Zardice speaks to you!

I bought this large size aquarium piece years ago. The intention was it would work as wargaming terrain - in fact, here's the original reference from 2014: https://shichitenhakki.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/zardoz-has-spoken-latest-find-at-the-aquarium/ And then it sat gathering dust because how often have I played jungle themed wargames since then? Rhetorical: never is the answer. Now that I'm playing Forbidden... Continue Reading →

Project 1701 nearly ready for play

Here is the nearly completed set up. The table is a printed mat originally designed for Frostgrave. I've decided that my implementation of the Tomorrow's War scenario Lost & Found occurs in the snowy north of planet Guerzim. Buildings are Metcalf N scale. Trees from Aldi. The fireteams are mounted on group bases. TW advises... Continue Reading →

Frostgrave/Sandtomb pieces for Good Friday

No particular connection between these pieces other than they have all been waiting to be finished for too long. First is a Reaper Miniatures Marilith that I felt fitted the Mediterranean/Arabian Nights/Greco-Roman/Byzantine feel. Handsome girl. Next is a mashup figure, one of Eureka's that I added a huge Kite shield to and a sword. Unfortunately I cannot... Continue Reading →

New terrain item – the obelisk

The mysterious obelisk clearly belongs to an older civilisation than the one that built the city where Sandtomb/Frostrave currently lies. The markings hint at Aztec. They also remind me of the 'libraries' at Angkor Wat. This was a 3D print I made using the M3D printer I bought over a year ago through a Kickstarter campaign... Continue Reading →

New gaming mats from PWork

If you have read here before you will have noticed that I don't mind urban scenes for my pike & shot games. This is because my major area of interest is in the big skirmish scale where there is every chance that the action concerns attacking villages. The problem I have found is that when... Continue Reading →

Bold Frontiers product review

The other day I stepped into Mind Games, Melbourne, in the hope of finding something usable on the second hand table. Instead, I found a product from a startup company by the name of Bold Frontiers. Card, MDF CDC, products are not new. The idea of precision cutting something that approximates a structure is a... Continue Reading →

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