Markgraf von Hattendorf has hired you to put an end to the recent brutal raids on his hinterland settlements. With that scenario pitch, my local group started preparing for Nightwatch, a cooperative skirmish monster hunting wargame. We have played a couple scenarios before, but this will be our first full seven-game "long hunt." The hunting … Continue reading Building badlands terrain for Nightwatch
My friend Vince and I decided to play Warhammer 40K Apocalypse at 6 mm scale. It started with the annual Apoc-Luck In December my local group conducted our annual Apocalypse wargame and holiday potluck event, "Apoc-luck" (Check out our events from 2017, 2018, and 2019). Power level 1500 40K Apocalypse is my favorite Games Workshop … Continue reading Epicalypse 40K
Magical creative engine. Here I follow up on Space Adventure! with an attempt to relate that story to the process of playing and daydreaming that inspired it. The process was iterative and non-sequential, posing a fun challenge to explain in this format. Let me know how I did. Space Adventure! Episode 1. Director's Commentary. Film … Continue reading Director’s Commentary: Five Parsecs from Home, turn one
Report I played a game of Age of Fantasy with Comrade Patrick and our friend Vince. Patrick shows off his excellent chaos hordes army and describes the drama that happened on the tabletop. Check out his report, linked below. He also discusses how the rules supported the experience. I have only to add that I … Continue reading Age of Fantasy battle report and hobby response
Episode 1. Pilot. Film producer Clarius Delling hatched a new idea for a serial broadcast. Space Adventure! would be filmed as a reality TV documentary series, following a scrappy crew on their daring exploits around the Fringe. His pitch landed with a ship construction magnate named Stender Benissard. "Imagine the sales this broadcast could generate!" … Continue reading Space Adventure! Five Parsecs from Home, turn one
I intend to play small-scale mass battles again soon, thanks to the miracles of 3d printing and digital print-on-demand publishing. Forces muster for Nic Wright's Fantastic Battles This started when I first saw Forest Dragon's beautiful 10mm digital sculpts. After snatching up files for a pair of opposing armies, I hunted around the web for … Continue reading Mustering for Fantastic Battles
Comrade Patrick shares a battle report of last weekend's game of Grimdark Future Firefight! We had four players forming two teams with 600 pts per side - quite a Sunday afternoon brawl! We’ve been dipping a toe into the wonderful, rules-lite world of One Page Rules lately, and I finally had an opportunity to take … Continue reading Grimdark Future: The Infected City
Circumstances permitted me to host a two-day skirmish wargaming extravaganza! Comrade Patrick reports. Hullo dear reader! I’m back after an uncharacteristic pause on this here blog. It’s been a busy summer without a lot of time for gaming, I’m afraid. But now that the days are getting shorter and the autumn winds are picking up, … Continue reading Majesticon Day 1: Nightwatch and Open Combat
Months ago I laid out my plan for expanding my SAGA warband into an Oathmark army. Deciding how grow my multiples-of-four units up to multiples of five, I settled on the obvious answer: buy more Oathmark Human Infantry! I remembered how much I enjoyed assembling and painting the first box and wanted to do it … Continue reading Oathmark: Begovic spears
Barty's Command Crate 