Miniature wargames blog and Tallarn army showcase
Hi all, back again, hopefully now on a more regular basis. Lately I have had some difficulties finding the time to write some more articles (rather, I had time, but had to spend it to more pressing matters). I did…
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Last Sunday the BOD Big Battle Day was held. One of our club members turned 50 and thought this was a good excuse to have a day of mass battles at our club venue. No arguments here. Matthijs and I…
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Yesterday there was some apocalyptic mayhem at clubnight. Rob hosted a game based on the Dead Man’s Hand rules, adapted to a sort of Fallout setting. He added some rules for vehicles and an alternative card system for turns. This made…
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Yesterday I played my first Shadow war Armageddon game. I made a Tallarn gang using the Astra Militarum list. I knew my opponent would bring orks and knowing their toughness in normal 40k I thought it would be nice to…
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Last Friday we played the next scenario in our Legends of the High Seas campaign. This time we entered the swamps of the island we ‘invaded’ last game. You might recall the aggressive natives led by Big Betty, the pirate captain…
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Every two weeks on friday night we have club night at the BOD wargames club in Utrecht. Club nights are held in the same venue as Poldercon, although in a smaller setting. Regular club nights are well visited by many…
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Yesterday Hamza and I finally concluded the point of no return campaign. The first two reports of this campaign can be found here: http://thedesertscorpions.com/x-wing-point-of-no-return-battle-report/ and http://thedesertscorpions.com/x-wing-point-of-no-return-battle-report-pt-ii/ We were now up to the last game in this campaign, the one that would define who…
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Last friday Hamza and I continued the point of no return campaign that is included with the Tantive IV model. Two weeks ago we started this campaign and were able to finish two of the four games. A battle report…
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Yesterday evening we played a game of Dead Man’s Hand at the club. Rob had made a new scenario and we would be trying that out. Two paddle steamers are used in a race on the Mississippi river. One of…
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2 weeks ago me and Hamza had decided to play Star Wars X-Wing at club night. I brought the whole collection and we would see what we would play then and there. After a bit of pondering we decided to…
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