Tag: THW
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Orctober: The Wrath Brothers & Their Big Sisters
Some time ago, three, four, maybe five years ago, the local* comic bookstore drastically cut prices and liquidated all miniatures except for Games Workshop and Privateer Press’ War Machine. *Local in Dallas terms means it is 30 miles from my home. Anyway, I was able to pick up a $35.00 box of minis for only…
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To Clerseau with Haste
Mistress of Time, Episode 7 *Note: This story is from a WHAT (Warrior Heroes Adventures in Talomir) campaign. The party has just completed a Guard a Traveler Job and wish to return home. Traveling home means playing a Wandering Encounter. The Guard a Traveler Job required two Wandering Encounters to travel from Clerseau to Orlogne,…
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Campaign Mobilization
It was well into the third watch as Queen Celeste gazed sleepily into her bowl of wine. Thoughts swirled as vapors, her hated enemy, the Elector of Capalan was engaged in a war with Mirholme, which meant there would be no raids or invasion from either for some time. The ancient foe of Imperial Tropilium…
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Armies and Navies
In the ancient world and to some degree parts of the world until the 19th century, there were few full-time standing armies. Settlements were expected to provide a certain number of troops when called upon to do so for a limited season of campaigning. Once the campaign was over, it was fully expected the soldiers…
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Queen Zosga
“There upon the ancient, tusked throne of Gorblud sat Zosga, hobgoblin queen of the Misty Vale.” My first model for this year’s Orktober is Trixia the Hobgoblin Queen by Artisan Guild. I tried a new technique, well it’s new to me, for painting green skin. It’s in Dr. Faust’s Painting Clinic video on layering and…
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Pulp PI – Investigator for Hire, a Review
Just being released, “Pulp PI – Investigator for Hire” from Two Hour Wargames couldn’t have come at a better time. You see, there’s a direct tie between pulp fiction and film noir, and in August, Turner Classic Movies suspends its weekly showing of “Noir Alley” for its month-long Summer Under the Stars film festival. So,…
Atomic Floozy Adventures 