With salute fast approaching and not really knowing how i would transfer all the tanks for a tyrants legion game, its been decided to change the game to a 4 player boarding assault game from IA9. The good new is the models for the carcharodons are finished and dunked and the tyrants legion is now pa...
I've wanted to build UB Traumatising echoes deck since Tom put me onto the idea a few years ago (okay, more than a few years ago now). For those not in the know, the combo is [card]Traumatize[/card] then [card]Haunting Echoes[/card]. Although I never got the deck to tick, I've always had that M...
Chihuly exhibition of handmade glass, Halycon Gallery London...
A few snowy photos form February 2012...
Various pics taken today at the park...
Not sure what this chap is, but he made his home outside my bedroom window....
The next wargaming project on the horizon for the group is 6mm Napoleonic using the 'Grande Armee' Rules set by Sam Mustafa. There are four manufacturers of figures in the UK, Adler, Baccus, H&R and Irregular, and from what we have seen at shows, there is substantial differences in style be...
Another great weekend. James' turn to host. Before the pics of the Games, just a couple of photos of James new Danes. New Dane Warlord Game One Rich's Normans...
Dungeons and Dragons - Conquest of Nerath This game really came out of nowhere at me. Picked up in TKMaxx for £8 when shopping for some socks, I was soon to face the most fearsome of dungeon denizens, that is to say coming home to a partner and explaining why I had spent more...
Having painted the last squad of carcharodons i decided the time had come to dunk them and see how my choice of basing grit worked out. Its the larger typr of GF9 basing stuff and while its more of a pain to put on i dont think its turned out to bad and as allways the dunk has worked its magic an...
Even though the guys haven't been playing a lot of saga recently, With a lot of excellent strategic boardgames such as "No Retreat" and "Twilight Struggle" holding our interest, a few guys at my local games shop showed some interest in the system. The problem was, I only owned 4 pt Warband,...
I thought i'd write a little article to look at the deck I played for the Theros pre-release. I started off by picking the Path of Ambition (black) and I ended up getting some really nice rares from my six packs. This is what I got: [card]Chained to the Rocks[/card] [card]Nykthos Shrine to Nyx[/...
There's a lot of people on the internet better qualified to write about MtG theory. in fact almost anyone who can turn a goblin sideways it probably better suited then me, but I just wanted to quickly put something up about the concepts of control and agro decks. In both the M14 games day even...
Took this to FNM for 2HG standard, and got a decent result out of the deck [with a little help for the other guy]. Although all the games were very close, and i dont feel like i deserved the wins as much as i would like. Still its the first time i played a control deck in standard since [card]Mira...
From an absolutly brilliant talk from Mark Smith, curator of the Firepower meuseum, Woolwich. The VC with the blue ribbon is G Hinckley dated 9th October 1862 that with the red ribbon is J C Raynes dated 11th October 1915 ...
When I saw that [card]Nightmare[/card] and [card]Corrupt[/card] were being re-printed in M14, it gave me the idea to create a Mono Black deck. I've always loved the cards which can change in power depending on certain conditions (Cards like [card]Crusader of Odric[/card]) simply because you can get ...
Just got back from Games Day so now I will share the results of my MBC deck. I had to substitute a couple of cards on the day because I didn't get an order I was waiting on unfortunately. I was missing one [card]Crypt Ghast[/card] and one [card]Underworld Connections[/card]. This is the deck list I ...
These are 2 separate kits released by Wargames factory, Zombies [all male] and Zombie Vixens [all female]. I picked up a box of each cheap in the clearance bucket, still buzzing from the season finale of 'The Walking dead' ...
so having the read the rule book in a little more depth, the game looks quite different to 4th ed games of apoc. The lowest bid deployment is gone, instead replaced by a preset time limit (they say around 30mins, then everything else in reserve) which to me seems a fair rule removes the whole rus...
So with a bit of free time on my hands i figured id have a look back at the badab war project. The boarding assault game had gone fairly well if a bit one sided, but i instantly hit a problem the HDD with all the army lists has died so its back to drawing board for the astral claws which was the ...
