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Back when I was a teenager (in the early 1980’s) I played a lot of role playing games and my favourite game was Runequest, but that all changed when I went to college. I put down my dice and picked up a pint glass and left gaming behind. however over the years I always look
after publishing my last post on Classic Warlord (it’s here if you haven’t seen it) Mike Hayes who wrote the game dropped me a mail with some comments on our first playthrough, so I thought I would post them here for everyone to read Hi Mike, On your recent Classic Warlord game. Here is quite
About 15 years ago I was introduced to a game called Warlord, which originally came out in the mid 70’s, it’s far to say i fell in love with the game and we played it a fair bit (including some large games that took all day) as Warlord was out of print and really hard
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
ok it’s time for the confessional (we now call it on Meeples and Miniatures, although it was nicked from Simon Mayo’s radio 2 show) so there I was trapped in a gaming convention for 3 days and it was obvious that things would be brought, but was probably not expected was what I would buy,
in my last post I explained a little about the philosophy behind the rules and today I want to go a little bit more into how forces are put together Disclaimer – as already mentioned we are still playtesting and it possible that some of the things I cover here might change The Basics As
If you have listened to some wargaming podcasts you might have heard that I’m working with Ade Deacon and Jim Ibbotson on a fantasy game that will be released by the Too Fat Lardies sometime in the near future. Well a few people have heard about it and understandably they are interested in finding out
Finally; after what seems like an age (but is actually around 3 months) I have managed to finish off my second Lord of the Rings army and the Riders of Rohan are complete This was another army I picked up from my 2 mates Ade and Jeff last year and my plan was to do
I can’t believe its been 3 months since I last updated the blog, doesn’t time fly So since I last posted on here many things have happened much of which you can find out about on the last few Meeples and Miniatures podcasts (yes I know it’s a shamless plug) but the main story has
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
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
over the last 3 days (1st – 3rd June) I have visited to foreign parts to attend the UK Games Expo and thought I would share my thoughts on the visit. the Expo is a 3 day event held in the NEC birmingham and I belive it is now the 3rd largest event in the
Over the last 6 months I’ve started to play card games, and specifically Living Card games (or LCG) that are produced by Fantasy Flight games. I’ll be honest it was my mate Neil from Meeples and Miniatures that converted me to the games as he pointed out they could be played solo, take up very
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
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 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
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