Thoughts Before The Bristol Blitz, my second tournament, is in one week (as of writing) and is hosted at Vanguard Wargaming. As soon as we finished the ManticBowl, I wanted to be at another tournament. I fell for tournament play hard. This time, we have convinced Oli to come out with us – he’s one …
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Second Games Night of 2013
We recently hosted our second games night of the year. Unlike the last one, where we started early and crammed in many many short games throughout the day, this games night was mostly taken up with long games. The day began with a long game of Warhammer for Jen’s Vampire Counts against Dan’s Warriors of …
Radio Stars
Podcasts are fantastic. I don’t like media that isn’t on demand, like traditional television and radio. I don’t know why I let theatre off, maybe because it’s more of a conscious decision to consume theatre. That doesn’t mean that I don’t like the content (although most of it is garbage) – I love DVDs and …
DreadBall Catchup
I got my first DreadBall package a couple of weeks ago, and I calculated that it contains over £150 of miniatures – an incredible deal, when you also consider that I’m getting another two packages next year. So far I’ve played three games with the unassembled Marauder and Corporation teams (luckily, even without arms and …
2012
OK, let’s do this again. As usual, I post for the first few months of the year, tail off until December and then stick up this post to justify having a blog at all. Did you enjoy this year? Aside from massive tiredness caused by the most difficult teething ever – yes, I have. I’ve done …
Dreadball
I’ve been hooked recently on a new, unreleased game called Dreadball. It was described in a nutshell as ‘Sci-fi Blood Bowl, but nothing like Blood Bowl’. A slightly better description is that it’s a fast-paced sports game with a futuristic setting. I played a demo game of it at Cut ‘n Thrust Wargaming in Bristol, …
I got 99 problems…
One of which is that I am not a Java developer!
2011
Ha, well I certainly couldn’t miss a post today, could I. Not after writing a review for 2009 and 2010, anyway. I’ve noticed that most years, I get one big thing and nothing else matters. Freddy in 2008, the house in 2009, and the car in 2010. Taking into account my daughter was born this …
It’s Oh So Quiet…
BIG NEWS! On Wednesday 15th June, at 15:45, my daughter Elizabeth was born! She is gorgeous, and looks a lot like her brother when he was new. She weighed 6lb 2oz. It was a very strange day – our son was a (planned) home birth, and we’d looked into getting a birthing pool. Unfortunately, they …
My thoughts on HTML5 at Microsoft TechDays 2011
I’m beginning to neglect this blog as much as the Year of Frugal Gaming that I also write for (check it out, our glorious leader Frugal Dave recently picked up a stylish blogger award! I’m thrilled to be in such company!) and I’ve written a post over there on what I’ve been up to gaming …
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