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Budget Battlefield
Published by MicroTactix
Designed by Greg Poehlein
Illustrated by Gary M. Williams
Rules, figures, and two scenarios in six Adobe Acrobat files and four TIFF files; $9.00
Every once in awhile, an idea comes along that causes the gaming world to smack itself on its collective forehead and ask, "Why didn't we think of that?" MicroTactix' latest offering, Budget Battlefield, is just such an idea. This miniature war game replaces traditional lead and plastic figures with triangular cardboard figures in electronic files, allowing players to print as many as needed to compose an army. Simply cut out the figures, glue them to cardboard bases, and it's clobberin' time. In addition, Budget Battlefield is fully integrated with MicroTactix' Simply Roleplaying and Compact Combat games, allowing players to use the same characters in three different types of games.
The rules set is streamlined to about thirty pages that cover science fiction and fantasy battles. The system is so flexible that the hostilities are balanced even if players decide that the undead hordes need to invade Saturn Outpost Alpha. The rules support virtually any size battle, from skirmishes of 50 figures to epics of 200 figures.
Gamers can purchase Budget Battlefield at the MicroTactix World Wide Web site using a secure credit card transaction. For nine dollars, they get a compressed ZIP file containing Adobe Acrobat files for the cover art, four army lists (two science fiction and two fantasy), . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: April 6, 2001
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