So after much debate Lex and myself sat down to see exactly how terrain would effect ship design in Full thrust. We both had a few hours to design a 2500CPV fleet. Alex went for Thrust rating 5 ships for the possible 90...
Check these out, new force commanders from Forgeworld. I'll be painting these over the next week, will upload some pics as i go Left - Lugft Huron Chapter Master Of The Astral Claws (Base being painted separate)Right - Tyberos The Red Wake ...
Ok, so whats in the box. Well firstly it doesn't come in a box, but your basic starter set-up is as follows: The Saga rulebook - Quite thin, which is reassuring fr a quickplay...
In the Grim darkness of the far future, people finally worked out shooting was a good idea. So I Haven’t had a chance to pick up a new copy of the core rulebook yet, and at £45 It would take a lot to get me to do so. Having been spoiled by saga, war-machine and a number of ot...
Photos from Salute 2013. Another great show - although suffering slightly from a worse than usual hangover and aching from some rather violent gardening the previous day. ...
Alex's first game in his Badab War campaign - loyalist marines board the battle barge of Separatist leader Lufgt Huron in an attempt to end the rebellion in one swift stroke. Although a decisive victory for the loyalists, Lufgt escapes. Cant wait to see what Alex has planned for game 2....
I've been looking for a good complex board-game to get my teeth into for a while now. There's something very appealing about colourful punch card counters spread over an interesting-looking board, but I've never actually got around to buying and playing one. This year...
I'm making even more changes to game i've changed the tyrants legion from using the astral claws paint scheme on the marines as i think it may get confusing who's army is who's so having also read a bit more back story i've decided to opt for using tiger claws to represent the marines in the tyra...
I felt like a night off painting but still had nothing better to do than work on the project so treated myself to trying out using transfers for the first time. Now i've never used these before and having spent £12 a sheet on transfers i didnt really want to screw them up so read up a bit online...
Part of the badab back story is that Huron loves bug guns, so quite a big part of the legions army is artillery and they have 3 earth shaker cannons on the table 2 basalisks and 1 artillry battery. they also get a bombard strike from off table thats str 8 ap 3 using the 7 inch blast marker and on...
First the final tyrants legion army. Coming in at 3505 now with all ...
The next stage of the tyrants legion is completed. The Auxilia Armsmen Cadre, these are slightly better troops that the Legion Auxilia and come with a heavy weapons team and a heavy stubber so can put down some pritty good fire power. ...
Fresh of the painting table are 2 of the 3 tank squads. The entire formation is designed to be able to handle all kinds of table setup. First group dosent have sponsons and so is designed to stay still and cover open ground with fire, the second group has heavy bolter sponsons then one exterminat...
Next of the production line is a hellhound flame tank. This hopefully should be good for clearing cover and just puts one more tank on the table. ...
So while i've been waiting for the last few bits of the Carcharodonds to arive i've made a start on the tyrants legion. I decided to have them as the 2nd army as i had most of the components to actually get them finished with out having to hit ebay to hard. So the first squad to be finish...
So the main reason for the big gap in posts other than football and a bad shoulder have been these bad boys. The Auxilia is a 40 man squad, yes thats 40 MODELS!!!11111111 For these i'm using the chaos cultists from the 6th ed boxset, yes they are a bit chaosy but its the cherapest way to ...
So its nearly broken me but finally the legion auxilia squad is finished! they are great models to paint given the fact they come out of a starter box set. ...
Leader Of the Carcharodons he's pritty sick getting some pritty sick rules. Costing 190 points his chapter tactics gives any squad the Rage USR once they win a combat giving them +1 attacks when they charge in 6th ed, should he gain rage he also gets the preffered enemy USR towards that type and ...
The first squad to be finsished is the Vanguard squad. Using the 5 man metal figures from GW and 5 standard assault marines but giving them lightning claws. They can deep strike and do an heroic intervention to stop scatter so should be able to fix an early game problem of get a quick kill on any...
So hot of the painting table today is the Titan hammer Apocalypse formation. Made up of 3 terminator assault squads with thunder hammers and storm shields giving them a 3+ invulnrability save. They must deep strike onto thew table together and deploy within 12 inches of the comander. The big thin...
