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Why Are These Pics So Badly Cropped?

I'm a crap photographer and I know it. There isn't a single picture I've ever taken that isn't improved by cavalier use of Instagram filters. So as a self-confessed crap photographer I can see when the...

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UK Games Expo 2014 - Thirty Minutes of Aggravation for Nine Quid

Not-Nephew and I went across to UK Games Expo today - early start, forty minutes on the train, £9 for me (free for him) and we managed to stand it for all of 30 minutes before leaving. I had £200...

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Cocked Die!

Despite the negativity surrounding the last post (abortive trip to UK Games Expo) a couple of good things did happen gaming-wise over the past couple of days.Firstly, this from Friday's game of Gruntz...

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15mm Rouge Trader Part Six - Titans In Disguise! More Than Meets the Eyes!

Fifteen-mil Rogue Trader project continues. Big mech. Very big mech.That's a Transformers Prime "Shockwave" on a CD base. Included "for scale" model is a CMG chappie on a UK penny base. Shockwave has...

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Grunting Not-Marines

Project "15mm Rouge Trader" got dragged out for a game last night, under the Gruntz 15mm rules that we've been messing around with lately. We had a three-way bash, probably too big for the number of...

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Amblecotius - Gruntz/Rogue Trader 15mm Narrative Campaign

 Count Huriatat has the eyes of a haunted man thought Delacroix. He thinks now only of the ever-shrinking chance of his son being allowed to continue to rule in his place. I fear he will do the noble...

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Rouge Trooping

Just to confuse everyone amidst all this blogging about Rouge Trader here's another game with the word "rouge" in the title.We played this tonight at the October club in Brum, part of Phil's scheme to...

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Action at Hark Hanoid AAR

A flying column of Marine forces have sortied out and levelled the small town of Hark Hanoid, an important supply base for one of the belligerent factions currently identified in Space Marine...

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St. Helens and Stafford Show Swag

Had a train ride up to St. Helens a couple of Saturdays ago for the Phalanx show. I did this last year as well, as it's quite an easy train journey from the West Midlands as the train stops directly...

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Rodney Matthews Does Car Wars

I didn't even know this was a thing. Somewhere in a parallel dimension, Rodney Matthews illustrates issues of Autoduel Quarterly.

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Rouge Trader 28mm - Shootout at Sourbridge

Another day, another Imperial proclamation.Mhorrghan, Captain of the House Guard cleared his throat ready to address the crowd that clustered around the foot of the raised platform he and his...

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OGRE Big Boy Edition

Back last December I treated myself to Ogre Designers Edition, the utterly over-specced SuperDuperDeluxe version of a game that originally came with a single A4 mapsheet and a bunch of 10mm counters.To...

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Amblecotius Rogue Trader/Gruntz 15mm Narrative Campaign - The Cassus Belli

So why are there two PDF factions at war in the first place?Because of the three players in the group and the similarity between the toy soldier forces of two of them (Webb and Gary).Here's my write-up...

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Amblecotius RT/Gruntz Narrative Campaign - The Genial Gene Genie Genius

This is Doctor Cilkie Bhapshene, brilliant geneticist currently on a five year secondment to the Blood Drinkers Space Marine Chapter. She is attempting to fix the well-known fatal flaw in the chapter's...

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RT/Gruntz Narrative Campaign - Crusty Encrustation

Inquisitor Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau's sources report that a much-detested xeno species has been observed entering the Amblecote star system. This species is known to the Ordo Xenos as the "Crusties"....

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Games? What Games?

GW Investor report is out - http://investor.games-workshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2013-14-Press-statement-final-website.pdfThis will get pored over and torn to pieces on all the usual boards...

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Necromunda Blanche Gang

There are still two games left in the October Club's Necromunda campaign so here are The Blanche Gang ready for their first outing next Tuesday.In the style of The Ramones and The Datsuns all members...

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Suddenly, Warhammer Fantasy!

It wasn't my fault - some friends were talking about Warhammer on a small scale (game size-wise, not figure scale-wise) and I suggested the old 500 point Border Patrol version, and then I worked out...

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Dust Brothers

Out of the blue, here's a Dust Tactics Allied Taskforce starter set I painted up. It's amazing how quickly, smoothly and easily stuff paints up when a nice Chinese girl in a factory has already...

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October Mordheim - The Unholy Cult of the Third Eye

Mordheim is starting in October (the month) at October (the gaming club). This should have been the first photograph of my force for it but due to an administrative fuck-up this is actually only 86% of...

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Couple of Axles and Alloys Reports From The Web

Two write-ups of the same game in...

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Another Axles and Alloys report...

From Petru5 over at Conn-Man Games - http://connmangames.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/aar-axles-and-alloys-recruits-2014.html

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Our WFB8 Border Patrol Narrative Campaign - The Vale of Shai-Hulud

As mentioned a while back I started an Ogre army for the Border Patrol WFB variant. Well, now it's complete, been bloodied in battle and is warring in the Vale of Shai-Hulud (somewhere in the Border...

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Suddenly Axles and Alloys Dork Future!!

Petru5's recent games of Axles and Alloys (blog passim) have encouraged me to do something with the old game, so it looks like I might run a session at the October Club Christmas bash/buffet evening....

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Not going to be maintaining the FF blog on Google anymore. Mainly because of this which seems to be the thin end of the...

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