Deployment Variation
In scenario #10 of the Bladestorm core set, called Iron Legacy, for reasons that aren’t fully explained, nine humans attempt to raid a cave and are ambushed in turn by four sea trolls. The deployment for this scenario is a hidden gem that should see a lot more use. The humans...
Eye Candy Wednesday
We do still put miniatures on the table around these parts. It’s been mostly pen and paper on the blog, but the little heroic men have been marching off to tiny little wars in the House of Wargaming. By way of make-up post, how about a few spoiler-free shots?...
Three Princesses: First Dungeon
We’re over 2,500 words into this session report, that’s how much you can accomplish in a single session with old school D&D. Our three heroines were slated for the marriage duty, but fate had other plans. Their ship was blown a thousand miles off-course, to wash up on the...
Three Princesses: Captain(s) Jack
In the interests of adding some factional play to the un-named island campaign featuring three lovely young ladies, I’ve asked a million of my closest friends to run the troubled character of Captain Jack Cardinal. He’s the guy charged with bringing the Three Princesses back to civilization and he...
Three Princesses: Off the Beach
With the firsday’s business of survival done, Captain Jack Cardinal sets watch and orders his men to rest. To his three charges, princesses of the southern kingdoms, he admonishes caution. It doesn’t work. Shipwrecked on a mysterious island a thousand miles outside the known trade routes, our players have...
News You Can Use: Hex Stuff
At some point somebody is going to ask where they can get a copy of this AD&D inspired hex-clearing and domain building blank canvas. So here it is: I’ll have a video up on my channel showing how I used this to organize the exploration and hex-clearing portion of...
Three Princesses: The Beginning
His Imperial Majesty, desperately clinging to the tatters of a failing reign, hits upon the time-honored solution to the “barbarian problem” of marriage as a stop gap. He orders three princesses of minor southern subject kingdoms to sail off and marry the sons of the smelly bearded boat guys...
Pen and Paper Wargaming: Battle Resolution
My Hellfire campaign to build a kingdom from the tattered scraps on the edge of a falling empire has been going well, but it’s not much of a miniature wargame. It’s strictly been a pen and paper endeavor with elements of solo, and logistic, and strategic gaming. Early battles...
Hellfire 2952: Kingdom Come Apart
The Decapolis survived another year without the aid of the Imperial Navy, but the situation continues to deteriorate. At the start of every year following the retreat of the Kaisan Empire, you roll for each city in the Decapolis with each having a 10% chance of losing population. The...
Bladestorm
Looks like 2025 is going to be the year we do a deep dive into a forgotten game. Thirty-five years ago the little game company that could, Iron Crown Enterprises, threw its hat into the miniature wargaming ring. They had staged a bit of a coup a decade earlier...