The first troop unit to be painted is the siege dreadnought talon, so thats a formation of 3 dreadnoughts that count as a troop choice, they have to be either venerable or siege pattern so you get the 2 best for a melle assault army. ...
So only managed to get one more dreadnought finished toady but here he is now technically he's a furiso blood angels dreadnought but i like the model and one of the CCW counts as a sisemic hammer j...
So after a day of with a hangover and a bit of time off for football the next bit of the Carcharodons is almost completed. The first tactical squad just need a few last touches but are pritty much finished. ...
So the parts to finish of the siege dreadnought talon finally arrived today so have since been busy building the weapons and now have a fully painted siege chapkin dreadnought. Please note i didnt base this as it came like this from ebay. ...
So this is an idea I've been playing around with since I flipped a [card]Felidar Sovereign[/card] in a zendi booster, and traded another one for a few odds and ends. Although it looks fairly hard to get a play off, I've always had a thing for non competitive left field decks. Its worth noting he...
It started around 2 years ago but the Badab war project is back underway! Allmost all the models are here and the first versions of the army list are completed. These may change a bit but ideally will keep the same flavour. Firstly The Astral Claws, the main protagonists of the conflict an...
So Lex turned up with a copy of X-Wing to the last games weekend. No one had really looked at this game before, and Lex had only quickly skimmed the rules on the train down, nethertheless we played through 4 or 5 quick games and had a lot of fun with this. Miniatures...
Saga is the new(ish) game on the block from Gripping Beast and Tomahawk studios. It pits small warbands against one another in the dark ages period, specifically 793 - 1066. We have had an eye on this for nearly a year now, and after seeing the Demo game at Salute 2012 we all decided to put our m...
Not really a proper games weekend due to the lack of James and space to play a large game. Originally the guys were supposed to come down to help clear the jungle that is the back garden, but due to some heavy snow we ended up just having birthday beers, cake and a few boardgames. Includes firs...
Fireworks display at Upminster Junior school. ...
Photos from a day out at the imperial bird of prey academy [imperialbirdofpreyacademy.com]. An awesome day out I would recommend everyone to try out (Just don't go via groupon) ...
Back on Alex's boat after salute. I think we got a game of Settlers of Catan in, and far too much drinking. A bit slack in terms of gaming, but a great weekend...
James hosts July's games, drinking, and Indian cuisine appreciation weekend. Considering the game boards and scenery were knocked up the night before, the whole setup looked ace. We got to try out SAGA for the first time and got a good 5 or 6 games played....
What can I say, yeah, they got me again. Dark Vengeance is the latest "Limited edition" boxed set from GW. Following 4 years of regret never having picked up the limited edition space hulk (now going on ebay for a cool £200 a shot, four times its retail price) I figured I'd pick ...
So what do you get for your hard-earned cash? Lets get the predictable stuff out of the way You get a Chopped down version of the rulebook, which has the core rules and is downscaled from A4 to A5. ...
The 5 of us had been playing 'World of Warcraft' for a few years prior to this, each of us was a member of a raiding guild (either 1st or 4th best on server depending). This was back in 'classic' when the level cap ...
Of all the games ever released by Games Workshop, in my opinion one has always stood head and shoulders above the rest. The rules are ambiguous and poorly tested but the concept is perfection given injection-moulded, punched-card form. Instead of taking on your mates,...
A series of articles tracking the progress of a 28mm World War One project, using The 'Great War” Rules by Warhammer Historical. There has been a bit of a surge in the popularity of World War One wargaming in the last couple of years, and some great rulesets and ranges of miniatures to ...
This took me a lot of trawling forums to find a fix for, so i figured I'd write up a quick piece to help anyone else who has run into this problem. The back story I picked up a graphics tablet on amazon, mostly for 3D modelling in Sculptris, and photo editing in GIMP. ...
Match 1 - James' Anglo-Danes vs Richards Normans. The First game played using the Saga rules system - first runs through always take a while, and this was no exception, however the rules are a lot simpler than some other systems we have played, so it all flowed quie well. Som...
Match 2 - Toms Vikings vs Rich's Normans The Game started quite late into the evening, so the picture quality isnt great. Rich attempts an encircling manoeuvre with cavalry out on both flanks, w...
