Sunday, 22 August 2021

Non Historical commentary on GW's Warhammer+

I watched the one episode of Warhammer+ that's released for a day, and was not impressed. If that's the standard they are going for, it's not getting many new people into the hobby.

Shows that Games Workshop should do for Warhammer+ but will never do:

News: Do Not Buy Anything from Broken Token

Broken Token is a company that sells inserts for the biggest and most popular boardgames. I had considered getting it for Gloomhaven and Frosthaven, but being MDF you need to glue it, and it was very expensive.

Two days ago, this post came out

Content Warning: Sexual assault, Sexual situations, Cheating, Mental Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and Stalking

In response, several different people confirmed something did happen.

The CEO and Owner then responded with this admission. Companies that licensed to him are now fleeing in horror.

I do not recommend anyone buying anything from Broken Token. I'm looking at https://www.foldedspace.net/ for Dune, Pandemic and Gloomhaven.

Monday, 16 August 2021

The top 25 wargaming blogs (oh rly?)

I submitted my blog to https://blog.feedspot.com/wargaming_blogs/ and I'm actually number 22 of

Top 25 Wargaming Blogs and Websites

Review: Battle Systems: Village Ruins

I've finished putting together the Battle Systems: Village Ruins.

I did not follow the suggested guide on building them, but made my own ruins. You get 5 pieces of thick cardboard that allows to make them as you see fit - 3 are the same and 2 the other type.

RPG news: The Mystara Player’s Guide released

Mr Welch has grown tired of WotC and decided to release: The Mystara Player’s Guide

Get it from https://rpgmp3.com/

I've been following his Youtube series for a long time. My first RPG was the red boxed set of D&D. I sent a small amount of thank you money for it.

Sunday, 8 August 2021

Starting my Rangers of Shadow Deep party

I've been getting my terrain organized and almost have everything I want. I need to push the trees from Amazon on plates of some kind, and get maybe get some bigger one, put together the Village from Battle Systems and paint the miniatures from Fantasy Series 1.

But I have all the books I need!

I think this is all of them

My comment on "Battle write-ups. What do you like to see?"

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I would like to make my battle reports more appealing/interesting, so I have some question
What makes a good battle write-up?
What makes a bad one?
What would you like to see more of?
What have you seen enough of?

My answer:

Where can I find your battlereports? I'd like to read more. Mine are on my blog but I always feel I should be doing them better.

I know adding arrows and label's would make things much clearer on what's what doing what, but the extra time to edit the photo's seems to outweigh the time. I don't recall seeing many that DO have labels, and I actually find them more distracting to the picture itself. Does anyone have some good examples to share of what you like to see?

What makes a good battle write-up - a description of the armies, some pictures of the units, the actual army list, lots of pictures.A map of the battlefield (if an overhead picture can't be provided). Some 3rd person story is fine at the start and end (and as captions for photos) but I'd rather read the battle report without story time coming into the middle of it. An initial plan or strategy guide. A description of the battle - it does not need every turn or combat, but I should be able to follow it based on pictures, text or map. Most of the pictures should be showing the table or units, with some action shots of dramatic occurrences and characters. A final conclusion, and some analysis of the army list (what was worth it, what was not), how the strategy worked (or did not) and lessons learnt by both sides. A final story time from the perspective of the armies or characters if you want.

What makes a bad one - nearly every video battle I try to watch :(. I understand the idea of them, but they nearly all seem to be shaky cam showing me dice and telling me how many hits/saves happened. I don't care! I want to know if that unit of tactical marine's succeeded at stopping that Ork unit coming across, not the individual rolls or distance moved. Don't show me someone moving figures either, it takes forever. Ideally some computer graphics with arrows or a before and after shot will do it. The best video one I've seen was a slide show with a voice over of the battle. Also, the analysis is either missing completely or devolves to the level of a sports event- "We I rolled better on the day and my opponent did not, so I won". I want some conclusions. No talking heads except at the beginning (as an introduction) and end. And they need to be less than 30 minutes for me to have the time to read them. And I understand completely the amount of editing this all requires makes it just a dream, it would be a huge investment of someone's time.

What would you like to see more of - slide show video's with voice over. More historical battles with background on the armies and people involved. More written blog battle reports. More comments on my own battle reports

What have you seen enough of - too many battle reports on Youtube I can't stand watching.

Some trees from Amazon: OrgMemory Mixed Model Trees with Base. Ok for 18mm but too short for 28mm

I got some cheap model railway trees from Amazon

OrgMemory Mixed Model Trees with Base, Diorama Supplies, Model Train Scenery, Woodland Scenics, (19pcs, 2-6 inch /5-15 cm), Ho Scale Trees, Miniature Trees with Base:

They are a bit...smaller than I expected.

The Great Wargaming Survey

The Great Wargaming survey is running again. Some interesting qurstions and prizes (I won't win, but YOU might).

Apart from rolling dice, there seem to be few things wargamers like to do better than discuss the state of their hobby. The purpose of this survey is to answer some of those questions and publish the answers for all to see.

Thanks to our sponsors, we've got an unrivalled stack of very generous prizes to give away to some lucky winners, and everyone gets a €5 discount voucher for the Karwansaray Publishers website and a selection of WSS articles to download free of charge, upon completion of the survey.

Filling out the survey shouldn't take more than about 10 minutes, and we're taking responses until August 31st, 2021. Please tell all your wargaming friends to come take it too!

Also here are the results from previous surveys.

Tuesday, 3 August 2021

For the benefit of any Necron's reading this blog - I am not a Necron

My blog was locked for being a spam site. It is now unlocked.

For the benefit of any Necron's, Terminators or Google Bots reading this- I am not a bot.

And yes, that is EXACTLY what a bot would say.

Monday, 2 August 2021

A layout of my current terrain, and what I need more of

Putting out all the kickstarter mats, FOGN trees, bushes, hills and rocks from Miniature Worldmaker and some of the ruined buildings from Battle Systems, over the Autumn battle mat from geekvillain.co.uk

I need a LOT more trees, and much bigger ones for 28mm (the ones I have are for FOGN 18mm). I have some coming from Amazon but I think I'm going to need some of the more expennsive single sized big model railway ones (one tree costs as much as a single cheap and crappier Amazon 68 piece forest).