The First Encounter – A Super Hero Battle Report

An explosion erupted in down town Ultra City, Renegade the masked madman, used one of his patented Rene-Grenades to take out former Astronaut turned super hero Astro-Man and humanities greatest protector the Golden Phoenix. Then as the evil Nightmare attempted to subdue Red Vector from behind, Comet The Space Boy was fried by Zzap’s electric […]

Poundland’s Super Heroes

The following post was inspired by a post on the Man of Tin Blog: https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/poundland-super-heroes-say-farewell-to-stan-lee-rip/ Poundland are currently selling lego-ish mini figures in sets of 4. Today I purchased two sets, one labelled Super Heroes and another Spacemen and Aliens (I think… I’ve thrown away the boxes at this point). I swapped heads and hands […]

Army Soldiers

Here’s today’s purchase despite protests from the wife of ‘Don’t you have enough army men?’ You’ve probably seen these Matchbox copies before on other blogs or in stores so I’m not breaking any new ground here, other than to say the marked price of £6 (a bit pricey I admit) once I had reached the […]

The Cosmic Warrior

So as I was skulking around the local discount shops and came across the following: Covered in stolen Transformers artwork and a clear rip-off off of a Gundam design, I felt this ‘Cosmic Warrior’ was useful for filling out the ranks of my Allegiance of Gnossos army for Deathzap. Painted up and battle damaged, I’m […]

Of Blood and Beasts – Battle Report

The Solar Raiders faced off against the Jendari Tigers in a quick game this evening. Their objective was to take and hold the burned out tank. Whoever had it after 6 turns would be the victor. Both sides advance. The Jendari Dinosaurs clash with the Solar Raiders and tear them to shreds. The Solar Raiders […]

Tales From The Portable Gaming Case: Gladiators

So I take four of the ‘trees’ (tin foil glued to washers and flocked) put them in a square to create a rough representation of a 3×3 grid. I then flip over the top card of the deck, the card shows an arrow moving from one grid square to another. First the figures in the […]

Tales From The Portable Gaming Case: Colonial

The Mrs and I are moving house, which means most evenings are spent packing things up, or finding old projects and getting distracted by them. One such projects was my portable gaming case, found stashed away on a bookshelf. Contained within are figures for various periods, and small bits of scenery to play around with. […]

A Simple Idea for Fantasy Skirmishes

A very long time ago I had a different blog, I recently rediscovered some of the posts there and they were long and rambley, with very little in terms of content that would be interesting to anyone other than myself. What I did discover there though was several attempts at producing ‘stat less’ skirmish games. […]

Knights for my own Little Wars

I remembered while reading H.G. Well’s Little Wars that he struggled to come up with quick and easy rules for simulating musketry, I thought if you go back before muskets, and have say knights fighting each other with ballistas and catapults or trebuchets instead of cannons, problem solved eh? Well, no… for some reason I […]

Could War Break Out in Babbacumbe?

Conflicts between rebel and government forces in the nation of Babbacumbe are common, however fighting erupted earlier today between government forces and a government allied peacekeeping force from North Cameria. After a bloody firefight the North Camerians came out on top, however not without losses. President Banko of Babbacumbe denied any knowledge of the actions […]

Tigers VS Rebels – A Simple Toy Soldier Battle Report

In the country of Babbacumbe, in the half destroyed town of Jedda the governments own forces known simply as ‘Tigers’ take on some Rebels. The Tigers move towards a bombed out house. The Rebels take up positions outside a destroyed factory. You can see how particularly bad some of the figures I am using are, […]

The Simple Toy Soldier Game

Here’s a belated Christmas present from me to you, my attempt at a tactical, yet simple rule set with the goal of quickly and excitingly playing out firefights between small squads of troops with modern weapons. I’ve had a lot of fun with this rule set over the last couple of years since it popped […]

Tis The Season To Blast Aliens – Battle Report

Today I finally managed to set up the table for Deathzap and get a game in with all my toys so far. On the one side we have the combined forces of House Baranor and the Jendari Collective, including the infamous Jendari Tigers and their trained dinosaurs. On the other side we have, the Vel, […]

Dino-Team Photo

So after a long period of play testing I think it’s time I had a dino break. As you can see my collection of dinosaurs has boomed somewhat in recent weeks. My goal now however is to refocus back on Deathzap, and a little project I think could be a real game changer.

