Author Archives: Quirkworthy
Aeronautica Imperialis – Straggler Missions
Played some more Aeronautica at the weekend, and it was lots of fun. Bob came up with a simple scenario based on an event in WWII’s Pacific campaign. A lone, up-gunned Marauder bomber has to get the length of a … Continue reading
Tribes Of Legend – Update
Well the time must be getting nearer as I’ve finally seen a printed copy of Tribes of Legend. The bulk of the run are still on the Slow Boat From China, but Hermes brought a copy by air for me … Continue reading
Review: Aeronautical Imperialis – First Contact
Those daring young men in their flying machines. In space 🙂 Yes, I had a game of Games Workshop’s Aeronautica Imperialis. It was Bob’s fault, naturally. Like the Epic. He was kind enough to let me win though, shooting down … Continue reading
Things You Should Read: Number 1
In no particular order, I thought I’d do a post or two on sites that I find intriguing, amusing, and make me think. First up is an occasional blog from a veteran of the gaming hobby: Tom Meier. Tom’s a … Continue reading
Review: Gears of War – First Contact
We played the Gears of War board game again last night, and actually survived this time. The first evening of this we played 2 player, and got obliterated repeatedly. I think we played 4 times and never got to the … Continue reading
It Wasn’t Me
Looking at Beast of War’s account of the Warpath Open Day reveals this interesting little bit of information: “This is all of course setting up Dwarf Kings Hold…In Spaaaaaaace which is planned for Warpath. Corporation Vs ’8th Race’ in the … Continue reading
Warpath Open Day
Well I was intending to do a proper event report on Mantic’s Warpath Launch Party, but my camera decided to die, so no pictures from me, I’m afraid 😦 However, there were a number of more technically savvy folk about … Continue reading
Foundry Miniatures Launch New Website
Tribes of Legend may not be the first fantastical product from Foundry, but it seems to have been a catalyst for them to launch a new Fantasy-focussed website. Whilst Foundry are known as a producer of historical figures, they actually … Continue reading
Lego Dungeons
I was recently discussing different types of games and the Lego dungeon game Heroica came up. So, being something of a game junky (and just finishing DKH3) I thought that would be an amusing change of pace to have a … Continue reading
Design Theory: Keep A Notebook
If you are like me, your ideas will come tumbling out of your subconscious in a random sequence. Sometimes there will be clumps of notions on a similar theme, sometimes not. However they appear they need to be captured and … Continue reading
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