Match 3 - Toms Vikings vs James Anglo-Danes The first game of the next day Pitted the Fatigue generating Anglo-Danes vs the Fatigue drinking Vikings ...
Match 4 - Rematch between Rich and James Initial Deployment sees the Normans adopt a much more defensive posture, with the Ranged units (1x Warrior, 1x Levy) forming the line, with the Mounted Hearthguard being held back for counter-attacking when the line is attacked. Anglo-Danis...
Match 5 - Tom vs Rich The Normans Again formed up their "Bastion", this time in the rocky ground. The Vikings came head on, determined to weather the hail of arrows to make it into close quarters ...
A few pics of peoples Saga Warbands. Everyone who made it to the games weekend had their warband painted up and based inside the month allotted. Not a bad achievement for a casual games group. Pictured are James' Anglo-Danes, Tom's Vikings, and Rich's Normans. ...
Two years ago we did a project a bit like this. We saw a game we liked at salute, and the 4 of us all brought a starter box, painted our forces, painted and played a few games in under a month. If you look through this site, somewhere you will find our "Full Thrust" project. Som...
James got in first sending pictures of the his Anglo-Dane warband. Although he didn't provide use with details of the exact colours he chose, it looks like Games Workshop acrylic paint, followed by Army Painter system Quickshade and a few GF9 products for basing. From the pho...
I couldn't tell you why I picked the Normans. We all picked our respective forces based on looks rather than any insight into the rules. The Normans have this very distinctive feel about them, with the stylised nose-guard helms and kite shields, they should be recognisable to anyone. ...
Grande Armee French forces. Miniatures by Baccus This is a Project we are hopefuly going to come back to in the future ...
One of the London Loop walks from Harold wood station to up-minster bridge. ...
I saw this go past on steam store a second ago - quote below taken from the game desc. Gettysburg: Armored Warfare "The outcome of the Civil War is in peril. Weapons, armor and machinery have been sent back in time. The Confederate forces are now attempting to overthrow the Union a...
I figured I would get some photos of the Occupy London camp before the police come and move them on. Got chatting to a few of the guys at the camp, much more level-headed than how the media portrayed them. They are not calling for an end to capitalism, or abolishing the government, all they seem t...
Photos from the annual pilgrimage (of all of 4 miles) to Salute at London Excel. Stunning show as always. This years big thing: SAGA (Everyone brought an army) This years best deal: a Ton of 28mm resin scenery from Tablescenic(?) This Years WOW factor: Retreat to Corunna by Essex Gamest...
Photos from the Games weekend over at Tom's, early April 2012. Opened with a great WW1 game. The first trial of the hex-based game ‘No-Retreat’ (Review coming shortly). Weekend was rounded up with probably the most epicly insane game of Warhammer quest ever played. where our lvl 3 group was f...
Various spider pics - fairly warned be ye says I. ...
Microsoft has never forgotten its roots. Once the unstoppable juggernaut of the software world, Microsoft now has to contend with Google, Apple and the like, taking a bite (pun unintentional) from the consumer electronics market. Still, Microsoft has always known its two strongest divisions are ope...
Of all the Imperial Armour books, The Siege of Vraks is the one that's really got me enthusiastic. Unfortunately collecting 1500 points worth of 40K figures is prohibitively expensive, let alone collecting the 10000 X 2 points worth to play the scenario. (X2 because we always buy and paint both...
1500pt WH40K marine army by Lex. ...
1500 point tyranid army by Lex. Paid £70 for these on ebay (unpainted) sold on for £300. First army I ever painted!...
Warhammer Quest was always a game that could suprise people. I've often found it to be the best thing to break out when faced with a tough crowd, amongst those who wouldnt normally play a wargame or an rpg. Every GW critic, every cinic fell in love with the gam...
Of course the satisfaction of owning a complete set is somewhat dimmed if it isn't painted, and therein lies the problem. I dont have the greatest of willpower when it comes to painting but I was determined to see this one through. I wanted to keep the boardgame feel ...
