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A Rat By Any Other Name Update '18 Part II - The Crimson Rat
Before introducing the next addition to the series, I'm going to share here my term paper for English a few years ago, which I wrote before discovering the following miniatures, but provides an...
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A Rat By Any Other Name Update '18 Part III - Sponsored Rats
Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms have exploded in a host of independent and high profile miniature offerings, with new ways to deprive you of your paycheque showing up on a weekly basis....
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BattleTech Real World History Part V
FASA licensed BattleTech to Wizards of the Coast in 1996 to capitalize on the Collectible Card Game craze that swept through the '90s. The BattleTech CCG featured mechs, characters, and technology...
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BattleTech Real World History Part VI
FanPro was a German RPG publishing company best known for the fantasy role playing game Das Schwarze Auge ("The Dark Eye") FanPro produced BattleTech in Germany from 1988 onwards under license from...
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BattleTech Real World History The End
Prelude To Disaster We've got a lot of ground to cover here, and to begin with, we need to briefly return to the past... When I began this series, I glossed over the BattleTech novels. But these...
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BattleTech Real World History-Epilogue
At Gencon this year Catalyst revealed the new Introductory and Starter boxes for BattleTech coming to retail in the next month or so, as of this writing (as detailed in the first post in this series),...
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BattleTech History - Prelude
Before BattleTech, and largely afterwords, the mecha genre has been defined as a genre exclusive to Japanese anime. BattleTech established a uniquely Western iteration of this concept, based on...
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Tour of the Underhives Part I
It is Andy Chamber's birthday today, or so Facebook informs me, and thus I can't think of a better excuse to kick off a series of posts that I've planned for a while , but procrastinated on. I'm still...
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Tour of the Underhives Part II
Nico. Damn, where to even start? If the images in the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay rulebook circa 1989 was what got me interested in Skaven in the first place, Nico is directly responsible for getting...
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13 Greatest Skaven Sculpts
Another post I've been meaning to get to for a while, this should provide an interesting break and highlight some individual Skaven common to many of the upcoming armies in the Tour of the Underhive...
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Tour of the Underhives Part III
Skaven Haven is a pretty active poster on numerous online groups devoted to Oldhammer in general and Skaven in particular. It was seeing some pics of his army online that motivated me to ask him if he...
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Tour of the Underhives Part IV
Ignacio Julve, aka "Mukitauro", runs a fantastic Oldhammer painting blog "Chequeo de liderazgo" (which google translate tells me means "Leadership Check"). If you look to you're right, Mukitauro's...
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Zweihander Review Part I of III
Being a Review by Tristram Evansof the Zweihander Grim & Perilous Roleplaying GameWritten by Daniel Fox with additional contributions by Tanner YeaIllustrated by Dejan Mandic Deep breath, ladies...
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Zweihander Review Part II of III
When last we left Zweihander…We had braved the character creation rules, and come out on the other side with a flavourful gem that I wouldn't mind playing in a game, and seems appropriate to the...
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Tour of the Underhives Part V
Cult of the Four-Armed Emperor was the Oldhammer painting blog of one Archae Opteryx , who in July of 2014 unleashed their Skaven army upon the underworld. Again, while the Chambers influence is...
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Tour of the Underhives Part VI
Curtis Fell's Skaven army came to my attention with his posts on the Skaven Facebook group. A mix of classic Goodwin Skaven with modern models circa The Isle of Blood, these blend together perfectly...
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BattleTech Real World History The End
Prelude To Disaster We've got a lot of ground to cover here, and to begin with, we need to briefly return to the past... When I began this series, I glossed over the BattleTech novels. But these...
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BattleTech Real World History-Epilogue
At Gencon this year Catalyst revealed the new Introductory and Starter boxes for BattleTech coming to retail in the next month or so, as of this writing (as detailed in the first post in this series),...
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BattleTech Real World History-Epilogue
At Gencon this year Catalyst revealed the new Introductory and Starter boxes for BattleTech coming to retail in the next month or so, as of this writing (as detailed in the first post in this series),...
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BattleTech History - Prelude
Before BattleTech, and largely afterwords, the mecha genre has been defined as a genre exclusive to Japanese anime. BattleTech established a uniquely Western iteration of this concept, based on...
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