A Second Look at the Emperor’s New Clothes

The words hung in the air. “The Emperor has no clothes!” A stunned crowd waited for a heartbeat, then a second, and then swiftly turned on the small boy who dared cry out the seditious phrase.  Fists fell, elbows jostled, voices shouted in anger, and feet kicked out with...

Not Even Joking

Inspired by a deeply cogent comment left at “The Joy of Wargaming”:  Tabletop role playing games, properly played, ARE wargames. Let me take my troll face off and address your comment with more sincerity.  When RPGs branched out from the wargame hobby, they left a lot of money on...

The Most Dangerous Account on Twitter

This guy: You’re a smart guy, so I probably don’t need to explain why, but here goes. Wholesome, positive, and uplifting. And worst of all, it’s uplifting men.  Those horrible, no good, very bad villains who are responsible for every evil that ever befell man or beast.  They come...

Wargaming is for…

  It would be nice to have one hobby that wasn’t sacrificed on the altar of the moral panicky crowds....

Rogue Stars Eye Candy

 What can I say? I’m a sucker for a good infiltration mission.  Here, the crew of a tramp freighter have snuck into Starport Moai to re-clone a couple of forcibly infected crewmembers.  This looks like a job for Gold Cross.  Not even an mRNA scrambler shot of nano-trackers can...

Hawaiians Rise Up

Looking to give Tribal a shot, and scratch pre-contact Hawaiian warfare off the bucket list. These fellas are 15mm, and ordered from Eureka Miniatures.  They are clean sculpts, perfectly proportioned, and near as I can tell, historically accurate. The figures are looking good but I don’t have enough of...

Centaur For a Friend

A good buddy, regular guy, not a gamer, asked if I can get him a centaur figure. Oh yeah.  I can do that....

Modern Warfare: Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Guys

Welcome to plus-ultra mega-elite modern day wargaming where we feature stories ripped from the headlines.  Which naturally means stories that are as fake as the Piltdown Man. To do that we’ll need some modern terrain (working on it), some rules (Osprey’s Black Ops), and a matched pair of forces....