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you won’t belive it but I’ve actually finished an army, and not only that but in just over a month. I know thats a record right 🙂 yes indeed I have finished my Uruk-Hai army for this skirmish game I’m working on (can’t say anymore about that yet) here’s a picture of the whole thing
I’ve been after a Sunday afternoon game for a while (i.e. a game that can be played leisurely over a Sunday afternoon by a couple of players) and I came up with a few candidates, however I finally decided that Star Wars Rebellion was the one to get and last week I picked
After our first game of Over the Hills last week we quickly decided to play another game and try out some of the optional rules included in the book for this second game we extended the forces a bit and used one of the scenarios ‘hold until relieved’ this scenario is fairly straightforward with an
if you read one of my previous posts (it’s here) you’ll know I’ve been looking for a good set of Napoleonic rules that will allow me to use my 15mm figures, well after interviewing Adrian McWalters on the Meeples and Miniatures show I decided to pick up a copy of Over the Hills a rule
yesterday saw me traveling to my mate Marks house again for another game of NetEpic, this time it was Orks v Squats. one of Mark’s friends wanted to try out the rules so we gave him the Squats and I umpired and helped him learn the rules. this was a 3000 point game with the
after a break of many many years I finally got some Epic figures on the table and I introduced my mate Mark to the game I loved as a younger man. I wasn’t sure which version of Epic to play either 2nd edition or NetEpic, but after a read through of both sets of the
Last night myself and good chum Steve got together to play another game of Conan. we decided to play the Hunting the Tigress senario as it would allow me to use my newly painted figures, plus it uses the boat map with is my favourite one in the set this is the setup for the
Last night saw myself and good mates Mark and Steve play Conan for the first time, we decided to play the first scenario in the book ‘In the clutches of the Picts’ The scenario is designed for 4 players with 1 player taking on the role of Overlord (and controlling the Picts) whilst the other
On October the 15th one of the UK’s most respected gaming companies; Too Fat Lardies will be visiting the South Wales Gaming Center at Firestorm Games to host a series of participation games showcasing some of their most popular rules. There will be 6 games on offer with each one being played twice starting around
For the second weekend in a row a gang of us got together for a days gaming at Firestorm games, this week it was myself, Mark, Steve and Ty Ty brought along Scythe that he got in the Kickstarter. I have to say Scythe was completely different to anything I’ve ever played before, the scope
Tuesday is turning into Boardgame day as I usually drive over to visit my mate Mark and play something for a few hours. this week we decided to play Command and Colours: Ancients and I thought I’d share the games. normally we pick 1 scenario and play it twice (swapping sides after the first game)
Following on from my last post where I brought a lot of Lord of the Rings figures (here) I decided to make a start painting some of them, which I know is a novel approach to wargaming (normally we just buy stuff and never use it) in total I have 5 armies that I could
It all started with a game of Lion Rampant and ended up with me starting a huge new project. Way back in the beginning of August I had an intro game of Lion Rampant put on my good mates Matt Slade and Ralph Plowman, they did a Lord of the Rings scenario and whilst I
in my previous post I discussed which base size I would use for Rommel (this is obviously after I’d based up a load of them on 80×60 bases) and I decided to try out a smaller size of 70×50 so here’s the prototype base which I thought I’d share first up an old style base
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that ‘Rommel’ the new WWII rules by Sam Mustafa has been released and is now making it’s way into peoples hands. as I was involved in the playtesting I’ve had a few questions sent to me about the best sizes for bases (especially when using 6mm
it’s been a while since I did one of these posts but I’m once again back painting Conan miniatures and this week I’ve worked on the Bossonian Archers that come in the core box the Bossonian Marches are part of Aquilonia and border the Pictish Wilderness, this area is famed for its archers and people
The last few posts have covered the 2 armies I have remaining for 40K so today I decided to look at my terrain stash for anything usable and what do you know I have lots. When I was playing 40K originally I was really into city fights so I built up a good selection of
And I’m back, its another day and another post about 40K and this time its part 2 of my Renegades army where I’ll go over the vehicles I have done so far as I said in my last post (here) I wanted the vehicles to look like they have been captured by the renegades and
If you’ve been following my last few posts you would have seen my 40K Dark Angel army in detail and now its time to cover my 2nd army the Renegades This army was started a fair few years ago when Forgeworld released a series of books on the Siege of Vraks and myself and my then
Final part of this little micro series of blog posts and its time to investigate my remaining unpainted pile of plastic models and to be honest it’s not that big (I know who would have thought that eh) basically I have this lot to do 4 Assault marines – yep the remaining troops to make
Following on from my last post (it’s here) its time to carry on with my audit of my Dark Angel army for 40K After covering the HQ and elite units I think we should look at the backbone of the army the infantry and some vehicles Tactical Squad 1 This is squad 3 and it
in Meeples and Miniatures podcast episode 221 Neil and myself interviewed Chris and Cory from Cigar Box battles about their company and the future plans they have. it’s here if you want to listen after the recording Chris and Cory offered to send over a couple of the double sided mats for us to review
in my last post I discussed a bit of my history with 40K and said that after selling off a lot of figures last year I left myself 2 armies (just in case I needed them) so today got the first of those armies out of storage and did a bit of an audit to
last Saturday a strange thing happened to me as I went into Firestorm Games and brought the new version of Warhammer 40K (the 8th edition) and this wasn’t some impulse purchase made after a few too many beers, I went into the shop specially to buy it. ok I had also organised a game of
following on from the first 2 parts of this mini series of posts Part 1 here Part 2 here Here’s part 3 where I list the story lines from Comics and and Graphic Novels that made me want to play games, as before the usual rules apply in my choices (has to be fiction, can
carrying on from yesterdays post where I shamelessly ripped off an idea from Jay Arnold’s Veteran Wargamer podcast when I listed the top 5 Sci-fi and fantasy books that made me want to play games, here is part 2 Historical Fiction as before this is not a list of my favourite books its just a list
Recently Jay Arnold (aka the Veteran Wargamer) released episode 19 of his podcast where he talks to his good mate Dave about books that make them play games. there each came up with a top 5 list of fiction books and went into the reasons the books are so influential to them and the games
a little while ago we Meeples and Miniatures interviewed Matt Slade from Glenbrook Games about his business and how he paints figures (it’s here if you missed it) as I’ve known Matt for ages I decided to ask if he could paint up some of my Conan miniatures to help clear the backlog and so
Whilst browsing the Too Fat Lardies Forum I came across a forum thread from Dave who’s been playing the opening scenario from my War of 1812 Supplement for Sharp Practice Dave has posted a few posts on his blog about his games, below is an excerpt from his first playtest Crossing the Niagara –
in my last post I did a quick unboxing and showed off the components in the game and in this post I want to concentrate on the minis. This miniatures in this game are something else, considering they are plastic boardgame pieces they have really pushed the bar as the level of detail is amazing,
On Saturday I managed to get a lift to the UK Games Expo with my good mate Geoff Bond (Hi Geoff) and I had a brilliant day. I spent a lot of time hanging out with Neil, and the 2 Dave’s from Meeples and Miniatures just chatting to people and taking in the show. anyway
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