Rowville Rescue

An INSURGENT EARTH AAR The Rowville Resistance Cell was at it again last night, responding to a frantic call on a CB radio. Apparently, a survivor was hiding in Dryden’s Ditch, an old farm on the outskirts of town. According to the survivor, old Dryden himself had made a last stand there, taking down half-a-dozen […]

Insurgent Earth

I’m pleased to announce that Insurgent Earth is finally done. Insurgent Earth is a tabletop war game in which players take the role of survivors in the chaotic days following a massive invasion of Earth by an advanced alien civilization. In Insurgent Earth, the players are not Generals or Admirals, Presidents or Prime Ministers, they’re […]

The Rowville Run

AN INSURGENT EARTH AAR Rowville… a nice town. A quiet town. A good place to raise your kids. Its Main Street was sprinkled with quaint, Mom-n-Pop shops, a Big-n-Juicy Burgers, Sweet Tooths ice cream, one of those shiny aluminum, all-night diners with the neon tube signs, tidy offices for the Sherrif, the PTA, and the […]

Winding down another Year

In the final stretch of 2021, our group is coasting toward the new year trying out new games, running one-shots for old ones, play-testing new rules, and basically collecting ourselves before we launch into 2022. Most recently, we ran several sessions of “The Well”, an indie RPG that’s essentially an inverted dungeon crawl. I used […]

ZONA ALFA: KONTRABAND

NOW AVAILABLE AT WARGAME VAULT and AMAZON *** KONTRABAND – More Salvage and Survival in the Exclusion Zone. 1. What is KONTRABAND? Kontraband is a set of supplementary rules for Osprey Wargames’ Zona Alfa, Salvage and Survival in the Exclusion Zone. While built on the core game, Kontraband is better described as a variant than […]

Downed Drone Downtown

Another RESISTANCE: EARTH AAR Another test game last night with Matt, Other Pat, and myself. (Neighbor Mike was out sick) This time, the survivors need to destroy an alien drone in a more dangerous mission area. Nine ‘Point of Interest’ with potential salvage plus a central objective. Alien Drone is damaged and poses no threat […]

Cockroach 2 in Tarrytown

A RESISTANCE: EARTH test game Play tested Cape Cod Wargaming’s latest project last night. A Rescue Mission in old Tarrytown where a lone survivor sent out a frantic call for help on the police radio frequency. An alien patrol closing in, we dispatched a 4-person team to find him and bring him to safety. Taking […]

Hostile Takeover Assault Teams

Hardwired: Hostile Takeover is the latest set of war game rules from Cape Cod Wargaming. Instead of the Solo/Cooperative emphasis in the original Hardwired game, HW:HT allows players to engage in head-to-head combat either in single Sprawl Skirmish missions or full blown Corporate War campaigns. ASSAULT TEAMS In either mode, players must select from a […]

Corporate War

Coming soon to a Sprawl near you! The latest HARDWIRED rule book, HOSTILE TAKEOVER shifts the game focus away from cooperative or solo mode and offers players the opportunity to command their own security force in the midst of a corporate war. Now, your elite Agents command small, multi-model tactical units: fire teams of troopers, […]

Hardwired 3: test missions

Hope you’re all safe and reasonably sane despite the deep strangeness in our world. Keeping busy, staying positive, and gaming with friends are all excellent coping mechanisms, and these last couple weeks have seen members of the Cape Cod Wargame Commission hammering out a new variation of the Hardwired cyberpunk skirmish war game series. This […]