magic, and ghoulish fiends … Just make sure you clean it up by 7:00 … the Johnsons are coming over and we need the rec-room back!

Ages: 7+

Players: 2

Interesting features: a game of miniatures that even I can understand! The play is in the tactics, not measuring tapes, hundreds of pages of rules, and countless charts and tables. This game comes with several boards that can be mixed and matched BUT it can even be played out on a standard chess / checkers board!

Extras Needed: Some of those Little Fantasy Miniatures – plundered from another game or your local Roleplayer … or use the optional Cut-outs (Extra Parts) below. 1 or 2 Six-sided dice

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Printing Suggestions: You can Enlarge the boards to 11×17 … but the 8.5X11 works just fine. Trim them up and they are ready to become your ever-changing Dungeon of Danger! The Cards are meant to be printed on a standard sheet of Business Cards. If you are using the included playing pieces for miniatures, cut them out and fold them in half. They stand up really well if you then place them in a small binder clip.

Designer’s Notes: You knew it would happen sooner or later … I ran out of little green army men.  With a board game designed around them they thought they were safe at last … but you’re never safe when you are that little and fun to mangle, mutilate and blow up!  As I gathered up the pieces of my final Table Top Trooper blood bath, consigning to the long dark the last legs and limbs of my valiant forces I wan’t yet willing to admit defeat.  Just because all my men were gone shouldn’t mean that the fun was over.  But what could I do?  No way my wife would let me near her collectable bear figurines.  So what now?  Then I had an idea … an awful  idea … then I got a wonderful, awful idea!  With a twinkle in my eye I said to myself “Now where did I put all those fantasy miniatures …”

Table Top Troopers

Bringing a childhood institution into the realm of grown-up fun! Go and dig all those Little Green Army Men out of the back of the closet, dust them off, and begin the battles all over again. (Assuming you have any left that you didn’t burn with the magnifying glass, decapitate in a firecracker explosion, or send to their demise in the quicksands of the neighbour’s sandbox.)

Ages: 7+

Players: 2 or 3

Interesting features: a game of miniatures that even I can understand! The play is in the tactics, not measuring tapes, hundreds of pages of rules, and countless charts and tables. This game comes with several boards that can be mixed and matched BUT it can even be played out on a standard chess / checkers board!

Extras Needed: 1 Package of Little Green (or Tan) Army men for each player. If you can’t find them in two distinct colours, the bases will have to be painted different colours to keep them separate! 1 or 2 Six-sided dice.

DOWNLOAD: (Original) BOARD & SQUAD PDF

DOWNLOAD: (Original) RULES

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AN EYE FOR AN EYE!

New Scenarios, New Pieces, New Weapons, New Tactics
Special Thanks to Derek Hohls and Tim Andersen for their input!

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!!! SPECIAL GUEST FEATURE !!!

DEREK’S DOZEN (a TTT expansion by Derek Hohls)

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Printing Suggestions: Enlarge the boards to 11×17. (Unless you are using 25mm figures … then 8.5X11 works perfectly) Trim them up and they are ready to become your own private killing fields! (see an example of Derek’s Home-Made Boards [above] for his 50mm figures … who said this has to be complicated?

Designer’s Notes: So there I am, walking through the Dollar Store (as I often do after pay day) and what do I spy upon the shelf but a package of those cheap little green army men. Instantly I was transported back to my misspent childhood and all the fun I used to have playing the neighbourhood martyr “My guy throws himself on the grenade … Kaboom!” I figured that if I could play games with them when I was little then it would be easy to come up with a game using them now that I was older and wiser. I bought a pack on faith. Several months later the game had not yet formed, but all my army men were dead and gone (blown to little bits). On the way back to the store to buy more the idea finally hit. Miniatures combat for dummies like me. Update that stinky old chess set for the age of modern militia! I showed the finished idea to my brother-in-law, Tim … the Captain and he pulled a few strings with the DND so after a full security screening here it is.