I painted some Celtic barbarian miniatures from a comic that I love, and then spent an afternoon having them run around hitting the Celtic barbarian miniatures of a friend.
Good times.
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2000AD, 2022, Celts, Comics, Fantasy, Slaine Kiss My Axe, Sláine, Warlord Games | 7 Comments »
Forbidden Psalm is a miniatures game set in the Mörk Borg universe.
These are some toy soldiers that I prepared for Forbidden Psalm and Mörk Borg.
Whether you regard seeing these toys as the final push you needed to embrace a demonic cult, is entirely up to you.
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2022, Adventure Wargames, Blameless Gutterborn, Citadel, Fantasy, Fireforge, Forbidden Psalm, Great Escape Games, Mantic, Mork Borg, North Star Military Figures, RPG, Wargames Factory | 24 Comments »
I painted some lovely pieces of Fogou post-apocalyptic terrain, and took some photos.
Continue readingFiled under: Commission, Terrain | Tagged: 2021, Fogou, Post Apocalyptic, Sci-fi | 13 Comments »
My gaming opportunities have been thin on the ground for the last few years, for multiple macro and micro reasons. “Nightwatch” was one of the games that I definitely did not want to fall through the cracks.
Nightwatch is a co-op miniature wargame, with a flowchart AI approach to the waves of bad guys that attack a small group of PCs. If there was a miniatures game of the Vermintide video game series (itself almost a reskin of the Left 4 Dead series) then it would probably look a lot like Nightwatch.
Continue readingFiled under: Games in Progress | Tagged: 2021, Batinburg, Bazpaz, Fantasy, Mourning Wood, Nightwatch, Sylvaneth, The Bazpaz, Witch Hunter | 15 Comments »
Last weekend I got together with The BazPaz in his newly prepped indoor/outdoor gaming space for some socially distanced gaming. Having talked about it for a couple of years, we decided to give some of our recently painted figures a run out in Saga: Age of Magic, our first ever look at Saga of any variety.
My force was made out of some of the various ghoul figures that I have been painting recently, fielded as an “Undead Legion” Saga force. The Bazpaz used the lovely faery force that he has been working on for over a year now, on and off, made up primarily of Citadel Sylvaneth, with some Wargames Atlantic Fauns, as a “Lords of the Wild” warband.
Neither force had ever hit a gaming table before, and no game of any variety had ever been played in that precise location before, so it was a session of firsts.
Saga has a significant amount in common with Warcry, another game that I really enjoy. Without going into too much detail, each game has a resource management element based on assigning a number of dice at the start of each turn. Mechanics like that can sound dull, but when they are used to make your feverish, naked cannibal half-dead post-humans pay no heed to casualties and chow down on their opponents at a critical juncture, they are a lot of laughs.
Saga does a very good job of providing a solid, common base of rules that can be picked up fast, so that the players can focus on actually playing the game. I love this approach to game design. I am very excited to play more Saga soon, and I am tuning my hobby time towards it.
All in all an excellent gaming visit, after a significant social drought. I’m already prepping more Undead Legions for next time.
Filed under: After Action Report, Games in Progress | Tagged: 2021, Age of Magic, Flesh Eater Courts, Saga, Studio Tomahawk, Sylvaneth, The Bazpaz | 17 Comments »
Some degenerate cannibals, to hang out in front of other, less cool degenerate cannibals.
Continue readingFiled under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2021, Age of Sigmar, Fantasy, Flesh Eater Courts, Ghoul, Undead, Underworlds, Warhammer | 4 Comments »
“My Ur-Ghul has no eyes”
“How does he look?”
“Terrible”.
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2021, Blackstone Fortress, Citadel, Games Workshop, Ghoul, Mantic, Osprey Games, Ramshackle Games, Stargrave | 16 Comments »
The science-fiction variant of Frostgrave was officially released yesterday, so I played a game.
Filed under: After Action Report, Games in Progress | Tagged: Bounty Hunters, Orks, Osprey Games, Sci-fi, Stargrave, Venators | 19 Comments »
With a name like that, readers would be forgiven for assuming that this post was part of a series, possibly followed by “Hobbits from Hobbiton” and maybe preceded by “Free-peoples from Freepeopletown”, but it isn’t.
Continue readingFiled under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2021, Battle Companies, Citadel, Fantasy, Flesh Eater Courts, Ghoul, Goblin, Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game, Tolkien | 22 Comments »
I’m excited about the upcoming release of Stargrave, so I dropped everything else that I was working on for a while, struck while enthusiasm was high, and put my own spin on a bucket list set of terrain.
Filed under: Influences, Terrain | Tagged: 2021, Mos Xcellent, Rogue Trader, Sci-fi, Stargrave | 26 Comments »
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