Well as the title says, I have printed out two fleets of steam ships for playtesting my new game, but there is a problem… I am not happy with the designs! Design Frustrations: Every wargame designer knows the thrill of seeing designs come to life—only to feel that gut-sinking [Read more...]
I needed some scenery for my new rule set and as it is based on steam ships on the ocean, I decided that the scenery would be Islands. I have made island scenery previously, but this time I wanted to make the new stuff even quicker and easier, so I put my thinking cap on and looked through all [Read more...]
The new rules I have been working on is a set of rules for steam powered ships, so something on a similar line to the Spartan Games Dystopian Wars game. For those that don’t know Dystopian Wars was a game set in an alternative Victorian timeline where technology had advanced about a hundred years [Read more...]
Well, the second force for Hostile Actions is finally finished, it took me about four hours longer than the UEF force I painted last week. This is mainly because of the colour I picked to do them in… ok let me explain, well I wanted to make sure that these troops were very different from [Read more...]
Its been really bad lately I have not a chance to get in a game for a while now, I have been too busy writing games and doing other non hobby stuff. But today I wanted to do something completely different to mark me getting back at the gaming table again. A while back I did a ‘three different [Read more...]
Continuing on with my "four different games in a day" here is game number two. This was going to be a simple game of Blood Sweat & Iron, I put three Confederate wooden ships up against a Union ironclad. Could the three ships take on this heavily armoured ship, not only did it have much [Read more...]
For the third game I fancied a bit of spaceship action. So next up was a little game of Stars & Lasers, I fancied having a couple of big ships battle it out, so I used two Dreadnoughts that for some reason were travelling alone without any escorts and met in the vastness of space… well that’s [Read more...]
Well for game four I wanted some fast car action, so for the fourth battle I got out a couple of cars and my track and had a little game of The Last Drifters. The game would be all about two ‘friends’ settling a bet, two drifters fighting it out on the track. Lucky and Ace, which one will win [Read more...]
Well that was fun! I spent a few hours (about ten) over the last week painting a UEF force ready for some games of Hostile Actions. And well I am pleased with the finished models, they wouldn't win any awards but they are tabletop ready. So what did I paint, well for a start there are 112 [Read more...]
So, what is Hostile Actions? It's a simple-to-play game like all my others, which means you can spend less time worrying about the rules and more time thinking about tactics. Let’s see what the advert says… Step into a universe of sci-fi warfare with Hostile Actions, a simple and fun [Read more...]