Coming Soon: Modern Rank and Flank
It’s been a while since I’ve thrown a game of rank-and-flank fantasy down on the table. Dragon Rampant is more of a large warband skirmish game, and it lacks the nuance and subtlety of proper blocks of troops maneuvering about the green fields of battle. Demonstrating the charms of Chainmail...
Goblins vs. Bromans: More Desert
The last time we looked at Dragon Rampant, we looked at how NOT to use Light Riders. Specifically, we learned that their speed was negated by heavily terrain laden tables. Today we check the null hypothesis, and throw them against the same foes, but this time with no mission...
Dark Elves
Splintered Light is such a good miniature wargame company. Clean scuplts with just the right amount of detail, tons of character, and so many options. Today I’m bragging about my Dark Elf army for Dragon Rampant. Some time ago, I ordered the guys on the left. Only painted six...
Bromans vs. Goblins: Desert Raid
Dragon rampant has a great little selection of units, all of which are based on how you use them on the battlefield. After seeing how effective Light Riders could be in the Fate of Stormbringer (poor Dubzaron), I wanted to see what a force heavy on the light cavalry...
BROSR Principles: A Primer
Over the last couple of years, the lads in the #BROSR have reinvigorated the ossified field of tabletop RPGs by incorporating the solid design principles laid down by the giants of the pre-1980s collapse. We’ve spilled a lot of ink – and I’ve published a number of videos –...
A 15mm Figure Miscellany
Today feels like a good day to spam your attention with several hosts of 15mm painted figures. We’ll start with the historical crowd, all of which come by way of Irregular Miniatures. A unit of twelve light infantry for the British, with an even dozen tribesmen to match. With...
Ryan Dunfee of Sentient Robot Games just released Anthems of War, a fantasy skirmish miniature wargame with much to recommend it. He was kind enough to ask me to whip up a couple of videos on the game, and by way of thanks sent me both the PDF and...
Settling Down
After all these years of casual gaming, and 30 months of intense gaming for the channel, it feels like it’s time to jump off the shiny new treadmill. A long time ago this wargamer made the conscious decision to turn his back on the FLGS carousel, that relentless pursuit...
More Mounted Goblins
The goblin cavalry force compiled for use with the “Dragon Rampant” fantasy skirmish rules proved to be smaller than anticipated. They just don’t need a whole lot of special rules, and most cavalry units clock in at 4AP. For a standard, 24 AP game, you’ll need six units. Until...
Dragon Rampant – Orcs v Goblins
This post is largely eye-candy. An orc warband with a wizard, two giants, and three trolls – the latter two count as Elite foot in Dragon Rampant terms – makes for a very tough but largely slow force. Throw them up against a speedy army like the all-mounted goblins,...