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Let's Play Elder Dragon Highlander 40,000
I kinda got back into Magic: the Gathering around 2017, and have played the odd game since. So when Wizards published 40k Commander decks, I felt I had to get the Chaos one. Now that I have that, and...
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Warhammer 40,000: Let's Paint Space Elves
At this, the heart of Fulbra sank within him; for he had heard numerous tales of Uccastrog in bygone years; and the tales were not such as would reassure a stranded traveler. Uccastrog, which lay far...
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Let's Play Victory at Sea
So, I've painted the Royal Navy fleet and the German fleet for Victory at Sea, and even bought the starter set and rulebook. It's high time we tried playing it!**Since we just want to get a feel for...
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Horus Heresy: As Cups for a Wedding
A couple of years ago, I made a bet with a friend, and I won. I used the money to buy something very silly: a Termite. Since the bet involved matters of a personal nature, an appropriate name for the...
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Epic: Payback at Bandar Setan
Previously in the ongoing battle between the loyalists and traitors over the desert world of Lautan Lama, the loyalists of Legio Crucius defeated a Legio Venefica ambush in the streets of Bandar Setan....
View ArticleLet's Read the Horus Heresy 1: Horus Rising
"I was there," he would say afterwards, until afterwards became a time quite devoid of laughter. - The Horus Heresy: Horus Rising, Dan AbnettSo last year, I made a sort of New Year's resolution to not...
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Warhammer 40,000: Renegade Armiger Moonshadow
After my 500-point battle at Red Rocket against the relentless space wizard fuckery of the Grey Knights, I wanted some space wizards of my own.**The ninth edition Chaos Knights codex lets you make one...
View ArticleLet's Read Horus Heresy 2: False Gods
Cyclopean Magnus, Rogal Dorn, Leman Russ: names that rang with history, names that shaped history. - The Horus Heresy: False Gods, Graham McNeillIn the second book of the Horus Heresy series, we're in...
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Epic: Let's Paint Legions Imperialis
"You already have a uniform, Colonel, issued to you by the Emperor. That's who you're fighting for. Let the traitors alter their uniforms." - Lois McMaster Bujold, BarrayarI waxed poetic earlier about...
View ArticleLet's Read the Horus Heresy 3: Galaxy in Flames
"I was there," said Titus Cassar, his wavering voice barely reaching the back of the chamber. - The Horus Heresy: Galaxy in Flames, Ben CounterThat's right, it's time for the third instalment of Let's...
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Let's Paint Dystopian Wars: The Hunt for the Prometheus: the Enlightened
Back in 2021, there was a thing on Bell of Lost Souls about Dystopian Wars, a naval miniature wargame set in like an alternative-history 19th century. Apparently the game has been around for a while,...
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Let's Read Warhammer 40,000: Word Bearers: The Omnibus
'He did, sir, upon my honour,’ cried Macdonald, laying his right hand flat upon the table. 'And falsum in uno, falsum in omnibus, I say.’'Why, yes,’ said Jack, who was as well acquainted with old...
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Epic: Let's Build Dropzone Commander Terrain
Now that I've played Adeptus Titanicus and built some terrain for it, it's time to come up with more. Preferably the destructible kind. In other words, we're adding buildings to the desert planet of...
View ArticleLet's Read the Horus Heresy 4: The Flight of the Eisenstein
In the void, the vessels gathered.- The Horus Heresy: The Flight of the Eisenstein, James SwallowWe're back with the Horus Heresy series, and the fourth book starts with what could be a reworking of...
View ArticleLet's Read the Horus Heresy 5: Fulgrim
"The danger for most of us," Ostian Delafour would say on those rare occasions when he was coaxed to speak of his gift, "is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we...
View ArticleLet's Read the Horus Heresy 6: Descent of Angels
It begins on Caliban. - The Horus Heresy: Descent of Angels, Mitchel ScanlonThe sixth book in the Horus Heresy series isn't available in print, so I bought it as an e-book from Black Library. I got a...
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Twilight Imperium 3: Are You Threatening Me?
No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out of ten billion years, celebrating the gift of consciousness until the stars...
View ArticleLet's Read the Horus Heresy 7: Legion
The Nurthene uttered some of the usual gibberish before he died. - The Horus Heresy: Legion, Dan Abnett"Brother Alpharius, be so kind as to pass me my powerful Astares binoculars.""Yes, Brother...
View ArticleLet's Read the Horus Heresy 8: Battle for the Abyss
Olympus Mons burned bright and spat a plume of fire into the sky. - The Horus Heresy: Battle for the Abyss, Ben CounterFinally, a Horus Heresy book starring my guys, the Word Bearers. It's by Ben...
View ArticleLet's Read the Horus Heresy 9: Mechanicum
It never rained on Mars, not any more. - The Horus Heresy: Mechanicum, Graham McNeillWe're back on Mars, this time with with McNeill and the Machine Cult. There's Knights, Titans, a bunch of...
View ArticleLet's Read the Horus Heresy 10: Tales of Heresy
He had been circling for ten months. - Blood Games, Dan Abnett, in The Horus Heresy: Tales of HeresyOkay so somehow, I feel like I only just started reading these, and here we are with book ten. Tales...
View ArticleLet's Read the Horus Heresy 11: Fallen Angels
There were no trumpets to announce their arrival, no cheering crowds to welcome them home. - The Horus Heresy: Fallen Angels, Mike LeeWe're back with the Dark Angels, as Fallen Angels picks up where...
View ArticleLet's Read the Horus Heresy 12: A Thousand Sons
The Mountain had existed for tens of thousands of years, a rearing landmass of rock that had been willed into existence by forces greater than any living inhabitant of Aghoru could imagine. - The Horus...
View ArticleLet's Read the Horus Heresy 13: Nemesis
Gyges Prime was a murdered world, dead now, all but an ashen ember. - The Horus Heresy: Nemesis, James SwallowThis one's by James Swallow, who also did Flight of the Eisenstein, which I liked. Nemesis...
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Let's Play Chaos in the Old World
Back before the pandemic, when I was looking for board games for our little group to try, I kept coming across the out-of-print Chaos in the Old World, and finally, I cracked and bought a second-hand...
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