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So after my successful return to my own Simple Toy Soldier system, I wondered how far that core mechanic could be stretched. So sensibly I went for what I thought would be the most difficult to adapt a 20th Century skirmish system to… fantasy battles (having said that Warlords of Erewhon is a thing). I […]
Read More Simple Toy Soldier… Fantasy Battles?I have a go at one of the oldest rulesets I ever wrote, the very first version of The Simple Toy Soldier Game, not previously featured on the blog.
Read More A Simple Toy Soldier Game Battle ReportI ramble about female Custodes for a bit, hopefully with something useful to contribute to the discourse…
Read More Let’s have a ramble about female CustodesThe first post of my Great Western War Project. Setting the stage for some historical Deathzap gaming!
Read More The Great Western WarA little post about my Japanese force for Bolt Action.
Read More One Hobby Goal Down – Bolt Action JapaneseA quick guide on how I painted my AdMech army.
Read More Speed Painting Adeptus MechanicusA Quick Look at my 15mm Planetary Guard force for whichever sci-fi game you prefer in this scale.
Read More 15mm Planetary GuardIt always fun to look back over the blog and reminisce about projects past. Sometimes I’ve forgotten about projects entirely, sometimes looking back over the blog reignites the embers of a formerly dead project. In January I hit the ground running with Havok: Havok was a game from my childhood, dead now, but once put […]
Read More So what did I get up to in 2025?A quick guide to speed painting Italian Blackshirts for Bolt Action.
Read More Painting Blackshirts for Bolt ActionA battle was fought shortly after where I worked out quite a few kinks in the rules I wrote. Much fun was had too. Two things that came out of this little playtest that I really enjoyed were somewhat unexpected. First was the lack of unit coherency. I mean I’m not exactly a fan of […]
Read More A Look at Some 15mm Irregular Sci-Fi MinisA rambling look through my hobby drawers full of past and present wargaming projects…
Read More A Rambling Look Through My Hobby DrawersSKIRMASHED SET UP The game is played on a 2’x2’ board for 1-5 figures aside, and a 4’x2’ board for 6-10. Deploy forces within 3” of opposite edges (long edges on a 4’x2’). All dice are D10s (unless stated otherwise). Figures have six stats, ‘Manoeuvre’, ‘Firepower’, ‘Boom’, ‘Fight’, ‘Hack’, and ‘Stamina’. Stats can be any […]
Read More The Vanguardians VS The DarkanitesHere’s something I’ve been pondering for a little while. As I burn through ideas, new ideas, old ideas, all half baked, I began wondering why things (at least in my brain) are like this. Why start a project, become intensely focused on it for a short time and then flit to another? Maybe it’s just […]
Read More The Futility of Man… In WargamingIt’s been a little bit of a bonkers weekend. I turned a little older, and then experienced Remembrance Sunday. It’s an odd quirk of being born early November, your Birthday weekend often lines up with a rather somber and thoughtful occasion. Anywho… another quirk of having a Birthday is being inundated with gift cards, which […]
Read More Hobby Update-ishBeing away this week visiting family means no physical hobby for me, but I still love to engage in the mental – writing lore and rules. And despite being on the back burner I had promised to produce a few religious to add flavour to my own Deathzap setting. So here you go: Cyclism Religious […]
Read More Faithzap 3Hopefully this works! Here’s also a link just in case: https://youtu.be/So3RgDWgf9I?si=4YEu1C2mBAU19XaN Gremlins in the system!
Read More An attempt at a YouTube video on the Sprue BoardAfter playing a few games with my strange gangs, I felt the terrain wasn’t really matching the vibes of the figures. Considering that the terrain in question was supposed to be my generic, one set fits all games terrain I didn’t want to change it. So that meant making some new stuff. Terrain is actually […]
Read More Greebles GaloreIn the mad world of finding things to replace the heads of army men with, at some point I landed on the idea of just smaller army men. I previously showed off my initial Mantaur: The problem I found in the lab, was what with each further iteration of the Mantaur, their cognitive abilities decreased […]
Read More Mantaurs vs PiratesThings very quickly got out of hand. Much superglue has been consumed, much stuff thrown at walls to see what sticks. The Cubeheads were something I knew would work, as I’ve seen similar things before: A hobbyist called ‘Ben Has Hobbies’ has a game based entirely around the cube headed concept. https://youtu.be/Z8aqkhYBqg0?si=UPjRFZZqcNIYjGPR Chucking the pink […]
Read More Odd Gangs 2: Eclectic BoogalooWhen the fingers hover over the ‘add to cart’ ‘checkout’ and ‘buy now’ buttons on various Wargaming sites, despite you being knee deep in already existing projects, I recommend having a little look around for that odd little itch scratcher before you take the plunge. Digging through drawers in my desk I found some bags […]
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