209 Hours to go

That's right, at the time of writing this, we have a little over 210 hours until the door open to our first show - Valhalla. 

Everything is starting to fall into place

To prove the point, I came to work to find a long tube shaped package waiting for me which contains our banner! all beautiful 6' of it. 

Confirmation emails for the delivery of our flyers came today, along with, most importantly, delivery emails for our rulebooks, both of which will be arriving on monday! All the models for the demo boards are ready, the boards have been spruced up and we've got bowls for all the sweets we'll be luring people to our stand with.

If you're looking for something to do next Sunday (16th) then head on down to Valhalla (link) and get in on the action, come say hi and have a go on our demo boards! It's only £2.50 entry!

Here's the coverwork for our two rulebooks; Engage! Spaceship combat and Seasons of War: Days of the Conqueror. We'll be launching both at Valhalla - they'll be £10 each, and if you buy one on the day, you'll get a free version of the electronic rulebook!

Go to our website for more information. www.redwyverngames.com.

Engage is a space ship combat game with an excellent ruleset that focuses on distriuting power around your ship to shield, weapons and more.

Days of the Conqueror is a unit based medieval combat game based around the time of William the Conqueror

Post Salute

Well, on Saturday we went up to London for Salute (in a visitors capacity) and had a very good day.. though we (well, I) might have spent a bit too much.

It was really busy this year.. much more so than I remember it being the last couple of years, so hopefully thats a good sign of the times and means that our hobby is doing well. I really think advances in technology have helped this, there was lots of MDF modular terrain using these new laser cutting techniques, 3D printing and Kickstarters and crowdsourced games all over the place - I think this last one has had the biggest impact on the gaming community ensuring that companies don't need to source their funds up front is a major boon to the smaller companies with tight margins.

Salute proved a very good opportunity for us to engage (sorry shameless plug) with other companies in a more business capacity as well as look at all the good and bad points for all the stand present so we can really make the most of ours when we get to Valhalla.

So yeah, all is going well. We got through our draft copy of Engage, which has taught us a lot and also made us realise how tight the deadlines are before we pack up the car so the show.

Anyway, I leave you with a couple of images from Salute.

An updated website and a show!

Well, 

There's some progress on all fronts! 

We're getting ready to send a draft version of the Engage rulebook off to the printers to see what the end product might look like! 

We're also now officially confirmed vendors at the Farnborough Wargames Societies 'Valhalla 2013' show, it's on the 16th July. So if you're about/around that area and fancy coming along then please do. It'll be our first show, so someone who knows of us in advance would be excellent. 

We'll be there with our Engage and Seasons of War rulebooks! and running two small demo boards for each of the games to take people through the game mechanics. There's lots of other vendors about too as well as participation games, so head on down (for £2.50 you can't argue!)

Also, we'll be offering a free electronic copy of the rules to anyone who buys one of our physical rulebooks! Can't say fairer than that!

As for our other news, we've revamped our website! It's in HTML5 format now, so perfect for all you Apple users, but more than that, it's much cleaner, crisper and easier to use. We've also reformatted and rejigged our Mobile site so that you can find what need super quick without using up all your data limit.

So go check it out now!

Would you like to know more?

Then Click on the above image! You'll be taken to our website, where you can see more details about the upcoming games!

Time for a quickie?

Alright alright.. this post isn't as saucy as it sounds.

In fact, this post is going to be a little thin on the ground and comes to you a day ahead of schedule!
We've not much to say at the moment - everything is moving along, but nothing substantial to report i'm afraid.

As such, I shall shamelessly be using this post for self promotion!
Check out Ben's blog here...
Check out my blog here...

Enjoy!

Who or what is 'Red Wyvern Games'

Who or what is 'Red Wyvern Games'

I felt that it might be appropriate to write up a little something like this before we get all big and famous and have someone else to write our blog posts for us.. it also fills a little time before we get something more substantial to post on here!

Well, as it says on our website, we're a trio from the South of England with a passion for wargaming. I  personally have been playing for about 12 years now Ben and Ian for around 15. As with most youngsters we found our calling in the form of Games Workshop, enamored by the rules, models and the worlds created by the likes of Rick Priestly, the Perry Twins, John Blanche and Jervis Johnson among others. Like many of you, we soon spent many years (and more money than I care to think about) building armies, fighting battles and painting our models.

With our focus on Games Workshop, It wasn't until about 5 or 6 years ago that we released just how wide a world of wargaming there was out there, as soon widened our interests to all scales and genres, starting with Ben we soon started writing rules for small games for the myriad of models we bought. We would host a regular event called 'Game On', where we would have 2 months or so and a limited budget or specific set of models for each of us to create a game, we would then play through these games (sometimes dragging friends alone to help judge) and declare one of us the winner!

After a few years of this and some exciting possible games, we decided that we wanted to share them with the rest of the gaming community! If we enjoyed these, then maybe others would enjoy them too (or at least we hope you will!) As such, one cold blustery evening in late 2011, we sat down and decided what course this would take, on that evening we devised the name you are now all familiar with 'Red Wyvern Games' and then, after Some hiatus later, we started to really get going with this project; got a designer to put together a logo for us, put together a website, decided which games to start with and then we got cracking!

Which leads us to now, about 18 months after we first started we're now on track to publish our first two release games 'Chronicles of War' and 'Engage!: Space Ship Combat'.

It's all quite exciting, there's lots going on whilst we juggle these projects and 'real life' to bring these projects into fruition. We're not expecting record sales and mass panic buying of rule books when they're released and we're certainly not looking to retire on our sales any time too soon, we're just hoping to share our passion for wargaming with you in the form of these rulebooks! Thanks for reading!


Wassail
Craig!

p.s. This evening I have Ben and Ian coming over, So maybe I'll have some of those photos that I promised last week. 

It's been a while

Well.. it's been a long while since we last updated this 'regular blog'..

There's been lots going on, including real life, but things are moving along at a nice pace, albeit a touch slower than we had orignally intended. But I think both Ben and Ian would agree that is for the better, we've got a couple of products that we really want to get right, so we intend to make sure that happens. 

We won't be making PAW like we'd hoped and Salute (for now at least) is a little out of our reach, so we're looking at events a little later in the year to really hit these things home and make our mark on this ever hectic wargaming scene!

Chronicles of War is our main focus at the moment, the draft rules are 99% completed now and we've done quite a bit of play testing so far. As such we'll soon be moving on to compiling it all into what we all know as a rulebook putting in pretty pictures and have it all well formatted! Afterwhich I imagine we'll be switching our attention back on Engage! to get that back up and running! 

If there's one thing I've found out whilst writing these rules is that when playing test games we keep finding more and more scenarios that need to be defined in the rules or have rules written for. That elusive 100% complete rulebook is ever just around the corner. I suppose that eventually you have to find a compromise where you stop writing - 'Too many cooks spoil the broth' as they say.

In other news; It's a little too early to say too much at the moment, but we're in preliminary talks with a miniatures company to possible supply models for our games. It's quite exciting to think that this early into our rules writing careers that we might be able to organise a collaboration like this, so fingers crossed! If it all pans out we'll keep you posted! 

I'll post again next week, hopefully with a few sneak peaks of a couple of rules/scenarios from our Chronicles of War game. 

In the mean time, head on over to tinyminipeople - Ben's blog to see a review on some of the new Khurasan moderns. 

ttfn
Craig @ RWG.