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Diary of an Average Painter: Weird West
This is another one of my "large" collections - I've mixed up Black Scorpion, Confrontation, clix, West Wind, Heresy and Malifaux for a substantial bunch of cowboys and monsters.Here are some...
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Tankmunda Game Rules: Test Game
Having played a fair bit of War Thunder recently, I was bitten by the tanking bug - I dragged out my 15mm tanks and a revised version of the homebrew rules I'm experimenting with.I want basically...
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Old School Epic Grav Tanks
Found three dozen Falcons(?) - they're such an old edition I don't even remember! - grav tanks in a box when tidying my shed. 2017 has been a year of frugality - with the Dropfleet rules, some 15mm...
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Simple Vector Rules - for Grav Tanks and Space Stuff
I need a simple set of drift rules for my grav tank game, as well as my PT boats/MTBs-in-space rules I'm working on. I've already got a very good set of rules for vector movement I made years back;...
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World War 1955: The Space War
Space Nazis has a certain ring to it, right?In the dying days of the Reich, as Allied forces drove hard through the heartland, a brilliant halo appeared high above the Bavarian mountains. Operation...
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Diary of an Average Painter: Street Wizards, Thule Gelleschaft and Zombie...
Painted these a while back but my 4-year-old assistant only based them yesterday. (Hence why I always do bland plain sand bases; less to go wrong with a small child involved!)Black Scorpion do...
View ArticleGame Design #74: Why Aerial Wargames Suck
A bit of a clickbait title, but this is a genre which I feel has seen very few good rule sets. Contrast this to the plethora of decent WW2/modern platoon+ level rules, for example.Perhaps there is...
View ArticleGame Design #75: Weapon Range vs Terrain Density
I think I've somewhat covered this in the past in a topic on scale(I recall ranting about how Bolt Action's 24" rifle range, gives them an absolute range of about 50 yards/metres "in scale" - resulting...
View ArticleGame Design #76: Uncertainty in Activation
From the start the initiative and activation mechanics have fascinated me. Even as a teenager, I always wondered why games like Warhammer had simpler/less interactive activation than games like...
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Game Design Index Update (2018) - Some Rambling Included
The series of 76(!) articles on game design are indexed properly and up to date. On the side bar or click here. It's interesting that this blog has shifted its focus over the years.Delta Vector...
View ArticleWar Thunder: A PC Game Review for Middle Age Gamers (Air Arcade)
War Thunder is free. It is about WW2 tanks, planes and (soon) coastal forces like MTBs and S-boats - sometimes mixed together on the same map. It runs on a laptop or a complete potato PC. It is...
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Fighting Sail: Rules Review
Not sure what it is. Maybe it is the subject matter. Naval wargamers are notorious rivet counters. Napoleonics players are so anal retentive they can argue for hours about uniform buttons. Mix them...
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Shadow War: Armageddon - The New Old Necromunda
"the more things change, the more they stay the same," (Alphonse Karr, 1849)The "new Games Workshop" has returned with lots of new Specialist Games-style offerings. Too many for me to afford or test,...
View ArticleDomina - Gladiator Management (PC)
This is an awesome game. It's also a good game if you're more wargamer than PC gamer. You manage your own ludus, with a stable of gladiators who rank up with training and successful fights. Besides...
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Psychic Knights Riding Dinosaurs: A Lost World
This is my current "default" Middlehiem setting for my homebrew skirmish campaign rules. I thought I'd share some WIP shots and a bit of background on Middlehiem.I suppose Middlehiem could be...
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French and Indian Dinosaur Wars 1754
We all know how the French and British colonists in the New World clashed over the lucrative dinosaur trade. Dinosaur skins, teeth and other products provided an irresistible lure to those in search of...
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Nazis and Dinosaurs in the Lost World
The fascination with dinosaurs continues....After Operation High Jump in 1947 finally discovered and captured the main Nazi cave entrances to the Hollow Earth (the original entrances in the salt mines...
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Subterranean War
Watching the Netflix's Ken Burns documentary The Vietnam War piqued my interest in the tunnel systems of Vietnam, and inspired musings on "underground warfare" in general.Besides Vietnam, I know a bit...
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Micro-level Combat: Gaming in 100:1 /Drone Wars
This is not 1:100 scale (aka ~15mm Flames of War) but the reverse - miniatures are dramatically LARGER than the unis they represent. I.e. the actual real world units are tint, almost invisible to the...
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Mortal Engines and Dieselpunk Tanks
I only saw the trailer for Mortal Engines and although the "tracked cities" seems ridiculous I kinda love the whole landship-but-a-city idea. It's probably too "young adult" for me to enjoy, but I plan...
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