Black Ops: Extraordinary Rendition
Been breaking out the old Black Ops for a bit of the one-two lately. The African militias work great as disgruntled Americans, and now we can run some domestic, near-future wargaming on the streets of Bloody America. Rebel Minis makes a fine selection of modern figures, suitable for everything...
Cha’alt 28
The Blackraven action has shifted to the alien planet of space weirdos some call Cha’alt. And that means it is time for some eye-candy. Here we see the Cult of the Spicy Wyrm, ambushed by the ragtag band on the right. For some reason, Cobalt-15 brought the MSB along...
A Song of Fords and Shallows
Mostly eye candy today with some thoughts on “A Song of Drums and Shakos”. It’s just a reskin of Andrea Sfiligoi’s “Song of…” series, but I’m really glad to have added it to my library. Having the background and points lists for each army really makes it a snap...
Song of Drums and Shakos – First Runthrough
It works! I was afraid it wouldn’t. My experiments with Flying Lead weren’t a lot of fun. They power of modern weapons meant that the games bogged down into two static lines blazing away at each other with little motion or forward progress. Needs more flags Fortunately, the Napoleonics...
Shots From the Long Hunt
Four heroes wade into the stinking mire of the great swamp. Follow the full action here. This was the fourth mission in a “Nightwatch” campaign, a solo wargame that uses tower-defense style design to keep the player on his toes. Waves of enemies every round force some difficult choices...
Shots Fired!
Related to yesterday’s post regarding people who have been playing AD&D wrong for decades – a club of which I was a solid member of for decades myself – Jeffro offers up a little look at what we’ve all been doing wrong for lo these many years: Why this...
Not the Flex You Think It Is
Continuing thoughts about Rule Zero and yesterday’s post about Theseus’ RPG. Item #1: If you only ever used a third of a game, have you ever really played the game? You might have been playing something, but was it really the game you say it is? How much of...
Rule Hero > Rule Zero
The problem with Rule Zero: Is not that it isn’t true, it’s that it guards an army of lies. How many planks can you remove from AD&D before you’re not really playing AD&D any more? No one talks about this....
Chainmail’s 50th Anniversary – A Video
This makes for a good watch. A lovely little glimpse into the wargaming world of the midwest in the late 1960s. Out of this culture, and countless others littered across the anglosphers, was spun the tabletop RPG community. It’s a quick watch at just over 22 minutes, and includes...
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...