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Bob Olley's Black Orcs: the best of Iron Claw Miniatures
It has taken me 3 years and much treasure to collect all 12 of the original IC601 Black Orcs sculpted by Bob Olley and released by Iron Claw in 1988. Immediately upon receiving the last orc in the...
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Citadel's Paranoia Miniatures
The Paranoia miniatures produced by Citadel from 1985-1987 are among the most under-appreciated ranges produced in the golden age of Games Workshop. Paranoia is a post-apocalyptic game set in a...
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Hasslefree Miniatures: Promocode and the Art of Gesture
Hasslefree Miniatures is one of the few contemporary miniature makers that I love. And for the next day, Hasslefree Miniatures is offering 11% off with the promocode HAPPY11. This is in celebration of...
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Space Alert - a game of panic and failure
I often use the phrase "golden age" when referring to the period in the mid-1980's, when Citadel produced their best miniatures. But we are living in another golden age right now -- the age of great...
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The Computer Wants You to Have the Right Information
Since I've started collecting Citadel's Paranoia miniatures, I've realized how neglected these minis were in the 1980's and still are today. The range was introduced in 1986, coinciding with the...
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Dwarfs versus Dwarves
What's the proper plural: dwarfs or dwarves? And what does the Eiffel tower have to do with it?DwarvesWell, I love it when high culture and gaming culture intersect. And so I had a chuckle yesterday...
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When did Games Workshop Go to Pot?
As a profitable enterprise, today's Games Workshop is a rusty turd. But I often contemplate the dim past and wonder when it was that Games Workshop first lost its way: not as a money making venture,...
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Star Wars and Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader
The most important invention of Games Workshop's golden age was the world of Warhammer 40K: a science fiction setting combining sword-and-sorcery fantasy with a bitter dystopian future. It was the...
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The Star Wars miniatures of Imperial Assault: a review
When I heard that Fantasy Flight Games was releasingImperial Assault, a Star Wars miniature combat game, I became so excited that I darkened my trousers with a rich, fragrant urine. It was a dream come...
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Lethal Gravity: Painted Star Wars Miniatures
Since I started painting the Star Wars Miniatures from Imperial Assault, I've tried to adjust my painting style. My normal approach involves lots of rust effects, stains, and acne... something that...
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Oldhammer Battle Report: Orcs vs. Skaven or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying...
In my first battle against 24_Cigarettes and his horde of Skaven, my army of Oldhammer orcs decided that they would fight "without da sissy stuff"... no war machines, no magic and no goblin fanatics....
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The Lightsaber's Riddle
Behold the heroes of the Rebel Alliance from the new Star Wars miniature game, Imperial Assault. To celebrate finishing all these, I just watched the original Star Wars trilogy. And not just any...
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Baggage Trains in Warhammer Fantasy Battle
Baggage trains are one of richest elements in 3rd edition Warhammer. In my view, no fantasy army is complete without a colourful array of camp followers. And yet, it is an oft-neglected element of the...
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Hot Lead: Canada's finest wargaming event
Wargaming conventions are like beds in a fairy tale -- they shouldn't be too big or too small. You want plenty of games but few queues. Lots of new faces, but no strangers. Here in Ontario we're...
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My Favourite Miniature Paint Job
I was digging through my old miniatures today, trying (and mainly failing) to get them organized. The job was brightened when I ran across this miniature -- a lovely sculp from Reaper by Werner Klocke....
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Epic Burn: Moorcock versus Tolkien
Michael Moorcock does not like J.R.R. Tolkien. He calls him Tolkien a "second-rate schoolmaster". It's hard to imagine two authors who have been more influential on the development of fantasy...
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Painted Imperial Assault Miniatures
Fantasy Flight Games continues to release Star Wars miniatures for their skirmish game, Imperial Assault. And as often as they release 'em, I'm compelled by a deep, salmon-spawning instinct to paint...
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The Rough Trade: an Orc Baggage Train
"The rag-tag followers that trail after an Orc & Goblin army are vile, destitute and quarrelsome beyond even the disgustingly low standards set by Orc warriors. Heavy and multiple-dugged Orc...
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A Review of Imperial Assault - the Skirmish Game
If you've ever imagined what the opening scene of A New Hope would have been like if Darth Vader had boarded the Tantive IV ahead of the Storm Troopers, then Imperial Assault is the game for you.And...
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Reading along with the Lord of the Rings: the path of wisdom
The Lord of the Rings is my favourite book, and I've decided that as I re-read it this summer, I'll write a chapter-by-chapter commentary. If you're also casting about for summer reading, I hope you'll...
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