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Monthly Archives: April 2011
First play of ‘Hail Caesar’
Wednesday saw us play our first game of Hail Caesar – the new ancients rules written by Rick Priestly and published by Warlord Games. I employeed the help of long-time gaming opponent Dave Luff (along with his rather nicely painted … Continue reading
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Incoming 2.0 – Episode 3
Download Episode 3 In Episode 3 of this show, I look at my favourite releases for w/e 29th April 2011. I hope you enjoy it.
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View from the Veranda – Salute Special
Download Salute 2011 Special Hello, and welcome to another View from the Veranda episode. In this show, Henry and I take a look back at the recent Salute wargames show in London, and chat about some of the highlights from … Continue reading
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The tables are turned…
I mentioned on a couple of previous shows that I’d been interviewed by Tom Barbalet for the CWF Gamecast… …well here it is in all it’s glory… I haven’t listened to it yet, so I’m not sure how the whole … Continue reading
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View from the Veranda – Salute Special
Henry and I got together yesterday (Good Friday) to record our thoughts on the recent ‘Salute’ show. The intention was for this to be a short show of about 60 minutes duration. However, as this is Henry and I, we … Continue reading
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Incoming 2.0 – Episode 2
Download Episode 2 In Episode 2 of this show, I look at my favourite releases for w/e 22nd April 2011. I hope you enjoy it.
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Meeples & Miniatures Episode #74 ‘In the Can’
Just to let you know that Episode 74 of Meeples & Miniatures was recorded last night. Rich Jones joined me again, and we chatted about several games, including 7TV, Operation Squad, Red Sand, Blue Sky, The Beautiful Game and Bushi … Continue reading
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Salute – a couple of pics
As promised yesterday, a couple of pictures from Salute. First up, a couple of pictures of our Zombie race game – more pictures can be found on the Scimitar Wargames Group website And then a couple of pictures of games … Continue reading
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Just back from Salute…
Haven’t long got back from Salute 2011… …just wanted to say a huge ‘Thank You’ to everyone who played ‘The Great ACW Zombie Rally’ – hopefully you all had a great time. It was fab to meet people who I’ve … Continue reading
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Incoming 2.0 – Episode 1
Download Episode 1 Welcome to a brand new (ish) podcast. Do you remember that I used to produce a weekly vidcast of the latest releases? Well, I miss talking about them, so I thought I’d start a new show, aimed … Continue reading
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Ready for Salute…just!
Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? It was the last club meeting before Salute on Saturday, and we at last managed to get everything together to have a look at what we will be taking down … Continue reading
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NOT re-inventing the wheel
As I’m sure you are aware by now, the coming weeks will see a veritable horde of new rules for gaming Ancients descending upon the wargames community (I’m aware of at least 4 sets due out between now and summer) One … Continue reading
Gaming Update – March 2011
Overview March pretty much followed the same pattern as February – I did miss a week of gaming due to work, but managed to make up for it by painting instead! Gaming Three minis games dominated March First up was … Continue reading
New BMP-2 from HLBS Co
I’ve just had an e-mail from Richard Kemp at the Honourable Lead Boiler Suit Company – one of my favourite figure companies – to say that they have finally got their 1/48th scale BMP-2 model into production. To celebrate, they … Continue reading
Wonder-full game
It was primarily a boardgame session at Scimitar this week, with only one miniature wargame being played. On the other boardgame table, the guys were played Mansions of Madness (the new Cthuhlu themed game from FFG) for the first time. … Continue reading
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View from the Veranda – Episode 6
Download Episode 6 Welcome to Episode 6 of the View from the Veranda Podcast. Hello Everyone! Yes, after far too long, we’re back…having finally managed to get ourselves on opposite ends of the same piece of technology at roughly the … Continue reading
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Society of Ancients Battle Day 2011
Last Saturday saw the 8th annual Society of Ancients Battle Day, which was held, once again, at Sycamore Hall in Bletchley. If you aren’t aware, this event is a chance for gamers from around the country to come together to … Continue reading
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Meeples & Miniatures @ Salute 2011
Yes, I can finally confirm that I will be attending the Salute show on April 16th. I will be spending most of the day at table GD23, where I will be with the Scimitar Wargames Group, helping to run the … Continue reading
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Get an issue of Battlegames for free…
For reasons unknown, I appear to have two copies of the latest issue of Battlegames magazine, so I thought I’d give one away. So, if you’d like to have the latest copy of this magazine – especially if you’ve never … Continue reading
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One reason to love Impetus
For a while now, Impetus & Basic Impetus have been my Ancient Wargaming rules of choice, if I haven’t been using C&C: Ancients. If you are wondering about some of the advantages of Impetus, then check out this website. This … Continue reading
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