Category: Boards and Tokens (Page 8 of 12)

I like Chess variants a great deal. In fact, my wife bought me an Omega Chess set for Christmas. While there a couple months ago, I happened upon an invention by Graeme C Neatham. It is basically a variation of chess on a hexagonal board. No surprise, considering the link. The difference comes in splitting hexes into triads. Each triad has a different color.

Some time ago, I mentioned a hexagonal variation of Tactique. Seeing this board gave me all sorts of ideas. This also gave me ideas for using this type of hex paper for RPGs instead of traditional hex paper. For both, I hope to explore different ideas.

Here are the PDFs of a black and white version and the colorized version. What is different from Greame's design is that my hexes are not rotated 90 degress and the colors are different. I will also provide a hex shaped pdf soon. I realize that a hex shape is more conducive to board games.

Black and White Tri-Hexes | Color Tri-Hexes

I have all the boxscores from the 1985 season. I'm doing it as part of a quest to get more information than currently available online about the USFL's final season. The various sources come from local newspapers. I will create a section of Sycarion that is just for the completed boxscores.

Game 1 in Tampa Bay with 44,0095 in attendance broke down like this:

Team ----------Q1 --- Q2 --- Q3 --- Q4 ---- Total
Renegades ----0 ----- 0 ----- 0 ----- 7 --------- 7
Bandits ------- 14 --- 14 ----- 7 ----- 0 ------- 35

Neither team threw for more than 162 yards. It was a running game, if you can believe that.

More later at usfl.sycarion.com

I know, I know. Everything lately has been RPG stuff. Dice is in my blood, I guess. So now, back to a project I've been working on for the better part of 2007, the Pro Football Action project.

The software that I was using to create entire seasons had one small flaw that prevented me from using it:

I couldn't make my own teams.

In the case of the USFL, I couldn't get enough stats on players and teams without camping out at the library and reading a lot of microfilm.

So, I switched to a different program, Alex Mittenmeyer's FBWin. It is a windows version of the old Avalon Hill game, Statis-Pro Football. It uses Access Databases to store stats, track a season and so much more.

However, editing a team wasn't entirely straightforward. Many people wrote to Alex, including me. I'm happy to say that I have the editor and will post it here for others to download.

Football for Windows Editor

You can contact Alex at the Statis-Pro Football yahoo group.