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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Deathzap 1 Skirmish Battle Report: House Baronor vs The Allegiance of Gnossos

A little blast from my past here, I played a little game this evening using the skirmish version of the very first version of my Deathzap rules (up in the menu on the right). The skirmish rules have the following additions – Points Values (which I rarely used in the main game: UNIT POINTS COST […]

Mechanics Lab: Advanced Gaol28

I’ve been having a lot of fun lately mashing plastic kits together and thinking about rules for my very rules light skirmish game Gaol28. Some commenters on Instagram asked about a more advanced version which presented a good number of challenges, challenges I could think about for hours and hours. I suppose the biggest issue […]

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.

Gaol28

Here’s a little project I also undertook while sick with COVID. My goal was to write something short but interesting so I could post the entirety of the rules on Instagram (hence the odd method of posting here).

Wargaming in bed

I’m sure the Featherstone scholars among you will remember what I’m talking about but the specific article I’m thinking of has so far eluded me despite looking through all of my Featherstone books multiple times. I remember Donald talking about a time he was bedridden and desiring to get a game in so he requested […]

Still Death Duelling and Reflecting on My Hobby Spend

It was a busy weekend so there was a lack of hobby progress, however I have still been duelling, refining rules, speeding things up, buying miniatures and painting them. The figures bought are mostly from the weird and wonderful areas of Irregular’s 28mm range – zombies, futuristic cops, ninjas and aliens. But a duel with […]

DEATH DUELS

SET UP Fighters have four stats Power (P), Toughness (T), Agility (A) and Special (S), a fighters stats can be any number between 2 and 9 as long as the total of a fighter’s four stats equals 24. The game is played on a 1×8 grid. One fighter begins on the 4th space in, the […]

Harry the Executioner vs Ankh the Egyptian

So I’ve been zero player duelling again, and things have moved on somewhat since my last duelling post: https://thedeathzap.wordpress.com/2021/01/01/new-years-brawl/ Now each character has four stats Power, Toughness, Agility and Special and they roll for which move they want to perform during each ‘turn’ – Strike, Heavy Strike, Kick, Heavy Kick, Grapple or Special for the […]

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. […]

WW2 Fantasy Figures?

So I’ve painted those previously mentioned Dwarves. For some reason I chose to mostly limit myself to using Citadel washes. The clothing was either Athonian Camoshade or Coelia Greenshade, all leather, pouches, straps and wood was given a coat of Agrax Earthshade, the skin Reikland Fleshshade and the metal Drakenhof Nightshade. The beards got a […]

What’s on the desk? 21/05/22

I suppose I’ve never really done hobby updates, but in a relatively slow week I thought why not? The week has mostly been slow due to work being extremely tiring and me preaching this Sunday so a lot of my free time was preparing for that. I painted up my Alien Recon Mercenaries from Irregular […]

Some Most Irregular Warbands

I’ve been itching for a number of reasons, (the main one I’ll talk about later) the other reason is to do with my Universal Skirmish rules. I keep rewriting them, writing entirely new skirmish rule sets and trying out all sorts of odd mechanics, but I haven’t got anything solid enough yet for a good […]