NEWS08.06.2005 After a lot of work, Endgame has been completely rewritten with an eye toward making it more playable, flexible, and dramatic. We feel the new card-based system is a bold step toward our design goals.
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Endgame is an exciting post-apocalyptic miniatures game that focuses on skirmishes between a handful of combatants per side. Let's take a quick look at a few of the interesting features: Card-Based Rather than utilizing dice, gameplay revolves around two types of cards; boost cards and effect cards. Boost cards act as the primary randomizers in the game; you can effectively choose your "boost numbers" from the boost cards in your hand, giving you more control over your fate than you have in dice-based systems. Effect cards are used to represent all those complications, events, and combat hazards that exist on the field of battle, such as running out of ammo, using the high ground to your advantage, knocking opponents back with the impact of your attack, inflicting injuries, suffering from the effects of "the fog of war", and much more. Effect cards cut down on the requirement of having to remember a slew of complex rules for things like panic, critical hits, and hiding. It's all handled on the cards as they are played! The Miniatures and Characters We are not supporting Endgame with our own line of miniatures. This means that you can use nearly any miniatures you can get your hands on. Best of all, the game system itself accommodates this by allowing you to create stats for each combatant in your gang. That's right, each miniature acts as a fully individualized character on the tabletop. You create the stats to match the miniatures at your disposal! So if you have a miniature of a massive mutant with horns on its head and a chainsaw in each hand, you can stat it up and include it in your gang! Inexpensive One of the biggest problems with miniatures games is the intimidating investment required to field a full army. We believe that you shouldn't have to spend a lot of your hard-earned money in order to become involved in the miniatures gaming hobby. To play Endgame, all you need (aside from a ruler and the ruleset itself) is between three and five miniatures. You should be able to purchase a complete gang for $10 or less, which is quite a bit easier on the wallet than having to dole out the hundreds of dollars needed for many other games. |
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