Alternative Armies: Obidiahs Army Booklet for Flintloque Updated and Free at Orcs in the Webbe

Alternative Armies: Alternative Armies and Orcs in the Webbe are delighted to present an updated 2021 version of the free booklet for Obidiah's Army. Second news this week for Flintloque fans! Enjoy. GBS Check the article here

Orcs in the Webbe: The 2017 Advent Calendar Begins!

Orcs in the Webbe: Heya Folks! It is with great pleasure I can announce that the 2017 Orcs in the Webbe Advent calendar is live! Over the next 25 days (yep, there's even a special Christmas Day release) we'll be bringing you a brand new never before seen article or download every day! 

They range from short stories to full blown scenarios for a variety of games systems supported by Orcs in the Webbe (and maybe even introducing some new ones to the OITW fold).

Our inaugural 2017 release is by Flintloque alumnus and Panzerfauste co-creator, Matthew Hartley. Matthew has once again created a brand new and original card game exclusively for the calendar. In "The Raft of the Medusa" 3 to 6 players take on the roles of shipwrecked crew afloat in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1816. Being one of a handful of survivors your comrades have succumbed to starvation, thirst, madness and despair. You must make hard decisions in order to survive must survive until rescued. But beware, your choices make come back to haunt you when you are eventually rescued... Check the article here

Day two of the Orcs in the Webbe Advent Calendar sees classic Flintloque alumnus Danny O'Hara turn his attention to a less well known area of Valon, the Kinkon Delta! Oh yes! In this years short story we are introduced to a new cast of characters in one of the quirkier Flintloque 'spin-off' settings.Click on the link below to read, " A Heart of Dorcness". Check the article here The Kinkon Delta setting has impressive pedigree. First published back in 1996 by one of the games creators, Steve Blease, in the official magazine, Orcs in the Hills. That article is also available in full on OITW, just click on the link below to read, "The Kinkon Delta". Check the article here

Cementing the setting's place in modern Flintloque, back in November 2007 Alternative Armies' Lead Writer and Head of the World of Valon, Gavin Syme, wrote a follow up article for Flintloque Reloaded which was updated by my good self in 2014 giving you full rules for playing in this fantastic side step universe :) Click on the link below to read, "The Kinkon Goblins". So, get your Rolling Stones out and sing along, "I see a line of Orcs and they're all painted Blacke"! Check the article here

Orcs in the Webbe: Flintloque The Cursed Snuffbox Scenario!

Orcs in the Webbe: Continuing the tradition of bringing you a tale of terror on All Hallow's Eve, Tony Harwood tells us of a cursed snuff box that nearly destroyed the entire army of Albion... Check it here

Orcs in the Webbe: Advent Calendar Glimpses of The Land - Warbeast Artwork!

Orcs in the Webbe: On the fifth day of the Orcs in the Webbe 2016 Advent Calendar we welcome the return of the popular 'Glimpses' series from previous calendars. The series features artwork by fans and professionals from the various worlds covered by Orcs in the Webbe. In "Warbeast" Martin Cutbill turns his attentions towards The Land of Hysterical Games' Panzerfäuste to bring us a cracking image of a Dwarf Panzerbär Mk. I. 

Orcs in the Webbe: Advent Calendar - Fear Itself" A Panzerfäuste Adventure by Matthew Hartley

Orcs in the Webbe: The first day of the Orcs in the Webbe 2016 Advent Calendar is now live! It sees the wonderful return of prolific writer and creator Matthew Hartley. In "Fear Itself" the earth of The Land rises, animated by the pain and suffering it has absorbed from the warfare on it's surface. Written for Panzerfäuste for solitaire or group play the scenario is easily adapted for any gaming system or scale. Check it here

Orcs in the Webbe: Halloween Flintloque Dead Birds Don't Lie Scenario

Orcs in the Webbe: Keeping with tradition today sees a brand new Halloween themed adventure on Orcs in the Webbe. Tony Harwood has written another original scenario for Alternative Armies' Flintloque. Dead Birds Don't Lie sees a group of Dwarves and their lust for gold face off against an ancient and malevolent Undead force.  Check the full article here

Orcs in the Webbe: Sharke's Breakfast! - Another Classic Flintloque Article Updated for 3rd Edition

Orcs in the Webbe: Today sees another classic 1st Edition scenario restored on Orcs in the Webbe. Another classic from Mike Baumann's Filbanto Stew website.

