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 […]

Dinosaurs, dinosaurs everywhere…

From left to right Therezinosaurus, Allosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Styrachosaurus, another Allosaurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, T-Rex, Carnotaurus and Spinosaurus. I’ve got rules in the making to use with these fellas, hopefully to be posted here soon. Also I should mention in the menu tab at the top of the page you can find the rules for Deathzap. Thanks […]

Total Domination – Battle Report

A unit of Baranor infantry attempt to tank hunt, but the SolRad’s get in the way.

Deathzap: Skirmish

Getting Rather Sel-Annoyed

Here’s some more images of some play testing I’ve been doing. This time the Selenoids took on a platoon of noble House Baranor infantry, with Baranor coming out on top 7 objective points to 2. I realised the Selenoids could probably do with some decent anti infantry fire power as they are all currently wielding […]

Dino-Might!

I’ve recently been accumulating dinosaurs, most likely for some kind of game… but the challenge there is how do you make a game of melee only combat between two or three figures interesting… I have no idea, none the less the figures are still cool!

Long time no Selenoid

Here’s some pics from a game I played today having not dabble with Deathzap for a good while. It was a lot of fun, fast and easy to pick back up.

Zombies

There has been many a distraction of late, but mainly these guys… 80 games workshop zombies painted to completion… only 40 to go now for my 1000 point AoS list. That revolutionary thing I promised is still to come so stay tuned!

Ruminations

I’ve invested in some more Poundland figures and put together two forces of 50 figures each. This is mainly to test a rules idea I’ve had in mind for a long time. It could be revolutionary, it could be a pile of poop. It’s more likely to be the latter, but on the off chance […]

Incredibles

While on holiday I was looking for something to use gaming wise or just for some painting fun. I found a large tub of Incredibles for around $20 (can’t remember exactly how much). You get two of each Incredible including Frozone, and then loads of villains, around 55 in total. Should be a fun little […]

Going on Holiday

I’m off to Disney for two weeks-ish. This understandably means gaming and painting goes on hold. It’s been slow recently in the cheap gaming/painting sphere due to games workshop’s upcoming armies on parade which I’m entering a Slaanesh army into; fingers crossed that I’ll get some kind of trophy. I’ve got lots to do, and […]

Cowboys

Thanks again to the poundstoreplasticwarriors blog I have found myself with a bit of a western obsession. I’ll hopefully be putting together a solo campaign for these fellas, some Indians that came with them and some Mexican bandits!

Flick Ninjas

So after a little browsing of plastic tat shops (it helps when you live in a seaside town in the U.K.) I found a bag of ninjas for a pound. All told there must be around 40 ninjas in the bag, each is surprisingly well sculpted and they come in red and black plastic, but […]

An afternoon’s work…

I purchased some Italeri Crusaders and Saracens today in the hope of doing some medieval era skirmishing with my imagi-nations. The paint scheme I went for may be nostalgic for some. They certainly bring back warm fuzzy feelings for me since I had a rather good Britains Deetail collection as a kid. https://goo.gl/images/tA3Lsu https://goo.gl/images/n7S16T They’re […]