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On occasion, someone will ask me what I do or, more commonly, ask me what Pivotal does. The title on my business card says "Agile Developer," which nearly inevitably leads to one of a few reactions, almost all of which boil down to this:
"What exactly does Agile mean?"
You know what? It's a good question. And, after thinking about Agile for several years now, here's my answer: Agile originally was, and still is, a marketing term.
Allow me to explain.
We've been writing software, in one form or another that most people would recognize as such, for some time now. Scott Bain sets the mark at about 30-35 years[1]. Considering the acceleration of technological advancement in the past century, this is a fairly long time.
In the early days, most programs were small, relatively simple, and written by a handful of developers or fewer[2]. So, the general approach to writing them was to put a number of programming language instructions one after another until the computer did the right thing. Eventually.
I believe it was Watts Humphrey who described this type of programming as "ad hoc development."[3]
Of course, computers got bigger and badder, and software got more complex, and ad hoc quickly stopped scaling. So, people went looking for a new model to stop the hemorrhaging, and they found waterfall. Now, there's nothing wrong with waterfall for processes that conform to defined process modeling, such as manufacturing Model-Ts, installing sewer lines, or preparing breakfast cereal. But, most people realize these days that it's not so hot for processes with requirements that may change.
Years passed, and smart people got stuff done by solving different problems in different ways. And, some patterns started to emerge. And, better yet, some truly clever people started to recognize these patterns and write about them and codify them. However, they realized, astutely, that human beings are a hard-headed bunch who don't like to change their ways. They needed something to shake programmers out of their collective torpor; they needed something flashy to sell; they needed a manifesto. What better thing to offer to an industry plagued by setbacks and missed deadlines than Agile?
To this day the marketing pitch continues; Agile vs. Waterfall, new vs. old, crazy vs. stodgy.
What can we infer from this brief history?
The conclusion I draw is this: so-called "Agile" is actually nothing more than a collection of good ideas, based on years of collective experience, for improving how we do our jobs as software writers. Or, to put not too fine a point on it, professionalism.
So, if doing "Agile" things means doing your job well, the term ceases to have meaning. As it should. No one should have to sell us good ideas, we should embrace them and have the discipline to stand by them.
[1] Emergent Design: Addison Wesley, 2008
[2] This wasn't true of all software, of course; the punch card systems that ran the Apollo space program weren't hacked out by a couple guys in a garage. But, systems like that have their own, mostly time-related, problems.
[3] I loaned out my copy of Winning With Software and can't immediately find a reference, should anyone care to confirm or deny this credit.
[4] This relates to my rejection of the term "software engineer." No one really agrees on what writing software is, but we have to call it something. If we call ourselves engineers then we sound like we know what we're doing. After all, look at all the good stuff in the world that engineers have built.
[5] Pair programming is the classic example of this: code reviews improve code, more frequent code reviews improve code more. How about we code review all code, all the time, as it's written?
Kind of nice to read this article (while eating some peas).
I liked the fact that you were honest saying it's marketing. It's kind of like saying, I'm a developer but one that is actually smart and likes programming. The normal course of things now-a-days is some computer science wannabie that will tell you that development works suck and wants to go "up the ladder".
It's a statement. I'm not that kind, I do this because I love doing it and I'm damn good at it.
This is the blog post that's been rolling around in my head for a while, and it's much better than what I would've said.
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I don't know that we can beat the agile manifesto folks up too much in hindsight. After all, it's not as though these changes – basically, our daily work environment – were inexorable or inevitable.
Agile, like political and social movements, makes a lot more sense when considered in its original era – made sharp and compelling and even radical in contrast to the status quo. But after you win your principles are ingrained into everyone's thinking – and it all seems like one grand progression of history.
So I wonder whether people like us – who are sensitive to overpromising, mischaracterization, backlash – skeptical of revolutionary talk, etc – are the acceptable losses in the grander effort to change everyone's thinking. Making a software product really is different from 10 years ago – maybe we should be thanking Fowler and Beck for Agile, and DHH for Rails, even though we can all stand around and point at all the mistakes and poorly chosen phrasing and second-guess the strategy. Or I could just be settling.
Why do you need to emphasize "Agile" on your business card? Why is "Agine Developer" better/cooler than "Software Developer"?
I believe the marketing term is "differentiation."
I was actually pondering about this for the last week or so, could it be that we were all fooled and Agile is nothing more than Waterfall done right, or adjusted for certain needs. In one post I've recently read about Agile: "Agile encourages constant and continued communication", but doesn't this apply across the board. I have yet to see, with a few small exceptions, a substantial difference between Agile and Waterfall done right. I have published once an article on combining agile and waterfall written by an Agile practitioner, reading it does nothing but to add to the theory (fact?) that Agile, in its essence, is a submethodology of Waterfall, but not really one on its own. Then again, this is probably another Project Management subject that is exhausted (similar to the "Is Project Management a Profession?"), and where there's never a consensus on the answer.
