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...
This is a battle report for the fourth and final scenario in my Vile Secrets of Vulcoth campaign for Warhammer 40,000. Inquisitors Greyfax and Ostromandeus of Ordo Hereticus have killed Chief Ellisar and the Chaos Lord with whom he was conspiring. Satisfied that they have cleansed the Imperium o...
This is the third scenario in the Vile Secrets of Vulcoth campaign for Warhammer 40,000. Inquisitors Greyfax and Ostromandeus of Ordo Hereticus have questioned the staff at Vulcoth's central production facility, and they've determined that Chief Ellisar is a person of interest. As the Imperial r...
This is the second scenario in the Vile Secrets of Vulcoth campaign for Warhammer 40,000.
Inquisitors Greyfax and Ostromandeus of Ordo Hereticus have reached Vulcoth's central production facitily. Its output has fallen noticeably in recent years, and the Inquisitors suspect heresy is the cause...
I'm running the Vile Secrets of Vulcoth campaign for Warhammer 40,000, and this is the battle report of the first scenario. The story of this campaign branches in two directions, so the choices of the Hero Army influences not only which scenario gets played, but also the enemies faced in the fin...
I watched the third and final episode of Penitence on Warhammer TV. It's a story about the Adepta Sororitas of the Order of the Sacred Rose, and this is my review of it. I'm avoiding spoilers, but it is Warhammer 40,000, after all, and in case you hadn't heard, it's the original grim dark settin...
I own a handful of very old Chaos Space Marines models for Warhammer 40,000, and I've acquired a few updated models in the Blackstone Fortress. I also had a spare Armiger Helverin model that I decided to paint black, and a black Land Raider model I also use for my Iron Hands army, and some Warga...
Sometimes dreams do come true. When I first got Liber Mechanicum for Horus Heresy: Age of Darkness, I was most intrigued by the entry for the Arcuitor Magisterium. Many units in Horus Heresy don't have official models, which is refreshing on one hand because it means you get to use your imaginat...