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  • The Last News Stand: 08/11/2026

    The Last News Stand: 08/11/2026

    Yep, you’re reading the title right. After 150 editions and as the 900th post on my blog, I think it’s time to hang up the news hat and bring The News Stand to an end. But, we do still have one more run at the news, so read on for more!

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  • Wargaming Week 04/09/2017

    Let’s start, covering the 28th of August through to the 3rd of September. BLOG STUFF Two actual posts this week – a look at Empress’s releases and a battle report from Thursday’s game. Both posts were great fun to work on – the rush to speed paint figures in time for a deadline and then the fun retelling of a game. As a head’s up, we’re approaching the run in to my first demo game. As such, I’m going to be writing shorter posts for the next month or two. The timetable will be kept but there will be less battle…

  • Battle Report: “The Welcome Party” – Spectre Operations

    Battle Report: “The Welcome Party” – Spectre Operations

    Having been asked last week to plan a game, I sat back and had a careful think about what might be an exciting scenario to get my opponent’s figures on the table. Some sort of escort mission maybe but what to protect? As my eyes wandered across the various modern wargaming Facebook groups I settled on a name. Geordiestan is the setting for Whitley Bay’s 3D Gamers current moderns campaign, a middle eastern paradise that seems to involve every group under the sun. Who better to protect than a visitor from a foreign country? After all, how dangerous can the…

  • Impressions: Empress August Releases

    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 page as lots of shiny new things were shown off. For a change, I didn’t pick up all of the kits that were released; Empress also brought out a pack of pilots all ready to sit in 1:48 helicopters. As I’m currently focused on crashed…

  • 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 are now available. As you might have guessed from all of the Wargaming Weeks where the gaming portion read “writing stuff” this is the book I’ve been working on. I’m super excited to see it as it progresses and now we’re getting close. The book’s release…

  • Wargaming Week 28/08/2017

    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 written and released in just over 12 hours after finishing playing it. Which I’ll be repeating again this week. Coming up on Wednesday is a quick overview of the last set of Empress releases and on Friday is another battle report. I’ll talk more about…

  • Battle Report: “Big Dave Must Die!” – Spectre Operations

    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. When I got to the club, it had become a 1 vs 1 over a standard 6×4 board. And honestly? It was a barrel of laughs that I enjoyed every minute of. “Big Dave” was a Corporal in the Eritrean Army until he and his…

  • Wargaming Week 21/08/2017

    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 honestly I wouldn’t have got it finished in time. Instead there is going to be a long post looking at the finished technicals and their cargo. Looking ahead, I have quite a few upcoming posts planned out as well as leaving some gaps for impressions…

  • Impressions: Spectre SF Technicals – Initial Thoughts

    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 out as part of this latest release. And oh boy, is there a lot of cool stuff on this release. Sadly, due to my desire to get the vehicles in a state where I can hot swap the various weapon systems and cargo, I don’t…

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