You can find a lot of places covered in red dirt on this old blue marble on which we live, so red dirt alone is not enough to convey the idea of an alien world.  For that you need aliens, and not just alien animals.  Alien plants go a...

…Preferably mineral rich land on an uninhabited planet.  If you can’t have that, the ‘mineral rich’ is more important than the ‘unihabited’.  At least for rapacious human colonists.  To that end I picked up more 12-inch square boards to build a modular terrain setup for some tabletop sci-fi action. ...

With all that rule nonsense out of the way, we can talk about the other fun stuff like figures and terrain. As always, I’m looking to keep it cheap and contained in a single “under the bed” style plastic tub.  That means 10mm figures, found items, and terrain boards.  For father’s...

When we last left our heroes, they had successfully ambushed a small rat-thing outpost.  The group split up, half to return a badly wounded hench-halfling to his home, half to clear the rat-thing warren.  So five brave heroes (sans artillery – if first level wizards can be classified as...

So now that you’ve seen what’s in the game, what about what’s out?  As usual, we’re gonna go right back to the start before we answer that question.  First we need to talk about what exactly we’re going here.  Every miniature war game rule set abstracts a whole host...

As promised, the rules for my next big mini-project. Tentatively titled 6-4-6-Skirmish, these are the rules I’ve worked up for quick and easy battles between aliens, colonists, and the marines who protect them.  These are for battles that are small scale in every sense of the word: the scale...

Dungeons and Dragons was my gateway drug, not to Satanism and real magic, but to miniature wargaming.  We collected a box full of Ral Partha figures for our characters and the monsters they fought, painted them to a low standard, and then never bothered with a protective coating.  Today...

The boy traded off some terrain I built for him in exchange for more figures.  Well done him.  He figures he doesn’t need terrain because, in his words, “The store has terrain we can use.”  No son of mine is gonna be stuck using in-store terrain.  I’m raising him...

These lizard guys look pretty meh in the lead.  Painted up, though, they really take on a lot of personality.  This is my first ever conversion at this scale.  This lizard was born a banner carrier.  One of my skeletons sacrificed his head for the cause and now it’s...

I swear this isn’t turning into a Games Workshop blog.  I’m just light on lead of my own to paint, and let’s face it – friends don’t let friends play with unpainted miniatures.  So I painted up my son’s heavy flamers for him, too.  He traded for a pair of Catachan...