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, […]
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 […]
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 Careful use of cover mitigates the Norman ranged attacks – Toms Warlord, Berzerkers […]
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-Danish deployment hugs the cover, hoping […]
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 Initial Deployment places 2x units of Viking Hearthgurad (1x upgraded to Berserker) directly opposite the Anglo-Dane Warlord The Anglo-Dane Warlord charges the Viking Berserkers, and […]
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, with ranged troops holding the centre. While this meets with some initial success the Norman Warlord is […]
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. Some […]
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.
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. The […]
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 photos I can […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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)
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, […]
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 […]
Its been about 2 years since the site went live .. and although its been one of those projects that’s gone through phases of near-abandonment and then fits of activity, i thought it would be interesting to have a look at the stats. Reports generated from AWSTATS based on the […]
Starting area on first-login. Spawn point is around centre-screen where the desert encroaches on the grassland. To the noth of spawn we located a long deep ravine. This forms a good natural northern border, a head start on mineworkings and a easy place to dig-ion to survive the night. dawn […]
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 a new start zone we logged in to find flatter than […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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. Having […]
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 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 […]
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".
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 […]
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 scale fantasy […]
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, […]
