I recently picked up a copy of the Relicblade: Storms of Kural starter set from a local gamer. I have been interested in the game for some time but a local sale made it easy to pick up. There are many things about the game that are interesting but after a look through the books.. … | Continue reading
Following my earlier thoughts about Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings, I have been planning an Old Dominion force for Conquest. The developers of the game, Para Bellum, have made, what I think, is a clever decision to create a skirmish game, First Blood, that provides you with … | Continue reading
I have recently been trying to paint the odd miniature and it has been a bit of a challenge. My hands are actually quite a bit worse than they were even a year ago. I can still paint but I really don’t have the fine control I used to. So painting highlights and details are... Con … | Continue reading
One of the problems with how my brain works(?) is that I hop from project to project and game to game. For a while my ADHD medication made me utterly uninterested in any of the miniatures that I had. They were these odd things that I had and when we moved they were passed off... … | Continue reading
I know that the game isn’t even finished and there is still a fair distance to go before it is in our hands. That said, here are a few things that I would like to see included in the Epic Warpath rules. Aside from Marauders. Commands based on Leader level Currently the game has t … | Continue reading
So what can you build with the various releases in Epic Warpath and how do the armies compare with the types and numbers of units you can build? Based on the demo videos that have been show so far, infantry units are based on six units with the exception of Striders and tanks tha … | Continue reading
The Epic Warpath Kickstarter has launched and is already funded. As suspected, they have posted more photos of the miniatures that will be in the fore army boxes as well as some of the models that will be in the reinforcement packs. At launch there will be models for the Enforcer … | Continue reading
It was only a few months ago that I first heard about the Epic Warpath game. It is a 10mm large-scale wargame set in Mantic’s Warpath sci-fi universe. Initially it looked like an opportunistic attempt by Mantic Games to ride on the coattails of the Legions Imperialis game from Ga … | Continue reading
Things used to be a lot less complicated. A company would put out a game and then you would go to a store and buy it. Sometimes the store would be out of stock and they would have to order the product in. Generally if the game was still supported and the company was still... Cont … | Continue reading
Games Workshop recently released an 8mm miniature game, Legions Imperialis, set in the Horus Heresy setting. It pits forces of Loyalist and Traitor Marines, tanks, Titans and infantry against one another letting you refight the battles of the Horus Heresy. I am not exaggerating w … | Continue reading
When we moved from Calgary to Edmonton I got rid of almost all of my miniatures – painted and unpainted. The two exceptions were my fantasy naval miniatures and some of the 6/10mm Dystopian Wars figures I had. The former were a deliberate choice and the latter were because I coul … | Continue reading
Recently I managed to trade some games for a complete set of Commands & Colors: Napoleonic games. Seven boxes of blocks, terrain tiles, reference cards and rulebooks. It is quite a lot of gaming goodness and I did manage to get it all organised (a blog post for later) but I wante … | Continue reading
Today was a great day as I took possession of a large stack of new games. I did a trade with a local gamer and got quite a few new games including many GMT titles that are out of print at the moment. In fact I received the entire Commands & Colors: Napoleonic series, all... Conti … | Continue reading
I have previously talked about my fondness for Tower Defense games but in the context of being a sign that my ADHD symptoms were not being properly dealt with. My fondness for the genre might have been pushed to even more ridiculous levels if I had a PC since there were 100s of t … | Continue reading
The year will soon draw to a close and I have already begun planning on what games I want to play in the New Year. This coming year I hope to get some of my existing games onto the table and also perhaps try out a few new ones. Existing games Last Blitzkrieg I have... Continue Re … | Continue reading
The tree is nearing the end of its run in the living room and New Year’s Day is fast approaching. I was quite lucky this year and got a few new games to add to the collection and also finally pulled together the cash to pick up some used games from a local gamer to... Continue Re … | Continue reading
I am a hoarder of any sort of plastic box that I can use to store and organize game components. I have Plano tackle boxes, Stanley organizers and any number of random boxes that I have used to store counters, tokens, dice or whatever parts my games require. My partner often jokes … | Continue reading
It has been a while since I posted anything game related on the blog so here is a bit of an update on how hobby-related things are going. The move The house is mostly in order and I have my gaming space set up in the basement. It is unfinished but still a nicer space... Continue … | Continue reading
Some time ago I started doing most of my writing using Markdown. Almost everything I write end up online, either in a blog or website, and so it made sense to use a formatting system that was web-friendly. The more I used it though the more I wanted to use it everywhere. Being ab … | Continue reading
So I would prefer, if possible, to own my music. I have a longterm goal of building a decent sound system and buying some older jazz albums to listen to. Putting an Oscar Peterson album on and listening to it and making the timing of my morning work revolve around having to turn … | Continue reading
I am not as educated in music theory or the specifics of music composition as I would like. This often leads me to puzzles for which I don’t have the answers and which are, typically, too detailed for me to find answers online. Case in point, the rendition of Watch What Happens t … | Continue reading
The internet was, in its infancy, a vast unexplored world filled with new information. You would constantly find new and exciting ideas, groups or sometimes applications that would open you up to new possibilities and ways of working. I recall when I found all of Kai Krause’s Pow … | Continue reading
For quite some time I could often be railing against the new Gutenburg/Blocks editing system on WordPress. I really didn’t like it and because it was so disruptive to the way I used to write I was actually writing less and less for my blog. If I had been running a self-hosted blo … | Continue reading
I have a Twitter account but it was created to use as a development address for hosting Twitter apps. Mostly to allow people to use their Twitter login credentials on other websites. The account follows Jonathan Wilson, the football writer, and John Gruber, the technology writer, … | Continue reading
Table Battles is an abstract rank-and-file wargame from Hollandspiele. I recently picked up a second-hand copy of the Second Edition of the game and tried it out with a few solo games to help learn the rules. The game comes with ten scenarios (the first edition had eight) and has … | Continue reading
I have, for some time, been interested in playing Horse & Musket: Dawn of an era from Hollandspiele. It is the first game in a series that allow you to play battles from across the world and charts the progress in infantry and cavalry tactics from 1683 to the end of the US Civil … | Continue reading
Perhaps you have seen them online? Someone posts a comment and then appends the phrase ‘It’s a joke’ or ‘Humour for the humour impaired’ or some variant. I’m not talking about the people that post some deplorable remark and then try to dissemble their way clear of critique by cla … | Continue reading
So I have been playing a lot ofSlice & Dice. A lot. As I mentioned previously it is a very fun game but I am finally getting good enough to start to work up the the higher levels where you start to get some really good loot and it is really changing the game. This... Continue Rea … | Continue reading
While I was on Itch yesterday I stumbled upon this delightful game called Slice & Dice. It is a pixel art rougelike game where you attempt to work through 20 rounds of encounters to defeat a final boss. Each character, and monster, has a unique dice that it rolls to give it abili … | Continue reading
Some people comment on the cost of a Disney+ subscription but it can save you a lot of money. For instance, I managed to see Thor: Love and Thunder without paying the cost of a ticket and high-priced movie theatre snacks. This is a good thing because the movie is really quite bad … | Continue reading
One of the things I have been working on is creating a domain level solo rpg game using Into the Wild and Filling in the Blanks from Third Kingdom Games to create and populate a series of hexes that a party of mid-level characters would then explore and expand into their own doma … | Continue reading