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Age of Fantasy battle report and hobby response

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 …

Mustering for Fantastic Battles

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 …

Majesticon Day 1: Nightwatch and Open Combat

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, …

Oathmark: Begovic spears

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 …

Open Combat: Ambush at the Greenfire Portal

Comrade Patrick offers another battle report, this time from our recent game of Open Combat. John and I got together earlier this month for a quick midweek game of Open Combat. It was to be John’s first game; I had played Open Combat a few times over the last few years and found it to …

Frostgrave: The Silent Tower

My friend Patrick published a battle report from our recent game of Frostgrave. Go check it out! (That marauding bear mauled two of my warband to death, but Elder Futhark the Sigilist didn't mind. They're called expendable thugs for a reason...) The next scenario in our Frostgrave campaign was straight out of the second edition …

Modular Frostgrave utility pieces

I built several versatile terrain pieces to supplement the standard board tiles in our collaborative modular Frostgrave terrain board. These "utility pieces" are helpful for breaking up boring flat areas, blocking line of site, providing traversal, and approximating urban features. Let me give you a tour. The building blocks of fun Dungeon tiles and stackers …

Our modular Frostgrave

About a year ago my gaming group decided to collaborate on a terrain board to prepare for the release of Frostgrave 2nd Edition. After some back-and-forth in our Slack team, we agreed to build modular tiles using shared standards for certain key geometries and base coat colors. We could consult each other remotely, build in …

Mustering my SAGA troops for Oathmark

I plan to give Oathmark a try. With a SAGA: Age of Magic Great Kingdoms warband more or less finished and materials for a second The Horde warband on sprues, I decided to combine them into a rare alliance between the squabbling barons of Glostmurk in our homebrew world of Uthdyn. These petty nobles united …