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Von

Educating Shiny: Why You Little…

We had an unexpected bonus Thursday afternoon last week, and spent it swimming (to vanquish the fats) and wargaming (to restore the fats via recumbence and Doritos), playing a spot of Warmachine over the table-in-progress (which is now covered in blue polystyrene, and has fourteen trees with actual bark sculpted - texturing and painting both ... 

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Warmachine: Tiers, Magnus and the Fear of Change

I think I like the new Magnus Tier lists. It's only a 'think I like' and not an actual 'like', though, because I'm not a hundred per cent sure whether I'll ever be able to implement them in the size of games I enjoy playing.The perverse thing about Magnus and his various incarnations ... 

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Von

Warmachine: Tiers, Magnus and the Fear of Change

I think I like the new Magnus Tier lists. It's only a 'think I like' and not an actual 'like', though, because I'm not a hundred per cent sure whether I'll ever be able to implement them in the size of games I enjoy playing.The perverse thing about Magnus and his various incarnations ... 

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Been Painting: Magnus’ Agenda

Pictures of miniatures from the old blog. Not dial-up friendly, funnily enough. )

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Been Painting: Magnus’ Agenda

Pictures of miniatures from the old blog. Not dial-up friendly, funnily enough. )

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Von

Educating Shiny: Units Make Me Play Like A Moose

It's looking like Thursday night is Educating Shiny night from here 'til Yuletide, since Citizen Von here has had his day off restored by a kind and loving education system. We decided to celebrate with a spot of swimming (we're both fat buggers and determined to be less fat buggers by the end of the ... 

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Von

Educating Shiny: Units Make Me Play Like A Moose

It's looking like Thursday night is Educating Shiny night from here 'til Yuletide, since Citizen Von here has had his day off restored by a kind and loving education system. We decided to celebrate with a spot of swimming (we're both fat buggers and determined to be less fat buggers by the end of the ... 

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Von

Point Of Order

This post is more a request for discussion/clarification than a proper Thought.When he was introducing me, our gracious host thegreatblah said:"I have always thought Cryx to be the army that is most like Trolls, though many will say it is Menoth or Khador."I'd be interested ... 

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Troll Stories, by Von

No, I'm not talking about the Stone Scribe Chronicler. Not yet, anyway.I still don't have my new Trollblood army sorted out (still waiting for December's pay, and waiting to see how much of that I get to keep - it might be closer to ... 

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Been Building: Moah Bettah Trees

As the year lurches towards closure, we've been a bit busy, but we've found time to at least advance the cause by building a few trees. The method was borrowed from Frugal Dave - twist some wire together to make a tree shape, hot glue gun it to a base, slap some Milliput on and ... 

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