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The News Stand: 12/06/2026

The week has ticked over, so it’s time to cover all the latest in the world of Ultramodern Wargaming. New releases from Spectre, previews from Combat Octopus and many others, and even a sign of life from Haywire. Read on for more!

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January 2022 Update

02/02/2022

New year, new update format! Rather than looking at projects, I’m instead going to take a look at the various aspects of the hobby, giving a much wider view over it all. But as an intro, I’m feeling pretty happy with January. I may didn’t paint as much as I wanted but there was some nice variety. And perhaps most importantly, so many games! Collecting I actually did pretty well this month in terms of purchasing. I didn’t actually buy any models! One of my goals this year is to save money by not buying too many new things, and…
SITREP: Hint Dropping

27/01/2022

Hmm, this blog has been far too quiet this week, maybe I need to drop a hint about that I’m working on… Okay that’s less a hint and more of a preview. But expect a post soon about some of these fine figures from White Dragon Miniatures. It’s actually been a nice change, jumping around between different paint schemes rather than block painting one scheme. Full post this weekend.
Battle Report: Operation Rubicon– Ultramodern Chain of Command

23/01/2022

Well it’s finally here. After almost 6 months of pondering, mulling over ideas, hunting through forums for tidbits of a hint of shadow, we finally put figures on the table and played a game of Chain of Command in an ultramodern setting, using forces from the ChargeReal setting I’m working on. And oh boy, we had a brilliant time. Before we get into the game, there is something I need to say first – I’m not attempting to make Fighting Season word for word. That ruleset is someone else’s baby and focused on a very specific time period and setting.…
SITREP – Rules and Platoons!

20/01/2022

Well I do love a good contents page don’t I? A lot of time has been spent digging through various conversions of Chain of Command these last few weeks, trying to arrange together some information to be used to make up a set of changes to move Chain of Command into the Ultramodern era. I’ll go into more details on the changes after this week’s play session but I’m happy how I’ve managed to add some major changes that don’t massively bulk out Chain of Command’s existing systems with excessive re-writing. The Dastardly Regular Opponent is coming over this weekend…
News- Podcast Time!

17/01/2022

Surprise! The guys over at The Table’s Edge (a Spectre Operations podcast) invited me on to chat about all thing Ultramodern Wargaming. We talked a lot about a wide selection of things from how I started in the hobby up to my thoughts on rulesets and even the ChargeReal, which might explain why it’s 90 minutes long. So sit back with a warm drink (or maybe a model or two to paint) and enjoy! Ben and Dan (the guys behind the show) are pretty fantastic – full of enthusiasm for the hobby, focused on making a super entertaining product and…
SITREP – Big Printing Pt.3 – Typhoon

11/01/2022

Well I finallly did it – I finally a printed the Typhoon MRAP. This is was on of the vehicles on my wishlist when I was looking at the bigger printer, inspired mostly by my trips to Tarkov. But with the real vehicle being 9m long, it was way too big to print on the Mars (even with some acrobatics on the build plate). However, the Saturn’s build volume is more than long enough to fit the chassis and I was lucky enough to receive the STLs made by Guaro3d as a birthday present. There was some fun times with…
Battle Report: Operation Carronade – Chain of Command

10/01/2022

Two years ago, the Dastardly Regular Opponent and myself were summoned North to the home of our Creative Regular opponent to take part in Operation Chisel, a scenario written by our host and featuring four platoons in total on the board. It was a great introduction to Big Chain of Command, as well as a chance to spend an afternoon with friends, rolling some dice and blowing up tanks. We finished off planning to get plenty more games of Chain of Command in, helped by the fact I was planning to transfer to Leeds. And then 2020 happened. The winter…
SITREP – Big Printings Pt.2

06/01/2022

And there we are – all 5 walls from the Vae Victis advent calendar printed. I still have the damaged wall to repair but I’m very happy with how these giant pieces of resin have turned out. There will be a little bit of clean up before undercoating (mostly clipping off the chunks of raft I had to add for the arches) but once they are done it will be airbrush time! Speaking of big prints, I had to run another experiment with going wide rather than tall. I managed to pack the build plate with as many bits of…