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Adventures in Wargaming

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  • SITREP: Famous By Our Swords!

    As you may know, I am very much of fantasy games. Having let myself buy more than just moderns, I decided to go hard into getting all the fantasy figures I’d always wanted, but never got around to getting armies for. Combine that with 3d printing giving me all the figures I might want for…

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  • A Contract in Awbari – Painting Time

    The last time I talked about my BPRE 28mm box, I made the comment “I’m really looking forward to getting this painted up. Shouldn’t take me very long” or words to that effect. Well, 3 months later I actually realised that I suddenly had a week to paint up the remaining Shurta, all the Hongbin…

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  • August 2022 Update – Necromunda, Bazistan and Awbari

    We’re into September now. As reported last time, house buying is still underway – a technical glitch by one of the parties has slowed it but we’re working with what we have to keep it going. Because of that, I’m still continuing to start packing things up, slowly collapsing into boxes. I’m reluctant to really…

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  • The Al-Khoufra Affair – Remote Playing Skirmish Sangin V2

    My original plan for last weekend was to spend my Saturday relaxing – I’d had a busy weekend on the one previous (with family events and running a game for one half of TTE), the Sunday was to be airsoft, so Saturday would be a lazy, lazy day. And then Ben, the other half of…

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  • The Bazistan Job – Remote Playing Skirmish Sangin V2

    Okay, unlike the last two times, this was entirely on me. I’ve recently been chatting with Dan over on the Ultramodern Wargaming Group/The Table’s Edge podcast/DeskOps store (Christ he’s busy) about Skirmish Sangin and how it plays as an alternative to Spectre. So, after realising I was spending a whole Saturday doing family stuff, I…

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  • Underhive Blues: Return to the Underhive – Enforcers vs Orlocks

    Damn, it it’s happened again. My former housemate/sneaky Delaque friend is someone I keep meaning to play more games with (seeing as he is close by, a good friend and someone who is fun to play against). However, thanks to the churn of life, we have ended up missing out on a few opportunities until…

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  • July 2022 Update – Counter-Intel, Remote Gaming and Dark Elves

    It’s the end of a new month and we’re now entering August. In the real world I’m in the stages of buying a house, having entered the stage of “Solicitors send letters to decide on legal things” which means there is a lot of hurry up and wait. I’ve already started packing some things away…

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  • The Dastardly Opponent Strikes Again – And this time, it’s Killteam

    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…

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  • Two Tourists Out For A Hike… With AKs

    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…

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  • Al-Bawaaba Foot Patrol Generator v0.1

    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…

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  • June 2022 Update – Shurta, Spectre and Scenarios

    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…

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  • SITREP: All Quiet on the Hobby Front

    Hey everyone! So the blog has been a little quiet in June – I didn’t intend for it to be quite so quiet, it just worked out this way. First up, I had a week on holiday down in Devon, seeing family and being completely detached from the tiny mans (except some Lego building with…

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  • May 2022 Update

    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…

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  • A Contract in Awbari – The Unpainted Figures

    Out of all the games I’ve played in the last year or so, I think BPRE 28mm is probably the game that could mostly easily be played using with standees. Simple LOS rules, small play areas and 2D terrain – this game is basically a board game. But hey, standees can only do so much.…

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  • A Contract in Awbari – The Unboxing

    Well, It’s finally here. When I covered BPRE 28mm back in November 2021, I said to myself that I wouldn’t pick up the big game box until the OPFOR side had figures. Well, jump forward to May and the bad guys have now have some figures, more money has gone to support BPRE, HMRC/Parcelforce got…

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