Tabletop_Gaming__April_2019

In this issue

4 April 2019

06 AT A GLANCE

09 FIRST TURN

Dungeon Alliance designer Andrew Parks on

waging war with ideas in 2003’s Ideology

10 10 OF THE BEST

Don’t be a fool this April 1st with a

list of laugh-out-loud funny games

13 ROLE CALL

14 ALL THE JAHRES

We’ve got a Ticket to Ride, and we do care!

17 MY FAVOURITE GAME

SEAL Team Flix co-creator Mark Thomas on the

post-apocalyptic pleasure of Neuroshima Hex

18 ROOT: THE RPG

Get a world-exclusive first look at the RPG set in

the woodland warzone of 2018’s hit board game

26 MICROGAME OF THE

MONTH: WRECKDIVERS

Hold your breath – for real – as you dive for

treasure in this month’s free playable game

28 HAVE YOU PLAYED?

Wargaming without the effort: it’s Sekigahara

30 ERA: MEDIEVAL AGE

Matt Leacock tells us about his ‘roll-and-build’

spiritual successor to Roll Through the Ages

35 THE INDEPENDENT SHELF

36 HOW WE MADE

Geoff Engelstein on blasting off Space Cadets

with the help of his co-designers: his kids

42 L’A T T A Q U E

Discover the forgotten story of the game that

inspired Stratego and was played by Churchill

45 AROUND THE

WORLD IN 80 PLAYS

46 EAT PLAY LOVE

Host the perfect game night with our

readymade recipes for flavour and fun

49 PLAY IT SMART

50 THINGS FROM THE FLOOD

Meet the moody sequel to RPG Tales from the Loop

53 THROUGH THE AGES

Celebrating Plaid Hat’s ten-year journey from

Summoner Wars to Stuffed Fables

54 WAR OF THE WORLDS:

THE NEXT WAVE

The Martians return to conquer Earth in the

deckbuilding battle to save humanity

59 UNEARTHED ARTEFACTS

60 PAUL BONNER

The veteran Warhammer artist on his work and life

63 PLAYED

Definitive verdicts on the latest releases

85 PAINTING GUIDE

Is that a brush, or a wand? Giving Harry

Potter’s Order of the Phoenix a touch of magic

90 DUNGEON MASTER’S

GUIDE TO ROLEPLAYING

93 EVENT REPORT

94 CLUB DIRECTORY

96 SHOP SPOTLIGHT

98 TABLETOP TIME MACHINE

Wheat! Wheat! Wheat! The chaos and fun of Pit

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