I’ve been gaming, in one form or another, for as long as I can remember.
Posted on April 30th, 2011 at 7:52 pm — No Comments »
Posted on March 12th, 2011 at 6:45 pm — 2 Comments »
This time 1.5k of my guys against the same amount of Chaos Space Marines. It was at GW Glasgow against Graeme on Thursday evening on a pokey wee 4ft square board. Annihilation mission with a Pitched Battle deployment.
Posted on February 13th, 2011 at 4:19 pm — 1 Comment »
It’s been hectic here in Casa Big Al. My SVQ is due soon, so a lot of my not working time has been focused on chewing through the thick language of my outstanding modules.
Posted on January 8th, 2011 at 8:51 pm — No Comments »
I was going to do a number of things today. I had planned to hit the library early doors to get some quiet college work time. But I had promised Ruthy a lie-in and looking after Aurora is not conducive to getting much done.
Posted on December 8th, 2010 at 10:02 am — 4 Comments »
Two weeks ago today I had my first game of Warhammer 40k in about 17 (ish) years. And it was glorious. Ah, the small joys of moving metal and plastic men across a make-believe war zone. Futuristic men though. In space armour. That makes all the difference.
Posted on November 21st, 2010 at 8:52 pm — No Comments »
I stumbled upon these two products from Spartan Games: Dystopian Wars (Global Warfare in a Victorian Sci-Fi Age) and Firestorm Armada (space combat in a war torn universe).
Hmm, shiny, shiny…
Of course, I have no time for any additional miniatures, painting-wise. However, if I used my time off wisely…
- Alistair
Posted on November 19th, 2010 at 10:47 pm — 2 Comments »
I’ve got two weeks off work. I’m not going anywhere nice, this was one of those ‘use your holiday time or lose it’ moments, but I have every intention of getting the best out on my time.
Posted on October 2nd, 2010 at 9:02 pm — No Comments »
On going through the additional miniatures I now have (yesterday’s post) I’ve had a closer look at the Space Hulk / Advanced Space Crusade ones along with a quick glance at the ASC rules.
Posted on August 27th, 2010 at 2:28 pm — 2 Comments »
The five man squad of Grey Knights, mentioned here, have been finished only to be replaced with another five. The Inquisitor and the Chimera have been joined by a Space Marine Sergeant (possibly painted in White Scars colours), a Grey Knight Terminator with Incinerator and a single Plaguebearer of Nurgle.
Oh, and 33 night goblins… 
Still on a look out for a camera that’s decent enough to capture detail.
- Alistair
Posted on July 18th, 2010 at 6:26 pm — 2 Comments »
Currently I have a five man squad of Grey Knight Space Marines, a Daemonhunter Inquisitor and an Imperial Guard Chimera. Although it’s slow progress I’m painting faster now than at any time since my teens. I’ll try and get some pics up but i’ll have to borrow someones digital camera.
Anybody have a decent one I can borrow for a while?
Thing is, as far as gaming is concerned, I have an odd selection of miniatures to choose from. I’ve only ever bought those I fancied painting at the time with no regard to whether or not it made a coherent army. Oh, well.
- Alistair
Posted on July 9th, 2010 at 10:07 pm — No Comments »
That would be Warhammer Online then. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on June 16th, 2010 at 10:52 pm — No Comments »
I recently recategorised the blog with my gaming stuff falling under ’6 Rolling Freak’. It’s someone who does well with their dice rolls or is otherwise jammy with their playing, hence ‘you’re a 6 rolling freak’.
Posted on May 30th, 2010 at 10:15 pm — 1 Comment »
Or, How I Managed to Convince My Wife To Have A Game Of Warhammer 40K…
Actually that’s not strictly true. She is interested in playing a game and seeing as I’ve had these blasted things on my shelf (still mostly unpainted mind) and not yet played them, I think this is a good move. And seeing as it’s been years and several editions between my last actual games. 16 years and three editions…
Tonight we set up the wee table, I cobbled together two small armies of futuristic metal (and plastic) soldiers, and we went over some of the rules. The idea is to spread the learning curve over several days and to use units that are pretty straightforward to play.
Tomorrow, hopefully, brings the game itself!
- Alistair
Posted on December 8th, 2009 at 9:02 pm — 7 Comments »
…stays together?
Posted on September 4th, 2009 at 7:51 pm — 5 Comments »
Woo!
It arrived Wednesday morning just before 8, and it was/is a lovely lovely thing.
I had my first game of it last night with Cheezy and it’s easily as good as I remember. Tomorrow sees a day of Space Hulking with The Edgemeister, soI’m sure much fun will be had. I’ll give more of an update then.
- Alistair
Posted on October 27th, 2008 at 6:21 pm — No Comments »
Didn’t get the Deathwing Terminators finished. 
Did get housework done, some work on The Fracture and a few key upgrades to the site.
So an overall success.
Got a meeting with fellow NaNoers tonight. A pre-NaNo meet. I’m quite excited.
And I bought the wife flowers today because of a top class image she’s done for the site (which isn’t up yet).
Posted on October 26th, 2008 at 11:41 am — 4 Comments »
Six days left until NaNoWriMo.
I’ll share a bit of info on what this years NaNo will be.
Posted on July 28th, 2007 at 11:46 am — 16 Comments »
I found an excellent mod for the Dawn Of War: Dark Crusade game. Daemonhunters!
Posted on March 21st, 2007 at 2:23 pm — No Comments »
Ages ago (October last year, I think) I wandered in to the Games Workshop in Glasgow and (because I am an unrepentant geek) I bought a single Grey Knight Space Marine Terminator with the idea that it would be fun to paint.
