Silver Bayonet will require quite a few monsters. The monsters are not the main enemy in the game. It's a competitive game and the real enemy is your fellow player. But the monsters are there to keep things interesting. They enter play in two ways: they are either part of the scenario or they enter... Continue Reading →
Joseph McCullough is having great success in wargaming recently. I say recent, but he's been going strong for the last few years. Don't know the name? I know him as the author of the rules for Frostgrave and all of it's expansions. Frostgrave, Ghost Archipelago, Rangers of Shadowdeep, Stargrave, and Oathmark (maybe others) are all... Continue Reading →
There is something about the big, table filling, line-em-up knock-am-down wargames that tend to cover the period from the 7 Years War through the Napoleonic era. These kinds of games were the mainstay of early wargaming where there was a strong focus on recreating battles with fidelity. Sometimes these were less games and more visual... Continue Reading →
Being an American male of a given age I am naturally a fan of the Ninja Turtles. I grew up watching them, both the cartoon and the movies. Of course I had a favorite. Everyone did. Supposedly your favorite TMNT says something profound about your personality. If that's true, then what does liking Raphael say... Continue Reading →
Call to Arms is scheduled for 7-9 October, 2022. Note that 2022. Please don't show up in other years expecting to play fine games with wonderful people. As usual I plan to put on something. It's easy to attend conventions but it takes game masters to offer their games for the whole thing to really... Continue Reading →
I came across these wonderful frogs at a steal of a price years back. They are from Eureka as part of the Pond Wars line of miniatures. They sat unpainted and unloved for years. I did assemble them, let them sit, then a kid dropped them and broke many of the parts. Talk about a... Continue Reading →
I have a small pile of things that are slowly, oh so slowly, being worked on at the moment. These works in progress (WIP) are taking longer than they should. Some of this is down to motivation. Some is due to just bare numbers. Some is lack of need. All of this leads to clutter... Continue Reading →
Schedule and other considerations kept me from attending all of Historicon this year. Instead, we made a day trip out of it. It is a bit of a haul, 3 hours each way, but room rates were crazy and it's a nice enough drive. With limited time and horrible preplanning this was mostly a shopping... Continue Reading →
Still playing with Speedpaints and using that as an excuse to clear some of the pile of shame. I have minis, as do we all, that were purchased with good intentions that will never make their way to the paint table. It's not bad. Buying them was an act of hope. It was noble. It... Continue Reading →
The British Legion was a Loyalist unit fighting in both the Northern and Southern theaters of the American Revolutionary War. The unit was amalgamated from small Loyalist units consisting of infantry, artillery, and mounted dragoons. The unit's actions in the field earned it both fame and infamy, with stories of depredation and excess in the... Continue Reading →
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