Warhammer 40K & Wargaming Blog
Recently I received my Azure Forest expansion for DreadBall. Now I had a chance to play a game with the new cards and my new Veer-Myn team, resulting in a great little match. Here’s a little write-up of the game: A DreadBall Azure Forest Game Report! #1 – Pre-Game Before the game, I prepared the Dreadball card […]
Flipping idly through the latest White Dwarf, I remembered writing a separate blog-post about the Battle Report from the January 2013 White Dwarf. It was an odd battle report, preachy in a way, in trying to convince players to get rid of point values and other constraints to embrace the idea of narrative gaming. After […]
I am, at best, an infrequent White Dwarf reader. The last I picked up was the issue on Dark Angels. This weekend, I picked up the July 2013 White Dwarf on GW’s latest iteration of Warhammer 40K Apocalypse, partly because I don’t think I’ll buy the new Apocalypse 40K rulebook right away. Some basic observations: […]
Summary: The latest White Dwarf’s battle report really pushes the idea of “narrative gaming”. Yet it does so in an oddly uneven manner. No narrative is actually shown. No hooks are given to inspire people to make their own narratives for their battles. I don’t feel the heart of the writers (or Games Workshop in […]
Spartan Games released a first “official” battle report for their coming 28mm steam punk miniatures skirmish game Dystopian Legions. The report – titled “Give ‘Em Hell For Florida Boys” – has been out for two, three days. As the report offers a first game-play impression of Spartan’s entry into the 28mm field, it’s been carefully […]