"Done right" – every methodology's famous last words. Should Agile be held accountable for its public perception too, however different it is from what its founders intended (for instance: that there's no room for design, that it encourages a series of local optimizations that you never break out of)? I don't know. Maybe that's not fair.
I think it can be held accountable for what people actually do under its banner. And on that count I think it's clear that Waterfall falls down. Yes its founders intended it to be iterative, but if in practice every project that's doing Waterfall does months up planning up front and documentation, and, closer to the delivery end, manages changes via a painful change request process, and giant projects lurch and fail, isn't that how Waterfall ought to be judged? And "Agile" (in quotes) is probably a mixed bag.
I'm think that the writer of that article was trying to say something like, we should learn from both and not forget the good stuff, right? Who could disagree? But let's not allow this one to be split down the middle: before I started doing Agile, I figured there was at least a 1 in 4 chance that a project would fall over and die for engineering reasons. Now that's down to…1 in 20? That's different, and better.
Hey, there's actually a picture of that moment: http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/poetta.jpg


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Entomologist and photographer Alex Wild on the process of photographing a funnel-web spider: These Spider Fangs Aren't Going To Photograph Themselves. "Most photographs involve some combination of creativity and constraint, and this one was no different." [more inside]
It's so dark in there, it took us a long time to notice
Cave insect species discovered in which the female has a penis and the male has a vagina.
That stings!
Macro photos of insects stinging. What it says on the label - don't click if seeing insects biting and stinging squicks you out. Remarkable photos though.
Insect Intricacies
Painstakingly assembled insect sculptures by Edouard Martinet (more images on his Press page).
USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab's macro insect photography
The USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Program designs and develops large and small-scale surveys and identification tools for native bees. A vital aspect of the program is to create accurate and detailed pictures of native bees as well as the plants and insects they interact with. To that end, Sam Droege has curated a collection of more than 1,200 macro photos of insects and posted them to the USGS NBIaMP Flickr collection. You can also browse via sets, if the unfiltered collection is too much to take in at once. This group has also provided a guide to taking macro photographs of insects in a lab setting (PDF).
Geared for jumping
Intermeshing, rotating mechanical gears have been found in an insect. The gears act to ensure that the legs of the hopping insect move at the same rate when jumping, and are lost during molting to an adult stage. Via reddit, where the journalist is participating. Science magazine report (paywalled).
On the slippery slope to Mecha-Mothra
"Nature means necessity."
First Evidence Found for Photosynthesis in Insects: [nature.com] "The biology of aphids is bizarre: they can be born pregnant and males sometimes lack mouths, causing them to die not long after mating. In an addition to their list of anomalies, work published this week indicates that they may also capture sunlight and use the energy for metabolic purposes."
Some spiders work and hunt in groups.
The deadly social web: Anelosimus eximius, also known as the South American Social Spider, are spiders that work together to repair webs and capture and kill prey much larger than any single spider.
Better red than dead
Recently Starbuck's customers were upset to learn that their strawberry frappuchinos were being coloured red with insect extract - cochineal. What they probably don't know is that cochineal was once as valuable as gold and silver and is the colour of Catholic Cardinals' robes and the red in the British redcoats of the Revolutionary War.
The Gift That Keeps On Hissing
Unsure what to give your special someone for Valentines Day this year? Why not give their name to one of the Bronx Zoo's 58,000 Madagascar hissing cockroaches.
Our new insect overlord would like a carrot
Former park ranger Mark W Moffett (aka Doctor Bugs) has found a Giant Weta on Little Barrier Island in New Zealand that might be the world's heaviest insect. It weighs three times more than a mouse. Oh yeah, it also eats carrots.
World Record Bugs
The University of Florida Book of Insect Records (UFBIR) names insect champions and documents their achievements. [more inside]
"Why do we eat shrimp and crawfish but not their brethren on land?"
The San Francisco Street Food Festival is an annual Summer event in the Mission District that features around 60 different Bay Area vendors and is attended by tens of thousands of foodies. This year the usual mainstays were joined by Don Bugito, which served up insect-based dishes and billed itself as the first "PreHispanic Snackeria." When the food truck commences permanent operations this month, it may be the first eatery in the country devoted exclusively to preparations involving insects. But they're not the only entomophagy pioneers in San Francisco, where Bug Cuisine is Booming. So just how tasty are insects? (Via) [more inside]
No, not Jamie Lee Curtis
Freshly hatched at London's Natural History Museum - a gynandromorph butterfly. [more inside]
Not your average, everyday locust swarm...
