Gallery: Two Alpha Strike Games
Since the early 2010’s, CSW has played a variety of games with armies of re-based, pre-painted “Mechwarrior Dark Age” clix miniatures that we purchased in bulk after the demise of that game. The scale of these miniatures is alternately known as 10mm, N Scale or 1/160. That does make them significantly larger than the traditional ... Read more
Tabletop Minions 2023 Gallery- Mech Attack, Grimdark and more!
Another delayed report… This year my son and I took a trip to TMX 2023. While there we ran a big game of Grimdark Future, but first a few other things we saw… The Fallout tables were filled with fantastic 3d printed terrain: Watching the Alpha Strike game reinvigorated my interest. I hope to be ... Read more
AAR: Grimdark Gaming in Two Scales
A much delayed report…. On May 7th we gathered for gaming in our own corner of the Warhammer 40k universe in two different scales. Being CSW, we didn’t use Games Workshop rules for either, opting instead for Grimdark Future for the 28mm game and our own slight modification of the “Panzer 8 Sci-FI” rules for ... Read more
AAR- Kings of War Campaign Grand Finale. The Siege!!
At long last, here is a gallery of the final battle of our Kings of War campaign which ended in March. This was the big debut of Mattias’s hand painted castle set. Just stunning: We had fun setting up picture opportunities with the Cookie warriors that Mattias brought: The actual battle setup: We found that ... Read more
Adepticon 2023 – A Madcap Recap (image heavy)
Welcome once again to an Adepticon recap! While this is just my perspective, other members of CSW may share some of theirs in future posts. First off, I get hyped for this convention! It’s wondrous to me and I enjoy myself every time I go. I also feel like each time I go I stay ... Read more
Space Weirdos: Review and Number Crunching
Following our first gamed of Space Wierdos, Reviewer Extraordinaire Mattias returns to give us an in depth review of the game. THINGS THAT MAKE SPACE WEIRDOS ACTUALLY QUITE GOOD: As I think I mentioned before and as you can probably tell, we had a great time playing this game. Greater, to be honest, than I ... Read more
AAR- Kings of War Campaign Night 3. Big Battle of Baddies.
Presenting notes and gallery for the third round of our Kings of War Campaign! This was actually one large game on an 8×4 table. Newcomer to KoW, Mattias joined us, leading a smaller force of “Kingdoms of Man” green-armored human mercenaries who seem to have fallen under the glamour of Michael’s Slaanesh. Facing them across ... Read more
AAR- Halloween Fear and Faith Games- Zombie Evac and Escape From Weird Ones
Today we have a bit of catchup with some belated (Karl’s fault to be clear) battle reports from a pair of “Fear and Faith” games that Michael hosted. Both games were interesting takes on escape scenarios. Executive Order 50289476 of October 24, 2022 ZOMBIE INFESTATION – Area evacuation ===================================================================================== Execute Order (EXORD) authorizes continued DOD ... Read more
AAR- First Try With Space Wierdos
[Karl and I recently (…um, -ish?) had the opportunity to try out a game of Space Weirdos. What follows is a brief (…um, -ISH???) AAR of how the game went. THE BACKGROUND In the years before the outbreak of galactic civil war, Tanjarax IV held a lot of promise- at least in the eyes of ... Read more
AAR- Kings of War Campaign Game 2
Last month we gathered for the second night of our Kings of War Campaign. There were 3 of us gathered so we settled on a 3-Way battle for control of a town that just happened to already be at one of the only places on our campaign map where our 3 factions could meet. What ... Read more