Welcome Wargamers and Hobbyists to my Memorium, and to a new home for some of my gaming posts. I am very pleased to be contributing to the first class melting pot that is ‘Creative Twilight’. Let the games begin…
As it seems like an age since I posted anything exceeding 140 characters, I should have plenty to talk about, however the pace at which the world of miniature wargaming is evolving is such that it is quite a challenge to keep my mind on any one element long enough to form a cohesive sentence.
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Greetings Wargamers and Hobbyists, and welcome to a rather late hobby update #2! I hope that readers won't hold it against me that this post comes so far after my last. I have had (and still have) something of an encroachment of real life concerns into my hobby time recently, and the dust is only just starting to settle. That's not to say I haven't been hobbying at all, but games and writing time has been at a premium for the last month or so. Anyway, here we go with an update to tell you where I am with my...
Greetings Wargamers and Hobbyists, and welcome to the war... This article and those that follow are intended to chart the journey of myself and my clubmates as we go from being green recruits to experienced veterans in the game of Bolt Action, from Warlord Games. This is my story. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Of course at this stage we are fresh off the boat, but this will help to preserve my 'new player' perspective, rather than looking back later and trying to remember what it was like to be new to the game. Hopefully this will...
Greetings Wargamers and Hobbyists, and welcome back to the skies of Targus. I have to say, it always makes me feel important to be able to bring you an exclusive... Going back a few months I was in contact with the team over at Sky Relics, who were in the preparatory stages of their march (or should that be sail?) towards Kickstarter. The guys had engaged with members of the gaming and blogging community to run a painting competition using samples of their models, to raise awareness of the game on their journey, and it was a lot of fun...
Greetings Wargamers and Hobbyists, welcome to north west Europe. It's 1944... Back in June, for Father's Day, I was lucky enough to be bought a box of Warlord Games' new plastic British Airborne models, which were one of a few things I was hoping for in order to put together some Polish Paratroopers, to join the British Paratrooper force I already have as part of my 1944 Operation Market Garden themed collection. It's only in the last few weeks I have got around to assembling them, and realising at the same time that I now have three different Paratrooper models...
Greetings Wargamers and Hobbyists, and welcome. Is it me, or is it a bit chilly in here? Frostgrave; another game that many of you will have heard of, and that was introduced to our gaming club by a member that has since moved away. Our club forum has a section for Frostgrave games. It also has sections for Man O' War, Blood and Plunder, Batman, Infinity, Battlefleet, Gothic, Mordheim and Gorka Morka. The difference between this game and others introduced by eager and enthusiastic members at our club, is that Frostgrave has kind of stuck around, with the odd game...
Greetings Wargamers and Hobbyists, and welcome back to 1940. This time, we're in Greece, and it isn't for a holiday... A number of months ago, I decided I wanted to do several things in Bolt Action, over and above collecting the German 9th SS and British 1st Airborne Division I already have forces for (you know, as you do when you are a long-term hobbyists and have limited self-control) - I decided I wanted to add a small platoon of Polish Paratroopers to my Market Garden themed British collection (check), I wanted to collect a small force of British Home...
Today I want to talk about the enigma of solo wargaming. Of course I'm not the first person to write about playing wargames without a human opponent. I am sure I will not be the last. It's a subjective topic, and one that will evolve over time. The considerations may develop, and solutions to hitherto problematic conundra may be presented. I've decided to write a bit about the subject because it is something I have pondered on from time to time. I have experience of both 'solo gaming' and 'vs gaming', and also, I wanted to try to bust a...
