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
Month: September 2012
Games Weekend JUL 2012 – Saga
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.
Dark Vengeance – pt1 – Whats in the box
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. A size which makes it great for Chucking in the miniatures […]
WH40K – Dark Vengeance
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 […]
Drupal 6 – Customising search results page
In drupal 6, the variable $result is available in search-result.tpl.php. The commented section at the top of this file makes no mention of this variable, so if you want to do something as simple as showing the created date on a node instead of the modified date, then you’re in […]
Drupal – Setting items and offsets of Views in php
[code] $view = views_get_view(‘FrontPageView’); $view->set_display(‘block_1’); $view->display_handler->set_option(‘items_per_page’, 3); $view->display_handler->set_option(‘offset’, 0); print $view->get_title(); print $view->preview(); [/code]
Drupal – Getting cover images for mixed Gallery Assist and non-GA nodes in views
[code] $VarNodeTaxmy = $fields[‘tid’]->content; $VarNodeTitle = $fields[‘title’]->content; $VarNodeTeasr = $fields[‘teaser’]->content; $VarNodeDate = $fields[‘created’]->content; $VarNodeType = $fields[‘type’]->content; $VarNodeDepth = $fields[‘depth’]->content; IF ($fields[‘type’]->content == ‘Gallery’) { $VarNodeImage = $fields[‘cover’]->content; } ELSE //non gallary nodes { foreach ($fields as $id => $field): if ($field->class == ‘field-main-image-fid’) { $VarNodeImage = $field->content; } endforeach; } […]
World of Warcraft – 5 Man Project
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 was 60, Raids needed 40 players, […]
Adventures Beneath the Old World
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, you team up to venture into […]
The Great War in 28mm
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 […]