I have been playing and running games for over fifteen years, and in that time I have introduced many people to the world of roleplaying, but also, rewardingly to me, I have also helped others enhance their enjoyment of the game by mentoring them as players, storytellers and even ...
It was all going so well. As Rich described, we'd rolled a new world and spawned in a grassy, fertile plain: the ideal building site for the large walled town we envisioned. We even had a large open ravine right on the fringes for extracting the neccessary resources. A week later we'd flattened t...
After moving the MC server from my place to Tom's house, we decided to roll up a new world (As I had failed to copy the correct world to USB drive before travelling up). Once the server had spawned ...
Starting area on first-login. Spawn point is around centre-screen where the desert encroaches on the grassland. ...
Just before we moved out of the flat and put our wargames on hiatus for a few months, Mat dropped over for a few beers and to have one last night of drinking and rolling dice. We originally intended to play a mini Blodbowl league, but it didn't take much to get the hordes of the things set out. ...
After the first game we were debating the usefulness of 'Horde' elements. They were undoubtedly crap in combat, but their ability to repopulate was handy. Rich mentioned that he had been harbouring an idea for an all-horde army, and put forward the theory that in defence, around their stronghold, ...
Dreadfleet is Games Workshop's latest "Limited Edition" release, inspired by the success of their Space hulk reprint a few years back. Having seen the models in GW, I decided to pay out the £70 for a copy. The price is a bit high, but its another "Game in a box" that when finished, should be s...
In the Dreadfleet box we have a whole bunch of high quality plastic models. About a dozen large ships and a few other smaller pieces. What's really great is the large amount of terrain that comes in the box. The Island and wreck pieces are large and well detailed. The fabr...
Civ5 is one of the great games of our time, it is built on a fine heritage of turn based strategy games in the same franchise, and it has refined this concept to a perfect finish. The only downside is that there is no Linux version, so I thought I woul...
Okay so everything arrives within a few days after ordering, I ordered a pair of these, One for myself and one for Alex, but I figure while you have 2x identical tablets in the house, it would be interesting to benchmark the supplied operating system against the modded one. ...
The following has been tested under Windows XP SP3 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, But you should be fine under Windows XP/Vista/7 and any vaguely up-to-date Linux install. You will also need the following files. ...
Now to copy over the files we need to load a custom image... Power off the Tablet, and unplug the data cable, Keep it plugged into the power supply. Power the tablet back on in normal mode. Once Booted, plug the usb cable back in and enable USB transfer on the T...
Some pictures from the trip to Tom and Jo's place in Shrewsbury, henceforth referred to as Hinterzerg. Mostly pictures of us playing through levels 2 and 3 of Warhammer Quest (Full write-up of the campaign and encounter tables to be added to the wargames section soon). Also some pics of the board ...
This is a series of articles documenting how we achieved what was thought the impossible. Getting four gamers to pick up a never before tried rules system on impulse at a show, and actually get four forces painted and games played played inside a month. It just goes to show, not all impuls...
Have you ever seen on of those HUGE display games at a show, with thousands of figures pitted in an epic struggle? Ever felt inspired to do something on that scale but not had the cash? In this series of articles I will be putting together a massive s...
June 19th 1944, Pacific theatre. The American invasion of Saipan triggers Admiral Toyoda's counter-attack codenamed “A-Go”, which in turn resulted was the largest* naval battle of all time. In this series of articles I will show you how...
These things always have a way of starting fairly innocuously. Tom and myself were sitting around, enjoying a frosty beer after a particularly hard fought game of “Battles for Empire” (Anglo-Zulu War). To hand was a box of old magazines which I was too sentimental to recycle, mostly 'White Dw...
So, with this initial idea buzzing around my head I started to round down the specific details. Firstly miniatures scale. This was a bit of a no-brainer as the scale it pretty much dictated to you by GW when you choose fantasy. Although I love 6mm as a scale, ...
With the ships done, its time to look into airpower. Navwar also produce 1:3000 aircraft to go with the ships, although these are pretty much pushing the boundaries of sanity in terms of size. An F4F Wildcat with a wingspan of 11 meters in reality would scale down to around a 3mm wing...
