PARTS IS PARTS
By Tom Higgins

In the course of working up the first issue of the zine 
(countermoves) I have been flooded with urls to game sites, aid, 
rules and graphics. I have discovered the world of gamming is 
both bigger and MUCH smaller than I thought.

In gaming there are also two extreme levels of representing the 
game environment. 

There is the super realistic miniatures camp where every thing, 
the units, the trees, the grass, the houses, etc, are hand 
crafted miniatures and the game is played by moving them about 
either freestyle (using rulers and strings) or on some sort of 
hex grid system built into the terrain.

Then there is the counter and map camp where a flat map depicts 
all the environs and flat cardboard counters represent the 
movable units.

In between there are some interesting and , I think, fertile 
grounds for us to explore.

One of the things I have been stumbling across again and again 
are  Cardboard or Cardstock minatures/battle fields. 

A good example of this can be found at 
http://www.microtactix.com/

These folks sell PDF's that can be printed out and folded to 
make 3d style environs and units. If you got a color printer you 
can also add color to em.

This is sort of a cheaper way to use miniatures in your game. 
Instead of investing time and money 

Earlier this year, as a birthday present, I got the 
Campaign Cartographer 2 bundle from a bud who was getting out of 
the RPG world. One of the modules of it is called the Dioramas 
expansion. It aids in creating these types of things.

http://www.profantasy.com/products/cc2d.asp

What I’m wondering here is are there any Warpsapwn games that 
would be a good test to try this out on? If so we can bundle the 
rules with the cardboard cut outs and have a really nice package.

In the same sense I am looking at a way to come up with a good 
standard Warpsapwn Card template, something that would have a 
Warpspawn logo for the back and a standard layout for the cards 
grfx and text. I have though of just ripping MTG's layout, but 
if there’s better ideas I would rather do them.

With a standard card layout it will be much easier to bang out 
card sets for old games and new ones as they come out.

I have also been digging working on and seeing PDFs being made 
for the games. It makes it easier to pass on to other as a 
complete ready to play package.