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The Ogre Kingdoms are Coming…

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

So I finally broke down and got a hankering for square-basing. I had dabbled in Warhammer Fantasy Battles before using the cheap dwarf models from the Skull Pass set. Alas they just didn’t do it for me and I wound up setting the game aside for quite some time. With all the [...]

An Aside: Descent

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Descent is a neat game made by Fantasy Flight Games. It’s a board game, but shares a lot with war games. The basic setup is that you have an evil overlord controlling all the monsters, and a bunch of other players acting as a team of heroes. And unlike many RPGs, the Overlord isn’t just [...]

WARMACHINE Overview

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Ok, first the nitty-gritty, aka WARMACHINE 101:
WARMACHINE (yes the name is supposed to be in all caps) is made by Privateer Press. It’s primarily a skirmish-level game with anywhere from half a dozen to maybe 40 models in a typical game, though you can certainly go higher if you want.
The rules are summed up in [...]