I mentioned at the start of the year, I’m hoping to get back into blogging a bit more this year. I had a pretty good run of posting once a fortnight, but it fell away as my commute got shorter and less convenient for typing. I’ve moved my blog to Digital Ocean. The reason is …
Category archives: Journal
2016
I’ve not done ‘the meme thing’ since 2013… First of all, I had a bit of a blog break, and when I got back into it I just didn’t feel like answering all the questions there entirely truthfully. For a start, some of the questions were just a bit samey, and not much changed from …
Fantasy Battles – Kings of War
With the children away and the Gamer’s Edition rulebook just landed in our laps, we decided to try out Kings of War first. I didn’t bother making proper army lists, I just put out whatever of Jen’s units I could place quickly and some of my own to try and look balanced. She had the …
Fantasy Battles!
Big news in the world of Fantasy Battles! Warhammer is dead, long live Warhammer! Warhammer as I know it and love it has been scrapped entirely, and replaced with a new game – Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. I’ve been playing Warhammer to a greater or lesser extent since 4th edition, and it went out on …
In defence of my rights
Our new government wants to take away our human rights. Well, specifically, they want to take away the Human Rights Act which allows us to prosecute breaches of the European Convention on Human Rights in this country. The main narrative for this is to “bring it home” and “stop the unelected judges in Strasbourg ruling …
Hobby Projects, and Why I Missed An Update
Whoops, missed a scheduled post back there. I was expecting to be able to add a write-up about the MWWS charity tournament in Builth Wells, but unfortunately was struck down ill that weekend and was unable to attend. I was extra disappointed because I was supposed to be driving two other players to the tournament, …
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Vanguard League Season Two – Part 2
Well, the latter half of my league frittered away a bit. I got in a game against Dan and managed to win by a landslide pretty quickly, so we pulled out some Season Four teams and had a follow-on for fun game. My last game was scheduled against Oli, but due to impending babies we …
Tournaments and Painting Progress 2015
The dates for this years DreadBall tournaments have been announced – about a half-dozen Regional events around the country finished up with a National tournament in October, meaning a tournament season of around six months. As well as the Regional events this year, some tournaments can be “qualifying” events with the same nice trophies and …
Vanguard League Season Two – part 1
With our normal organiser getting too busy, the second season was delayed slightly – and then taken up by a new organiser. Me! I always said that if no-one else organised leagues or tournaments in Bristol, I would have to do it myself. So here I am. I kept the two divisions from the first …
Kickstarter Roundup
It’s been an interesting few years for me with Kickstarter – here’s where I’m at with all of my backed projects. Order of the Stick Reprint Drive This was my first Kickstarter, and is still outstanding. The reason for that though is clear – the sole artist and writer of the saga damaged his hand …