The Biggest Problem with Dino-Gaming

The picture above illustrates the main problem I found when trying to gather up dinosaurs for gaming. While there is a huge variation in the actual quality of the toys you’ll find and how well they adapt to the gaming table, the main problem you’ll find is one of scale. The four dinosaur toys above […]

Discount Dino Conversions

A regular dino you’ll find in bags of cheap dinosaurs is Pachycephalosaurus. You know the one with the bony head that likes ramming into things. Unfortunately the real dinosaur bears little resemblance to the two I have… one of which is below: My first step was to swap heads with another toy. I forgot to […]

Dino Thoughts From a Lizard Brain

I played a game today trailing some new dinosaurs and a new objective – the gargantuan. The idea being that there’s something big and nasty and the first side to bring it down gets an objective point. I played the game mostly for fun (oh the horror!) so I didn’t take too many pictures, all […]

Painting Discount Dinosaurs

So you can fork out a large amount of money to get Papo or Schleich dinosaurs for your prehistoric gaming, but since the popularity of the Jurassic Park films… or maybe before… I’m not old enough to remember, you can readily find cheap dinosaur toys to game with. All it takes is a little paint, […]

Organised Chaos

In my bid to post on this blog most days I here submit the following. The shame of it. In the top photo you can see my hobby space, perched on the edge of the sofa… formerly used for sitting, now used to display my own brand of hobby madness. I’m currently painting up another […]

Carnival of Carnivores – Battle Report

So I tried playing my carnivores against each other this evening. Instead of putting down two herbivore, two carnivore I instead decided to go with predictably four carnivore feeding points. The objectives were ‘Infiltrate’ which meant getting half your force into your opponents deployment zone, ‘Destruction’ which means wiping out half of your opponents force, […]

Roasted Rex – Battle Report

So a little more play-testing this evening, changes from the previous edition of the rules (last nights rules to be exact) include two slight tweaks to make combat more bloody (yum yum!) and also there have been some tweaks to objectives. Below you can see deployment, T-Rex, Giganotosaurus, Utahraptor and Allosaurus, take on Stegosaurus, […]

More Dinosaur Play-testing

I did some more play-testing this evening with my new dinosaur rules, and a couple of new dinosaurs, in the top picture you’ll see my new Dilophosaurus and Utahraptor. Unfortunately my phone died so I only managed to snap the two pictures above so that’s all you’re getting in terms of a report on the […]

Dino-Wars (Is that title taken already?)

I finally settled on a rule set, one of my own concoction and I’m so happy it actually works! So here is my inaugural play test. Here’s deployment. On the left we have a Stegosaurus, an Allosaurus, a Styracosaurus and a Triceratops, against them on the right is a Giganotosaurus, Spinosaurus, T-Rex and another Allosaurus. […]

The Jendari Rangers – Ready for the table…

So the Jendari rangers are ready for the table. Ironically I went for a more realistic scheme than a higher or retro sci-fi one, I wanted them to look stealthy. Rules wise I think I’ll have units designated as elite resolve all their shooting before other non-elite units, since in Deathzap all shooting is simultaneous. […]

The Jendari Rangers

In the interest of adding special forces to my games of Deathzap, I’ve produced the following: Milliput backpacks and map pin heads differentiate these guys from their usual Poundland counterparts. I’m hoping to paint the heads up like those old school sci if spherical helmets. I’ve also added a Parasaurolophus to my line up of […]