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Month: August 2017

Impressions: Empress August Releases

Empress did a rather cool thing back in July and put out a list of things they planned to release. When I first saw it, I assumed we would see them dribbled out over a period of months. Empress instead dropped them all at once, leading to a rather exciting day watching the Empress Facebook…

Features, Figures, Impressions, Wargaming

30/08/2017
Skirmish Sangin – Plausible Deniability

Emergency post! You’re getting a post tomorrow but just been given the go ahead to talk about something cool. Radio Dishdash has just announced the next Skirmish Sangin book entitled Plausible Deniability. Focusing on Special Operations, this book will have all sorts of stuff in it to expand Skirmish Sangin. In addition some preview images…

Features, Skirmish Sangin, Wargaming

29/08/2017
Wargaming Week 28/08/2017

Let’s start, covering the 21st of August through to the 27th of August. BLOG STUFF Battle report week! It wasn’t quite the game I was planning when I wrote out the scenario but it still ended up being great fun. It was also an exercise in speed writing as I managed to have the report…

Wargaming, Wargaming Week

28/08/2017
Battle Report: “Big Dave Must Die!” – Spectre Operations

Sometimes, pre-planning games don’t always go according to plan. On Monday, the game was a 7 person multiplayer game on a massive 6×8 table where every side had designs on Big Dave (mostly killing him). On Wednesday I had changed the sides. On Thursday morning, it was now going to be a much smaller game.…

Battle Reports, Features, Spectre Operations, Spectre Reports, Wargaming

25/08/2017
Wargaming Week 21/08/2017

Let’s start, covering the 14th of August through to the 20th of August. BLOG STUFF Last week was the first of the two post weeks! It ended up working quite well, with Wednesday’s post covered the MENA releases and Friday’s post covered the new SF Technicals. I was wanting to paint the vehicles up but…

Wargaming, Wargaming Week

21/08/2017
Impressions: Spectre SF Technicals – Initial Thoughts

Earlier this year, I wrote a load of stuff covering Spectre’s first vehicle release for the technical. In it, I commented about miniguns which was a stretch goal from the Kickstarter that was sadly missed, as well as the illusive “Tactical Technical”. Well, it looks like it was merely being sneaky and it is now…

Features, Impressions, Technical, Vehicles, Wargaming

18/08/2017
Impressions: Spectre July 2017 Release

The end of July saw a new release to expand Spectre’s MENA Militia range. These new figures are designed to give your militia a bit of an edge, either by adding some tougher guys or bringing some new gear to the party. If you’re building a militia force, these fighters are a must buy. Militia…

Features, Figures, Impressions, Wargaming

16/08/2017
Wargaming Week 14/08/2017

Let’s start, covering the 7th of August through to the 13th of August. BLOG STUFF A scenario went up! It’s a little different from my usual posts but it’s something that I’ve been wanting to finish for a while. Also the release of Free Fire meant it was the perfect time to release it. I’m also…

Wargaming, Wargaming Week

14/08/2017
Scenario: Warehouse Shoot Out

The start of this week saw the release of the film Free Fire on Blu-Ray and DVD in the UK. Set in the 1970’s, it’s an incredibly tense film all set in one location as an arms deal goes incredibly wrong. The film is packed full of twists and turns and well worth a watch.…

Features, Skirmish Sangin, Spectre Operations, Wargaming

11/08/2017
Wargaming Week 07/08/2017

Let’s start, covering the 31st of July through to the 6th of August. BLOG STUFF My post(s) about my weekend in Cardiff playing Spectre went up. I wrote a total of 5 posts last week as part of it so around 5000+ words, had to install about 4 plugins to hide the battle reports and not…

Wargaming, Wargaming Week

07/08/2017
Spectre Operations Weekend 2017 AAR

I’ll admit, when they announced that Spectre were running a gaming weekend in Cardiff I had tons of questions. What was it going to be like? What figures did I need to bring? Were the other Spectre players going to turn out to be tournament mad points fans? Would I find somewhere sensible to stay?…

Features, Spectre Operations, Wargaming

04/08/2017
Spectre Weekend 2017 – Game 4

Hey, this is one of the battle reports from the Cardiff Spectre Operations Event. If you haven’t read the main post yet, you can find it here. If you just want the action, keep reading! Game 4 – Boarding Action Off the coast of Val Verde, two cartel lieutenants are meeting about this month’s pay with…

Battle Reports, Features, Spectre Operations, Spectre Reports, Spectre Weekend 2017, Wargaming

04/08/2017
Spectre Weekend 2017 – Game 3

Hey, this is one of the battle reports from the Cardiff Spectre Operations Event. If you haven’t read the main post yet, you can find it here. If you just want the action, keep reading! Game 3 – Bad Day in Bazistan Jazan, Bazistan: an Emir in charge of one of the Bazi Militia is…

Battle Reports, Features, Spectre Operations, Spectre Reports, Spectre Weekend 2017, Wargaming

04/08/2017
Spectre Weekend 2017 – Game 2

Hey, this is one of the battle reports from the Cardiff Spectre Operations Event. If you haven’t read the main post yet, you can find it here. If you just want the action, keep reading! Game 2 – Teaching Val Verde: A team of deniable operatives working for a Cartel is closing in on a…

Battle Reports, Features, Spectre Operations, Spectre Reports, Spectre Weekend 2017, Wargaming

04/08/2017
Spectre Weekend 2017 – Game 1

Hey, this is one of the battle reports from the Cardiff Spectre Operations Event. If you haven’t read the main post yet, you can find it here. If you just want the action, keep reading! Game 1 – La Chute du faucon noir Bazistan: During operations, a US Army UH-60 Blackhawk has been shot…

Battle Reports, Features, Spectre Operations, Spectre Reports, Spectre Weekend 2017, Wargaming

04/08/2017

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