That time has come again, the magical time of the century when the, somewhat creepy, bugs we know as the cicada appear. [more inside]
Sexless, Striving, and Ten Billion Strong
Raptors, Owls, Bats Guard South African World Cup Stadium
Open air sports stadiums often have issues with birds, insects, and other wildlife. Common preventative measures include ultrasonic devices and bird netting. But Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium - one of the venues for the 2010 World Cup - has taken an all-natural approach. It is working with the Urban Raptor Project to install raptors, bats, and owls to patrol the stadium for various pests, while a trained peregrine falcon chases away crows. This is not a new technique - Millennium Stadium in Wales has long used a Harris Hawk for bird control. But according to the NMB stadium manager, it "is the only stadium with a programme like this in place as a pest deterrent".
The gall of it all
Galls or plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues. Some are hideous and some strangely beautiful, and some can even be mistaken for an actual crop of the tree. Galls often form due to insects or fungi, but the plant is an unwilling and helpless partner.
The life of an ant colony, with a touch of poetic license
Trailhead, the life of an ant colony, as dramatized by E.O. Wilson.
Smile for the camera
North American Insects and Spiders - 7000+ close-ups of wolf spiders, black widows, honeybees, a ladybug eating an aphid, gulf fritillary butterflies, praying mantises, and much, much more
Smells Like Spartacus
The Uprising Of The Ants: "Alexandra Achenbach and Susanne Foitzik from Ludwig Maximillians Universty in Munich found that some of the kidnapped workers don't bow to the whims of their new queen. Once they have matured, they start killing the pupae of their captors, destroying as many as two-thirds of the colony's brood. "
Young American woman eats praying mantis. Asian woman eats large black scorpion. Young Asian woman eating insect while exploitative Westerner goads her. Drunk American woman eats cicada, with much trepidation. Middle aged western man eats giant chinese cockroach. Katie eats a potato bug.
"I feel very fortunate to have it eat my flowers..."
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the Fluorescent Pink Katydid [more inside]
Close-ups of insects
The Insect Close-ups Flickr Pool is full of fascinating pictures. There are all kinds of wonderful images to be found, of spiders, ladybugs, hornets, aphids, grasshoppers, worms, water striders and those superstars of the insect world, bees and butterflies. You can also search a map for pictures by location. If you want to take your own bug photographer Mark Plonsky has written a short how-to guide. He has taken some pretty great photographs of insects himself.
Lookin' for a home...
In the little town of Enterprise, Alabama, there stands a bizarre statue that would make any card-carrying surrealist proud: an archetypical Greek goddess raises her arms toward heaven and holds high above her head... an enormous insect. Of course, it's the boll weevil. That cotton-eatin' critter inspired not only the world's only monument to an agricultural pest, but some great tunes as well, from a wide range of artists. [note: see hoverovers for link descriptions] [more inside]
Insects. Made of paper.
What would make origami cool? Insects, of course! Click "写真の一覧" for thumbnails. [more inside]
Robotic Insect Takes Off
Miniature Robotic Insect Takes Off Researchers have created a miniature robotic fly that weighs just 60 milligrams and has a wingspan of three centimeters for covert surveillance. Thats progress!
giant creepy things want to eat you
Fear Teh Google
Google Demonstrates Capabilities of Space Based Weapon on 50m Insect Menacing German Town All you folks saying Google wasn't out to take over the world, where are your arguments now? Google now has the capability to destroy enormous mutant bugs from space.
The Origins and Evolution of Intelligence
The origins and evolution of human intelligence: parasitic insects? viruses? mushrooms? neural darwinism? foraging? machiavellian competition? emergence? or something else?
Hornets, gentle giants
The Asian Giant Hornet is cool, unless it's baked. Japanese honeybees can detect the hornet's secretion and they attack en masse. With approximately 500 honeybees surrounding the hornet in a tight ball, the temperature within the cluster rises to 47 degrees Celsius which bakes the hornet alive.
Mosquito Menace
Winnipeg's mosquito population explodes "Heavy rains throughout June and early July have flooded farmlands and fields, leaving pools of water that are perfect for mosquito breeding." The Manitoba government has ordered Winnipeg to spray the controversial chemical malathion across the city. A survey reveals that the vast majority of Manitobans who have contracted West Nile virus have no idea they have been infected. Recommended repellants have contained the chemical DEET and sixty percent of Americans shy away from any insect repellent, even when the mosquito-borne West Nile Virus is a serious threat. CDC has more information and FAQ about insect repellent use and safety.
desperate houseflies
Desperate Houseflies : "In the backdrop of a picture-perfect neighborhood called Diphtheria Lane live six suburban houseflies whose lives are anything but perfect."
