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"...I actually enjoyed this show more than any other that I have been to in the past couple of years." Norm Smith, in Battlefields & Warriors, regales us with sights and surprises from this show, along with some great pictures! And check out the source of an insight that led Norm to conclude "It made me realise that considering these things went into the air in their thousands, the financial investment in longbow archers must have been huge."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 3/22/2024


Fields of Corn & Rye

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"...I was pretty sure that I had found something that might do the job." Norm Smith, in Battlefields & Warriors, discusses a way he's found to address an old itch, namely adding texture and/or crop fields to tabletop settings. Check out what he finds to be a reasonable, cost-effective approach, considering that "...sometimes I think we have made ourselves a picture perfect world and lost something along the way."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 3/11/2024


On wargames campaigns (after Polemarch)

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"If one is to do this, it is quite useful to read Caesar to see the kinds of things he considered important when choosing if or when to give battle." Prufrock muses about the value of running campaigns for the ancients gaming he prefers. See why "It turned out I'd rather refight Zama for the tenth time than try to sustain interest in endless minor encounters between similarly equipped neighbours over local concerns."

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 2/28/2024


Lord Stanley arrives at Piggy Longton 1472

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"...Piggy Longton is under the certain threat of Yorkist attack." Norm Smith, in Battlefields & Warriors, sets the stage for our next Piggy Longton encounter. Why must Lord Darcy cautiously accept help from one who is "...gaining a reputation of duplicity based upon political expedience."?

Poster: Doug Holt
Post Date: 1/29/2024


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Game: The Plum Island Horror



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Publisher: GMT Games
Game Type: Board
Designer(s): Hermann Luttmann
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Description:


The Plum Island Horror is a 1 to 4 player game featuring cooperative play that combines tactical-level unit management with a tower-defense style survival mechanic. Each player will control one of six unique factions which represent the various groups that populate Plum Island. Each of these Factions has its own strengths and weaknesses, and the system encourages you to optimize for the group’s strengths and marginalize its weaknesses. Players must coordinate with one another, and the resulting synergy will hopefully be enough to successfully evacuate a city under siege and contain the horrific outbreak that threatens to spread beyond the island itself. If the players can succeed, they will win together, and the world will most likely be none the wiser to the averted crisis. If not, they will lose together and share the blame equally for failing humankind.


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Date: 9/15/2021
Poster: Harvey M.
The Plum Island Horror short story written by David Spangler

The first eyewitness account of the horrible, tragic events that took place on a small island off of the tip of Long Island, New York that hosted a federal animal disease research center known as Plum Island Animal Disease Center. Since 1954, this little-known facility listed in the DHS S&T Office of National Laboratories (ONL) as Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC), served as the nation’s premier defense against accidental or intentional introduction of transboundary animal diseases (a.k.a. foreign animal diseases) including foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and African Swine Fever (ASF). PIADC was the only laboratory in the nation that could work on live FMD virus (FMDV). The lab and its staff of nearly 400 employees provide a host of high-impact, indispensable preparedness and response capabilities, including vaccine R&D, diagnostics, training, and bioforensics among others. Until something went terribly wrong! Here is the first eyewitness account of the horrifying and tragic events that transpired at a hypothetical time represented by designer Hermann Luttmann's newest sci-fi horror game, The Plum Island Horror, to be published by GMT Games. Warning! Please do not read this if you're alone in the house in a dark room.
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Date: 9/14/2021
Poster: Harvey M.
The Cards of Plum Island (or … How Can Such Mundane Components Contain So Much Evil?)

Designer Hermann Luttmann tries to warn you about his upcoming game to be published by GMT Games, The Plum Island Horror, a game where every card has such frightening, unspeakable horror that only the designer can tell you about them without getting .... aahh....HELP!......
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Date: 7/29/2021
Poster: Harvey M.
The Baddies of Plum Island and How to Fight Them (If You Dare)

Hermann Luttmann, designer of The Plum Island Horror, introduces you to the terrible creatures that await you on this government operated infectious disease research facility gone awry! This tongue-in-cheek introductory guide to the monstrous Horrors (Don't call them zombies if you know what's good for you!) explains how they move, how they multiply, and what they are likely to do to you if you're in the same room with them. He also gives some tips on how to fight back But, be warned, no matter what you do, you will come away from playing this upcoming GMT design shaking your head and saying, "and we thought Covid was bad!!!!"
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Date: 7/18/2021
Poster: Harvey M.
The Plum Island Horror: An Overview of Gameplay (or … How to Lose at The Plum Island Horror Without Even Trying)

As a private pilot on Long Island,, I have made many trips to its eastern fringes and beyond being careful to avoid a small island off the northeastern shore since it is highly restricted government airspace. The history of the island is somewhat secretive and obscure but is known for its experiments in highly infectious diseases. Designer Hermann Luttmann gives you one possible theory of what one day might happen if something there goes awry in his new game, The Plum Island Horror, to be published by GMT Games. It is a 1-4: player cooperative game and Inside GMT teaches you the basics of how to survive. I was a playtester for this game and I am also a doctor and all I can say is, "and you thought Covid was bad!".