For 1AP per element, lurkers are cheap and if used correctly, highly effective. +2 in combat they are hardly the best combat units available, but their ability to appear an any area of ‘bad going’ entered by the enemy means they can cause havoc in your opponents line disproportional to ...
As part of my daily commute I spend roughly 2 hours a day on either a train, bus, or the tube, I figured I could do with some entertainment whilst travelling. I already own an Android Smartphone, and have been impressed by the Android software platform and the Market. Picking up a cheap android ta...
This was a piece I hadn't originally intended to write, however I thought before modding the tablet I should learn a bit about its inner workings. What I discovered was that the Hannspad is very much a 'top end' tablet, which for its low price I find confusing. What follows is a quick breakdown of...
Ok, before consigning the stock ROM to oblivion (Or more correctly, before diligently backing it up in case we need to return the device to the store), I will just give people a quick tour of the supplied OS. If this was a film it would be "Nancy Drew and the case of the missing QA depart...
In Part 2 of this series I showed a photographic walkthrough of the rapid painting process that I'm using for this project, using a 1918 German Battalion HQ unit as an example. The process for painting up the opposing British forces is almost identical, but I thought for the sake of completeness ...
The unit I painted in Part 4 completed the British force up to 600 points and so the project is nearly ready for the first small scale game. This article is a quick run through of the units that comprise the British army, and I'll also make a few ill-advised crystal ball style predictions about h...
Ok, so now the grunt work begins. I would sorely love to walk into games workshop and pick up 2x 8000 point fantasy armies to game with unfortunately on my quite meagre paycheque this wasn’t going to happen without t a lottery win. The next best manufacturer of fan...
The Full thrust “starter fleet” boxes from Ground Zero Games are great value, they give you a well rounded fleet to build from as well as a reasonable discount compared to buying the ships separately. Each pack contains: 1 x BATTLECRUISER (BC), 1 x BATTLESHIP (BB), 1 x HEAV...
So, Alex and I felt like we had a good enough grasp on the rules, and the chatter from Tom and James said that they had their models painted, based and ready to game. Now just have to wait till the next games weekend rolls around. All the Fleets looked great, James...
Behemoth is one of the most powerful unit types, with a +4 vs foot and a +5 vs mounted, there is very little that can win in a 1-on-1 fight with a behemoth. Spear is probably the best thing to hold the line against behemoth with, but even then its still 50/50 win or loose. ...
These are a few pictures from Howard Williamson's collection. Although we were visiting him on business, he took the time to talk us through his amazing collection of firearms spanning a variety of periods, including Napoleonic, Crimean, Anglo-Zulu War, American Civil War, The Great War, and The Se...
Rider is one of my favourite unit types in the game. 2APs get you a very fast unit, being able to cover 500p in good going, with a +3 in combat against all unit types. Like all mounted units they are destroyed if they loose whilst in bad going, but otherwise they recoil. This ma...
Magician, or Caster as we sometimes refer to them, are one of those unit types which give Hordes its character. They are powerful, but not 'broken', they provide the longest range attack in the game, and require no line-of-sight to do so. For a whopping 4AP you definitely get what you...
Even for 4AP per element Heroes are simply sick. They can cover great distances quickly at 500p per turn,and +5 vs all enemies makes them unstoppable in combat . The only elements that get a quick kill against them are paladins or artillery (Neither of which the opposing side have) , and th...
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The Battle of the Philippine Sea has been on my wish-list of projects for a few years now. Its one of the largest sea battles in history, (In the top three with Jutland and Leyte Gulf, but it’s exact position depends on your method of measurement). A Small Windfall gave me the excus...
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Photos from 'Military & Flying Machines', Damyns Hall Aerodrome, Upminster, 6th August 2011. Thanks to Bret for getting the photos to me. Great selection of WW2 ground vehicles, Aircraft, arms and equipment, along with a few more modern bits and pieces. ...
Second time out and the big man himself was dropped. The final battle was preceeded spectacular fights at Smite, where he had to be downed with 2 additional adds, and at a ninja-pulled Cookie. A bad pull at Greenskin cost the group a single wipe, but fast progress through the respawns got the gro...