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Laura Brown's class at Cleveland Elementary School is participating in a Disney Environmental Challenge project. The class is creating a native plant walking trail that informs the public of the role native plants play in keeping small, local creeks clean and how important this is for the Chattahoochee/Flint River Basins.
"We have done experiments, created projects, and Outdoor Station Activity cards to teach people about their local creeks and plants," Brown said. "We will be planting some native plants Jan. 29 behind Cleveland Elementary School and we will have a 'Plant Fair' on Feb. 15 at our school from 9:30 - 11:30 to present our projects.
"This project could win thousands of dollars for our school and have Cleveland Elementary lauded on the Disney website" the teacher of the gifted and talented said. "If we won the grand prize, the whole class could also win a trip to Disneyland. Part of the requirements for this project is that we get the information out to the public."
In this photo students learn that leaves fall into the creek and provide nutrients for the aquatic life there; as well, the fallen leaves and twigs slow the water, causing more physical contact with a stream channel, which allows sediments to settle out and toxins to soak into the streambed where they can be stored for up to 114 years. All the projects had to tell how plants affect the creek and ultimately our drinking water from the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers.


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[13] January 21, 2016 at 8:21am
Your comments tends to support evolution more than creation: Earth wasn't placed in the perfect position to support the life on it, rather the life on it evolved as it did because Earth is exactly as it is. You're putting effect before cause.
[20] January 21, 2016 at 8:17am
On the contrary, scientists try to find explanations as to how and why things exist, while Creationists believe that everything literally came from nothing. Maybe you're just more anti-science than you are pro-God.
[30] January 21, 2016 at 8:14am
Randerson, you have to realize that to people like him, if God showed up and introduced Himself, He wouldn't be up to their expectations and they would hold out for better. Unless God is EXACTLY what they consider Him to be, they will always deny Him. Modern believers refuse to accept the truth unless it fits perfectly within their construct of reality.
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LOL…you're blaming the Jews?
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Are you nuts? Before guns, there were no wars! Everybody was living in harmony until 1911 when, all of a sudden, everybody started killing a murdering and raping because they had the gun! There is a great movie about this, Zardoz, or something like that.
Look, people are stupid, and when critical mass is reached most of them will die, as nature intended. Now, if you will excuse me, I have to go sharpen my hammer.
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Not the same as without proper cooling, hydrogen bonds won't form. I agree we have a lot of lost knowledge to regain, but this isnt one of those times.
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Well, he says it poorly at best.
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I can't be the only one to see irony in a racially exclusive group sueing another group for not being diverse enough.
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Haven't you seen the new targets for DHS and local LE? They are of seniors, pregnant women, children, etc. And no, this isn't a joke. Google "dhs no hesitation targets" if you want to see who the government is training its agents to shoot.
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Today I learned that "Mexican" is a race.
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[2] November 12, 2014 at 2:23pm
Not to be a jerk, but they would be correct. He was crossing in an area he should not have been. While the care shouldn't have taken the chance of making that turn, you can see him correct course when he realizes the pedestrian is standing there, putting him in the path of the truck longer than originally calculated.
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[2] November 10, 2014 at 11:39pm
Don't forget about non-Christian teachers! They should all be fired also! And teachers that don't agree with Gay marriage…fire them too! And heaven forbid there be a teacher that isn't an open feminist! I say we start cleaning house! Get rid of all those coloreds and Jews too…YEEHAW!
But seriously, as a fellow Texan, I say this from the bottom of my heart: take your thought police mentality and please, move out of my state ASAP.
[2] November 10, 2014 at 11:27pm
I think the girl should have been arrested for making an illegal recording. Once it was out, I don't think the league should have had the authority to force the sale of his team, especially when it was co-owned with his estranged wife. That whole situation was fubar.
I'm' sorry to see you side with liberals who think free speech should only be allowed when it doesn't offend. No, I wouldn't want my kids in this classroom, and so I would make a call to the school and change that. But you are talking about the government controlling someone's speech, outside of work. You are actually calling for government to control speech. In case you miss my point, YOU ARE CALLING FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL A CITIZEN'S SPEECH!
The Constitution allows people to do and say things you don't agree with. This is the problem with a 2 party system; both camps want a government that can control what you do and say and think, just so long as what they allow aligns with what you want to do and say and think.
Seriously, man, rethink your stance on freedom; right now, you're on the wrong side of the law, of liberty, of the Constitution.
[30] November 10, 2014 at 5:39pm
You make a great point that school teachers should not be government employees. Schools should be privately run and if taxes for their existence must be levied, then a voucher program is certainly called for.
