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Mordheim
''Mordheim'' is a tabletop game published by Games Workshop in 1999. It is a variant of the company's Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer Fantasy game set on a warband or "skirmish" scale. Mordheim was designed by Alessio Cavatore, Tuomas Pirinen, and Rick Priestley. Alongside the basic skirmish game, ''Mordheim'' also features a campaign system, where Warbands gain experience and equipment as the campaign progresses, in a similar nature to Role-playing game, role-playing games. The game is set during a civil war in The Empire (Warhammer), the Empire from Imperial Year 1999, some 500 years before the present day in the Warhammer Fantasy (setting), Warhammer Fantasy timeline. When a comet struck and destroyed the city of Mordheim, a material called Warpstone, wyrdstone was scattered throughout the ruins. Mercenary warbands from all over the Warhammer Fantasy (setting), Warhammer world battle with one another for the wyrdstone. Warbands The official rulebook, which was released in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Games Workshop
Games Workshop Group (often abbreviated as GW) is a British manufacturer of miniature wargames, based in Nottingham, England. Its best-known products are ''Warhammer (game), Warhammer'' and ''Warhammer 40,000''. Founded in 1975 by John Peake (game designer), John Peake, Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson (UK), Steve Jackson, Games Workshop was originally a manufacturer of wooden boards for games including backgammon, mancala, nine men's morris and Go (board game), Go. It later became an importer of the U.S. role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'', and then a publisher of wargames and role-playing games in its own right, expanding from a bedroom mail-order company in the process. It expanded into Europe, the US, Canada, and Australia in the early 1990s. All UK-based operations were relocated to the current headquarters in Lenton, Nottingham in 1997. It started promoting games associated with The Lord of the Rings (film series), ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy in 2001. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warhammer Fantasy Battle
''Warhammer'' (formerly ''Warhammer Fantasy Battle'' or just ''Warhammer Fantasy'') is a tabletop miniature wargame with a medieval fantasy theme. The game was created by Bryan Ansell, Richard Halliwell, and Rick Priestley, and first published by the Games Workshop company in 1983. As in other miniature wargames, players use miniature models (''minis'') to represent warriors. The playing field is a model battlefield comprising models of buildings, trees, hills, and other terrain features. Players take turns moving their model warriors across the playing field and simulate a battle. The outcomes of fights between the models are determined by a combination of dice rolls and simple arithmetic. Though the gameplay is mostly based on medieval warfare, it incorporates fantasy elements such as wizards, dragons, and magical spells. ''Warhammer'' was the first commercial miniature wargame designed to use proprietary models. Prior to this, miniature wargames rulesets were designe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessio Cavatore
Alessio Cavatore is a game designer. Early life and education Alessio Cavatore was born in Turin, Italy, on February 14, 1972. Career In 1995 Cavatore moved to Nottingham (U.K.) to work for Games Workshop. He wrote several supplements for ''Warhammer Fantasy Battle'' before heading up the ''Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game''. In 2004 Cavatore was made responsible for all rules material published for the company's three main tabletop systems — ''Warhammer'', ''Warhammer 40,000'', and ''The Lord of the Rings'' — and, in 2006, he wrote the rules for a new edition of ''Warhammer''. Working closely with Rick Priestley, Cavatore has been a designer for Games Workshop's tabletop hobby wargames. ''Mordheim'' (1999) was designed by Alessio Cavatore, Tuomas Pirinen and Rick Priestley. ''Kings of War'' (2009) was designed by Cavatore. Alessio Cavatore made a cameo appearance in the film ''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Return of the King'' where he appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Strategy
Military strategy is a set of ideas implemented by military organizations to pursue desired Strategic goal (military), strategic goals. Derived from the Greek language, Greek word ''strategos'', the term strategy, when first used during the 18th century, was seen in its narrow sense as the "art of the general", or "the art of arrangement" of troops. and deals with the planning and conduct of campaigns. The father of Western modern strategic studies, Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), defined military strategy as "the employment of battles to gain the end of war." B. H. Liddell Hart's definition put less emphasis on battles, defining strategy as "the art of distributing and applying military means to fulfill the ends of policy". Hence, both gave the preeminence to political aims over military goals. Sun Tzu (544–496 BC) is often considered as the father of Eastern military strategy and greatly influenced Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese historical and modern war tactics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of The Damned
Judge Joseph Dredd is a fictional character created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. He first appeared in the second issue of the British weekly anthology comic '' 2000 AD'' (1977). He is the magazine's longest-running character, and in 1990 he got his own title, the ''Judge Dredd Megazine''. He also appears in a number of film and video game adaptations. Judge Dredd is a law enforcement and judicial officer in the dystopian future city of Mega-City One, which covers most of the east coast of North America. He is a " street judge", empowered to summarily arrest, convict, sentence, and execute criminals. Judge Dredd stories often satirise American and British culture, with a focus on authoritarianism and police brutality. Judge Dredd made his live-action debut in 1995 in ''Judge Dredd'', portrayed by Sylvester Stallone. Later, he was portrayed by Karl Urban in the 2012 adaptation ''Dredd''. In audio dramas by Big Finish Productions, Dredd is voiced by Toby Longw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
