Cheers gamers and friends.
As you may know from elsewhere, we were thrust into a situation where we are forced to move apartments on very short notice, presenting us with considerable unexpected expenses.
A lot of people have stepped up and been incredibly generous which has allowed us to secure a new apartment and cover the expenses involved with that, but as our current landlord has refused all attempts to work out some sort of deal, we’re still forced to pay the rest of our existing lease and penalties accounting for around 4500 dollars.
To help gather up more funds, we’re putting together a mega-sale.
I’ve put together discounts for almost everything Nordic Weasel has made, along with a ton of bundle deals.
If you have been wondering about anything we’ve made or want to throw in some support, please take a look.
These bundles are all 40% off.
If you wish to support us more directly, you can also contribute directly to us through paypal to [email protected]
Once we’re all settled in, I will try to do something cool for you guys in return for all the help and support.
I thank you in advance for all your support. You’ve made my dreams possible.
The bundles are:
The Fivecore bundle, offering all of the main Fivecore gaming material, letting you play everything from skirmish actions to brigade level mass warfare.
The In Sight bundle, offering the three “In Sight” platoon level battle systems for hardcore military action today, tomorrow or in the ruins of mankind's future.
The Five Parsecs bundle, giving you all the content for our highly regarded Five Parsecs solo gaming system.
The Five Leagues bundle, offering you all the content and adventure packs for our gritty, solo fantasy campaign game.
The Solo Gamer bundle, for those of you who don’t want to choose. All the Five Parsecs AND Five Leagues material.
Want to blast space bugs and then go fishing in a medieval village?
The Hammer bundle, containing Squad Hammer and its derivatives. Quick and easy gaming that can be picked up in minutes but lacks none of the tactical challenge you want.
The One-Off bundle, combining 7 of our highly original titles with everything from 6mm scifi warfare to solo RPG rules to black powder mass combat.
The Adventuring Scum bundle, combining all the resources for the pseudo-RPG mini’s games Dungeon Scum and Starport Scum
The Renegade Scout bundle, with everything released for the best Rogue Trader style experience on the market.
And finally the Nordic Weasel Core bundle. If you want a cross section of the core gameplay of the Nordic Weasel experience, this is it. 8 titles that I guarantee will blow your mind.
7 thoughts on “Nordic Weasel Needs Your Help”
03/02/2019 at 00:07
Uh, ok, BugHunt kept me occupied for the last three hours…
Where´s more info on the Unity/United* backgound?
03/02/2019 at 21:39
Cheers Thorsten. I’m glad you had fun!
Right now, the most thorough source is probably going to be the Renegade Scout rulebook.
If you want something a bit cheaper, Clash on the Fringe (which is PWYW) has a wealth of info, but some may be slightly out of date.
04/02/2019 at 01:30
Fun is an understatement – I searched long for solo player rules that work for me and the Five Parsecs work perfectly for me. It kept me occupied the whole sunday 🙂
Thanx for the reply, Ivan. I´m just searching for inspiration and I already started to work out an universe for myself (heavily inspired by the Elite video games, some of the old Masters (Vance´s Ecumen and Gaean Reach, Anderson´s Polesotechnic League and Cherryh´s Alliance/Union) and Dwarfstar Game´s Star Smuggler (one of the few other solo games that work for me – and if you don´t know that you should take a look at it)
Still, I will take a look. Don´t want to waste your time but I´ve got another question: are Starport Scum and Unity Field Agent Elite in any ways related to 5Parsecs?
04/02/2019 at 04:42
I used to LIVE in Elite 2: Frontier, so I can definitely give a thumbs up to that!
You can probably find all manner of small influences in the scifi I do now 🙂
I am not familiar with Star Smuggler. I’ll put it on my list, though I try to avoid reading games that are too too close to what I do, to avoid accidentally ripping someone off!
Do you mean related as far as world? Mechanics? Playstyle?
Either way:
Starport Scum is more of a pseudo-RPG miniatures game.
It IS pretty solo friendly, but tends to require more active invention by the player to come up with your heroes and so on.
Mechanically, its a D6 dice pool system and moves pretty quick. Very customizable as well.
It’s not officially set within a setting, but it does include some of the familiar faces from the Unity universe as examples.
Unity Field Agent is a D6 versus target number system and card-driven (in fact, I think the card system is really really clever).
It IS intended for fairly competitive play. Not in the hardcore powergaming sense but in the sense that it has army lists with points values and assumes two players. It’s probably not very solo friendly.
It is firmly set within the Unified Space setting.
Hope that helps!
04/02/2019 at 12:21
Okay, time to have a go at “…Kursk” and “Five Leagues…”!
05/02/2019 at 01:01
Thx, for the very comprehensive answers, Ivan!!!
Hope my wallet says “yes” because there is far too much from your range that I would like to buy.
I know that Elite problem very well … I lived for a year in the original Elite, each half a year in Frontier and First Encounters – and successfully fought an EDiction with Elite:Dangerous – I play it only 4-6 hours a week by now (and don´t ask what was before).
Regarding Star Smuggler – I understand your objections. But the problem is that one will copy things by accident given the whole range of SciFi over the last decades. Yes, I meant the world – in parts.I think 5P/Unified Space is distant enough.
And I´m pretty sure that Ian Bell and David Braben (original Elite) had this one in their libary directly besides the Traveller RPG.
Anyway, it´s an very old game and for free on the Dwarfstar website (with a bunch of other old games).
Link:
https://dwarfstar.brainiac.com/ds_webfaq.html
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05/02/2019 at 04:22
Ah okay, I’ll give it a looksie once we’re in the new apartment.
Appreciate the link!
If you have more questions, don’t be afraid to ask.
Some day, I’ll do something with starships but the stars aren’t quite right yet..