Secondly, as a government employee (local/state government, that is), her employer is the government itself. If we allow government employees to have their social lives monitored/controlled by their employer, then we are allowing the government to control their actions, speech, thoughts, etc.
This seems like a very dangerous shift toward an Orwellian future. Don't fall for it. Let the parents work this out with the school itself.
[8] November 10, 2014 at 5:31pm
Yes, she is an employee of the school district, and if this was done while at work or from a school computer, yes, fire her. If, however, this was done from home or on her phone while off the clock, then again, we must be very careful when coming to a determination regarding her termination.
If we allow employers to fire people for what they do when not at work, we are effectively giving employers the ability to control all aspects of our lives. If she is a government worker, then we are giving the government the power to control all aspects of our lives!
No, I would not want my child in her class. And a single phone call to the school will fix that problem. And when every parent has called and expressed the same opinion, then she can be fired for the inability to perform her job. But I don't have a child in her class, nor do you, so we are not the ones to make this call.
I am simply warning everyone that this is EXACTLY the type of speech protected by our founders, as unpopular and disgusting as we all know it to be. Condemn her if you want, I certainly have, but do not allow this government to claim itself as a righteous warden of everyone's social life. Surely you can see the line that would cross.
[9] November 10, 2014 at 5:16pm
@ Chuck
I was agreeing with an assessment as to the reasons for the outrage, not with the validity of the threatened actions against this woman.
We have freedom of speech. Only recently has "speech" come to mean seemingly everything but speech itself. This woman made a statement that was available to the public. She also works in a right-to-work state, so she can honestly be fired for any/no reason. But to fire someone for expressing their opinion, while breaking no laws, is wrong.
She said something stupid and racist, and her quality of work should be questioned and reviewed, but to fire someone because their ideology is different than that of an employer is a very dangerous bridge to cross.
What if your employer decided that you voted the wrong way, so fired you? Or if you were overheard in a restaurant talking about religion and it was a different viewpoint than your employer? Should you be fired then?
What I am saying is that freedom of speech specifically protects unpopular opinions. If it only protected popular opinions, the expressed right of free speech would be entirely unnecessary.
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Brown and the Cherokee Nation have been battling South Carolina's order to hand Veronica over to the Capobiancos since the South Carolina Supreme Court directed a Charleston family court to finalize the adoption.
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I have been a fan of this game since 1st edition. this new version is more indepth and just as much fun to play. Charachter generation is just as much fun as it was in the original game and the rediculas weapons just keep on coming.
Better known to modellers and gamers from the British Isles, Airfix have produced military model kits, terrain and figures since the 1950s, being an integral part of the childhood for many British children and their first introduction to playing with toy soldiers. Their 1/72 (closer to 1/76) scale figures have been a cheap entry way into wargaming, though they need a a bit of prep before painting, and in the 70s they published sets of wargames rules and guides. So iconic were they that there was even a video game where you could fly Airfix model planes through household scenes, battling other planes, tanks and looking for pickups.
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Now Modiphius, better known for their role-playing games, have issued the "Airfix Battles:Introductory Wargame" as their first published boardgame.This is a platoon level skirmish wargame for World War 2. The game has vehicles and small towed guns, but air support and heavy artillery is off-board and triggered by playing a command card.
In the box you find a book of rules, a book of scenarios, two double sided, interlocking map sheets, three sheets of counters with terrain, troops, vehicles and markers, a bag of ten (five olive drab, five feldgrau) six-sided dice and two packs of cards. One pack are unit cards for Americans and Germans, the other are order cards as the game is command card driven.
The rules are not long, and aim to start the novice right into it with an introductory battle with each side having a Captain with a group of veterans, and two sections (squads, gruppe) of basic infantry. Each side starts at the short end of their side of the map and attempts to kill the other, keeping the learning experience simple with orders, movement, terrain effects, combat and cover.
Each soldier has their own figure, a cardboard counter in the case of the set though obviously Airfix hope you might go out and actually buy some of the real things. There is a slight reference made to multiple figure bases, but no game is mentioned, but you could, in theory, use Flames of War or Crossfire bases with this, as well as single figures for games like Rapid Fire. The troop counters have a sort of shellburst icon on the reverse and you can use them as wound markers for based units, so you do not need the 1 figure = 1 troops on based figures. The map is separated into squares and all movement and ranges use these squares without diagonals, so a square next to your unit diagonally is two squares away, not one.
Command cards
How many cards you can have in a hand, and how many you can play in a turn depends on the quality of your commander, in the basic game you have five in your hand and can play two. The good thing is that each card is double sided, with the back of each card is a standard order, you can Move OR Fire OR Reinforce (if available), but the face side is something special, and often give you two options. This means that, unlike some card driven wargames, you are never stuck with no chance to use your units, waiting for your card to come up in the deck.
