Hobby News Round-up: w/e 20th January 2017
Here are a few of the pieces of news from around the hobby that caught my attention this week: Curteys Miniatures are releasing some new Romano British Heavy Cavalry. [...]
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Hobby News Round-Up: w/e 6th January 2016
Welcome to the new look hobby news. As I blogged about at the end of last year, I am now only reporting on hobby news once a week on the blog, in a weekly round-up on the [...]
What’s on the painting table – w/c 8th August 2016
After an abortive attempt to finally start painting my 6mm French, I settled instead on putting together a host of plastic Norman Knights from Conquest Games. These are to [...]
Saga Iron Man – one event report and another coming soon
Wargames Illustrated have published a video review of their recent Saga: Iron Man tournament. This looks like a really interesting way to play Saga. Essentially, you simply [...]
Painting table update w/c 11th July 2016
In stark contrast to my podcast co-host, Mike Hobbs, my painting table is currently looking a bit of a mess. I’m currently at the start of building several new Norman [...]
Playing Saga – 7th July 2016
>The Joy of Six show is only a couple of weeks away, and you may be aware that Dave Luff and I are helping out Per Broden running some 6mm Saga games. To that end, [...]
Robin of Sherwood – The Knights of the Apocalypse
As a teenager in the 1980s, one of the ‘must-see’ TV Series was Robin of Sherwood. This retelling of the legend of Robin Hood gave the story a distinct fantasy [...]
Quelle couleur est-ce?
Back painting 28mm Normans after almost 4 years. Having started with the easy bit – the mail coat – it’s time to paint the cloth bits. However, the [...]
Rediscovering my Saga mojo
I knew it was going to happen. After playing Saga for the first time in over three years last week, I remembered why I loved the game. More than that, after my defeat (you [...]
Saga – Dave Luff’s Viking Army
After posting about my Norman Army, I couldn’t leave Dave’s Viking Army out – especially as they are so much better painted than mine! His force consists [...]
Saga – My Norman Army
Given that Dave Luff and I are meant to be helping to umpire games of Saga at the Joy of Six show in a few weeks, we thought it would be useful if we played a few games [...]
Saga in 6mm – making terrain
Per Broden has posted a new update on his 6mm Saga project blog for the Joy of Six show on July 17th 2016. In this entry, he discusses how he created all the scenery [...]
Saga in 6mm @ The Joy of Six
When we were at Salute earlier this year, Dave Luff and I bumped into Per Broden. We’d previously chatted to him at Joy of Six in 2014 – Per has a tendency to put [...]
Gripping Beast – forthcoming releases
Gripping Beast have been teasing us over recent days with news of forthcoming releases. Age of the Wolf is the long-awaited campaign supplement for Saga, which has been [...]
Review – Saga:Northern Fury
Rating: The Saga rules, published by Gripping Beast, have taken the wargaming world by storm over the years, and are still proving to be very popular. Northern Fury was the [...]
Review: The King is Dead
Rating: King Arthur is dead. In the aftermath of his death, the Scots, Welsh and Romano-British fight for the newly vacant throne of England whilst in the background, the [...]
Immortal from Broken Spirit Wargames
Calling all Saga and Dux Britianniarun players! Don’t you just love it when a ruleset comes along which allows you to use your existing armies, but puts a different [...]
Review: The Raiders for Dux Britanniarum. The Picts, Scotti & Irish in the Age of Arthur
Rating: In Dux Britanniarum, we saw very two-sided glimpse of Dark Age Britain, as the Britons fought the arrival of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes. This was, of [...]
Review – Dux Britanniarum
Rating: With this title, the chaps at Too Fat Lardies bring to life the struggle that engulfed the inhabitants of Britain during the 5th and 6th centuries following the [...]
Review: Saga – The Crescent & The Cross
Rating: Saga was originally released in 2011, and met with almost universal praise. It quickly became one of my favourite games. It was followed by three expansions which [...]
