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08 Sep

Getting Into Kill Team

Articles, GamingGetting Into, Kill Team, Warhammer 40k

The unending wars of the 41st Millennium are not only fought with titans, tanks and hordes of soldiers - sometimes victory is secured by small teams of specialist operatives fighting in the shadows. Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team allows you to play out these shadow wars. Kill Team: Octarius, the first Kill Team starter set. (Image Credit: Warhammer Community) In this article, I will explain what Kill Team is and how it plays, touch a little on why I think it’s great, and how you (yes, you!) can dive into the murky world of special operations in the 41st Millennium. All…

18 Nov

New Edition, New Army: Part 2

Articles, GamingAge of Sigmar

Last time I told you about how I painted up a new Sons of Behemat army for Age of Sigmar 3rd edition. In this article I’m going to cover my experiences so far of running the army on the tabletop, and give some tips for new or aspiring Gargant players. I’ve played around twelve games with my Gargants so far I think, including a one day tournament. They’re exactly what I hoped they would be: a fun army that plays into the strengths of AoS 3, and has straightforward rules which have let me focus on learning the nuances of…

05 Aug

Direchasm Reflections

Gaming, UncategorizedDirechasm, Underworlds

Warhammer Underworlds: Direchasm, the fourth season of Games Workshop’s Warhammer Underworlds game, has been fully released for a month or so now (aside from an Arena Mortis expansion which was announced just after I'd written the first draft of this article), so I want to talk about how I’ve found the season as a whole. For anyone who is not familiar with Warhammer Underworlds, it’s a hex based, competitive, two player strategy game. Each player picks a warband from the thirty-six that are available, and adds a deck of objective and power cards built from the large card pool. A…

22 Jul

Rollmodels Rumble: Age of Sigmar Team Tournament Diary

Articles, Gaming

To keep ourselves busy during lockdown, the Rollmodels hobby community have been playing a series of Age of Sigmar (AoS) team tournaments using Tabletop Simulator. In the most recent one we used a different format to the traditional tournament, and we thought it would be fun to document how it went down. The tournament was played in May 2021, before the release of AoS 3.0, so it used AoS second edition rules. The format Two teams of six players (imaginatively named ‘Team A’ and ‘Team B’) come together to play Age of Sigmar on Tabletop Simulator.The tournament organiser (TO) writes…

28 May

Stargrave Crews You Might Know Already

Articles, Gaming, HobbyStargrave

Sci-fi skirmish game Stargrave has arrived and the rules contain a wide range of pop sci-fi themes for the playable crews and adversaries. The game is loosely set in a lawless galaxy after an apocalyptic war where independent spaceship crews eke out a perilous existence among the stars, and it’s these crews that you play as. But space is a big place and, my god, it is full of recognisable archetypes from TV, film and books! So it seems natural to ask... how would your favourite spaceship crews from other fiction fare? Stargrave Mercenaries from North Star Military Figures The…

24 May

Learning to love different game modes: Warhammer Underworlds Arena Mortis

Articles, GamingAge of Sigmar, Warhammer Underworlds

Like many Warhammer Underworlds players, when I bought my copy of the multiplayer Arena Mortis Underworlds expansion in late 2020, it was because I wanted the new cards and board to use in organised play. I dumped the Arena Mortis variant rules and tokens in a box in the loft, fully expecting I’d never use them. However, a few months ago one of my regular gaming group suggested that we give Arena Mortis a try, and it ended up being so much fun that we’ve returned to it several times since. Arena Mortis is a multiplayer expansion for Underworlds…

13 Mar

The Jank Tank: Campaign for Nuclear Dismemberment

Articles, GamingAge of Sigmar, Flesh-eater Courts

Welcome to the Jank Tank, where we take deep dives on unusual, techy or just plain janky armies in Warhammer Age of Sigmar. This time we’ll be looking at the fastest Flesh-Eater Courts (FEC) army in all the realms, and asking Chris Welfare from the Mortally Wounded podcast for his insights into the army. We’ll look at the component parts of the army, what it’s trying to achieve, how it goes about it, and how to get the most from it in play. What’s the idea? The recent advent of a number of mobile and effective shooting & magic armies…

03 Mar

Founding Felstad (Part 2)

Articles, Gaming, Hobby, Terrain, TutorialsFrostgrave, Step by Step, Terrain

When I last left you, I’d made a whole bunch of single storey scatter terrain. This was a good start but I really needed some larger pieces, and especially some elevation, to make the table more varied and fun. The first thing I did was grab a couple of bits from Gale Force 9’s Battlefield in a Box range. These are nice pieces and if you’ve played any games at a games store you’ve probably seen them, as they’re made of resin so are nice and robust, and they come pre-painted. Of course I needed them to match the rest…

01 Mar

My Changing Relationship With the Lore

Articles, Gaming

From holy text to source of inspiration There is a shelf in my house that holds one of my proudest possessions. It bends under the weight of it, such that I sometimes wonder if the only reason it is still intact is the supporting structure of further books below, rather than the fine quality Swedish engineering of the bookcase itself. It has moved with me several times, from my childhood home in the English Midlands, to a coastal university in Wales, then to a rented flat and finally to a home I own for myself in the North East. To…

22 Feb

Getting Into: The Horus Heresy

Articles, GamingAge of Darkness, Forge World, Getting Into, Horus Heresy, Warhammer 40k

So, you’re thinking about the Horus Heresy Miniatures game? I think an important question to ask yourself, when thinking about delving into what amounts to a Historical Wargame set in the Warhammer 40,0000 (40k) universe, is “will this be worth it to me?”. It’s no secret that playing Horus Heresy: Age of Darkness (sometimes called Warhammer 30,000, 30k or just Horus Heresy) - is a potentially daunting prospect. The models are expensive, you need separate (often impractically fancy) books to the current 40k range of rules, and the model range is largely only available in hard-to-work-with resin, from limited suppliers,…