Category: rules

Alternative armies has a great little selection of character models that I havne’t done justice.  In addition to a nice fat demon lord, I’ve added a NotMing The Merciless and totally not Dejah Thoris to my collection. They also have a fun little collection of elementals.  The air elemental...

Warhammer Fantasy Battles has a reputation, at least so far as I’m aware of it, as a game that tends toward the line-’em-up and run-’em-straight at each other.  After a whopping two whole games of 6th edition under my belt, I’m now an expert.  So it’s safe for me...

Dipping into Warhammer Fantasy Battles has given me a newfound appreciation for the joys of army list tinkering. It is a fiddly business in Warhammer, building an army list.  Even at the warband scale that is my chosen order of magnitude – a scant 500 and perhaps forty to...

You can find copies of Warhammer Fantasy 6th Edition online for ten bucks and that includes shipping. That’s less than the cost of a lunch, and in these troubled times a 288 page book for that price is a steal. I almost feel guilty for snapping it up. It...

The boys in yellow and white are back, and this time they’ve got a few upgrades.  These bannermen come to us by way of Ral Partha Europe, and the wonderful Demonworld line of miniatures.  Their imperial forces can be a bit fantasy cartoonish, but if you know where to...

We are going to have so much fun with these little Splintered Light vermin.  The whole pack of them took just under a month to paint up – the glories of 15mm! The yellow primer worked well in the end. The skin tone of these figures has a dim...

By far the best part of this game, the even dozen scenarios elevate what would otherwise be a fairly routine warband style game. As with just about every wargame on the market, the first scenario is a simple line-them-up and run-at-each-other fight. These are great for getting your feet...

It’s fine. I’ve only got a couple of fights under my belt, so it may be too early to tell, but it hasn’t really grabbed me. This is another sibling in the Rampant Family of Rules, and unlike its older brethren, a tabletop general get one attempt to activate...

The subtitle for “Rebels and Patriots” reads, “Wargaming Rules for North America: Colonies to Civil War, and we here in the House of Wargaming are big fans of titles that include multiple colons and subtitles.  We aren’t big fans of limiting our game play, however, and to that end,...

They keep sucking me back in! I still have no interest in playing Warhammer 40k.  Every time I dip my toes back in to the scene the corporate drones remind me of why I prefer the small-house hobby side of what passes for the wargame industry.  From a distance...