Can’t Counter a Plan That Doesn’t Exist
Understanding and utilizing the principles of solo RPG play can have enormous positive impacts on your face-to-face (digital or meatspace) team-oriented RPG experiences. For one of the best examples that I have read on the subject, turn your browser to BDubs and Dragons. The man has a gift for...
The Solo (Not Quite) AD&D Fire Still Rises
A new Challenger enters the lists! A Prince of Parma, who I’m pretty sure comments on my vidjas has taken up the solo wargaming gauntlet with the devil of his own, this time into ACKs. Even better, he is documenting his Campaign on Cosoricalta in long form blog posts!...
The Game Changers
These are some very good looking aircraft. After four decades of tinkering with weight, aerodynamics, engine power, and a host of other variables, the US produced what many consider to be the finest prop-driven fighter in the world. These babies were designed for long range escort missions and still...
Army List Tinkering
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...
Breaking Through
The channel, The Joy of Wargaming, continues to make inroads into the wargaming community. Now with more than 1,400 subscribers, brave souls not yet scared off by my frequent sojourns into topics that we aren’t supposed to discuss, and more of the newcomers expressing thanks for a non-converged alternative....
Nightwatch: The Airom Reconquista
Oh, those lovable, roly-poly weirdo beardo dwarves. Always delving too deep. That’s what the ladies say about them, anyway. Over on The Channel we kicked off a second campaign of Patrick Todoroff’s “Nightwatch” with an easy mission to cleanse the desert of the plague of nasties that have been,...
Nightwatch – Revised Character Sheet
After playing through four games of “Nightwatch: Terror and Treasure in the Dark Corners of the World“, I’ve found the character sheets needed a little tweaking. This should be enough to carry your Guildsmen through the full Long Hunt. It has more room for the notes that you most...
Nightwatch: The Solo Wargame
This is a game about killing monsters. All kinds, anywhere, any time. So speaketh Patrick Todoroff, the scribe behind Nightwatch. This little gem of a wargame is a solo wargame that features a fairly simple core mechanic upon which you can bolt all kinds of weird and wonderful special...
More Vendeean Eye Candy
Been playing around with Osprey’s En Garde! while waiting for the Big Battalions package to arrive, and it’s been nice to fiddle with a new ruleset and some blackpowder scenarios. My fantasy town works well as a backdrop if I leave off the wizard tower and skull mountain pieces....
The Wargaming Don
The Oldhammer guys are pikers. Since staring the Joy of Wargaming channel, I’ve been doing a lot more gaming than ever. It has all been solo wargaming, but not because of the 800-pound virus-gorilla in the room. It’s because I prefer my own company to that of the typical...