Putting My Money Where My Mouth is and Working on Some Dinosaurs

I’ve done this before, but after much changing around in my hobby room I’ve misplaced my previously painted Dinos, and sparked on by my £5 wargaming challenge post I though I’d have a go again. I went slightly over budget (£5.99, forgive me, I’ll say five ‘Hail Featherstones’), and nabbed a bag of small Dinos […]

Blast from the Past: A Dino-Wars Battle Report

It’s always good to play with a ruleset you haven’t looked at in a very long time. When you write your own rules, often times you end up with blind spots as you always know what you meant to write even if an objective observer wouldn’t read what you wrote in the same way. Time […]

Charge of the Bite Brigade

According to Archaeologists at the University of Nyandar the Boskovan Mountains were where the first Solar Colonists set foot on the planet Jendar. One thousand years later the mountains would see some of the most significant battles of the ‘War of the Three Dragons’, and in 1237AC battles of the much smaller ‘Pudding War’. Now […]

Finishing Projects I’ve already started…

I’m sure like me you’ve got a desk where the edges slowly creep in as you push things you’ve already started to the side so you can get going on something new. For me Deathzap has always been like that, a world of infinite possibilities tends to lead to too many ideas, and before I […]

Deathzap Skirmish: A Fistful of Selenoids

Another Deathzap Skirmish outing on a neon green planet saw the victorious Jendari Tiger squad from my last game take on a few Selenoids, both forces came in at 150 points exactly. The Selenoids made a good start taking down the Jendari Ceratosaurus before it could cause any problems. But unfortunately one Selenoid fell to […]

Simple Satisfying Games

There’s often an urge to roll dice and see events unfold, to wonder how things might have been different had fortune swung the other way and what might have been actively done better to change the outcome. To scratch this itch I played a 150 point game of Deathzap Skirmish on a rather small board […]

Taking Your Dinosaurs from 0/10 to a solid 5.5/10

You should never put yourself down hobby wise, however some times you don’t want three layers of highlights, and when I’m looking for a way of putting my dinosaurs into action fast, I don’t want to be spending hours painting… I mean look at this treasure trove… As previously mentioned I’d hatched a scheme utilising […]

Everybody Do The Dinosaur

I was up for some simple gaming last night, so I grabbed some wooden discs I had to hand, a tin of green spray paint, superglue and eight small dinosaur figures and produced what you can see above. The dinosaurs effectively come pre-painted, all that would be required is picking out eyes, claws, teeth and […]

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 […]

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.

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

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 […]