Wow! 20 years since I stared this blog to show my models, share battles and tell tales of our adventures. Through it, I've connected with likeminded hobbyists and met many of them in person (and VTC) both in Australia and much further afield, which has been a real treat. Hearty thanks for two decades of support, comments, and clicks!While the "Age of the Blog" peaked some time ago in favour of other social media, I still enjoy it as a medium for chats that begin with "do you remember that game we played where..."
So in that vein here are some highlights of the past 10 years, focusing on the people & fun, not the models.
2016
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A rare Dad & Lad alliance with our SAGA Vikings to utterly and mercilessly crush those Welsh pretenders Aled and Phil, at the Chatswood Game store.
Alan gets into character playing Jugula.
Reilly and I playing Fortune and Glory with Pete and Ken in Melbourne
Alan and I were hosted by Millsy for the "Second Battle of Curmudgeon Moor!".
A fabulous ECW game with memorable terrain such as Strumpet's Way, St Harlot's Wood and the famous Church "Our Lady of Negotiable Virtue"
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May the Fourth be with you! I hosted a co-op X-Wing game at the game shop!
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Aled & me
A Rogue's gallery indeed! |
2017
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| Fighting Sail with Comrade James at Jolt in Canberra! Leading my squadron of 6th rate Ships of the Line: HMS INSUFFERABLE, HMS RELUCTANT and HMS DEVASTATED |
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| Club Road trip to Little Wars show in Canberra. |
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| ..where we photo-bombed our way into Wargames Illustrated issue 365! (March 2018) |
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4 player siege game as part of our "FowlWarren" Dragon Rampant campaign
L to R: Luciano, Dave, Alan, John |
Played what remains my most fun and immersive campaign ever, against Alan in the FIW. Weekly games using Sharp Practice, this became a fabulous project in which I basically built a new unit every week for a number of months and we had much fun every time. Epic stuff.
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| "French attempt a daring flanking move that failed to capture the Rangers' deployment point by exactly one inch. British colonials spring from the trees to unleash a hail of lead into the French Marines. It's been said before that one more inch would have made all the difference!" |
2018
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| New Years Day Battlegroup Barbarossa with Alan: Ostrog 41 campaign |
Reilly and James play a Gaslands demonstration game at MOAB:
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| Watch out James - I know that Look! |
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| 4 games of SAGA being played concurrently at the pub! This was the only time I ever played with my new Arthurian warband, and remains the only time I have ever beaten Alan at SAGA! |
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| Alan and Battlegroup - a match made in heaven |
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| Alan considers the lay of the land as his 15mm British Armour advances against my DAK |
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| Alan goes 1:1 scale for his new Roman Army |
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| Marty, John, Aled and I embracing the centenary of Armistice with Trench skirmish gaming |
2019
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| John and I face off in a 4 player game of General d'Armee hosted by Aled and his Dad |
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| I hosted "Slaughter at Clapgate Common"- an 8 player mega-game using Dragon Rampant. Madness ensued! L to R: Phil, Marty, Steve, Aled, John, Dave |
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| The other end of the table. From L to R: Aled, Dave, John, Lachie, Dave K |
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| Kill Team at the Pub - Izzie faces off against Marty, While Reilly and Lockie duke it out. John enjoys some hobby in the background! |
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| Playing Mortal Gods with Aled and Izzy at the Pub |
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| Big game of Sharp Practice at Gav's place. From L to R: Gav, Lachie, Marty, Aled, John |
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Alan appears not to enjoy his first game of Mortal Gods against the fabulous
Melian army that he painted for me while I was deployed |
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| Reilly and I rediscover our love of Blood Bowl (pretty sure he won this game!) |
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| Comrade James at the Willouby Hotel playing Combat Commander with Commissar Shoemarx! |
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The Illiad in almost 1:1 scale at Gav's house! Modified Lion Rampant rules.
L to R: Charles, ?, Lester, Alan, Gav |
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| The Canberra Chapter of Odin's Night Gamers assemble for beers and banter! |
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Comrade James and Reilly enjoy the newly released "Indomitus" rules
(Warhammer 40k, 9th edition) |
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| Gav vs Rolfe at Rolfe's place. Rolfe the disgraced Spartan General hides after getting steamrolled in Men of Bronze, |
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| ...then gets his own back by utterly routing Gav's Hoplite army in To The Strongest |
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After a complete strip out and rebuild, Reilly sets up the first game (Warhammer Fantasy Battles) in our newly renovated Man Cave.
and during 2020 we made the Warhammer Community Twitch round up not once, but twice!
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| The new Man Cave in action for a pre-lockdown 'Dad & Lads' 40k battle against Patch & T |
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| Warhammer Fantasy Battles at Gav's place with Reilly, Marty and Lachie |
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And at Gav's again for 6 player Black Powder
(L to R: Marty, Rolfe, Reilly, Gav, and a super enthused John!) |
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Alan and I playing Mortal Gods (with his lovely new Thrakkian army)
down the pub during an all too brief letup in the COVID lockdown.
(More than a few pints were enjoyed this night as I recall!) |
2022
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| My new Lancastrian army: War of the Roses using Lion Rampant 2nd ed at Alan's house |
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| Gaming at the Chatswood GW store during COVID... |
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| Playing Dungeonbowl in our local GW store (I won both games!- a memorable and rare event) and then having our teams put on display for a few months |
2023
Great folks I met along the way in the UK:
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| Ashley and Susan from "Paint it Pink" |
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| The irrepressible "Postie's Rejects" |
and back in Oz too:
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Frank teaches me how to play his Blood on the Sands Gladiator
game at MOAB! (I wonder what I just asked Frank!) |
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| Father's Day Dungeon Bowl with Reilly! |
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| Playing Dux Bellorum with Alan at his place (a game that deserves more table time!) |
2024
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| Alan, Reilly and I playtest Blood on the Sands gladiator rules with author and all round great guy "Lanista Frank" |
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| Alan, John and Marty fight a Roman Civil War in 28mm using To The Strongest. |
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| John hosted the "Hunt for the Golden Pineapple" using Silver Bayonet |
I hope that a quick trot through the past decade brings smiles to those who were involved!
Thank you all for the laughs and adventures along the way
More to follow from earlier years soon.
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