{"id":1900,"date":"2026-05-29T19:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:46:49","slug":"blacked-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=1900","title":{"rendered":"Blacked Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Been a while since I got any updates posted here. Head full of other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of weeks ago, I stopped in at one of the FLGSes in Roanoke. They had a new section of shelves devoted to BLKOUT<\/a>. The game had been on the edge of my radar for a while, but the last things I need are more unpainted miniatures and another game system played by no one I know. Also, the last time I’d looked at the publisher, Enemy Spotted Studio, they were still leaning heavily into dudebro\/vetbro mouthbreathing idiocy in their advertising, with the owner\/founder doing balaclavaed videos under the nom de tube<\/em> of “Head Goon.” Ugh. Hard pass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having said that… I got to chatting with the shop owner, who indicated that the game was starting to get some traction with his regulars. I went home without more minis (but an as-yet-unread copy of Dolmenwood<\/em> purchased in the name of supporting a good FLGS). I spent enough time poking around the net to come away with a slightly more favorable opinion of BLKOUT. The minis have always looked good (and they’re made in North Carolina, which is a plus these days), the *bro advertising schtick appeared to be dead, and accounts of play seemed pretty good. I reached out on the shop’s Discord server and made contact with a guy who’s been running demos in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, I wandered back up to Roanoke for one of said demos and came away more impressed than I expected to be. The game lore could use a serious professional developer’s hand to rationalize some of the more hyperbolic elements, but the rules are really appealing. My opponent and I were both novices who’d read the rules but not actually used them before, and we knocked out a 3-unit vs. 3-unit game on a 2’x2′ board in an hour. I’d expect experienced players to resolve such a skirmish in 30 to 40 minutes. The level of complexity is not overwhelming, and any given mix of units provides interesting tactical choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More to come on this if I don’t lose focus and can motivate myself to get back to the blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Been a while since I got any updates posted here. Head full of other things. A couple of weeks ago, I stopped in at one of the FLGSes in Roanoke. They had a new section of shelves devoted to BLKOUT. The game had been on the edge of my radar for a while, but the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[145,33],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blkout","tag-wargaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}