Today, I was sat at work cruising the Internet (in my lunch beak, of course!), when a colleague, who is a fellow wargamer pointed me in the direction of the Spartan Games Website, where they now have the newly revised rulebook for Firestorm Armada available for free download! I'll admit, it's been a while since i've visited their site, so this was a very pleasant surprise.
It seems that at the point my friend Byron and I were introduced to Firestorm Armada, the rulebook had just gone out of print, and after trying in vain for around two months to secure a copy, we just continued playing with the photocopied sheets and tables that had kindly been provided by the chap who introduced us, and decide we would look up the book again in a few months. Having forgot that, and then not dusted off my Directorate fleet for a couple of months, the book now lands on my desktop, for free!
As soon as I got home, I managed to download the 7mb .pdf of the rules, and they look good. They even include the tokens you need to print off to use in the game. The rules actually total around 50 pages, and the rest of the 63 page document is the tokens and some pretty pictures of some of the ships you can use in the game as well. Obviously the hardback version of the game rules contains more than this simple .pdf file, but it gives you enough to play the game, and even gives you a little bit of the background of the game.
AND, as if that wasn't enough (A free game!), you can still download the print-off and cut-out ship models of the original three fleets (Terran, Dindrenzi and Directorate). All you need to do is print the sheets off as A4 and then cut the 2D paper ship models out. As the game really is in 2D, the 'flatness' has no effect.
So, there you have it. Here is a free wargame to play. Rulebook, counters and ships, all you need to try out Spartan Games' superb space combat system! I'm off to digest the book, and hopefully get a couple of games, then i'll be back with a review and some comments (hopefully). Until then, here are some links that you may want to visit...
Rulebook Download
Terran Alliance cut out fleet
Dindrenzi Federation cut out fleet
The Directorate cut out fleet
The fact that they released the revised Version for free got us back to FSA too :)
ReplyDeleteWe just had a 4 Player/1000 Points each game yesterday.
Took a long time since we were really out of shape with the rules, but it was fun :)
Best regards,
Mojo
I'm (hopefully) playing my first game with the new rules next week, but I think that's likely to take a while as well, since at least one of the guys has never played FSA, and the rest of us haven't played for a while. Still, I'm sure it will be good fun!
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