tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52862952569956392912024-10-25T07:17:54.161+01:00Reviews of RPGs, Wargaming, Books, TV, Film, Comics and other random Sci-Fi and Fantasy stuff. If I like it, then I'm going to blog about it!Davegotsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02163056330736198243noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286295256995639291.post-2102243188717691772013-09-20T13:36:00.003+01:002013-09-20T13:37:06.018+01:00

I've just got the latest source book for the Iron Kingdoms RPG, and boy is it awesome. This is only going to be a quick overview, as I haven't had enough time to read in depth, but a full review will appear in time. The book is produced the same way as the core book, being a full colour hardback. While I haven't counted the pages yet, it has roughly the same page count as the core book, while

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In a great exercise in willpower, I've managed not to back any Kickstarters since Warmachine:Tactics, however when this game came along I couldn't help support. Read on to find out why you too should be backing 404: Law Not Found. 404: Law Not Found is the first board game from 3DTotal Games, a small company based in Worcester. Mixing humour and with simple to learn but strategicly deep

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It occurs to me that I have been very lax in posting the last couple of months! I will get back to new posts very soon, I've just been a bit distracted recently. But I do have some stuff coming up including a mammoth post showing what I've painted recently, some posts regarding Warmahordes mercenary/minions solos and the regular smattering of reviews.

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The current hot property up on Kickstarter at the moment (in the gaming section at least) is a new skirmish scale miniatures game from Mantic Games called Deadzone. As I'm considering getting into this a bit, I thought I'd write up a post with the duel goals of working it through for myself, and giving it a bit of exposure to people I know who might be interested. For those that haven't been

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I'm a bit behind with this review, but better late than never. As is traditional in an RPG release schedule, one of the early releases is a GMs kit, containing a GMs screen and some additional content to entice us to hand over our money. Not ones to break tradition, Privateer Press's second release in the Iron Kingdoms line is a Games Masters toolkit to aid all those hard working GMs in

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I ran across Godslayer by Megalith Games while they were running their Kickstarter recently. Unfortunately I wasn't able to seriously back them, but I was so taken with the miniatures I had to get a couple to paint. Godslayer is a fantasy minatures skirmish game, that is set in their own world of Calydorn. To steal from their website: "The world of Calydorn is the stage upon which plays the

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I was a little delayed in getting my copy of Gargantuans due to my LGS’ supplier having an issue with “flammable pallets”. I feel this is an excuse along the lines of “the dog ate my homework”, but as I wasn’t going to buy it anywhere else, I had to wait. However, patience is a virtue, and I even successfully managed to avoid all the online spoilers! And I’m glad that I did, as once again

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A new year, and a new set of Bank Holidays for playing Warmahordes over! This year, we move up from 15pts to 25pts, and also start using the Steamroller 2013 scenarios rather than the ones in the core book. To ease us in, we are only going to use 4 of the scenarios, Destruction, Incursion, Outflank and Process of Elimination. We’ll also be aiming for a 2 list format with character restrictions.

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It has been a quiet month for me, with not much finished, but odds and ends have had paint applied. I found in a box my part painted Khemri Blood Bowl team, and have been doing a bit more towards finishing them off. I had the Skeletons and Mummies painted previously, so I just need to base them. My Blitz-Ras and Throw-Ras required painting, so they are about 75% complete now. My Satyxis Raiders

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I'm not a newcomer to Kickstarter, having backed 16 projects over the last year, however I don't quite get into the spirit of the projects, usually keeping my involvement to myself. Which really isn't the point at all, as most of these projects depend on their backers to create a buzz to bring in more backers. To be fair, I'm usually backing successful projects, and I'm only interested in a basic

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DC's leading man gets a reboot in a new movie universe that owes a lot to the Nolan Batman reboot in style and feeling, which is not surprising given he helped write the script. Last year I looked over the comic book movies of the year. This year I'm going to look over the movies that interest regardless of the genre, although don't be surprised if they don't stray far from the SF/fantasy

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I'm a bit slow on this one, as the book was released just before Christmas, however the for-mentioned holiday delayed me giving the book a good read. That has now been rectified, so on with the review. No Quarter Presents: Iron Kingdoms Urban Adventure is the first source book in the Iron Kingdoms Full Metal Fantasy Roleplaying Game and aims to claim the title of the longest source book

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This weekend was the first of the big gaming conventions of the year, TempleCon in the US, and Privateer Press are using it to make some big announcements. This time last year we had the announcement of Colossals/Gargantuans and Level 7, and this year the big announcements were equally as awesome. The big announcement has to be the introduction of a new Warmachine faction, the Convergence of

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I'm going to go back to monthly on these, and I'm classing my last post as a round up! Shockingly, I have more finished models, although to be fair these have been half done previously. &nbsp;My Warmonger Warchief again, for the reason I've got him based! Inspired by the snow outside, I've finally experimented with creating a snow base. I always planned to use this sort of theme for my

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I've not talked about my painting for a while, mainly because I hit a bit of a wall after making a big noise. I started November with a selection of models and a challenge to myself to get as many painted as I could. Turns out November was the worst month to pick, for a variety of reasons. Needless to say, I failed dismally. Even worse, the only model I did finish was a present and I didn't even

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An attempt at a new start, I'm going to look forward into the new year and talk about some of the things that spark my interest. First up, gaming, primarily tabletop RPGs and war games Top of my list has to be the new releases from Privateer Press. March sees the anticipated release of Gargantuans source book, where Hordes finally receive their furious counterparts to the Colossals. The previews

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Its that time of year where we all take stock of the year past and look forward to a new year. Personally, I don't do the whole reflecting on the past thing too well, so instead I'll concentrate on 2013. I think the motto for 2013 should be to do more. As regular readers will note, I'm not the most frequent blogger, however I'm full of ideas and really should write more. So, as well as my

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It's been a while since I've had a new RPG to review since I've started becoming a lot more selective with my gaming purchases. That, and many of the lines I was buying have slowed down considerably! However, this one is well worth singing its praises. I don't think it would shock anyone to say I'm a huge Iron Kingdoms fan. I bought the 2 of the original Warmachine battle boxes, despite not

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This idea has a couple of sources of inspiration, so bear with me while I ramble for a bit before getting to the point. You might remember that back at the start of the year, I decided I’d try and paint 4 15pt armies, one for each of my factions. You can find the original post here. I’m not giving up on that challenge, in fact I’m only 4 models away from completion. However I don’t like making

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At the end of August, another WarmaHordes weekend was held, with the added bonus of a day’s extension due to everyone being accidently available on the Saturday as well!! Didn’t manage to get many more WarmaHordes games in, but did play some fun World of Warcraft CCG games, as well as a demo DropZone Commander. I’ll talk about DzC in a different post later. As is typical of me, rather than stick

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Last week, NCSoft announced, to the shock of everyone including the games developers, that City of Heroes would be closed down this year. I’ll admit, I haven’t played CoH for a while, real life and lack of time getting in the way, but I had always hoped I’d manage to get back on. This is why I’m supporting the Save City of Heroes campaign and hope that you will to. To give you an idea about the

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I'm going to try and get these posts going once a month, because if nothing else it pushes me to paint more. Id like to think that people find them interesting, but I'm not that deluded, my readership isn't all that big. Although I treasure each and every one of you.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> My last project to come off the painting table was a

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My Dropzone Commander rules arrived a couple of weeks ago, and after reading the book through I'm ready to write up my thoughts.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Presentation The book is 152 colour pages printed on a nice glossy paper. Throughout are more photos of the miniatures taken in scenery which look amazing. The cover itself is a photo with

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