Although I've been a wargamer for as long as I've roleplayed, I've never really got the hang of painting miniatures. For me the game is on the table, not the wider collecting, painting and design hobby. I suppose the main reason this is so, is due to my general inability to actually paint, a fact that has frustrated me on numerous occassions ( Read more... )

After a pretty slow start to 2015, and an unsatisfying Kapcon, I have the bulk of my gaming sorted out for the first six months of the year.

• Regular wargaming every month has resumed, and I’ve had a renewed interest in Bushido.
• The boys and I are about to kick off a weekly session (likely Wednesday night) of Mice & Mystics.
• I have begun a fortnightly ( Read more... )

Last evening saw the fleets of the Galacteer and Imperials clash over vital mining resources in no-man's space. The results were a deadly escalation punctuated by more than a bit of changing fortunes in the dice.

What followings under the cut is a photo intensive battle report...
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After a few months of playing the most enjoyable, although mentally taxing, Bushido, Andy and I settled down last night to play a couple of games that required a little less in the way of brain power ( Read more... )

On Friday, Liam popped in and we played a game of X Wing - Fantasy Flight Games' starship combat game. Although I had no luck for the most part in rolling the defence dice, the session just reinforced how much fun, and just how great, this game is. Why you ask?

1. It is fast and furious. Even newbies get the system that offers a depth of tactics.
2. It's ( Read more... )

Well that was a great way to finish up a week of annual leave, Distopian Wars on Saturday and Battleground Fantasy Warfare on Sunday.

With Dale's plans for Call to Arms (a wargame con in Wellington) reaching epic scale (honestly he's done such a fantastic job on the terrian, figures and set-up that with the right lighting he'd give a professional ( Read more... )

So back to the Kapiti College games club this Sunday. as per usual this one sprung up on me with late notice, especially as it felt as if last time's session was barely a week or so ago (Luke informed me the last time I attended was 6 weeks ago!!)

With Andy's War Rocket miniatures still in my possesion I brought that along, as well as a neat looking ( Read more... )

More Warrocket... this time at the Kapiti College gaming group. Andy was kind enough to lend me some of his ships (I'm still planning on buying my own stuff, but with Emma not working budgets are tight), and I was fortunate enough to have a couple of the more mature gamers - Zane & Sam - 'sign-up' to play.

The thing I love about Warrocket is that it ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I posted on my journal, but having wargamed over the weekend it seems like a good time to blog.

On Saturday I got the opportunity to give Warrocket (Hydra Miniatures' - http://hydraminiatures.com/ - pulp sci fi spaceship game) a try out. The game is very simple, but highly tactical, and better still has very little record ( Read more... )

Last Sunday I got the chance to 'playtest' a game of Spartan Games' Firestorm Armada (a starship fleet battles game). A few months back I purchased a copy of the rule book, and had been planning on having test game ever since ( Read more... )