Fortified Niche

Attention, all Nicheneers! Steel your nerves as our fortified duo faces the challenges of Pulp Alley - set by Phipps and Daughter themselves! Will this spell doom for our rebellious reviewers? Will they prevail - and keep their two fists? Only on today's episode of Fortified Niche! Find Pulp Alley here: http://pulpalley.com Read the blog post about Pulp Alley here: https://www.barreldrill.com/pulp-alley/  Use the ridiculously good Pulp Alley TTS module found here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2681844586 Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!     JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram Show editing by Serf McSerfington Show intro/outro by Bevan Tanttu

Both summer heat and the Covid pox tried to stop the lads from reviewing Infamy, Infamy!, an excellent large skirmish game by TooFatLardies for refighting the wars between Rome and the Gauls, the British, etc.!  Find Infamy, Infamy! here: https://toofatlardies.co.uk/product-category/infamy-infamy/ Read the blog post about Infamy, Infamy! here: https://www.barreldrill.com/infamy-infamy/ Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!     JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram Show editing by Serf McSerfington Show intro/outro by Bevan Tanttu

The podcasters command their unstoppable hordes of T-55As in Cold War Commander 2nd Edition, a fairly groggy game of modern warfare that actually plays really smoothly!  Find Cold War Commander 2nd Edition here: https://www.pendraken.co.uk/ncwc-2-rules-ncold-war-commander-2-rulebook-6949-p.asp Read the blog post about Cold War Commander 2nd Edition here: https://www.barreldrill.com/cold-war-commander-2e-fortified-niche-playtest/ Ask Cold War Commander 2nd Edition questions and get the army lists here: https://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/board,91.0.html Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!     JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram Show editing by Serf McSerfington Show intro/outro by Bevan Tanttu

After drawing the Fortified Niche card, Player 1 selects a regiment of podcasters to carry out Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings, a rank-and-flank game where mercenary crossbowmen are shooting at unit of clone spearmen.  Find Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings here: https://www.para-bellum.com/getting-started/ Read the blog post about Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings here: https://www.barreldrill.com/conquest-the-last-argument-of-kings-fortified-niche-playtest Fiddle with the Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings army builder: https://armybuilder.para-bellum.com/tlaok Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!     JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram Show editing by Serf McSerfington Show intro/outro by Bevan Tanttu

The world's greatest detective gets nailed with an RPG as we play Batman Miniature Game, a good skirmish game featuring DC Comics' finest street-level heroes, villains, and mooks.  Find Batman Miniature Game here: https://www.knightmodels.com/en/batman-miniature-game/ Read the blog post about Batman Miniature Game here: https://www.barreldrill.com/batman-miniature-game/ Get the great Batman Miniature Game module for Tabletop Simulator here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2006760043 Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!     JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram Show editing by Serf McSerfington Show intro/outro by Bevan Tanttu

Loyalty clashes with intrigue as House Podcast rallies the troops for A Song of Ice and Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game, the rank-and-flank game based on the books, not the TV series, that has a lot of tricks up its sleeves.  Find A Song of Ice and Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game here: https://asoiaf.cmon.com Read the blog post about A Song of Ice and Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game here: https://www.barreldrill.com/a-song-of-ice-and-fire-tabletop-miniatures-game-fortified-niche-playtest Get the absurdly good A Song of Ice and Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game module for Tabletop Simulator here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2077621477 Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!     JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram Show editing by Serf McSerfington Show intro/outro by Bevan Tanttu

The pod crew whirl, leap, and pirouette into Carnevale Second Edition, the TTCombat game of skirmish fights on the magical Venetian canals.  Find Carnevale here: https://ttcombat.com/collections/carnevale Peep the Carnevale army builder here: https://carnevalegame.com/builder Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!     JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram Show editing by Serf McSerfington Show intro/outro by Bevan Tanttu

The pod crew combat-jumps into Infinity CodeOne, the high-speed low-drag little brother of the sci-fi skirmish gem Infinity by Corvus Belli.  Infinity CodeOne screenshots w/commentary on the blog: https://www.barreldrill.com/infinity-codeone-fortified-niche-playtest/ Find Infinity CodeOne here: https://infinitytheuniverse.com/games/codeone Peep the Infinity CodeOne army builder here: https://infinitytheuniverse.com/army/codeone Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!     JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram Show editing by Serf McSerfington Show intro/outro by Bevan Tanttu

The Baron's War by Andy Hobday has all the alternating activations, tokens, and online army builders you could ever want in Medieval England. Grab a sword and skirmish the horde!  The Baron's War screenshots w/commentary on the blog: https://www.barreldrill.com/the-barons-war-fortified-niche-playtest/ Find The Baron's War here: https://footsoreminiatures.co.uk/collections/barons-war/ Peep The Baron's War army builder and blog here: https://www.warhost.online/ Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!     JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram Show editing by Serf McSerfington Show intro/outro by Bevan Tanttu

