Tagged: sci-fi
AAR- Exploring 8th Edition 40K
I’ve been a fan of Warhammer 40k for a few years now, and was a very active player in previous editions. I’ve played in a tournament and even made the trek to the MiniWargaming studios in Canada to film some battle reports. So when the new edition was announced, I was thrilled. Age of Sigmar ... Read more
AAR- Trying out Warhammer 40,000 8th edition
Recently, I got a chance to try Warhammer 40k with Frank and his group of friends who have been playing 40k since Rogue Trader. It was a 1500 point game between two teams controlling Slaanesh Chaos Space Marines versus a vehicle heavy force of Imperial Guard. We used a scenario from the rulebook, cities of ... Read more
CSW Hobby Night
Mike, Mattias, and I got together for one of our semi-regular hobby nights. It was a productive evening all around! Look how happy they are! Mike made a lot of progress on some ships. In his own words: Last night I painted decks and detail work on US warships that date from 1890 to around ... Read more
Tutorial- Ridiculously Fast Terrain From Toys
I ran a little experiment yesterday to see just how quickly and easily I could complete some reasonably good tabletop-quality terrain. On the block were two items from my “Bin of Lost Toys”. With nearly all my terrain coming from used resale shop toys, I inevitably end up with some extras that don’t exactly fit ... Read more
AAR Video- First try at Shadow War Armageddon!
A number of CSW members have a long-term love for the classic game Necromunda. So, we were quite excited to hear that Games Workshop was using the Necromunda ruleset as the basis for their 40k-setting warband skirmish game “Shadow War Armageddon”. Last Thursday I grabbed a few crates of terrain and 2 kill teams and ... Read more
Newly Released Wreck-Age Models from Adepticon- Part 3
Along with the addition of vehicles, Wreck Age is adding heavy units to oppose them. One of the models on offer is the ARHK heavy trooper (on the left above and below). They have also recently released a box set of models for the ARHK faction. These models represent a corporate army that has remained ... Read more
AAR: Mech Attack At Adepticon 2017
After many weeks (and several blog posts) of preparation, CSW’s Adepticon 2017 Mech Attack game finally happened, and the results were EPIC. The table got a huge amount of attention resulting in getting blogged by Beasts of War. Further, Tim’s brilliant ideas of having Chicago Skirmish Wargames T-shirts for us and business cards to handout made ... Read more
Greenfire’s Winter Games Day Was a Huge Success!
Saturday, we held our winter game demo event at Greenfire Games. Even though we had a few cancellations, the event was a huge success, with as many as 60 people in the store at one time to demo games, and check out all the cool terrain and minis. Karl and Tim ran Mech Attack in ... Read more
2016 Painted Figure Exchange (Updated!)
This past autumn, I ran a figure painting exchange with several CSW members and other friends. We have run similar events in the past, but since a couple of our members have moved away, I opened this up to our distant members as well as other painters we know both local and around the country. ... Read more
Karl’s Necromunda Gangs #5: Orlock by Pat.
Now for the Orlock which came to me from the highlands of Colorado courtesty of Pat. These are a mix of first generation metal Orlock figures, plastic Orlocks from the original boxed set and some Sci-Fi Salvage crew figures from Megaminis/AlphaForge. A couple of years ago Pat painted these 5 Orlock up for random post-apoc ... Read more