Many games have changelings, but they all use them differently. For Silver bayonet, I'm not sure how the changeling will work into a scenario. For most games they would do exactly what you would expect. A changeling is sneaky. They are not deployed on the board as a changeling. They will start as something else... Continue Reading →
While kit-bashing up the revenants, there were a lot of spare parts. Obviously they are to be kept for other miniatures, but Son2 was working on some Romans for SPQR and I had time on my hands. A quick flip through the Silver Bayonet rule book is all it took to find the hobgoblin. Hobgoblins... Continue Reading →
Monsters may be a strong term . Not everything and everyone in Silver Bayonet is a monster or magical being. Some of them are just annoying people who don't want you to have a good or easy time. The game does include standard Napoleonic era soldiers and other belligerents, sure. But there are also ruffians,... Continue Reading →
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 →
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