Klaus Fritsch's Sharke's Breakfast was actually first published on Orcs in the Webbe during it's very first incarnation way back in 2004 (yep we've been going that long), for some reason when I made the jump from Dreamweaver to GooglePages in 2007 Sharke's Breakfast did not make it. So after an absence of nine years it has been restored for your reading pleasure. In it, at the siege of Badjobz, before the storming of the breaches, Captains Sharke (of Albion's Rifles) and Porcaria (of Al Garvey's Caçadores) make a bet to meet each other for breakfast whilst the war against the Ferach Elves continues on around them. As usual I've included full notes to allow playing with 3rd Edition rules but left the article as is for all you still playing 1st Edition :) Check it here

Orcs in the Webbe: Koop and Mursh Return! - Classic Flintloque Article Updated for 3rd Edition

Orcs in the Webbe: Today sees another classic 1st Edition scenario for the Flintloque Archive Project restored to it's rightful place on Orcs in the Webbe. 

This scenario, originally published on Mike Baumann's excellent Filbanto Stew Website, is one of my all time favourites and one we played more than once back in the nineties. In it, Valonian Palaeodracologists Koop and Mursh clash with each other (and some Native Eastern Valonian Centaurs) over the ownership of ancient bones. As usual I've included full notes to allow playing with 3rd Edition rules but left the article as is for all you still playing 1st Edition :) Check the full article here

Orcs in the Webbe: The Orcs in the Webbe 2016 Funding Drive

Orcs in the Webbe: I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year! I has a blast organizing, editing and uploading the 2015 Advent Calendar and I agree with many of you that it was indeed one of the last eight years!

I've been running Orcs in the Webbe now for just over eleven years and since it's inception back in 2004 it has been maintained and updated by me. Since I upgraded the site to Version 7 back in 2013 the site costs me a little under £100 a year to run (you can see a history of Orcs in the Webbe's development at the end of this message). 

So the time has come to do my first funding drive. Just like BoardGameGeek, Wikipedia and many other sites, I ask if you get enjoyment out of the site during the year, even if it's just the twenty-four new pieces of content in the calendar just click on one of the links below and donate. You could even set up a recurring subscription to continue supporting OITW throughout the year. More details here.

Orcs in the Webbe: Casino Rhyll - An Austin Powys Flintloque Adventure!

Orcs in the Webbe: With the bells having rung out on Christmas Day it's time for the final entry in the Orcs in the Webbe 2015 Advent Calendar. 

As with every Christmas we bring you a James Bond-esque tale set in the world of Alternative armies' Flintloque. This year the International Hobgoblin of Mystery, Austin Powys, returns to your screens in a race against time to find the head of Yew Branch who has been kidnapped by the nefarious La Verre. Without further ado I give you, "Casino Rhyll" by C.J. Hooper

Orcs in the Webbe: Exclusive Preview of Next Year's Flintloque Campaign Book!

Orcs in the Webbe: The twenty-fourth and penultimate day of the Orcs in the Webbe 2015 Advent Calendar sees Gavin Syme, Lead writer at Alternative Armies, gives OITW readers an exclusive in the form of a whole scenario from next years Flintloque Campaign Book, Retreat to Kooruna, as well as a behind the scenes look at exactly what's going to be in the book.

Orcs in the Webbe: A Plague on Both Your Houses - A Flintloque Scenario‏

Orcs in the Webbe: The twentieth day of the Orcs in the Webbe 2015 Advent Calendar sees an hilarious Crpytmass Adventure for Alternative Armies' Flintloque. As the memories of long dead Elven lovers re-emerge in the stiched together shambling corpses of two Zombie abominations the Vampyre Lords who created them battle for control of the creatures after the meticulously planned trap concocted by one of them has gone somewhat awry...

