March of the Spider Clan

Emboldened by the acquisition of a whole new hatch of giant spiders and the capture of a mega-spid, His Imperial Arachnidiss King Mighty the First, the goblin formerly known as Soddit the Sneaky, decided to bring civilisation to the stunty lands.

His victorious march down the Great Grey Road, lberating stunty mills and breweries as he went, was somewhat delayed - mainly by the liberation of the breweries - so that the Stunties had time to form a battle line on the plain below their mountain fastness.

Embolded by Stunty ale, Soddit ordered an immediate charge by the crack cavalry formations on the right and centre of his army.

Unfortunately, his wolf rider skirmish line held up the stunty badger riders for about the time it takes a gobbo to scream 'run away' and his crack orange-legs regiment, upon seeing this, somehow confused an order of 'charge ladz' for  'do nowt'.

[I rolled a bleedin' 1 on my first die roll: unfortunately a foretaste of things to come.]

Amazingly the forest gobbo allies on the left flank held their ground against a charge by a giant rock-elemental thingy and a stunty tank. Rumour has it they were too frozen in fear to run away.

Corse it couldn't last.

Soddit discovered that the problem wiv giving gobbos rides so they can get stuck in quicka also means that they can run away fasta.

A couple of rounds of combat and he found himself defending the right flank all on his ownsome.

After careful deliberation, our hero decided to make a tactical withdrawal back to the mega-spid to straighten his line.



Now, no one expects to win wiv a gobbo army but come on! This was embarrassing.

First Review of Tabletop Wargames

The first review of Tabletop Wargames is out on YouTube here, by Ringo Simpkins.

Thank you Mr Simpkins for your prompt comments. You are a Jolly Good Chap fully fitting to join the above line up.

Author Copies Arrived - Tabletop Wargames, A Designers' And Writers' Handbook

Yay the author copies have arrived!

The book goes on sale at the end of the month for the princely sum of £11.99p.

I must say Pen & Sword have done us proud with colour-coded chapters and full colour throughout.

We owe a number of people thanks for the photos. They are credited in the book. This particular one is by Andy Singleton, the professional painter who works under the brand name of Volley Fire.


Review Quotes
"I say, this is a jolly good read. Who wrote it?" Rick Priestley
"Is it time for my medication again, nurse?" John Lambshead

Bolt Action Fight them On The Beaches - Sea Lion

Operation Sea Lion, as 'any phule kno', was the German code name for the invasion of Britain, September 1940.

This will be my next book for Warlord Games/Osprey and it is being pre-advertised on Amazon.

The book is finished except for the scenarios, and new models are in the pipeline.

There will be new scenarios, new army lists of various types, and lots of new units and vehicles, which may be of interest to those who play Very British Civil War using Bolt Action Rules as there are rules for improvised equipment.

This has been great fun to do.