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Title: Beneath the Med: Regia Marina at Sea 1940-1943
Author: Gregory M. Smith
Publisher: GMT Games
MSRP: $52.00 USD
Period/Setting: World War 2 Italian submarine commander.
Player count: Solo game. There are rules for playing with a second person or in a tournament setting.
Printed Playing time: 2-3 Hours
Joshua takes the prime seat to discuss his buddy, Rowan’s, return to roleplaying games down in Australia. This is one you’re sure to enjoy if you’re into RPGs.
Don’t panic! We’re not actually getting political. We want to highlight some of our political games. Below is a list of the games mentioned in this episode and how to get them.
Batch painting is an important aspect of my painting method. With no permanent hobby space I can’t just leave things sitting between painting sessions, mix in work, a two year old and other family commitments and I’m lucky to get in an hours worth of painting in on a week night.
With uniformed armies it’s easy to batch paint. Build a dozen guys, prime with an Army Painter colored primer, slap them into GW painting handles so I don’t fat finger the paint off while manhandling them and go at it. I’ll add a tiny bit of uniqueness to the models: mixed equipment, different colored boots, different tufts on the bases. But for the most part I’m just going down the line and painting the same parts the same colors. When I’m painting a hundred infantry and weapons crew this is the only way I can get a force done in a reasonable time.
Founder of W.R.K.S. Games, Kosala Ubayasekara, discusses the Jordenheim roleplaying game. Set in the same universe as their popular computer game, Blood Bond – Into the Shroud, Jordenheim merges Scandanavian history & myth with their imaginative twists.
All of W.R.K.S. Games’s properties are developed with the story first and everything else growing from that. This method creates a fully realized setting that allows players to enjoy playing to their heart’s content.
Their online storefront, W.R.K.S. Store, allows publishers to retain more of their sales compared to existing platforms such as Steam or DrivethruRPG/WargameVault.
Through social media and a Discord server, the team at W.R.K.S. Games both participates with their users while also accepting feedback that meaningfully impacts the games they create.
We are thankful that W.R.K.S. backed the Kickstarter for our 2020 season at the Be Interviewed level. It allowed us to be aware of the fantastic work they’re doing. We’re excited to spend some time with their Jordenheim RPG and to also discover what happens when they release Katana-Ra in 2021.
Katana-Ra will turn traditional cyberpunk themes on their head while transporting players back to the Kamakura and Muromachi periods of feudal Japan…but with technology from the 32nd century. If you love Japanese folklore, mythology, and a darker setting, then Katana-Ra will be for you.
To see some footage from Blood Bond along with some imagery from the Jordenheim RPG, we strongly recommend that you watch the livestream recording of this podcast episode.
