Nefarious: A Spoiler Free Review

This is not a perfect film, and a few blunders prevent it from even reaching the level of “great”, but it is a film worth watching. The wife saw a recommendation for this on one of the alternate social media sites and dragged me, kicking and screaming, into a...

Warhammer Racing League

Warhammer Fantasy Battles has a reputation, at least so far as I’m aware of it, as a game that tends toward the line-’em-up and run-’em-straight at each other.  After a whopping two whole games of 6th edition under my belt, I’m now an expert.  So it’s safe for me...

The Birds

For those of you who, like Ray, have been wondering about all the ruckus in the background of some of my wargaming videos.  Meet the flock: The parrots would have run us thousands of dollars, but we work with a rescue organization who takes them in from families that...

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...

X To Doubt: The Derailment Edition

Every time you see one of these national comparisons, remember that Cuba uses a very different definition for “infant mortality” than the United States. It could be that all three countries are using an international standard definition for the term “derailment”, but in less than until you are shown...

Where Did You Come From?

Last month I updated this blog’s traffic monitor and… Where did you all come from? This place has felt like screaming into the void for a long time for two reasons:  The use of the aforementioned terrible traffic counter which told me nothing The use of heavy spam filters...

WAR *sigh* HAMMER

You can find copies of Warhammer Fantasy 6th Edition online for ten bucks and that includes shipping. That’s less than the cost of a lunch, and in these troubled times a 288 page book for that price is a steal. I almost feel guilty for snapping it up. It...

Broman Reinforcements

The boys in yellow and white are back, and this time they’ve got a few upgrades.  These bannermen come to us by way of Ral Partha Europe, and the wonderful Demonworld line of miniatures.  Their imperial forces can be a bit fantasy cartoonish, but if you know where to...

Mercenary Trilogy: AD&D as Wargame

In the last two posts we discussed mercenary troops from a modernist perspective.  That is to say, how does using hirelings work when it comes to spending all those gp you grabbed for XP, and how does a Square One focus on building an army contribute to the overall...

More Mercs

Last time we looked at how to build a great big, whopping mercenary army for your D&D fighting-man.  Spoilers: it was expensive. Today, let’s look at things from the perspective of a freshly-minted 1st level fighter.  This is the kind of guy who did a tour in the soup,...