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 Vs Lexx Playing Vikings Initial Deployment Vikings advance under arrow fire from the Normans The Viking Warlord Hearthguard and Berzerkers consolodate […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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] […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 so much value […]
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 […]
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
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’ Box contains 5x identical Sprues. Normally this would stifle creativity when […]
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 […]
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 […]
I floated the idea of getting together a cube draft the other day, seemed to go down well with people. So this is sort of what I had in mind. What is a cube Exactly? A Cube is a pool of cards from which booster packs are assembled. The […]
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 […]
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 degree turning arcs, while i went for […]
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 game. But the £25 price tag puts it at the “premium” end of the […]
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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 when we made our yearly trip […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. It comes with the bonus of being able to start its template up to 12 inches away and can fire at 90 degrees […]
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 […]
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. Yes i have used Muntant Chronicle minatures for […]
First the final tyrants legion army. Coming in at 3505 now with all the extras on the models now accounted for total points 3505 No units 113 type unit total points Base points additional points items number of units HQ* Legion Centurion 75 55 20 1 Ellite Renegade marauder squad […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. So i’m pritty happy with how these have turned out as they have the urban malitia element i was […]