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It always starts the same way. He did have some new recently painted MDF gantries to play with. And as we hadn’t managed to get a game in since April, we decided to jump into something quick, easy to play and fun. And so, I broke open the box of unloved Space Marines and headed across to York for a quick game of the new edition of Killteam. I have in the past made my thoughts on 40k pretty clear (love the setting and the models, hate the game and it’s ever changing nature that makes keeping your army current…

In between my work on painting up the mountain of Shurta figures from the BPRE box, I’ve been taking a break to paint up some of the single figures that have been piling up on my desk. It just so happened that the latest two (the CIA SAD figure from Spectre’s Patreon and the Charity figure from Anthalonica) ended up being painted up in a similar way. There is something very useful about armed figures painted in a mix of civilian and camo. As someone who plays a variety of different games and missions, this style lets you represent anyone…

So as you might guess, I didn’t play my wargame on Sunday. Instead, I found myself writing this – a system for generating patrols in the back country of Al-Bawaaba, a province of the Albion Commonwealth that previously features in the mission “Training Day” . Basically, with a few dice rolls you can setup a foot patrol for your section, roll up any objectives and see what you’re up against. You still need to roll up the stats for each of the forces (something I’ll setup automatically later) but everything else should be there and able to change every time.…

Surprise, time for the start of the month update. As seen in the past, I am terrible at sticking with my carefully laid out templates for anything longer than a year so it’s time for a change! Basically anytime I’m doing a set of titles and I start having to write “Not much happened!” it’s time to tweak how I report things. Taking a break Yeah, it’s been a bit quiet around here hasn’t it? As I mentioned earlier in the month, I started the month off with a week on holiday travelling down south. Disconnecting for a week, stepping…

The month of May is over and we are soon heading into June, and with that summer. This month was actually a bit of an up and down. Had some really bad times but I’m hopefully starting to push through them and onto new things. More importantly, next month is starting with me taking the first holiday away from home for SEVERAL years. Things might be a little bit quiet while I take some time off – in fact I’ll be setting off when this post goes up! Anyway, back to the update. For the first time, this monthly update…