Author Archives: Quirkworthy

What’s Your Opinion?

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Quirkworthy

It’s an interesting time for SF gaming. For many years there’s been 40K and not a great deal else in the way of large scale 28mm SF battle games. Yes, there have been others, and some have done OK for a … Continue reading →

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Gates of Antares Concord Plastics Review

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Quirkworthy

The opponent for the Ghar battle squad in the Gates of Antares starter box are the Concord infantry. I can’t find a good close up of the painted plastic squad on its own, so here’s the whole set’s contents shot. The Concord are … Continue reading →

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Deadzone Redux Movement

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Quirkworthy

Another little snippet from the current version of DZR. I’ve added a Speed stat to the models. This is a way of including a lot more variation in the model’s rate of movement, and doing so very simply. Speed is … Continue reading →

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Gates of Antares Ghar Battle Squad Plastics Review

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Quirkworthy

One of the things I did at the Derby show last weekend was snaffle a couple of the new Gates of Antares plastic sprues – one each of the Concord and the Ghar. These are late pre-production shots as far as … Continue reading →

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Deadzone Redux Command Dice

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Quirkworthy

I’ve shown a few pics of us playtesting DZR recently, and you may have noticed some bespoke D6s we’ve had lying around. So far, nobody guessed quite what they are, though there have been some fun suggestions. Today I thought I’d explain … Continue reading →

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A Few Thoughts On Age Of Sigmar

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Quirkworthy

A warning: this is something of an unplanned brain dump and so it’s long and rambling. I hadn’t planned to write this, and I’ve not got a specific axe to grind or point to make; it’s just talking around the topic. People keep asking … Continue reading →

Posted in Random Thoughts | 66 Comments

Back From The Front

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Quirkworthy

Back from the Derby show. Looked at lots of shiny new toys, talked to many nice people, played some interesting games, snaffled some lovely swag. A grand day out! Here’s the spoils. I was fairly restrained as I’m supposed to be … Continue reading →

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Out And About

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Quirkworthy

This weekend is the annual Derby World Wargames show, over in, you’d guessed it, Castle Donnington. I’ve always rather liked it, so I’m happy to be going along today to see what’s going on. As seems to fast becoming my habit, I’m … Continue reading →

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Casting Room Website

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Quirkworthy

Foundry have set up a new website called Casting Room Miniatures for the models that were made between 2006 and 2012, when “Other Hands” were running the company. These include a lot of ranges that have had spotty availability recently, … Continue reading →

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DZR In Action

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Quirkworthy

Showed some more folk how to play the new DZR last night over at Mantic. One game was Pathfinders against Veer-myn, the other Plague against Enforcers. I didn’t get a lot of pics of the Pathfinders/Veer-myn game as that was … Continue reading →

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