Grimdark Future

I haven’t been posting as much as I would like lately, although that’s not for a bad reason, it’s for a very good one (albeit a gaming one). A major distraction from my usual repertoire of Deathzap, Bolt Action and whatever other strangeness I can play with has been Grimdark Future from One Page Rules. […]

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Battle of the Rulebooks Part 2

Thanks for all of your comments on the last post. The list of rulesets I’ll be trying so far is: Use Me Sci Fi Combat Zone Laserburn Vor The Maelstrom Grim Dark Fire Fight Donald Featherstone’s Skirmish Wargame Donald Featherstone’s Close Little Wars Mutants and Death Ray Guns Wasteman Space Weirdos Void Pirates Planet28 One […]

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Battle of the Rulebooks

I was watching a Discourse Miniature’s livestream on YouTube and she mentioned that she had a plan to play every wargame ruleset ever written. I audibly gasped. I assumed she meant every commercially made set of rules. Otherwise you’d be looking at millions of rulesets. Even every commercially made science fiction ruleset would be a […]

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Why so many Deathzap rulesets?

So I have an addiction to writing rules for Deathzap. There’s a number of reasons for this, I mean I love writing rules, but the main reason for Deathzap is that overtime I’ve recognised that no one ruleset can cover every aspect of combat within a fictional universe. Warhammer 40,000 is the obvious example to […]

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The Second Global War Campaign – Story Battle Report: Close Call

The young Prime Darrik June pulled his pistol from its holster and examined it closely. “You won’t need that” spat Chief Protector Cassil. “Because you’ve got me?” smirked the Prime sarcastically. “No Prime” replied Cassil, “because we’re on parade and if they want to take you out it’ll be from afar, I’d choose a Cambarian […]

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The Second Global War

The causes of the Second Global War on the planet Jendar are obvious. With the end of the Camerian Civil War and the new United Cameria joining the Jendari Collective in 2100AC the power balance between the two great powers of Jendar had shifted. House Baronor now in a weaker position chose to strike first […]

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Counter Attack

With the Harkovian foothold established in Goza, Gozan forces scrambled to push them out. As mentioned in my previous post I’m taking the opportunity of these early stages in the war to figure out the rules and my campaign system. I wanted faster and deadlier melee combat as all combat so far is fairly slow. […]

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The Invasion of Goza

So my long planned Global War has finally kicked off. With Harkovian Drop Troops making a name for themselves in the early stages of the invasion of Goza. The hope is that a push through Goza and into the Rin Empire will cut out the heart of the Jendari Collective and the rest of the […]

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The Deathzap Universe – 2100AC

The planets of the Xolar system first found themselves colonised by humanity 2000 years ago when the Jendari pilgrims from Titan, Europa, Io, Callisto and Ganymede escaped through the Martian Portal. Mordrac the planet closest to the star Xol has yet to be terraformed and remains super hot and uninhabitable. Kannis the second planet was […]

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Orctober

With Orctober upon us I went about looking for Orcs to paint up and enter into the various Orctober painting competitions you see around on the web. Alternative Armies is always a go to for me if I’m in the mood for a characterful figure. However in this instance I went to Essex Miniatures and […]

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Still Painting Poundland Figures

After the fun I had messing around with my universal skirmish rules I wondered about using them for skirmishing in the Deathzap universe. To that end I’ve been painting up more Poundland figures: I think the 25mm Warhammer style bases really make them look like ‘proper’ gaming figures: Not that there’s such a thing as […]

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Blanchitsu Barbie

Here’s a blast from the past. A project started around 4 years ago and only just finished today. Some of the pictures are even from our old house! So I started with your average discount shop barbie, a box of milliput, some old clothes and a tub of bits. After a repose, covering her in […]

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Holiday Hobby Update

It’s been holiday time on the Isle of Man, lots of fun has been had spending time with the parents, little hobby progress though as I’m sure you can imagine. The Isle of Man is a pretty cool place and seeing lots of dioramas involving Vikings has wetted my appetite for some Dark Age skirmishing, […]

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Mechanics Lab: Advanced Gaol28

I’ve been having a lot of fun lately mashing plastic kits together and thinking about rules for my very rules light skirmish game Gaol28. Some commenters on Instagram asked about a more advanced version which presented a good number of challenges, challenges I could think about for hours and hours. I suppose the biggest issue […]

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Gaol28

Here’s a little project I also undertook while sick with COVID. My goal was to write something short but interesting so I could post the entirety of the rules on Instagram (hence the odd method of posting here).

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Wargaming in bed

I’m sure the Featherstone scholars among you will remember what I’m talking about but the specific article I’m thinking of has so far eluded me despite looking through all of my Featherstone books multiple times. I remember Donald talking about a time he was bedridden and desiring to get a game in so he requested […]

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DEATH DUELS

SET UP Fighters have four stats Power (P), Toughness (T), Agility (A) and Special (S), a fighters stats can be any number between 2 and 9 as long as the total of a fighter’s four stats equals 24. The game is played on a 1×8 grid. One fighter begins on the 4th space in, the […]

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