Category: rules

At long last, the Abox clan can rumble in the jungle.  The local craft store chain is selling some sort of plastic plant doo-hickeys for about a buck, and two of them are enough to make a slew of jungle stands.  In this case, I’ve mounted the plants themselves...

My son received a few more Imperial Guardsmen from a friend this Christmas.  He knows that if he plays a game with them sans paint, that his old man will feel such overwhelming shame that he’ll take the dang things and paint them for him.  He did it to...

Woah, four posts in four days, this blog just might be back.  It’s amazing how much more time a guy has when he’s not coaching his daughter’s soccer team to a league championship.  That’s right, I know how to coach soccer – the secret is inheriting kids from other...

Last night, the boy and I headed down to the weekly game night and threw together a quick test drive of the FUBAR rules. For those of you who don’t know, FUBAR is a free, one-page, sci-fi set of rules from Gawd ‘Elp Us Games. As a one page...

My crazy easy rules need some tweaking, what with the addition of minotaurs, lizards, and predators to the line-up.  The new figures call for some new abilities – there’s no sense in using different figures if they do the same things.  It also means we need new mechanics and...

So now that you’ve seen what’s in the game, what about what’s out?  As usual, we’re gonna go right back to the start before we answer that question.  First we need to talk about what exactly we’re going here.  Every miniature war game rule set abstracts a whole host...

As promised, the rules for my next big mini-project. Tentatively titled 6-4-6-Skirmish, these are the rules I’ve worked up for quick and easy battles between aliens, colonists, and the marines who protect them.  These are for battles that are small scale in every sense of the word: the scale...

Dungeons and Dragons was my gateway drug, not to Satanism and real magic, but to miniature wargaming.  We collected a box full of Ral Partha figures for our characters and the monsters they fought, painted them to a low standard, and then never bothered with a protective coating.  Today...

Last week I took the boy (13) down to the weekly games day at the local games shop for a bit of Memorial Day wargaming.  As usual, games day consisted of mainly 40K with a few tables of the flavor of the month.  Which is fine, as it gave...

Now that we’re finally getting some lead on the table, it’s time to decide on a ruleset.  I’ve been pumping the good guys over at the Lead Adventure Forums for advice and they’ve pointed me to a lot of nice little free rulesets available on the web.  But I’m having...