Figure Catchup
Alternative armies has a great little selection of character models that I havne’t done justice. In addition to a nice fat demon lord, I’ve added a NotMing The Merciless and totally not Dejah Thoris to my collection. They also have a fun little collection of elementals. The air elemental...
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...
No Shame In It
There is a really weird concept percolating through the miniature wargame substrate right now, and it’s probably a reflection of a trend in the wider culture. It goes a little something like this: Man, there is so much to unpack here. Let’s begin with the fact that every man...
Initial Thoughts on ‘Rangers of Shadowdeep’
Why did I wait so long? Joseph McCullough’s masterpiece, Rangers of Shadowdeep has everything a man could ask for in a solo skirmish fantasy wargame. Everything except hope, but maybe that comes later. The basic mechanics are simple. Skill checks consist of a basic d20+skill versus a toughness number. Combat...
New Game: Rise of the Orc Lords
Coming soon to a social media website near you, it’s the latest iteration in Braunstein technology. Starting already, but kicking off December 1st, we’ve got twelve volunteers ready to sit upon a throne of mammoth bones and direct orcish hordes in support of their Dread Lord’s crusade of chaos. ...
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...
I’ll Do It Myself Again, the Pirate Version
Osprey Publishing has a terrible track record when it comes to game support, and an even worse one when it comes to quick reference sheets. This is doubly so with On the Seven Seas, a little pirate set of wargame rules that includes very few tables, even within the text!...
The Xebec
This one is another probable out-of-print ship from Old Glory. I found this little cutie languishing on a shelf in the basement of a game store. Originally produced by Merrimack Miniatures and had probably sat there for 30+ years. Well, it us hitting the table now, as the starting...
Paying it Forward
My Father’s Day present for myself included a little bonus that did me no good. Four plastic French line soldiers from Warlord. At ten bucks for the mag, these things paid for themselves. And as a 15mm wargamer… …they would have been destined for the landfill had it not...
Wargame Campaigns by Henry Hyde
This is a beast of a book, weighing in at over 500 pages. It is as complete and thorough a treatment of the subject as we have seen since the days of Featherstone and Bath. And it includes gems like this: All in all, “Wargaming Campaigns” is a fun...