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Join us at Dragon Fall
Later this month, CSW members will be running a games and supporting the charity raffle at Dragon Fall 2019. We are running Heroquest On Friday evening and twice on Saturday. It is a continuation of a campaign of games run at other conventions and each session will be a different scenario. We will also be ... Read more
Adepticon 2019- Painted Miniatures White Elephant
One of the events I ran at Adepticon this year was a painted miniatures exchange. Each participant brought a painted miniature and their name was put into a dice bag. We drew names to see who got to pick a miniature first and each participant got to leave with a miniature painted by one of ... Read more
Hobby Night Rides Again!
CSW broke our hiatus and assembled for another hobby night, where each of us brought a project we had been meaning to work on, sometimes for years. Josh put together some additional pieces for his modern city terrain. These construction lights and bus shelter are from 4Ground. Mike assembled a Plasticville house and was ... Read more
Review- Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago Gods of Fire
Gods of Fire expands on Ghost Archipelago with a mix of various elements. There are new treasures and bestiary, as well as rules for small boats. The more remarkable sections are a chapter on making and playing as various tribal groups and three campaigns where players play tribes along side the standard Ghost Archipelago crews. ... Read more
Tutorial- Tectonic Craft Studios Crane Assembly
I picked up a crane kit from Tectonic Craft Studios at Midwest Miniature Expo. Here is how I assembled it: First, separate the pieces into the four major sections of the finished crane. The axis upon which the arm rotates. From left to right, these are the center axis and the pieces that go on ... Read more
What a Tanker! – Midwest Miniatures Expo
One of the games I was excited to see at Midwest Miniatures Expo was What a Tanker!, a game of WWII tank combat made by Too Fat Lardies. Each player runs one or up to a handful of tanks. Each tank has a two statistics- Armor and Strike. Those are the defensive and offensive abilities ... Read more
Review of Wargames Soldiers and Strategy 96
I recently subscribed to Wargames Soldiers and Strategy and I’d like to share my thoughts on my first issue. Many of the articles in WSS are short 2-4 page descriptions of scenarios inspired by historical events. The theme for this issue was raid in the American Civil War. I’ve never studied the civil war much ... Read more
AAR/Review- A Trial Run through Kobolds and Cobblestones
Chris and I recently got together for a game of Kobolds and Cobblestones. It is number 21 in Osprey’s line of games that I often call “little blue miniatures games.” This one is set in the criminal underground of a sort of neutral city where various standard fantasy races live in an uneasy peace. The ... Read more
Shadespire demo at Tabletop Minions Expo 2018
Our friends at the South East Wisconsin Battle Badgers put on demos of Shadespire at TMX this year. Josh and I got to play in a four player game with two others who had never tried it. Josh chose the heavily armored chaos forces of Magore’s Fiends. I was using the skaven warband, Spiteclaw’s Swarm. ... Read more
Neo Soviet Gun Turrets
As part of the prep for our Mech Attack game at Adepticon, I made these gun turrets to use as defensive works. They are a simple foam core box with a couple of bits and texture added. The gun itself is the turret from a KV-2 inspired tank made for Dust. To begin, I made ... Read more