Orcs in the Webbe: The Legend of Fyrebeard's Gold - A Strange Grogge Campaign Framework‏

Orcs in the Webbe: The nineteenth day of the Orcs in the Webbe 2015 Advent Calendar saw Panzerfäuste's co-creator Steve Blease bring us an original and fun campaign framework for Strange Grogge, Wessex Games' black powder fantasy skirmish rules. Designed for 28mm scale battles between Orcs, Dwarves, Elves and other popular fantasy races it is set in Panzerfäuste's realm of The Land but two millennia before Alberich's jackbooted Dwarves swarm the continent. 

Orcs in the Webbe: Dracile - An Original Flintloque Short Story‏

Orcs in the Webbe: The eighteenth day of the Orcs in the Webbe 2015 Advent Calendar is, as many of you know, my birthday. As such Gavin Syme, head writer at Alterntive Armies is kind enough to write a story or scenario for me each year featuring the Dracci, one of my favourite races from their Flintloque skirmish game. This year he has penned a fantastic short story looking at what exactly it takes to create a new rational thinking citizen of the Elf kingdom of Armorica? 

Can anyone become a citizen? Must you be born an Elf? Famous philosopher Jaques Rossau thinks its possible and with the help of his former student Henri Amadee, a creature is brought from the deserts of Aegypt in a cage to Lyonesse. A creature that is the essence of savagery. Will the monster prevail or will it become with help the unique Dracile?

Orcs in the Webbe: Murder Run - An Original Adventure Gamebook‏

Orcs in the Webbe: The seventeenth day of the Orcs in the Webbe 2015 Advent Calendar sees another original gamebook by the amazing Helena Nash! This year in a brand new 14,00 word adventure you play as Cal bastard, a Half-Orc P.I. eking out a living in the lawless city of Edge. Waking with little memory of the night before, a dead body on the table before you and someone pounding on the door can you uncover the clues before it is too late? Check it here.

You can still read last years original gamebook, The Fright Before Christmas, a 10,000 word adventure gamebook set in the world of Crooked Dice's 7TV where you take on the role of Tweedy Mattison, a brilliant, if eccentric, scientific advisor to the British Department for Extraordinary Affairs (also known as Department X) as he investigates inexplicable accidents in a small country town... Check it here.

Orcs in the Webbe: Leprechauns - A Flintloque Conversion and Painting Article‏

Orcs in the Webbe: The sixteenth day of the Orcs in the Webbe 2015 Advent Calendar sees Master modelmaker Tony Harwood showing us how to convert and and paint some unusual allies for your Bog Orcs in your games of Flintloque.

Orcs in the Webbe: Sharke's Moria - A Flintloque Scenario‏

Orcs in the Webbe: The fourteenth day of the Orcs in the Webbe 2015 Advent Calendar saw Bob Minadeo's hero Giglamps team up with none other than Rekhard Sharke deep under the mountains if Injii where battle awaits at the site of ancient Dwarven tomb in a cracking Flintloque scenario, Sharke's Moria.

Orcs in the Webbe: The Elegy of Tarrwen Harbour - A Flintloque Solitaire Scenario‏

Orcs in the Webbe: The twelfth day of the Orcs in the Webbe 2015 Advent Calendar sees us again in a time before the forbidden love twixt Goblin and Frog. A young boy must face a forest full of malevolent Faeries as he helps Owen the Plod complete a generations old annual ritual to prevent the horror of Centaur Claws descending on Tarrwen Harbour.

Orcs in the Webbe: Above and Beyond the Call of Dutiful Harvest - A Panzerfäuste Adventure‏

Orcs in the Webbe: The eleventh day of the Orcs in the Webbe 2015 Advent Calendar sees The Scarlet Sages, a specially assembled team of Orcs chosen by Chûrg-ill himself, sent on a dangerous mission in the Gnomish lands to investigate reports that the farmers there may have made a break through that could change the course of the war. The Dwarvish High Command has also dispatched a unit to investigate. Only one side can leave with the secret of the mutated Mushrooms...

Orcs in the Webbe: Escape from Haydes - A Card Game For 1 to 4 Players‏

Orcs in the Webbe: The tenth day of the Orcs in the Webbe 2015 Advent Calendar sees another original game from the mind of prolific game creator Matthew Hartley. 

After an unclear series of unfortunate events you find yourself deep within Haydes, beneath both Londinium and the buried ruins of the old Human city of Dresda. It doesn't matter how you got here, you just have to get out before it's too late in this card game for 1-4 players.