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Epicalypse 40K

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 …

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 …

Grimdark Future: The Infected City

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 …

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 …

Speed painting Imperial Guard: Qirkirin AAT

I came around to printing a Qirkirin Armored Assault Transport to shuttle my brave lads around the tabletop. It turned out well, so here's how I did it. (Astute readers will notice I use this blog as the paint scheme journal I don't keep otherwise.) AAT in action Basic idea With this paint job I …

Speed painting Imperial Guard test models with oil paints

Inspiration Marco Frisoni mini painting tutorials get me excited to sit down and try things. When he tossed out a "this is already quite interesting" remark halfway through this week's video on oil painting, I couldn't help but think "you're right Marco, I should speed paint an Imperial Guard army like this!" I've been orbiting …

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 …