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  • Letter From The Hobby Desk: May 2023

    I absolutely detest being ill. Yes, I’m sure this concept is shocking to everyone, how daring to not enjoy being ill. But the main thing I hate is just the lack of ability actually to progress on the stuff I want to do. I have a small pile of things at the moment that need…

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  • SITREP: What A Nerf Herder Begins

    Well, on Saturday while at Salute I took into my hands a suspicious brown paper envelope from one Mr Richard Clarke of Too Fat Lardies. Inside was the rulebook and cards for What a Cowboy, a ruleset that went from “eh cowboys” to “VERY EXCITED” in not a huge amount of time. Of course, this…

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  • The News Stand: Combat Octopus – April 2023

    Oh no, he’s back to writing news posts Combat Octopus has released this month’s figure set today. It was definitely an eagerly awaited one, especially as for a long time CO had said that doing Regular US Army was not on his list of goals (seeing as they have been pretty widely covered). However, times…

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  • SITREP: Baptism of Fire

    After moving in, I haven’t yet had a chance to hit the gaming table in my own house, instead going off to the Dastardly Regular Opponent’s house for Chain of Command or BattleTech. However, having finished decorating my dining room I am now ready to begin hosting games for my roster of opponents. But where…

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  • SITREP: … And Tiny Mechs

    Last year, the game that made me sort out a load of 6mm terrain was Adeptus Titanticus. This year? Well, it’s the classic game, the one that’s been going for over 40 years in various forms: BattleTech. After our first game back in January, the Regular Opponents have decided to go all in on it.…

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  • SITREP: More Tiny Buildings…

    Last Year, I printed out some tiny 6mm buildings from Lazy Forger in preparation for a game featuring tiny mechs. A year later, the Regular Opponents and I planned out a game featuring tiny mechs. So of course, I had to print more buildings. And not just because Lazy Forger has been tempting me with…

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  • SITREP: Tiny Mechs Done Fast

    So mere moments after writing my Letter from the Hobby Desk, I looked down and realised that I had another project sitting literally by my feet in a box. Back in January, the Dastardly Regular Opponent decided that I didn’t have enough tiny robots in my life and got me this set for my Birthday.…

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  • Letter From The Hobby Desk: April 2023

    The biggest problem when running a wargaming blog is deciding the pace and tempo of blog posts you want to do. Okay, that’s a lie – the biggest problem when running a wargaming blog is knowing when not to add new projects to the pile. But that’s impossible to fix so I’m going to focus…

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  • Operation Drop Bear – Building The Platoon

    I’ve previously mentioned that, as part of my Long War series against the tactics of the Dastardly Regular Opponent, we would shortly begin a Pint Size Campaign-inspired set of missions pitting our tactical minds against each other in the deserts of North Africa. After some research, and agreeing to play some games with the Germans…

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  • SITREP: Back To Arnhem Boys!

    Listen, you may not know this, but I have a thing about Operation Market Garden in WW2. Probably because the first game I actually tried to sit down and learn to play (rather than simply slapping the buttons to see if it worked) was Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far. Not the best choice for…

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  • SITREP: A Weekend of Wargames

    Well, this has been a busy weekend. You readers will only be interested in the first half (unless for some reason you want to know about Mother’s Day celebrations which is, bad news, not the topic of this blog). Instead, lets talk about some wargaming things! On Friday, I finished work early and drove over…

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  • SITREP: That Spectre Post

    So, how is everyone doing? Having a good week? Enjoyed last week’s return to blogging/wargaming talk? I finished off last week with some comments that I am in the process of writing up a blog post about our industry favourite Spectre and their current fortunes. This apparently warranted an email and later that evening I…

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  • I’m Back! And now in Technicolour!

    Surprise. I’m back! And I’m not going to talk about buying a house this time! House renovation, no promises. So good news, I survived the process of buying and decorating a house. It’s not entirely done, still got a few rooms to finish off, but now I get to focus on having my own space…

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  • The Long War: Part 0 – Remembering How The Game Works

    If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know I’m a big fan of Too Fat Lardies Chain of Command. You’ll also know that my Dastardly Regular Opponent is also keen on the game. Before the Great Move, we had roughly scheduled gaming into our calendars once a month (the most frequent we…

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  • SITREP – Mail Call

    Yeah yeah, I’m on hiatus (currently mostly stripping wallpaper and stressing) but that doesn’t stop the parcels from turning up and my hobby life from continuing. First of all, good news on the BPRE front – after the issues with my first box of figures, Echelon then sent over some replacements. After a little panic…

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