In August 2024, a rulebook called Boarding Actions was released for Warhammer 40,000. Having played a previous iteration of Boarding Actions, I pre-ordered the book the moment it was revealed, and I received it in the mail a month later. For the past 6 months, most of the games of 40k I've pla...
Despite using miniatures in roleplaying games for years, it wasn't until I started playing wargames that I learned about miniature bases. And boy was I not prepared. A miniature base is the little plastic disc (or square or hexagon) that wargamers glue to the bottom of their models. To my great surp...
I'm playing through all the Mansions of Madness scenarios I own, and reviewing each one as I go. Escape from Innsmouth is the second adventure listed in the app, and it's rated four-stars for difficulty. If you've ever read Lovecraft's Shadow over Innsmouth and thought "that sounds terrifying,...
Since getting a Steam Deck, I've actually been playing games in my Steam library. Recently I played and finished Journey, and these are my reflections on the game.
I have a little bit of history with Journey, in a roundabout way. When I had a Playstation 3 back in the 20-teens, a game got re...
Popular wargames like Warhammer and Frostgrave and Deadzone have specially designed miniatures for them. This allows rulebooks to refer to a specific and exact miniature, alleviating any confusion about what size that model is meant to be, what uniform it's meant to be wearing, what weapons it...
Battle at the Farm is the first Warhammer 40,000 scenario ever published, way back in 1987 as a sample adventure in Rogue Trader. Back then, it was assumed that you'd have a Games Master (GM) running the game, and the game system was basically just Warhammer Fantasy dressed in space suits. To...
If you'd told me years ago that LEGO sets and wargaming modelling were in many ways the same hobby, I wouldn't have believed you. But a few years ago, a weird thing happened and I stumbled into wargaming, and I started building models and painting and playing the game, and yes, they're basically the...
I've been playing a lot of Shadowrun (5th edition) and Imperium Maledictum and Call of Cthulhu lately, because some folks I play with seem to enjoy investigative adventures. I was discussing this with my partner (who herself is one of the players who generally prefers investigation and to comb...
The second scenario in order of difficulty rating is Rising Tide, one of the adventures included in the main game. My short spoiler-free review is that Rising Tide is one of my favourite scenarios, full of investigation, mystery, and spooky atmosphere. For the rest of this review, there are mino...
Since getting a Steam Deck, I've actually been playing games in my Steam library. Recently I played and finished Hitman Go, and these are my reflections on the game.
The Go series of games by Square Enix are puzzle games set in popular video game universes. Hitman Go is set in the Hitman...
Every day of Advent in 2024, Games Workshop surprised Warhammer 40,000 players by releasing new detachment rules for every possible army, and everybody loved it. Then, just a few days ago, Games Workshop revealed 3 more detachments, completely out of the blue, and everybody loved it. The reason...
There are so many possible armies you can build for the 10th edition of Warhammer 40,000 that it can seem almost impossible to understand at first glance. In this post, I decipher the rules for army building in Warhammer 40,000.
The first thing to know, if you're completely new to wargaming, i...
I'm playing through all the Mansions of Madness scenarios I own, and reviewing each one as I go. The first one is Cycle of Eternity, which is one of the introductory adventure included in the main game. My short spoiler-free review is that Cycle of Eternity is a combat-heavy and very challengi...
In previous blog posts, I've lamented the lack of historical miniatures where I live and how that forced me to use a Carthaginian army as my Romans, and an Ancient Egyptian army for my Ptolemaic army. Very recently, a local mini reseller added a proper Roman army, so I sent my Carthaginians back to...
Since getting a Steam Deck, I've actually been playing games in my Steam library. Recently I played and finished Lara Croft Go, and these are my reflections on the game.
The Go series of games by Square Enix are puzzle games set in popular video game universes. Lara Croft Go is set in the...
In a wargame, you frequently have 20 or 30 or even 100 miniatures in your army. This can be confusing for a few reasons, not the least of which the sheer number of physical objects you have to keep track of. Each miniature generally gets to move and attack, and may also be subject to morale checks o...