Tag: Wargaming

  • March 2025 Wrap Up

    March 2025 Wrap Up

    There’s the old saying about March that it comes in like a lion and leaves like a lamb, meaning that it is usually a windy month that settles into a peaceful spring. This year, the lion roared all month long and brought rain and hail with it. You would have thought being forced indoors I…

  • 5 Parsecs – Protect the Cargo

    5 Parsecs – Protect the Cargo

    The Peachy Queen shuddered as she dropped out of hyperspace amplifying Kat’s nausea. Taemena Jalee, the ship’s navigator, smiled knowing Kat’s distress. As a Precursor, Taemena’s people had traveled hyperspace for millennia and had built up an immunity to its discomforts. “We have entered the edge of the Allenby system, Captain, with current deceleration, we…

  • January 2025 Wrap Up

    January 2025 Wrap Up

    As January comes to an end, it’s time to look at what I got done hobby wise and plan what I would like to get done in February. I didn’t get to play any games, though I put into motion games and campaigns to play later in the year. Here’s what I’m working on, I…

  • Last Painted Figures of the Year

    Last Painted Figures of the Year

    I came nowhere near my goal, it was very ambitious, in painting figures for the year. The reason for that is simple, I still think I can do everything I could when I was thirty. However, a body that has finished seven decades of life and then some, tends to laugh at what I think…

  • Viking Warband

    Viking Warband

    This week I continued to work on my 1015 project and was able to paint 30 Vikings to a tabletop standard – in other words, they look great from 3 feet away. The figures are from Wargames Foundry and have been in the paint queue for way too long. I’ll be using the Captains and…

  • Viking Archers

    Viking Archers

    In the battles of early medieval Europe, archery is seldom mentioned unless by some fluke an important nobleman had the bad luck of being severely wounded or killed by an arrow. The main reason was that while almost anyone could use a bow, so few were skilled with it. So, the bow found its primary…