Author Archives: Quirkworthy
Armourfast Goodies + Secret 15mm Project
The nice people at Armourfast sent me some of their tanks to review, which is always welcome. It helps with the addiction as I don’t seem to be able to choose a single scale for WWII gaming 🙂 Speaking of … Continue reading
Review: Carnevale – Rhinos Can’t Jump!
This review is based on a pdf of the complete rulebook rather than the printed item as that’s what was given to me. You can see a lot of this on the downloads section of Vesper-On’s website. Not everything is … Continue reading
Foundry Christmas Open Day
I don’t normally promote such things in advance, but I’m going to be at this one and it looks like fun. Among other things we’ll have the first public run out of the Tribes of Legend game. Speaking of which, … Continue reading
Tribes of legend – Look Inside
Tribes of Legend is up on Amazon with their shiny look inside feature, which is cool. This is the first time I’ve seen most of it in its finished form, so it’s fun for me too. One of the things … Continue reading
Design Theory: Less Is More
Just because an idea is good, doesn’t mean it’s good for this game. All of the designers I know have more ideas than they can get finished, and this is a good thing. It shows a fertile and creative mind. … Continue reading
Design Theory: Murder Your Darlings
Murder your darlings is a phrase that was first used by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (the dapper gent illustrated here) in a 1914 lecture on writing style at Cambridge University. What it means is probably best put by saying that if … Continue reading
The Plastic Soldier Company
I was rummaging through my photos from Derby and realised that I had a couple of rather nice shots I hadn’t shared yet. They’re the Plastic Soldier Company stand, showing some of their rapidly growing range of 15mm and 1/72nd … Continue reading
Review: Epic Tau Recon Pack
While I was getting the Tau Skyrays I thought I’d pick up some of the Tau light recon vehicles too as they look really cool. Unlike the Skyrays, each vehicle comes as a single piece, which is a pretty good … Continue reading
Review: Epic Tau Skyray – First Look
One of the armies I always wanted to do, but never got round to, was the Tau. I made a start at one stage, assembling Fire Warriors with their zillion tiny pieces. Anyway, to cut a long story short I … Continue reading
Review: The Wooden World
The Wooden World by N A M Rodger is a book on the subject of the British navy of the 18th century, specifically during the Seven Years War. To be honest, it is not a subject I would have normally … Continue reading
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