An exhibition game for Little Wars melbourne 2010
00 Day 22 – Do you prefer high fantasy or low fantasy? I love heroic fantasy and have read a loads of books in that genre: LOTR, Elric, Conan, Shannara, Thomas Covenant, Song of Ice & Fire, and so on. My favourites though are the Lyonesse Series by Jack Vance, and the Chronicles of Morgaine […]
00 Day 10 – Favourite Adventure You’ve Run This one is aimed at the DM, so if you’re a player and are doing your own challenge, change it to ‘Favourite Adventure You’ve Played’ – thinking about it, that question would work for both sides. Anyhoo. My favourite pony adventure. There’s two. The adventure I enjoyed […]
00 I just took delivery of an order from Artizan Designs for several 28mm Afrika Korps figures. Riflemen, NCOs, LMG teams, a mortar team and a MMG team – enough for 3 squads, a command unit and two heavy support teams when added to some old Black Tree Design figures I’ve had collecting dust in […]
00 Just received two of these behemoths in the post from Eureka. The Ankylosaurus itself is actually a Schleich model and surprisingly well detailed. All it needs is a good paint job and it will do very nicely. Naturally though, I can’t leave it alone so I’ll add a little putty on the club tail […]
00 The thing with blogs is that you’re supposed to update them regularly. I keep forgetting. Does that make me a bad net-citizen? No, just a guy with too many things on his plate and a crappy computer that takes hours to warm up enough to be usable. I’ve been working over the past few […]
00 Late in the First World War, several Powers experimented with armoured trains as a means to protect the movement of troops and supplies and provide significant fire-power at the point where the troops dismounted. The Poles in particular developed these trains, as did the Russians and the Germans. Even Britain and Japan flirted with […]
00 The key to winning a war in Russia was being able to function effectively in the harshest of conditions. Napoleon learnt a costly lesson there and Hitler should have paid more attention during History classes. The Russkies developed a number of over-snow transport vehicles including the quirky little “aerosani” literally “aero-sleds.” Essentially an airplane […]
00 In a top secret factory on the outskirts of New Jersey, the ‘swing shift’ has just clocked on. The production lines begin to roll as Rosie O’Leary puts on her gloves and grabs her welding gear. The factory is making M-300X Rocket packs, the latest gizmo to add to the already incredible arsenal of […]
00 Been busy doing some graphics for the JR sourcebook (in between other projects) and have designed some unit badges for the various forces included in the book. The idea is that these will eventually be available for sale as sew-on (or iron-on) badges and even as custom dice, once the book is out. The […]
00 This year, I am running a wargaming convention over the Easter long weekend. I was involved in helping with organising last year’s event, but this year I have taken on the role of coordinator and chairman of the committee. The event is called the Bugle Call and is focusing on historical wargaming mostly, although […]