Feb Week 3, Hobby Round up and Painting faster

Played a game with Darling Daughter On to painting quickly tips. Let’s start with the simplest, be neat. If you stay in the lines you paint once not twice, going back is rubbish. Work from the deepest part of the model out, this helps with be neat as you are doing the hard to get…

Seven Year War Battle Report

Been on the island now for eight weeks and am really enjoying my time at the South Wight Wargamers Club. If you are on the island and have never been then get yourselves down there! Patrick and I had promised to do a historical battle and as my favourite is Seven Years War he indulged…

Warhammer 40k Apocalypse

For ages now I have been struggling with a huge quandary, I have thousands of 40k miniatures and no ruleset. I have the latest 40k rules but every time I ask about a codex it has been replaced, often this happens before I can actually play a game with that faction. What I was searching…

Empire on Empire

As we know rank and file miniature wargaming is the best. If you don’t know this you might be on the wrong blog. Saying that I have like twenty followers so please don’t leave! However There is a lot of wargaming that is ranked up soldiers fighting each other! So what keeps happening in our…

How you play the game? Part II

This post won’t make a lot of sense unless you read Part I so come back after you have been there and read it, don’t worry I will wait I have coffee and a big puppy sat next to me on the sofa. Where were we, oh yes. Public tournaments at Warhammer World. So Tom…

How you play the game?

The other day I was reading Twitter, I know, it isn’t good for me. One of the tweets was about containing your rage when you are losing a war game. The so.unions came as reframing your objective to make other criteria the thing for the game. I am writing this as I see this quite…