Doing The Work

The name of this blog has always been an indicator of its purpose: a place to offload writing in whatever form it may be.  Originally a place to talk cycling, in particular the annual ‘Coffeeneuring’ challenge, but as time has moved on so has the theme, meandering into historical wargaming, where I seem to have

Cancellation

Is historical wargaming at risk of being ‘cancelled’?

A 1/300 Christmas

It’s the most miniature time of the year 🎵 With December a few days away I’ve been thinking about Christmas and what I’m going to do with my time off – a whopping two and a half weeks of leave this year. Not much chance to take time off when there’s a plague, after all.

On the Box

What makes a wargaming channel on youtube good? Can we boil it down so anyone can do it?

Teaching Others

When deciding what game you want to start playing there’s a good little adage you should keep in mind: a bad game with a great community is better than a great game with a terrible community. Solo games are always an option for those of us out in the sticks, but generally we choose tabletop

…Can’t do that

Podcaster Justin McElroy once described playing Dungeons and Dragons as (roughly) the following: It’s like playing pretend as a kid, only every now and then a guy goes ‘no no, you can’t do that’ It’s stuck with me for years: anyone who has played a tabletop rpg will know how brilliantly accurate and funny it

Zona Alfa Review – Initial Impressions

There aren’t many games, of any kind, that I find I want to pre-order or buy on release day. I’m the kind of person that would rather keep their powder dry and see how others take to a game before committing. Why put your money down and take that risk when you can let others

The Line

I’m a sucker for fluff. It ties into my preferences for a narrative rather than competitive game, I suppose, but I love all the little details and bits of background info in wargaming that you can add to your games. I’ve always loved games that give you a lot of creative freedom this way, and