I've written about how much I love a good gaming magazine before, and I've just finished the very good issue 522 of one of the few remaining gaming magazines, White Dwarf. I subscribe to the magazine, and it's a good thing I do because this isn't an issue I think I'd have thought to buy off the...
There are lots of wargames out there, and lots of them share essentially the same game loop, but many of them feel more unique than you might expect. When I started my War of the Rohirrim campaign, it was after a year of wargaming only in Warhammer 40,000. When I played, I was legitimately surpr...
I'm one of those people who's best persuaded to try a new game not by the game itself but by the lore surrounding it. I've always been that way, since my first glance at a D&D Monster Manual back in grade school. When I bought Epic Warpath on Kickstarter, I put in a little extra to receive The ...
Midnight on the Street of Knives is a Warhammer 40,000 short story by Andy Chambers. This is my review of it, with no spoilers.
From the site description:
Xagor is on an errand for his haemonculus master, the delivery of a thoroughly unimportant package and some tremendously important news....
This is my final review of my read-through of the Armageddon Crusade book for Warhammer 40,000. For me, it's kinda useless to write a "review" of something I've not experienced in a game, but I think the Armageddon rules are worth looking at, even if only academically (until I try them, as in...
The third chapter in the Armageddon Crusade book is Assault on the Fire Wastes. It's about the assault on the Fire Wastes (no surprise there), and marks the end of the Third Armageddon war. This is my review of the chapter and, because this is the final lore chapter, of the narrative portion of...
I'm always looking for battle maps for my RPG sessions. I feel like I end up using dry erase markers on a blank grid most of the time, but when possible I do love a good photo-realistic map. It's a futile effort, of course, because even when I purchase maps specific to a campaign my gaming group e...
In the previous chapter of Amageddon Crusade: The Red Angel's Gate, we were introduced to the major players of the latest in a history of conflict on the planet of Armageddon. The greatest threat of all, it seemed, was the Red Angel's Gate, a hole in reality and blatant invitation for the arrival...
I bought Crusade: Armageddon for Warhammer 40,000 10th edition. Having finally finished my Pariah Nexus campaign, I'm reading Armageddon chapter by chapter. This is my review of the first chapter, War without end.
I haven't played any of the missions yet, so this is just a review of the...
In tabletop gaming, I often find that uniformity feels like a wargame, while inconsistency feels like an RPG. When you've got 2 units of 10 soldiers, and 1 captain leading them, you usually think of the soldiers as generically "the army" but you're likely to give that captain a name, a backstory, a...
I surprised myself by genuinely enjoying the War of the Rohirrim movie. When Citadel miniatures released a 28mm miniature for Héra, daughter of Helm, I bought it as an addition to my Middle Earth army. This is my review of the kit.
The box actually includes 2 models. There's Héra mounted on As...
The concept of "terrain" in wargames, and many roleplaying games, includes not just the ground beneath a character's feet but also surrounding objects and structures. Setting up terrain for combat encounters is helpful to players because it defines what space they have to work with, and what physica...
I've written before about the joy of building RPG characters and the pleasure of a nice and easy pre-generated character. There's another way I interact with character building though, and it sort of sits between those two extremes. Sometimes I build a character based on a specific miniature in...
I backed Mantic's Epic Warpath wargame on Kickstarter and was so impressed by the impossibly tiny 12mm miniatures I got with it that I almost started regretting ever getting into 28mm miniatures. Crisis of preferred miniature scales aside, I was also intrigued by Mantic's Warpath universe. Unlike...
I'm playing through the scenarios in the War of the Rohirrim campaign book, in order of publication. I don't have a Middle-Earth™ army, as such, but I've got plenty of fantasy miniatures, so the story of the campaign is going to be "emergent" as I cobble miniatures together. The first scenario is...
In 2025, Games Workshop released a War of the Rohirrim campaign book, as a special order only, for Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game. I enjoyed War of the Rohirrim a lot more than I'd expected to, and I still regret not buying the Quest of the Ring Bearer campaign book, so I ordered this cam...