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 […]
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Saga – Part 03 – DW’s Anglo-Danes
Photos – London Loop – Harold Wood to Upminster Bridge – Sept 2011
One of the London Loop walks from Harold wood station to up-minster bridge.
Gettysburg: Armored Warfare
Occupy London – March 2012
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 to want is a little bit more regulation of financial services. Can’t really argue with that.
Salute 2012
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 Gamesters - napolionic peninsular war on a truly impressive scale. This years most deserved apology: Although we offended a lot of people this year, the most deserving of an apology is 'South London warlords' sorry for all the nasty things we had to say about WH40K apocalypse.
Games Weekend APR 2012 – Great War – No Retreat – Warhammer Quest
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 faced by a dark-elf sorcerer who transformed into a chimera, certain death for any group, but not us, down she went and all 4 survive to fight another day. Gallery also contains some photos of Tom's forge, and “Drucilla, destroyer of worlds” (The cat)
Spiders – Sept 2011
Various spider pics - fairly warned be ye says I.
Learning to live with Windows 7 – A Linux users perspective.
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 operating systems and office software, […]
New Project – WH40K – The Siege of Vraks (On a Shoestring Budget)
WH40K – Lex’s Space Marines
1500pt WH40K marine army by Lex.
WH40K – Lex’s Tyranids
1500 point tyranid army by Lex. Paid £70 for these on ebay (unpainted) sold on for £300. First army I ever painted!
Server Stats for 2011
Adventures Beneath the Old World – Part 1: Attonement
Adventures Beneath the Old World – Part 2: A Quest In Itself
5 (Forgotten) Golden Rules of Tabletop Roleplay
A World Corrupted
A whole new world
Start zone
Games Night OCT 2011 – Hordes of the Things – Match1
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. Game 1 – Richard playing the forces of Light, Mat the forces of Darkness. Mat got to be defender, and laid the terrain. Rich chose a ranged force comprising of mostly Bow, Magician and Artillery. Mat foreseeing this choice had taken a very fast moving 'aggressive defence' force comprising of Knight, Rider, Warband and a Dragon. Rich deployed with the cannon batteries in the centre, with a strong left flank. A Weak right was propped up by the army commander magician. Fortunately the 'weak right' wasn't to be harassed, as Mat deployed a strong cavalry force in the centre, designed to capture the key bridge early, and a very strong right hook. After a few turns Mats cavalry supported by the dragon crushed Rich's centre, and encircled his army commander. Rich's strong gains on his left were not enough and offset this loss, and the Day was won by the forces of darkness.
Games Night OCT 2011 – Hordes of the Things – Match2
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, they could repopulate and hold off an attacker indefinitely. Mat declared he would meet that challenge, and as normal, Alex declared the whole exercise futile, and the game hopelessly broken (Don't worry, you get used to him). Elected to be defender for this exercise in game-theory, Rich as defender did his best to make the terrain suit his aims. A river directly down the middle of the table would provide a great defensive line to hold. A few clumps of bad going either side designed to disrupt the attackers. A 36 point army which consisted of 3 Behemoth, Blade command, and 22 elements of Horde. Played against Mats choice of Spear, Bow, Artillery and magician. Mats forces stopped on the river bank to bombard the bad guys for a while, before crossing. Although initial losses were repopulated by the bad guys, Artillery and magician played havoc with the behemoth elements. Once double-ranked spear were on to dry land they cut a hole through the bad guys line and made a B-Line for the stronghold. Result: unable to repopulate their losses at a high enough rate, the Forces of Darkens gave the field to the forces of Light.
Dreadfleet
Dreadfleet – Part 1- Whats in the box
Running “Sid Meier’s Civilization V” Under Linux
Hacking the Hannspree Hannspad – Part 1 – Out of the Box
Hacking the Hannspree Hannspad – Part 4 – The ‘Hard’ Backup
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. backup_Hannspad_v2.zip ClockWorkMod Recovery v4.0.1.4.zip HannsTitan-v0.4-FULL.zip Okay, The first thing we want to do is Backup everything […]
Hacking the Hannspree Hannspad – Part 5 – Installing the new ROM
Games Weekend AUG 2011 – Warhammer Quest
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 game "Carcassonne".
Full Thrust, Fleet based space combat
Massive Fantasy Games on a budget
WW2 Pacific Carrier Warfare (1:3000)
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 I recreated both fleets (plus aircraft and supporting vessels) in order to […]
i made a cake
Hordes of the Things – Part 01 – From tiny acorns …
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 Dwarf’ […]