Revisiting Deathzap 2: The Battle of Sarath

Not too much hobby progress this week as I’ve been out of action with another nasty cold, but I did manage to get a game in this afternoon. In the district of Sarath forces from League of Zandor hold out against an incoming wave of Mortan’s Men bolstered by mutants from the Exiled Tribes. Lone […]

Deadwars

So thanks to copious amounts of cold and flu capsules I managed a little painting yesterday and a little game today. After realising I had a box of Mars Zombie Pirates and Dark Alliance Mummies I was pondering the possibilities of an all out war between the forces of Davy Jones and Imhotep (I wonder […]

Battle of the Rulebooks Part 4: Close Wars by Donald Featherstone

Since I’m still figuring out how I’m going to dissect these rule sets I might as well start with something simple. Oh and I’ve now painted all the Eisenkern Stormtroopers for this project: Close Wars is really not designed for sci-fi, but the advantage of such a simple rule set is that simple adjustments can […]

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 […]

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 […]

Revisiting Old Rules: Super Simple Universal Skirmish Rules

Sometimes revisiting older versions of your own rules is a lot of fun, almost like playing a game written by someone else. This time round I took an early version of my simple skirmish rules for a spin, putting my Zombie Family against the Windblade Elves. The rules are as follows: WARBANDS, FIGHTERS AND STATS […]

Gaol28 Battle Report: The Infirmary vs The Chapel

One of the things I wanted to be able to do with Gaol28 was post a full battle report on Instagram which means being able to do it all in 10 images, so here’s my first attempt. The full rules are on my previous post.

The Charge! – A Comfortable Wargaming Battle Report

A comfortable start to some comfortable gaming, two infantry forces go at each other: I fully expect the Pavlovians to hold the line, but this should none the less be a fun go at some simple horse and musket rules that borrow heavily from Stuart Asquith and Donald Featherstone. Turn 1 was uneventful, but rolling […]

Death Patrol – A Simple Toy Soldier Game Battle Report

The end of the Camerian Civil War sparked a global war on the planet Jendar when House Baronor fearing a sudden attack from the Jendari Collective chose to strike first. With the ensuing dissolution of the SynJen alliance troops from both House Baronor and the Jendari Collective withdrew from the moon of Oltra back to […]

Hegemony of Synthos vs The Exiled Tribes – A Deathzap 4 Battle Report

The Exiled Tribes brought three squads of Pariahs each of seven men, two squads carry rifles with a single support repeater and the third squad has repeaters and a single destroyer, all squads of Pariahs are classed as basic. They also had a single squad of five Afflicted, which are elite troops armed with grenades. […]

When are enough rules enough? Part 4 – The Big Battle

So my quest for bigger, quicker and simpler games of Deathzap is somewhat over. I compiled my previous posts into a ruleset and played a big game: three platoons of infantry and a tank on each side, a total of 151 minis in play! I did make one pretty huge change to the rules before […]

Mechanics Lab – Super Simple Universal Skirmish Rules: Groblins vs Elves

Often a throwaway line in a ruleset can have massive ramifications, or in other words – no ruleset has throwaway lines! While setting up for playtesting I read the deployment rules: Five shrines are placed before the game. Place a single shrine in the centre of the playing area. Player’s then place two shrines each […]

The Forest vs The Bobbies

Our forces are as follows: The Bobbies: 1 Inspector – Gunslinger, 15 Might 1 Detective – Gunner, 15 Might 1 Headsman – Berserker, 15 Might 1 Sarge – Soldier, 15 Might 2 Bobbies with Rifles – Soldier, 10 Might 2 Bobbies – Warrior, 10 Might The Forest – 1 Witan – Monster, 32 Might 4 […]

SUPER SIMPLE SKIRMISH RULES REVISITED AND The Clockwork Empire vs The Family

In the interest of spending less money on this hobby, I often find myself returning to old projects. This week I looked back at my Monochrome minis and the Super Simple Skirmish game, to see if I could simplify it further and add even more strategic depth. I think I’ve managed that. WARBANDS, FIGHTERS AND […]

Rescue the Boss – A Simple Toy Soldier and Deathzap Battle Report (Sort of)

So analysis paralysis made me hold off on playing out this scenario for a while. I want something that plays well and is exciting, but I’m frankly lacking in experience when it comes to designing wargaming scenarios, but the table and terrain was sat waiting for a game so I just went for it. It […]

Capture the Wautomata – A Simple Toy Soldier and Deathzap Battle Report

Based on ManofTin’s few broken down wagon battle reports I was inspired to try something similar. With the advent of The Second Gobal War on Jendar with The Jendari Collective once again facing off against House Baronor, both powers had to pull back from their various expansions and focus solely on the conflict at home. […]

A Deathzap Boxing Day Battle Report

I played a little 500 point game today on the same battlefield as my last post. In this instance it was Mortan’s Men facing off against the League of Zandor. This will be a rules rather than story battle report. I’ll try to explain in some detail what is going on. Mortan’s Men had: A […]

Leaving it up to Chance – Deathshot Battle Report

Captain Vinko spat on the ground in disgust as he saw the Royalists approaching. “We won the war men!” He shouted, “Now let’s win the battle!” The Yellow Hats cheered their new officer. While not as well trained as his regulars Vinko knew the militia would fight just as hard since this now was their […]

Kay – Story Battle Report

The war ground on, unrelenting, unforgiving. Oltra a once promising mining colony was now nothing more than a burned out husk, an industrial corpse. SynJen were on the verge of pulling out of Oltra all together, and giving up entirely on Kannis as more and more soldiers of House Baronor and the Jendari Collective were […]

Different Kinds of Chrome

As mentioned in my previous post, I had some more figures coming my way from Irregular, figures which were going to be painted up in different kinds of monochrome. The first were my ‘Metal Men’, which included a Battle Robot from their 15mm sci-fi range I’ve dubbed Killborg and a Battle Robot from their 28mm […]

Growing Neo-Arcane

I’ve been busy this week planning and painting my forces for Neo-Arcane and I think I’ve also come up with a fairly innovative points and activation system. First up I’ve added there Ghosts to my undead force I’ve now named the ‘Necrypt’. The corporation I’m now just calling ‘Core’ has gained a Sniper, Cyborg and […]

Playtesting Darkfell

As mentioned in a previous version post I’ve been playing a lot of Darkfell and rather enjoying it. The basic rules are still the same as seen here. Although now I’ve added 15 separate character classes, 5 Magic Users, 5 Ranged Weapon Specialists and 5 Melee Specialists, each with 10 different traits that your character […]

Fantasy Rule Hunting Part 1: Warlords

I’ve got a large collection of fantasy miniatures mostly consisting of several different armies I have previously built for Age of Sigmar. They tend not to see the table all that often, and so I’ve been on the hunt for a good generic fantasy ruleset that lets you build your units however you want and […]

New Years Brawl

So I’ve managed to build a roster of 16 fighters for my zero player duelling game. Here’s the previous post if your unsure what I’m on about: https://thedeathzap.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/zero-player-duel-wargame-rules/ Funnily enough there are only 15 possible combinations of 3 whole numbers between 1 and 5 that total 7: 115,151,511 124,142,241,214,412,421 133,313,331 223,232,322 So I had to […]

Comfortable Christmas Wargaming

I played a comfortable game this morning using these rules at the end of this article by Stuart Asquith: https://lonewarriorswa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Comfortable-War-Gaming.pdf The figures I used were some Italeri Celts and Celt Cavalry representing the Crumpet Barbarians and some Italeri 95th Rilfes and French Dragoons representing the forces of Roulade. The Roulade Army had to make it […]