Once you have had a couple of turns to get used to the mechanics, the rules are fast and brutal. Troops caught out in the open, not even dug in will be massacred, you only get a save if in cover, and losing troops reduces your firepower. You have limited command and control, in the introductory example you have three units but can only issue two orders per turn, so you still have to think about what you do. There are cards to interrupt your opponents action or to issue one use "buffs" to improve your units performance, but otherwise the turn sequence is "roll for initiative and each side issues and order for as long as they have not spent their play limit".
The use of unit cards means that special rules relevant to that unit is on the card right there, for example the veterans above reroll misses against adjacent squares or American Infantry squads get an extra dice against enemy infantry because of the firepower they can bring to bear.
The game is definitely more on the "game" side of the game/simulationist debate, and is intended for fun, for example there is a "valour" counter, initially given to the person who lost initiative, giving one free reroll can be used then passed to your opponent, to help counter rotten luck. Since it is an introductory wargame, the basic rules are introduced in the first scenario as needed as itgoes through the steps of the turn. This works well and without them being awkward to find once you are playing different scenarios.
The some of the additional scenarios in the scenario book introduce other rules, so you get to learn them step by step and there is a point system so you can build your own forces. It is more of a boardgame in some ways than a figure wargame, but I have seen other square based games, such as the ancients game Lost Battles, being played with figures on a normal wargames table quite successfully.
The components are of good quality. The counters are thick and pop out easily from the card sheet. The maps are have the squares marked at the corners rather than ruled lines and have a dot in the centre to make them clear without being too obvious. The unit cards have the lovely Airfix art.
This is a spectacularly quick, and tremendously fun game but is still tactical and rewards paying attention to your units and not doing stupid things with them. There is a lot of thought into making it clear and consistent, right down to both the rules and scenarios book having a copy of the movement and weapons tables on the back page. Each unit has a different flavour thanks to the unit card so you get a good amount of variety. It is an introductory game, and it does introduce concepts like opportunity fire, cover, morale and pinning units, tanks having weaker armour on the sides and rear. It even has a programmed section for managing enemy behaviour when playing solo games.
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My only criticism is that the illustrations on the troop counters are a bit dark, making it a bit hard to distinguish at a distance, though closer to the dark blue-grey Germans are easily distinguishable from the olive drab GIs and the counters are generic, rather than having the full range of poses from the figures. Then again, they want you to buy the figures.
Airfix Battles is out now and costs £24.99. There is also a bonus pack of 24 unit cards available for £4.99 expanding the Germans and introducing the British. There are expansions planned and a collectors edition that expands on the base rules and expansions but aiming at proper tabletop wargaming so it will not have maps .
Imagine if 40k and Shadowrun had a baby, that is Mutant Chronicles. Lots of intra corp intrigue ie extractations,wetwork,sabotague and resarch snatching. And on the other hand you have a lot investigative work in hunting down the Heretics and their cults infiltrating humanity and lets not forget the always looming threath of the Dark Legion invading and snuffing out the last flicker of humanity.
If you like Star Wars by FFL rules ie a good combination of rules and cineamatic action you will love this Rules, as the lead developer for Star Wars is also the lead developer for MC and he has updated the rules used in Star Wars to d20 and d6 dies and the mechanics of advantage and Dark/light side points has ben iterated and been given a very good facelift and are alot more developed for MC.
The tone and setting for Mutant Chronicles is a very iconic and orginal, humanity awoke something they shouldent on the planet Nero and the Dark Legion are now invading the Solar System from another dimension and the only hope is the Brootherhood standing at the forefont of the war representing the Light aidied by the megacorps.
All in all, I give it 5/5. Bear in mind for me this is like the return of an old teenage flame in my middleage and she is looking HOT and she is talking the talk in 2d20 ;)
This preview gives me a good indication of what this product is about- it talks about the classes, a little about the system/rolls, character creation, and a general sense and feel of the post-apocalyptic world.
I recommend it if you want to know more about the Core Rulebook/game system. It just might help tip the scales into buying a copy!
After a long with the PDF, I finally got a chance to run it over the past two weeks. I can confirm that it's a great, fun system. It captures the picaresque spirit of scalawags and mercenaries bouncing from trouble to trouble, using their fists, wiles and swords to solve what comes their way. The Doom and Momentum mechanics really enhance the flow of the game, and surprisingly are very intuitive to track. I was a little concerned that a "Player vs GM" dynamic could develop and the players might be afraid to buy Doom, but they quickly learned that Doom was about making their characters' lives interesting rather than about killing them. Fights were fast and the system handles both single big foes and crowds of mobs with decent aplomb, an unusual feat.
