Big Simple Skirmishes

So based on yesterday’s post, here’s a revised version of the Simple rules I was using. I played around with them this morning. They seemed robust enough for a decently quick game without anything too strange happening. I really like how they mimic the terror of automatic weapons. Figures don’t fire in volleys like most […]

Another Army in an Afternoon and some simple rules

So I’ve finished my Strelets WW1 Russians in a similar style to my previous Fallschirmjager: The Russians came in green plastic so I was able to do the same black paint and Mod Podge wash directly onto the plastic. I picked out their gas masks and weapons with citadel’s Black Templar and then just a […]

Army in an Afternoon

So like you (I’m sure) I’ve got piles and piles of figures. Which is fine, but it’s the unloved ones, the ones tucked away in bags and boxes not getting any attention which I don’t like. Back when I visited my parents on the Isle of Man I picked up a box of Italeri (former […]

The Invasion of Khef

After establishing a beachhead in Goza the Harkovian army had become bogged down. Supplies were limited, but the Knights fought on nobly and held the ground despite overwhelming Jendari numbers. It was clear to the Baronor commanders that a second front needed opening up to split the defenders. They chose to strike at Khef: The […]

Slapchop Deathzap

Short post from a slow week. I’ve been experimenting with the slapchop painting technique on my deathzap figures. For those not in the know to slapchop you first prime the figure black and the drybrush them white: Then you apply contrast paints, I use citadel’s although other manufacturers equivalents are available and often said are […]

Discount Titans

My friend and I are working our way towards a very big game of Grimdark Future, hopefully 20,000 points, which should pit his entire Blood Angels army against my entire World Eater army (plus some allies). This year so far I’ve already managed to add 1000 points to my force with a box of Horus […]

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 […]

Hobby Spend 2022 and Setting Goals for 2023

So how much money did you spend on your hobby in 2022? My goal this last year was to track all of my hobby spending just to see how much this hobby was costing me, and I completely forgot about that goal in the second half of last year. But I did manage to recover […]

Comfortable Christmas Wargaming 2022 – Best Laid Plans…

I didn’t get my usual comfortable game in this year using Stuart Asquith’s rules and Italeri figures, I instead played a game of Grimdark Future with a mate actually on Christmas Day. His Sisters of Battle fought against my Eldar from Craftworld Ashon-Sen and as seems to be the case with Grimdark we’re always having […]

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 […]

Battle of the Rulebooks Part 3: Gathering Forces

Of course I had to take this opportunity to buy more little plastic people. This wasn’t as simple as grabbing whatever I wanted though, I did have a few goals in mind. My main goal was to have two forces, one elite with few models, decent armour and weaponry, and the other with more models, […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Speed Painting Thousand Sons

A couple of friends and I are building up armies for One Page Rules, starting slow and building up 500 points a month. I’ve always wanted to do Thousand Sons, but the painting has always put me off. However I think I’ve found a scheme I can really work with.

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 […]

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 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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]