Monthly Archives: November 2013

How to Paint Citadel Miniatures (The Old Way)

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Chaos Space Marine – “Hey Genestealer, pass me me the Dorito’s while we just chill on this space hulk together will you?”
Never happen.

You’re 11 years old, you’ve got just Space Crusade for Christmas, there’s templates, dice and cool as shit miniatures all over the place, and you have no fucking clue what to do with any of it. This should have been a life lesson for the entirety of Games Workshops products for me, I STILL don’t know how to properly play Space Crusade, 40k, Necromunda or any bastard game you care to mention. I did complete Space Marine on the PS3 though.

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Madness Reigns – Cthulhu/Custom Dice Bags made by The Dice Bag Lady

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I got one of these suckers

Cthulhu in the house

Fans of various Warhammer podcasts like Heelan Hammer, Bad Dice & the Corehammer sponsored Black Sun might well have heard of The Dice Bag Lady aka Annie, but since I can’t assume that all of our readers are Warhammer Fantasy players who are interested in the tournament scene, I thought I would share this sacred resource.

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Macragge’s Honour Review

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I recently wrote an article for The Black Library Weekender I attended last weekend and gave it a very favourable review. It was a shining example of how an event should and could be handled by the higher up’s of BL. Great staff, great experience, great weekend. As I mentioned in that review the centrepiece of the weekend was the new addition to The Horus Heresy, Macragge’s Honour. It’s not often that BL dip into the realm of the illustrated story these days but in the past what I’ve picked up I have enjoyed. However this is the first time they’ve delved into that particular medium for The Heresy, so when I first got wind of this I was rather excited and had greatexpectations. Ahead of the event a little bird told me about the price to expect, the creative team behind it, Dan Abnett writing and Neil Roberts handling the art and finally that it was going to be Ultramarines based. Whilst I wasn’t overly put off by the fact that the smurfs were running the show after Abnett showed how well he can handle them, I was disconcerted by the price, 85 fucking quid and the fact that Roberts was doing the artwork. The real issue though is the price and here is going to be the fulcrum upon which the scales balance.

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Black Library Weekender: An Idiot Aboard part 2

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The next morning I got an early start. I knew that I was only interested in the final panel of the day so I could sit back and relax for the morning and enjoy being lazy. With all of the travelling I had put myself through I was starting to stink like Danny Dyer’s career, so it was time to cleanse myself. Here I found myself truly shaken. The hotel bath blew my mind. I have never seen a bath fill so quickly probably less than two minutes and sufficiently hot enough, shit had gotten real. I sat enjoying my bath realising I could create a vacuum with my back to the inside. I was essentially a man-child in his element. I wandered round my hotel room naked hoping one of the cleaners would come in and be horrified by me whilst I inhaled the last of my flapjacks. The cup of tea I made was shit though so that went down the sink, I had a quick scan through my emails, checked out and got myself away.
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Fiasco Leeds Wargaming Club Event

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photo-11A few weeks back I ran into an old friend of mine, Neil Hamilton from the On Thin Ice days, down in the games basement of Travelling Man. Neil played bass in What Hope Remains a great band from the North East with whom On Thin Ice shared many stages, tour vans and nights of mischief. Anyhow, turns out that the lad is now involved in gaming too with Warmachine/Hordes being his tipple of choice. He mentioned that his group Leeds Warmachine would be hosting demo games at Leeds Wargaming Club FIASCO event which was being held October 27th at the very appropriate location of The Leeds Armouries. I figured it was just down the road so I’d go take a look.

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Black Library Weekender Part 1: An Idiot Aboard

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I’ll start this review off with a brief disclaimer. As will soon become apparent i’m certainly no wordsmith. I believe I’m going to require a fair  bit of editing as I’m definitely going to babble about things which have little interest to anyone but myself. There will also be plenty of information that I got told of value and importance that I will of, on some level, registered as being awesome but will have simply sat there blank faced instead of making an actual note of it. When you ascend to fully fledged man-child status you’ll come to understand that as one physically grows, one also mentally regresses. So as this is my first real write-up/report for CH you’ll have to bare with me as I spill the feculent meanderings of my mind into text.
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Band Of The Week: In Tongues

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photoA few years back I had a shortlived blog entitled Siege Perilous. I’d had the bug to do a fanzine again for a while at that point, but the reality of not only writing articles but then sitting down and cutting and pasting the whole thing together, forking out for the printing combined with having to get off my arse and sell the poxy thing was far too arduous a prospect to seriously consider. A blog was the compromise. Upon reflection it was fairly disjointed collection of ideas, reviews and rants, lacking the fluid cohesion and ruthless precision of the mighty Corehammer. Anyhow, back then I recieved a demo from a band of young chancers from Glasgow calling themselves In Tongues. Whilst the demo showed hints of promise (much like the blog that reviewed it) the songs were a disjointed mish mash of ideas and riffs. Some really cool, almost Abnegation type parts and harrowing vocals were diluted by the cheesy Strife’esque gang vocals they’d shoehorned in. Anyway, never heard much about them again after that, figured they’d packed it in which was a shame because like I said, they showed potential.

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