ZONA ALFA: SALVAGE AND SURVIVAL IN THE EXCLUSION ZONE is referred to as just Zona Alfa by the players of this fairly rules-light skirmish game set in some anomaly-strewn Eastern European Zone. This episode features our new theme by Bevan Tanttu! Zona Alfa screenshots w/commentary on the blog: https://www.barreldrill.com/zona-alfa-fortified-niche-playtest/ Find Zona Alfa here: https://ospreypublishing.com/zona-alfa Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!     JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram

The podcast plays Five Men at Kursk to ask questions like "why does the Sherman not have the 'Ronson' rule?" and "why aren't the Germans outright superior to everyone else?"  Five Men at Kursk screenshots w/commentary on the blog: https://www.barreldrill.com/five-men-at-kursk-fortified-niche-playtest/ Find Turnip28 here: https://www.wargamevault.com/product/174545/Five-Men-at-Kursk Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!     JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram

To get into the weird and rooty atmosphere of Turnip28 - a Napoleonic-ish wargame - Cassa recorded all of his audio for this episode on a potato. Turnip28 screenshots w/commentary on the blog: https://www.barreldrill.com/turnip28-fortified-niche-playtest/ Find Turnip28 here: https://www.patreon.com/Turnip28 Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!     JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram

In Black Powder Red Earth 28MM, you're an operator operating operationally... and then a Chinese drone stabs you from the sky. Black Powder Red Earth 28MM screenshots w/commentary on the blog: https://www.barreldrill.com/black-powder-red-earth-28mm-fortified-niche-playtest/ Find Black Powder Red Earth 28MM here: https://www.blackpowderredearth.com/28mm.php Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!     JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram

Come on and slam, and welcome to the, er, rumble with Rumbleslam, the game of fantasy wrestling.   Rumbleslam screenshots w/commentary on the blog: https://www.barreldrill.com/rumbleslam-fortified-niche-playtest/ Find Dracula's America: Shadows of the West here: https://rumbleslam.com/ Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!     JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram

The podcast posse blazes a trailer of destruction through the Weird Weird West by playing Dracula's America: Shadows of the West. Dracula's America: Shadows of the West screenshots w/commentary on the blog: https://www.barreldrill.com/draculas-america-shadows-of-the-west-fortified-niche-playtest/ Find Dracula's America: Shadows of the West here: https://ospreypublishing.com/dracula-039-s-america-shadows-of-the-west Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!   JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram

Podcast lads tactically renditioned Delta One Zero via a high-speed low-barbie email to the developer. So what did they kinetically ascertain about the game, other than it not being Infinity? Delta One Zero screenshots w/commentary on the blog: https://www.barreldrill.com/delta-one-zero-fortified-niche-podcast/ Delta One Zero: https://bonza-games.com/ Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!   JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram

Massively famous podcast madlads are furnished with a review copy of The Silver Bayonet, written by one Joseph A. McCullough and published by Osprey Games. Over the hills and o'er the Main, To Flanders, Portugal and Spain, King George commands and we'll obey, Shooting werewolves and the fey. This is also the first episode where JcDent gives a small illustrated overview of experiences playing The Silver Bayonet on his blog: https://www.barreldrill.com/the-silver-bayonet-fortified-niche/ The Silver Bayonet: https://ospreypublishing.com/the-silver-bayonet Follow the creators of Fortified Niche on social media!   JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram

We take a critical look at Force on Force, a modern military miniature wargame that uncritically accepts any and all Western military adventures of the last century.  Force on Force: http://www.ambushalleygames.net/force-on-force-core-rules-pdf Follow the creators of Fortified niche on social media! JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram

If you're ever played Mork Borg and thought "man, I'd love it if this was a very rules-light Mordheim-like," then Forbidden Psalm was made with you preternaturally presciently in mind. Forbidden Psalm: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/forbidden-psalm Follow the creators of Fortified niche on social media! JcDent: Barrel Drill blog T-shirt store Cassa: Instagram

For the second episode, we have a look at Oathmark: Battles of the Lost Age, a fantasy mass battle game most famous for the kingdom generation mechanic... and we discover the reason why you haven't heard anything else about it. Oathmark: Battles of the Lost Age: https://ospreypublishing.com/oathmark Follow the creators of Fortified niche on social media! JcDent: https://www.barreldrill.com/ https://bit.ly/grognardia Cassa: https://www.instagram.com/cassascreativeshots

For the inaugural episode of Fortified Niche, we take a look at the biggest small game: Grimdark Future by Gaetano Ferrara. It's streamlined Warhammer 40,000, but actually good! Grimdark Future: https://onepagerules.com/portfolio/grimdark-future/ Follow the creators of Fortified niche on social media! JcDent: https://www.barreldrill.com/ https://bit.ly/grognardia Cassa: https://www.instagram.com/cassascreativeshots