I went along to the Battletech Bootcamp at the Bad Moon Cafe in London which was run by Strategos Level 3 yesterday.

While I was tempted to take along my freshly painted Inner Sphere Assault Lance, I ended up using some of the preconstructed lists that were provided on the event page. I was working on the basis that…

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Last year I started dipping into Battletech after a friend started a new podcast on the subject.

It appealed because a typical game has a small model count (4 mechs make for a game that lasts two or three hours) and the models look great, but aren't coated in as much fiddly detail as Games Workshop adds. It's also a…

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I hit a painting slump in February and managed to almost complete five zombies. So when March came around, I put them to the side and picked up some other projects as a pallet cleanser.

When Haggok, the Gutripper Boss, as announced as this years store anniversary model I wasn't really grabbed. However, since then I have discovered that I…

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Towards the end of last year I painted up a couple of scenery pieces from Loot Studios, and then failed to take pictures of them before I packed up my lightbox to make room for Christmas. So, a little late, here they are.

I'm planning to run some D&D 4th edition at the end of the month and have…

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December's painting time (which was in short supply as work hit a bit of crunch time) was mostly focused on a series of character models of the PCs (and one NPC) from Ray's long-running Legend's Walk campaign that furlough switched from being "half a dozen sessions a year at conventions" to a weekly online game that helped us get through…

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With the release of the new edition of Kill Team, I've fallen back into the miniatures hobby. With a week away with a bunch of gaming buddies coming up too soon after Kill Team was released to get anything painted, I cast my eye over the compendium that showed up in a review and picked out a legal team that…

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I was initially dubious when I heard that Good Omens was getting a second season. I'd loved the book, season one covered the whole story, it had a beginning, a middle & an end. More importantly, the late, great Terry Pratchett isn't around to write half of the story.

Neil's blog has alleviated most of my worries.

It's a nice…

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Phil asks:

What are the must-own RPGs for a true collector?

Go quality, not quantity. Not just #DnD. Not just #OSR. Trad. Indie. GMless.

What should every "proper" collection include?

And while I made my response on Twitter, I thought this worthy of an answer in a longer form.

Different games are good at different things. They focus on…

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COVID-19 is causing all sorts of problems and disruption to social lives is one of the more minor of them. VoIP and some other technologies let us carry on gaming though. I’m likely to do more gaming than usual since my other social activities are curtailed.

Here are a few tips to get you up and running with online gaming…

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Well, it’s official. We’re getting a show about Section 31. I’m not optimistic.

Michelle Yeoh is great, but I’d rather see a show about Prime Georgiou than Mirror Georgiou. Shame they killed her off.

Section 31 has provided some of my favourite Star Trek episodes. Plot arcs about how far a beloved character will go “for the greater good”…

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