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Now Available: Raid and Ruin

Cover of the tabletop game 'Nightwatch: Raid and Ruin', featuring four adventurers in a dark, ominous setting, holding weapons and a lantern. The title and author's name are prominently displayed.

NIGHTWATCH RAID AND RUIN is now available.
Digital format (PDF) at Wargame Vault.
Print hard copy at Amazon.

Adaptable. Accessible. Inexpensive.
With Time being the valuable commodity these days, Raid and Ruin is designed to help players get minis into action on the tabletop quickly.

Gather your Pact of Hunters.
Choose your Adversaries from one of the ready-made force lists.
Pick one of six available Missions.
Set up a 3 x 3 game area.
Go.

An open-setting, miniature-agnostic rule set made for cooperative games, Raid and Ruin is solo and beginner-friendly, offers advancements for narrative, campaign play, and can be run in an afternoon.

Five painted miniatures of fantasy characters standing on a textured surface, with intricate scenery and ruins in the background.

Ready-Made Adversaries
Raid and Ruin has a menu of Mix-n-Match traits for players who want to make their own enemies. It also offers ready-to-go force lists for four common fantasy baddies: The Crawling Brood – The Restless Dead – The Rot-Eye Tribes – The Black Hand.

Each faction has troop types separated by Tier, with distinct Traits and Behaviors to make them easy to run on the table. Grab your preferred category of evil minis, print out the stat page, and you’re ready.

A tabletop gaming scene featuring various miniature spiders and characters on a ruined terrain, including a wizard and a warrior, amidst cracked tiles and debris.
Two miniature fantasy characters, one in a skeleton costume wielding a sword and the other with a skull mask holding a dagger, stand on a textured gaming surface with stone ruins in the background.
A tabletop gaming scene featuring three detailed miniature orc figures, armed and ready for battle, positioned near a stone archway and a statue.
A group of painted miniature figures on a tabletop adorned with a stone monument and a natural landscape, depicting a scene of fantasy adventure.

Raid and Ruin is meant to be an accessible and affordable way to introduce players to fantasy tabletop skirmishes. Particularly players familiar with RPGs but not miniature wargaming. The rules are easy to learn, simple to teach, and have enough flavor to transform the miniatures into unique heroes working together on dangerous missions, not just anonymous soldiers lost in the ranks.

A group of four fantasy characters gathered around a campfire in a cave, with mystical elements and an atmospheric setting.

With illustrations by Auriane Lens and Daulet Karazhigitov, Raid and Ruin weighs in at a compact 55 pages. Read it in an afternoon. Run your first game that night. If more than four players show up, simply bump up the number of enemies that spawn each turn. With escalating threats, clear objectives, and definite turn limit, games are tense, bloody, and memorable. Your Hunters might not survive the mission, but your players won’t soon forget the game.

A tabletop scene featuring various fantasy miniatures in an intense confrontation, with a mix of armored figures and creatures in a detailed environment resembling a medieval village.
A tabletop scene featuring a heroic figure with a sword battling a group of monstrous creatures in a fantasy setting.
Four painted tabletop miniatures set on a cobblestone path, featuring a bearded warrior with a sword and shield, a robed figure holding a hammer, a muscular character in armor, and a woman wielding dual daggers, surrounded by gravestones and ruins.
A tabletop gaming setup featuring intricately painted miniature ruins, trees, and terrain pieces on a grassy surface, with multiple character models positioned in the foreground.
A tabletop scene featuring miniature figures in a fantasy setting, including characters with weapons and armor, a stone statue, and a staircase made of stone. The background includes trees and a complex terrain.

That’s all for now. Thanks for stopping by.
If you’re interested, pick up the new Nightwatch Raid and Ruin
At Amazon
At Wargame Vault


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2 responses to “Now Available: Raid and Ruin”

  1. Terry Bermingham Avatar
    Terry Bermingham

    Can I ask, has this replaced the Nightwatch Blood and Bone book

    Reply
    1. ccglazier Avatar
      ccglazier

      Hi Terry.
      Thanks for stopping by.
      As mentioned in an earlier post, Raid and Ruin is another option. A variation on a theme.
      It sets aside the narrative element and focuses on combat. Pact size and composition is clearly defined. Missions have objectives and turn limits.
      There’s a selection of ready-made adversaries. If anything, it’s a streamlined upgrade to the original ‘NW Terror and Treasure‘
      Let me know if you have any further questions.
      Good Hunting.

      Reply

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