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"With Diskwars, you can wage epic battles, devise grand campaigns or simply create small skirmishes with a couple of friends. Diskwars can be played by any number of people, and the wide variety of armies, monsters, and spells ensure that no two games will be alike."
That's how Fantasy Flight Games describes their most popular game Diskwars. Diskwars is a battle simulation game like no other. While most games use pewter or other miniatures to represent units, Diskwars uses round cardboard disks. Each disk has a few stats on it and slot have some sort of special ability. Each disk has an Attack, Defense and Toughness value assigned to it. There are different sizes of disks, ranging from 1.75" to 4.25". This range in size has quite a few effects on the game, such as the larger the disk, the more of the enemy units you can flip on top of and attack, it also affects your range of movement. Movement is figured by "flipping" your disk end to end a certain number of times that's specified on the card. Attack represents how much damage it will do to another disk when it attacks it, while Defense represents how much damage it deals to an attacker when it's being attacked. Toughness represents how much damage the disk can receive. Some disks ! fly, some disks are archers that can shoot arrows, bolts, fireballs, or boulders at enemies. When an archer fires you drop missile counters from 12" above the playing field and whatever it hits takes damage. All of the disks have a cost associated to them which is how many points they cost to put in your army. Like most other army battle simulations you set a point cost before playing and build your army with points equal to or less than the target number, locally we play with 150 point armies which usually allows between 15 and 25 disks in your army.
There are alot of different strategies to the game, like using lots of big expensive guys that can take lots of damage and just pound on lots of your opponents disks at once, or using lots of little guys and swarming all over the other army. Or you can use a powerful spellcaster and cast lots of spells to destroy your opponents army. There are a few sites on the internet that cover strategy, eGroups.com also hosts a Diskwars mailing list where they discuss trading and strategy.
So, if you've ever wanted to try Warhammer, but didn't want to shell out the cash, or spend the time to paint the units, Diskwars is a cheap alternative. With a starter army retailing for $9.95 and Wastelands reinforcement packs retailing for $4.95 you can build a decent army for about $20.00. Each starter army comes with 8 "Flats" that hold between 4 to 8 disks each. With 10 faction to choose from, 8 of which you can buy starter and expansion armies for, there is alot of variety. After you build your army you can find lots of flats on eBay.com by searching for "Diskwars". Although there is no rarity some flats go for substantial amounts more than others due to play ability.
Fantasy Flight Games also has a decent league system going to encourage more player interaction. Check out their aite at www.DiskWars.com for the nearest Garrison to you and you can find new people to play with, or maybe just learn how to play. And remember, don't call them pogs.
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