My latest episode of "Joy of Wargaming" shows off one of my prized wargame possessions, a slick little book from the late 1990s that features a bunch of fast and beery games suitable for play at the pub (pic related).
Written by long time Miniature Wargames editor Iain Dickie, it took some wrangling to get this from the UK back before the internet was what it would become.
Now, I have no idea how to find a copy. The internet, big as it is, has got nothing on it.
Any of you lot know anything about these and where I might secure a second copy?
"Live Play" the man says in the title to describe a battle fought on the table two weeks ago. Whatever. I didn't land on the post-definitional world, the post-definitional world landed on me.
Here's another battle report you can view from the comfort of your own bunker:
In more boring news, I cleaned up the link rot on the left-hand column. Removed a few busted links and dumped in a few new hot ones.
Check out 15mm Through Space and Time for some richly painted figures in the One True Scale to Rule Them All. Or hit Picts From the Front for some world-class kitbashing in 15mm, including mechas made from old plastic sprues.
For those of you who prefer still life to video life, here's a shot of La Tortugastra, still a work in progress. I've got a few more terrain items to slap down, and the walls are looking pretty bare to this day. Needs more travel posters, artwork, graffitti, and utility boxes. Still, it's shaping up nicely, and once I finish playing through the Necromancer King's Crusade, I'll get cracking on some sci-fi shoot-'em-ups here in the biggest little spacestation of all.
Long time fans of the blog will recall a three-part fantasy campaign played years ago. That campaign died when my primary opponent graduated and flew off to college and other adventures. Well the Necromancer King has finally returned from the Land of the Dead, and you can follow along as he launches a Death Crusade against the land of the living. Yeah, the Joy of Wargaming isn't going anywhere any time soon.
Just between you and me and the YouTube censors make three, I'm recording all these videos a week or so in advance. That way I can skip a few days and not miss a beat. You'll get new vids every other day for as long as my stamina holds out. That also means that I won't be responding in real-time to any real-world goofiness. You can expect a relatively drama free channel where we leave the fighting where it belongs - on the tabletop.
Say...that reminds me, maybe now is a good time to give Irregular Miniatures game Riot a second look. Been meaning to at least read through the rules of that one.
Coupla quick shots today showing some details of the wild and wooly landing bay 1-2-3 for the space port. That planter is just shown for scale. Barrels are wooden dowel cut to size, the boxes are balsa cut to size. Both have been tapped with bits of cereal box cardboard. The Big green machine in the lower left is a bunch of odds and sods slapped together and painted industrial. I'm thinking that floor needs some dirtying up, and we need to put some more mechanicals and electrical boxes on the walls to really clutter up the place and make it look grimy.
My 15mm space station nears completion. Of sorts. This is the sort of project that begs for little details. Take a look at the bar and lounge area shown here. It's ready for gaming with all the final cover in place and painted, but it still needs some curtains behind the stage, posters for local synthwave bands on the walls, and a decent rack of booze behind the bar.
The rest of the station is waiting for this sweet haul of loot from GCMinis and Khurasan to get painted up and fixed permanently in place.
Before permanent installation, I dry-fit the naked terrain in place just to make sure that everything looked good and that I knew where it would all live at the end of the day. As you can see, the place is really starting to come to life!
I did have a bit of salvaged terrain already dumped in place, and some more kitbashed works in progress, but you'll have to wait for those. Full details on the construction of this lovely terrain will be provided on my Joy of Wargaming videos in the coming weeks.
The online wargaming world features a dearth of wargaming videos that feature smaller and more quirky fare. The Youses and he Tubeses and the Twitches have plenty of chubby beard-o weird-o's uploading hours of content dedicated to the 800-pound gorilla games. Some of those channels are even pretty good, and my personal favorite the 800-pound gorilla of wargaming channels, Guerilla Miniature Games, even dips down into the Osprey ranges often enough to keep me checking in on a regular basis.
To help close that gap in the line, I've started my own channel - a way of giving back to the community from which I have learned so much.The Joy of Wargaming will feature a host of topics, including play-throughs, rule reviews, unboxings, and my own favorite feature, Painting Alone Together, in which I slap some paint on my figures and throw some observations, tips, and commentaries along the way.
With plans to post every other day, and a focus on the niche corners of this niche hobby, it is a niche corner in the niche wargaming corner of this niche tabletop hobby. And of course, we'll still be throwing shots and posts up here at the home office for those of you that are more reader than viewer. If you're looking for somebody to keep you company during your own painting sessions, give it a shot.
My latest episode of "Joy of Wargaming" shows off one of my prized wargame possessions, a slick little book from the late 1990s that features a bunch of fast and beery games suitable for play at the pub (pic related).
