Utopian Ugliness
Don’t bother with this. On paper it checks all the boxes: Dark conspiracies. Comic book fans as plucky underdog heroes. Technocrat blundering endangering the global food supply. An artificial virus that threatens world stability. It should have been a slam dunk, but it falls prey to all of the...
Irregular Army Packs
Bust my buttons, I’d done all my planning for Napoleonic wargaming, then went and ordered Seven Years War figures like a complete and utter plank! No worries. My next big project is a campaign set in the imagi-nation of the Trossian Empire, specifically to help account for my own...
Three Laws of Robotics
This is not a game for kids. Well, it can be, but I wouldn’t recommend it. What you’re looking at here is a light card game that amounts to “Blind Indian” on steroids. The deck consists of three suits (“factions”) of five cards ranked from one to five. Players...
Painted Desert, But Not the Real One
It is done. A full table of desert terrain. Primed and ready for color But not too much color – it is a desert after all. Chicken Joe showing off some big rocks. A small camp near the dunes and columns. Hiding behind a small dune. Deep in the...
Vendee Defiant, a Battle Report
This skirmish set somewhere in the middle of the French bocage flips the script from the first. The Vendeeans, specifically the Pere Corbeaux and his three sturdy sons, all veterans of the American War of Independence and glad to return to La Belle Vendee to escape such revolutionary escapades,...
The Desertification of My Table
Time for a new weapon in my terrain arsenal. That means packing as much desert terrain into a small box as possible. As usual we start with the ground cloth, a simple light tan fleece bit of fabric cut to fit my tabletop. The 32-inch by 36-inch size is...
What Are The Odds
Prolific YouTube commenter Andrew Beasely had a great question on my solo play of Osprey’s En Garde! To bring you up to speed: in this game each melee figure gets to enact a set number of ploys. Better fighters get more options. The players each take a number of...
Called It!
Man, did I call it or what? The Little Wars TV guys are great. They provide some fun, light-hearted wargaming fare with high production values, and this is no slight against the work they’ve done. This latest gimmick, though? They’re better than this. Two weeks ago they wondered whether...
Repetition and Redundancy
For those of you faithful readers who have been enjoying the fine vidya content that I’ve been throwing up all over the Tubes4You, allow me to explain-slash-justify something. If it seems like there is a lot of overlap between content here for you dear reader, and there for the...
War In The 15mm Vendee
Some shots of a recent battle between Vendeeans and the Parisian boys in Blue using Osprey’s En Garde! The local National Guard – professional REMFsmeet the local boys, untrained but scrappy. The action starts just as the National Guard attempts to closedown the local church. The locals come out...