Wailing Caverns were cleared in the groups first venture into horde terriotory. With only one wipe Mutaus The Devourer fell in a run packed with good loot and a rare spawn dragon. A good run for an unfamiliar instance. Attendance: Eredin Warrior Lvl 21 Silentninja Rogue Lv...
Following on from the previous WC run the party was held up by a horde party at the entrance to the network of caves. All looked lost for our heroes as a great Tauren warrior barred the way home. From nowhere a Paladin with an immense (blantantly warrior) sword descended to slay the infidels! The...
Second time in Shadowfang Keep turned out quite easy for the group! A fast run with no wipes or deaths yielded some good loots. Odo was taken down with additional mobs due to a runaway feared bat, but the Wolfmaster and Arugal himself were downed without trouble. Attendance: Eredin Warrior Lv...
An unexpected late night run saw the group clear their second instance in horde territory. Charlga Razorflank fell at the first attempt in the early hours of the morning. Although relatively challenging, the group suffered only a single wipe due to some "unfortunate" pulling. A rarespawn bat brought...
Pictures from “Salute 2011” Saturday April 16th. As always a awe inspiring show, with all the usual traders and spectacular games on display, for both participation and spectators. Wargames Illustrated stole the show with their Great War display game of the 1915 Galipoli offensive. ...
some pics form Games weekend April 2010, a nice outing for Toms Zulu set using the "Battles for Empire" rules set, which hadn't seen much action since the WW1 project picked up stea, was great to give the redcoats another outing. Play lasted from late afternoon saturday, till sunrise sunday morning...
Photos from Jagerzerg at James' Place. Mostly 15mm Hordes of the Things pics, Toms Goblins vs Richards Elves. Photo Quality is dire because someone forgot to borrow the SLR so these were taken on a mobile phone...
Deadmines cleared in what may be the groups last venture the Westfall instance. Smite was downed with multiple adds again. One wipe only due to the usual Captain Greenskin ninja pull but soulstone to the rescue. Vancleef was taken down cleanly. Very nice loots this run. Attendance: Eredin Warri...
Shadowfang Keep was cleared at the first attempt. With most players at the bottom end of the level bracket Arugal was taken down in a close fight. Only 2 wipes occured during the run, mostly due to obscene aggro radius. Gratz to all on completeing the instance at such a low level! Attendance: Er...
The Stormwind 1st V made their first outing in many months with a trip to the previously unexplored Blackfathom Deeps. The break seemed to have done no harm as the party swept through the instance without a single death. Some proclaimed the dungeon too easy for a group of such high calibre. Take not...
Photos from the 2008 road trip across Europe. Good times!...
The Stormwind 1st Vs first outing resulted in a successful clearing of The Deadmines as Far as Mr Smite. Following Smites death the team pulled half the instance from Kalimdor and wiped in an heroic fashion. Obscene aggro radii FTW. Game over was declared shortly after due to respawns. Gratz to all....
Ok, so that’s the ships and aircraft sorted out. But We still haven’t got a rules system to use. After some reading around its fair to say there isn’t a system on the market which can run a game of this size. Most systems abstract aircraft out of the game, require 2x tables, or simply don...
Pictures from uberzerg August 2010. Mostly Toms WW1 in 28mm Game. Got a good few games played that weekend, and found new uses for red laser spirit levels ...
Photos from games weekend October 2010 (back when we had a big enough house for this kind of thing), mostly photos of Toms "Great War" game...
Photos from games weekend Feb 2011, some good photos of Toms "Great War" Miniatures...
Blade represent high quality well drilled infantry, moving in tight formation. For this reason they are slow (Equally in Bad going or in the open), but do very well in combat against other foot units (+5). The are vulnerable to Mounted units however (only +3). They are Quick-killed by...
In the first edition of Hordes of the Things, Warband was definitely the worst troop choice going. At twice the points cost of Horde it was only slightly more combat effective. Thankfully in 2nd Edition they were buffed slightly, and the semi-official-unofficial errata to the HoTT rul...
Spear elements in hordes? Solid .. like totally solid, solid as a rock. Spear gets +4 vs anything, with a +1 on top for a supporting rank, meaning they can take care of most foot and mounted units, and can double-rank to hold the line against behemoth, knight and even dragons. They ar...
