Screw Wars

(I mean that literally but in two different ways.) I’ve long been inspired by Tony Adam’s woodscrew wargaming army: https://thewoodscrewminiaturearmy.blogspot.com/?m=1 Unfortunately Tony passed away two years ago. But the spirit of woodscrew wargaming lives on. The Man of Tin blog frequently references Tony’s army, and only the other day I spied some woodscrews being used […]

Ghost Legions Lore or Faithzap Part 2?

In my last Deathzap post, I mentioned that I’d be looking to build out the setting by adding in all the various Religions that theoretically would exist… across a few… roughly Earth sized planets… a quick google search tells you that Earth has over 4000 faiths. My Deathzap setting includes the habited planets of Kannis, […]

Grim Grinning Ghosts

With the lurgie going strong this week I mostly moved between a succession of naps and occasional snacking. However I did make some progress on the Ghost Legions front. Instead of going for my usual fluorescent ghost approach seen previously: I went down a more grimdark alley, inspired mostly by my small skirmish warbands seen […]

Featherstone’s Chimera in Action!

My bank holiday weekend of hobbying was hampered somewhat by a rather nasty cold. I managed very little in terms of painting or playing, but I did do a lot of napping. But desperate to do something, I dosed myself up on cold and flu capsules and hit the table with some Italeri figures. Roughly […]

Featherstone’s Chimera

I’ve been thinking Ghost Legions again, and in that regard something quick and easy. I still want to be able to grab a box of Italeri figures and have the rules to pitch it against any other box. Sort of like what Games Workshop do with their Combat Patrol and Spearhead games. For those not […]

Cambar Border Attack

Jed Stedder grit his teeth, and stared off into the distance as the Tigers marched over the horizon. He had hoped for the simple life of a farmer after decades of fighting in the Oltra Campaign, but the Rin Empire had different plans, and now him and his workers were forced into defending their homes. […]

Purposefully Playing it Wrong

A while back I set myself an insane goal, the goal of playing every sci-fi skirmish game ever… utter madness it was. And this was after I’d laughed off Discourse Miniatures claim on YouTube that she was going to play a game of every Wargame ever… I guess my goals were a little more sensible, […]

Age of Sig-nah

Maybe the best Warhammer products are the dead ones. Mordheim still goes strong, Epic and Warmaster have their communities as do Gorka Morka and Inquisitor. The recent fall out from the failure of the latest edition of Horus Heresy suggests that when Warhammer start tinkering with their products, often times it’s not for the better. […]

Cambari Gunslingers

I recently procured a large bag of cowboys from Amazon. The figures looked decent enough, certainly a far better quality than a lot of what I’ve been painting lately. The only real downside to the figures was the lack of poses. There was only four in all. Poses I think originated with Airfix. So I […]

Deathmelt

Odd little projects are always a good idea, because good ideas come from experimentation, experimentation that may not have been done otherwise. My Melt madness of late has been one such project, and it’s really helped me with a problem I’ve had for a long time with Deathzap. Two things I’ve loved about playing my […]

Battle For The Brain

Synth brains are key to intelligence gathering. The data is often encrypted, but with the right tools some memories can be reconstructed. There have even been attempts at extracting memories from human casualties with limited success. The body of a Synth Pirate Captain was reportedly seen amidst some ruins near the border of the Rin […]

Warhammer… the best of times and the worst of times…

Midwinter Minis uploaded two videos recently that got me thinking… why haven’t I painted any Warhammer figures recently? The Positive Video The Negative Video I didn’t want to be a negative nelly… but I have to say his negative video definitely rang more true for me than his positive one, and that’s probably reflected somewhat […]

Jendari Tigers

The first mention of the ‘Tigers’ dates back to the 67BC (Before Colonisation), where a loose group of militias joined together to defend a group of bases on Ganymede in order to help Titus Jendar’s work in restoring the Martian Portal. Use of the term ‘Tiger’ has not been without controversy, as traditional Tiger uniforms […]

Zombies!

Zombies are still cool if a little over done at this point, and miniature Zombie games are plentiful if that’s a particular itch you need to scratch – Zombies the board game, Zombicide, The Walking Dead miniatures game etc. I’ve recently been gifted many Caesar zombies in 1/72 scale. One box of camp, three of […]

Melt28 Terrain

After playtesting my Melt28 rules using the crappy terrain you find in bags of army men, I knew I had to do something with all the plastic I had accumulated. The figures themselves have a ‘Grimdark’ style now, or ‘Grimcandy’ as I coined it a while back. Dingy, but with vibrant colours. The terrain needed […]

Melt28

I’ve been ruminating on something over the past few weeks, a little project I’m calling ‘Melt28’. The goal of Melt28 is simple really, fast paced and bloody firefights with a little bit of tactical nuance, and using that bad bag of army men and crap you’ll find in your local discount shop. The sorts of […]

The Skirmish At Anvar And Tweaking Deathzap 2

Anvar was little more than an outpost, its walls were old and crumbling, peppered with holes from generations of rifle and repeater fire. Supremacy of Kannis forces held a tenuous grip on the entire sector, employing mercenary Pirates and Ascended rather than their superior Davians and Second Ascended. Supremacy Generals, now utilising portal generators were […]

S.S.U.S.R: Problem Solved?

Something had been niggling me for quite some time regarding my Super Simple Universal Skirmish Rules and that was the activation sequence. The sequence as it stood, was as follows: The player that deployed second is the activate player and can pick any of their fighters to activate. Once that fighter has activated: A player […]

Boglanders

I mentioned these guys on my previous post. The Boglanders are a miniatures range by Ramshackle Games and I love them. They’re ‘goblins’ in a pretty loose sense of the term, and the goal of the range is to have them fit into almost any setting, although if you do consult the Boglanders Source Book […]

One Army For Every Game?

One of my favourite YouTubers is Trent from Miscast, and a while back he had the idea of creating a single army to play every game. The idea seemed completely mad to me. How could you possibly create an army to cover all sci-fi, fantasy and historical settings? Although if the aim of this blog […]

The Raid on Caliphane

The emergence of the Supremacy of Kannis was the main reason the Exiled Tribes were offered a deal by the Selenoids. A deal they took. The Selenoids stabilised the biology of the Exiles, they offered them improved equipment, and free passage through space (once the Tribes had acquired their own ships). In exchange, the Exiled […]

Dragon Warriors (A Pitch Meeting)

I recently snapped up some dragons. 36 in all for £10. It was a bit of an impulse buy, but possibly the beginning of a bigger project. I do t want to get off of the Deathzap train just yet, I should ride that one until the end of the line since I’m really enjoying […]

Space Pirates

The generation ships of the Solar Raiders and the Heavens Peace Accord pushed the entire Xolar System in one direction when it came to the design of their ships – the bigger, the better. Invasions were executed by large and almost entirely self sustaining ships. However once Selenoid raids had reached their peak, that dogma […]

Big Deathzap

I had the sudden urge to paint some cheap army men this weekend. The fruits of my labour were two squads for some skirmishing in the Deathzap universe. These figures are much bigger than usual Deathzap figures and rather than being 20-30mms tall clock in at 54mm. The first squad represent the Jendari Defence Army, […]

Witch Hunters

After my last post, getting into the lore of my Super Simple Universal Skirmish System Universe (S.S.U.S.S.U) I received a package from Irregular Miniatures containing my next warband – The Witch Hunters. While the Dragon Temple remain as the last human empire, remnants of other empires still exist. One such remnant are the roving bands […]