I'm quite pleased with the result, and I'm definitely looking forward to purchasing the full game when it releases.
All i have is my phone to type on so this will be brief. Modiphius dis for MUTANT CHRONICLES what FFG did for 40k. That is to say they made the story much better. MC 3E is a finely tuned and in depth story and I appreciate the work that the team put in to bring that to light. With that said the 2d20 system is easily one of the worst systems I have been exposed to in more than 20 years of gaming. multitudes of pools to account for, a laundry list of TALENTS and equipment that grant Talent like abilities make every scene an ever present list of page flipping to see what talent or piece of gear can be applied to any particular situation. The difficulty system is needlessly complex; that isnt to say its hard. Its just senseless and frusterating. the scoring mechanic for DAMAGE seems more like an attempt to be unique and less an attempt for anything that makes sense or is game friendly. All in all im torn. The fluff is great an deserves hugh regards but the core mechanic is so abjectly horrible that I rate it a zero if I was allowed to. in the end the fluff happily forces me to give a Two star rating.
Fortunately, it was free. There are only the rules. That's useless by itself.
The playbooks are pretty cool for easing people into the game. I would like to have at least seen Dog Handler and Chronicler in the mix to provide a wider variety of playable choices. Any chance of playbooks for the rest?
A useful addition to the series allowing me to include large scale combat without detracting from the pivotal role of the players. My only criticism is the same as with all the achtung books , there isn't a sample quick run scenario. As a long time player of CoC, changing the pace to a more combat rather than research oriented system took a while and although pre made scenarios are available, I would never actually use them preferring to write my own stories. Having an example however would be helpful to give a flavour of how to write and run the game.
Hi all,
To be quite honest, I am very impressed by the work accomplished by your team on MC3. I was reluctant to see what had been changed but so far, it all seems like a breeze of fresh air and a good dusting job on the old versions of the game. I like the adjusted time-line and the attentiton to details. I look forward to complete my reading of the entire collection of books.
Thank you,
This is another excellent scenario and a worthy follow up to The Three Kings. If your group likes action Heroes of the Sea provides varied opportunities to go toe to toe or to sneak & skulk. Hereos of the Sea also builds on the weirdness introduced in The Three Kings with some serious "We're not in Kanzas anymore" moments.
One important thing to note is that the Keeper will need to complete at least a couple of hours of up front work to be able to run this adventure smoothly.
The quality of writing plus the depth and breadth of background information is amazing. This is not a campaign where you buy it and can jump right in so if you are looking for something light and easy as GM (or Keeper) then I would recommend going with something like 3 Kings instead. If you want something that is full of flavour and you're willing to put some time in reading (there are over 300 pages) then this is a campaign that I highly recommend.
The book opens with a brief overview of what Mindjammer is all about and an excellent concise summary of how the Fate ruleset works. Even if you do not intend to play Mindjammer, this is almost worth picking up for the Fate overview alone - excellent for introducing new players to the game mechanics. However for those who will be playing Mindjammer, comments relating to the game are woven through it, so again even if you don't need the introductory adventure, your players might find it a useful quick reference to the rules.
Next, four pre-generated characters are provided to enable you to jump right in and play - the rules summary doesn't explain how characters are created, it concentrates on how to actually play the game. They are carefully interwoven to create a coherent group with reasons to be together at this time and place, a nice example of how to create a party for this game... although they may or may not want to form a longterm relationship, as two of them are fugitives who have been captured by one of the others! One is a sentient ship, complete with a synthetic human analogue avatar for those occasions when being a starship in inconvenient.
Finally, there's the introductory adventure, which takes the party to Yand, a rediscovered world on the edge of the New Commonality of Humankind's sphere of influence. It is hotly contested by both the Commonality and a neighbouring (and hostile) bunch called the Venu. There's a lot of background about the planet itself and its current situation crammed in here. It's a fascinating and well-developed system. The adventure itself revolves around retrieving a kidnapped agent of the Commonality, and spreads over eight scenes - although you don't need to play all of them. For example if you only have a short playing time, like a convention slot or a single evening, you could get by with three scenes. There's a detailed timeline to help you stay on track. The adventure is exciting, and also demonstrates how the Commonality operates which - as it is all-pervading - is a good guide as to whether you and your players are going to enjoy playing Mindscape. There's a lot going on, a lot to keep track of, and the GM should study the adventure thoroughly before play begins to be able to stay on top of it. If the party is successful, other published adventures make for good follow-ons, assuming the party stays together, giving you the beginnings of a campaign as agents of the Commonality.