Shooter, or ‘bow’ as I call them, is probably the most powerful unit type in the game. Although I am not going to claim they are “Broken” as such, they are slightly undercost in terms of points. Faster than most foot units, they fare well in bad going and have a 200pc ranged a...
Artillery is one of the more interesting units from Hordes. A 500pc attack range is devastating, they freak out behemoth and dragon (causing a flee rather than a recoil), and can cause recoils on most other units long before they are under threat. However they are quick-killed in clos...
Beasts work best in bad going, they are the only mounted unit which can fight in bad going and not suffer a penalty. Combines with lurkers a cunning player can pretty much command all the areas of terrain on the table and funnel their opponents troops into convenient locations. &nb...
Knights are best in the open where they can roll over foot units. 2APs gets you a fast moving unit with +3 vs foot, +4 vs mounted and a handful of quick-kills against various foot units in the open. They don’t do very well at all in bad going. They autpmatically persu...
After the basecoat the models were painted with army painter systems quickshade. The darkest tone was used on these, which is black rather than brown. However the results still look good. Although it was tempting to “dunk” the models, I thought it’d be more econom...
Inspired by Toms success with Army painter system in his Great War project, and given how deeply painful my last project (28mm fantasy) was without it, I figured it was a no-brainer decision to give it a go on these models. After some googling it looks like no one else has tried using “Wo...
The first few games of Full Thrust we got in went well enough, the hidden movement orders system is great fun, and brings an almost poker-like quality to the games table. Players have to get good at second guessing their opponents moves so they can position their vessels to mak...
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There has been a bit of a surge in the popularity of World War One wargaming in the last couple of years, and some great rulesets and ranges of miniatures to go with it. The choice in 28mm figures seems particularly strong at the moment. I was enticed by the range from Great War miniatures and al...
As I've mentioned before, my decision start this project was significantly influenced by aesthetics. I was drawn by several of the ranges of 28mm World War One figures on the market at the moment and on a whim picked up a copy of "The Great War" from my local shop. If...
So my German force is now painted and complete up to 600 points. This gives me a large enough force for standard missions on a 4’ x 4’ table, about the smallest that I’d be willing to call a “game”. This page is mostly an excuse for some photos, but to help fill the space I’ll also go...
This was the first run through of Toms 15mm Anglo-Zulu game, using the “Battles for Empire” rules set. Pics taken in either June or july 2009. ...
For an successful project, our groups Full Thrust project came pretty much out of the blue with no planning whatsoever, other projects had been planned in quite a bit of detail and failed in the implementation, so for a spur of the moment thing this wa...
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While I was sorting out the photos from the last games weekend, I stumbled over these. Some nice shots of Toms 28mm WW1 collection not specific to any game. These make a good showcase of Toms figures, as well as being good reference for anyone looking to buy figures for this period...
This page was maintained by Alan Saunders for longer than anyone can care to remember. Unfortunately its been taken offline when BT Internet merged their hosting service with yahoo. This was a devastating blow to the HoTT gaming community. However, there is a snapshot of the site here : ...
The night before salute was the debut of my 28mm “Hordes of the Things” game .. although we only got 4 of the intended 6 armies on the table, a close fought game ensued. Armies were 36 points per side (keeping the standard D6 pips). Mat and Tom took the ‘Forces of Light’ (Men and Elves), ...
The Battle of the Philippine Sea has been on my wish-list of projects for a few years now. Its one of the largest sea battles in history, (In the top three with Jutland and Leyte Gulf, but it’s exact position depends on your method of measurement). Some belated Christmas money from my Gra...
Ok, so we have been playing the last few games of WW1 and WH40K on some less than ideal playing surfaces. The first set of battle boards i had made were warped and were suffering from moving house badly. Tom had jumped to the rescue with a games workshop grass mat, but we were looking...
Photos from the day trip to Belgium, 18th march 2011 .. Mostly WW1 reference material for our trench sections but a few nice shots from various sites and museums. ...
Here's the first finished HMG for my WW1 project.I'll be writing a couple more articles for my WW1 book over the next week. One show...