Hellwig's Conquest: A Tactical Game based on Chess Rulebook now Available.

 

This book now available on Etsy and ebay. Or direct from me.

Letter-sized, perfect bound, w/ color plates, 144 pages, $25 + shipping.

ISBN: 978-0-9822892-5-9

Hellwig's Conquest rulebook on ebay

Hellwig's Conquest rulebook on Etsy

Originally released in Germany in 1780 under the title Versuch eines aufs Schachspiel gebaueten taktischen Spiels von zwei und mehrern Personen zu spielen, this is probaby the oldest published set of modern wargame rules.

This book is a new English language translation of this classic set of groundbreaking game rules.

 

Nate Dray at North Water Street Gallery update

 North Water Street Gallery Nate Dray solo exhibit extended to 

Sept. 9, 2023.

My paintings will hang at North Water Street Gallery a little longer now. Cool.

https://www.standingrock.net

 Nate Dray at North Water Street Gallery

 

So here's a thing. Grateful to Jeff Ingram of the North Water Street Gallery in Kent, Oh. for setting this up. Jeff was actually the first person to show one of my pictures in a gallery outside of a school event way back in 1999...or was it 1997? Either way, great guy who runs an excellent community arts organization called Standing Rock Cultural Arts. 

Check them out online at: https://www.standingrock.net/

 "The American Schematic"

watercolor, ink & gouache on paper, 15 x 20 inches

 Playing card size ink & watercolor drawings of woods and trails. 

 

North Fork by Pancake

by Nate Dray

watercolor on paper, 17 x 22 inches

Wars of Beleriand 

The Silmarillion Wargame. 

Or is it the Silmarillion board game?

Anyway, tweaking and testing continues, but it's done in all its essentials and then some. Been trying out some different chrome-ish bits lately to spice up combat, but it's really just cosmetics and theme at this point and could be wholly abandoned without any significant effects on the whole.

The pic above here...One planned map edit is to take that Northward kink out of the Narog near Nan-Tathren. Should dip South. There WAS a reason earlier for it to kink North that way, but I can't remember what it was...something in the text, I think.

And here below:
This is a HIGHLY unusual and rare occurrence: a Silmaril laying unclaimed out in the open just outside Eithel Sirion.
Many heroes and villains died terrible deaths to make this possible...

"Just Outside Town"