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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
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,
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