Arcadia Prime

As I've gotten older and had less time to play large scale wargames, I've had more and more thoughts of a smaller game that could ...

I recently completed a relatively large piece of gaming terrain for use in games of Bolt Action , using plaster blocks made from molds fro...

I picked up What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank: A Fantasy Lover's Food Guide by Krista D. Ball after seeing it mentioned on David Gaughr...

It has been several years since I last read The Lord of the Rings , and even longer since I last read The Silmarillion .  Returning to Midd...

This past weekend I went to see The Hobbit . These days I don't get out to the movies much, so I really have to want to see it in ord...

It has been a long road, b ut my first novel, The Pirates of Alnari is no w li ve on the Amazon Kindle Store .  The Pirates of Alnari  i...

So with Halloween approaching I decided to paint something other than my Space Hulk miniatures.  My Vampire Counts army quickly came to mi...

Ahoy!  My copy of Dreadfleet  arrived in the mail today, so I thought I would dive in and check out the contents.  I apologize for th...

I think GW has a workable business model with The Lord of the Rings line, provided they marketed it right.   The Lord of the Rings Strategy...

Another point of the Specialist Game Rant the I mentioned in Part 1 is that the purpose of the "side games" was to draw in new...

It's been almost three months since I bought anything GW-related. The reasons are many--but boil down to distractions and discipline...

As I mentioned in a previous post , with the imminent release of the 8th edition of Warhammer, I'm tempted to get back into the fantasy ...

Warhammer 8th edition is coming out soon (not that this is news to anyone). It's been a long time since I played it, as the 40k side o...

Twenty-one years ago, back in 1988, GW released "Warhammer Townscape", a collection of thirty-nine card buildings. They were pret...

A friend of mine recently began his own blog, Tankards & Broadswords . The blog primarily concerns his musings on various RPGs, and desi...

This is another thing that isn't 40k, but it's fantasy, therefore at least vaguely related. It's at least related in the sense...

Just as a slight diversion from the 40k stuff, here's a selection of the some of the fantasy miniatures I've painted, from Warhamme...