This is an excellent introduction to this game which makes the most of its particular character and should give your group a good idea if this is a system they'd like to play longterm.
Full Disclosure - I have done freelance writing for Modiphius on the Infinity RPG
The Inifinity RPG uses the same universe and background as the tabletop miniatures game by Corvus Belli. The background is near future science fiction, with healthy doses of transhuman and anime influence. The universe was what initially drew me to the tabletop game - and it just screamed for an RPG. The background in the Quickstart gives you just a taste of the universe. Not really enough to give you a good impression of the depth of thought that Corvus Belli put into it for the miniatures game.
The game uses the 2d20 system, developed by Modiphius for a number of their other games, including Mutant Chronicles and the upcoming Conan RPG. The basic mechanic - called a test - is to roll 2d20 against a target of attribute plus skill. Difficulty is set by the number of successes needed for - erm - success. There are ways to roll more dice and to count each roll as more than one success, but more on that later. The important thing to know is that it plays quickly, lending itself more towards cinematic than crunchy.
There are two other in-game economies to consider: Momentum and Heat. Momentum is generated from "extra" successes above those needed for success, and can be spent on a variety of special effects on actions, or added to a group pool to be spent later. Some groups have reported issues with frivolous tests being used to stockpile Momentum - I have not, so this might be a function of GM style. Heat comes from players "buying" extra d20s for tests or from Momentum rolled by bad guys. The GM can use Heat for a variety of effects, like bumping NPCs up in the initiative order, triggering scenery effects, and other assorted mischief.
The scenario included in the pack is a solid instroduction to the universe and rules, though it starts a little slowly for my tastes. The pregenerated characters are likewise solid in abilities and background, even if a bit hackneyed for those already familiar with the universe. The PC sheets can be a bit hard to sort out, but in Modiphius' defense, they were done before all the rules were complete.
In short: a solid introduction to the background and game system - well worth checking out if you like the genre.


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Illamasqua Sadist Eyeshadow ($20.00 for 0.07 oz.) is described as a "matte bright royal blue." It's a rich, deep, medium-dark blue–there's a little indigo/purple that tints it so it looks very cool-toned. It had a matte finish, and the color payoff was quite good. The texture was soft, finely-milled but not powdery–yet still blendable and had a lot of pigmentation. It lasted for nine hours without creasing or fading, but there was some residual staining after I removed it. Sephora My Boyfriend's Jeans is shimmery and darker. Sugarpill Velocity is similar but slightly lighter. Urban Decay Chaos is similar in color but has some shimmer. NARS Rated R #2 is much lighter. NARS Outremer is darker. Sugarpill Royal Sugar is a touch brighter and shimmery. Inglot #388 is darker, less blue. See comparison swatches.Read Full Review
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Illamasqua Hydra Veil Rehydrating Gel ($40.00 for 1.0 oz.) is a cross between a primer and a moisturizer, so perhaps it's best categorized as a moisturizing primer, as it is not a skincare product (e.g. no long-term hydration benefits are claimed). It's really supposed to help by providing instant hydration, smooth the skin, and prolong the wear of your base makeup.
It has a thick, jelly-like consistency that looks and feels that way. It jiggles in the pot and is just slightly less solid in comparison to Jell-o. It comes with a small, spoon spatula that hooks to the interior lid for more hygenic removal of the product. Once you disturb the surface of the product, it can look crumbly, but it reforms and looks pristine the next time you open it. You don't need a lot, but it did seem like a small quantity when I first opened up the jar, though one ounce is about average for a primer. It feels cool when applied, and it spreads easily and doesn't feel greasy or heavy. It absorbs and dries down quickly. I've been using a flat foundation brush (MAC's 190) to apply and spread it over the skin after my moisturizer but prior to foundation.
One thing I noticed was that sometimes it did give me a light stinging sensation some of the time that I used the product. I've used it for a week now, and out of those seven tries, I'd say three of those times had a mild stinging sensation on the drier areas of my face for about thirty seconds or less (in contrast, when I applied it to Shaun's face, and he didn't experience any stinging at all, and he has an oilier skin type). It did leave behind a smoother surface, and my foundations (I tried MUFE HD, Guerlain Lingerie de Peau, Kiehl's Tinted Moisturizer, and Giorgio Armani Maestro) seemed to apply better than they would over the skin alone but not dramatically improved over dry patches. For me, I didn't notice particularly better or prolonged wear out of my foundations–an extra half hour at best but nothing dramatic.
I had really hoped for a life-changing product with Hydra Veil, because I often get dry patches along the tops of my cheeks and around my nose, so having an added boost prior to applying foundation can go a long way to giving me a more flawless finish. It was the product I was most excited for in the new collection, but it wasn't a good fit for my skin type.
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