We’re back with another episode that has been a long time coming!
Lilly and Alex are joined by James, as well as extra special guest Erin (@dark.elf.erin) who is probably the biggest Grogu fan we know of!
We somehow manage to fill over an hour with chat about our favourite little green guy from the Mandalorian.
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Episode 30, yay! In this one Lilly and Alex are joined by Aaron and Josh to talk about the wonderful world of 3D printing, how good it is for miniatures and how surprisingly accessible it is these days.
Find Aaron @Miniskillsuk on Instagram and purchase his printings at miniskills.co.uk
Find Josh @Lichforgedmythics on Instagram and buy his mystery boxes at lichforgedmythics.etsy.com
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Today Lilly and Alex are joined by James again, as well as new guest Tom (@Turbidious) to talk about a different kind of Warhammer game – Battlefleet Gothic!
Find Tom’s awesome ships on Instagram here: instagram.com/turbidious
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Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle, and Slaanesh. These supernatural beings are the infamous Chaos Gods within the Warhammer universe – both Warhammer 40K, and Warhammer (Fantasy battle and Age of Sigmar). For those familiar with the Warhammer lore, they will know that the Chaos gods are often at the heart of the major storylines and conflicts; for those not familiar, they are described as the biggest threat to order, stability and general life, and portrayed as the major evil along with their villainous followers – even in the lore of 40k where no faction is inherently ‘good’. However, to say that the Chaos Pantheon are evil may be too critical of them, and what Chaos is and those that follow it. I’m not suggesting that Chaos are the “good guys” (if that exists in Warhammer), but neither are they the traditional “bad guys” (if this exists in Warhammer, too) expected from fantasy and sci-fi narratives.
Continue reading “Survivalist Chaos: Looking at the Warhammer Chaos Gods through a different lens.”In case you didn’t know, we are sponsoring a fundraiser to raise awareness a funds for fibromyalgia as fibromyalgia awareness week approaches. The link is here: please donate and share🙏
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Today Lilly and Alex are joined by James again to talk about miniature painting, this time with special guest Neil from @paintgreatminis to talk about what he calls “narrative painting”, as well as a few techniques!
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Today we tackle the topic of Live Action Roleplay with a couple of experts in the field (sometimes literally in a field).
Vanessa joins us from the previous episode, as well as new guest April!
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Welcome to the first of a new series; Roll for Constitution!
It’s time to show you how to get drunk in geeky style with this first cocktail inspired by Dark Souls!
If I were to recap my wargaming past, I don’t imagine anyone would be surprised to learn it began with Games Workshop – thought maybe a little when I say it wasn’t Warhammer. I remember when I first saw an advert on TV for The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game, afterwards shouting “MUM!!” and begging that we could by the first issue; little did I know that it was the beginning of a hobby and passion for small plastic soldiers that I would enjoy almost 20 years later! I was then introduced to Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, and Warhammer 40k. It was with Games workshop that I would enjoy wargaming… until now.
The game was Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings. At first I thought it was based around the Early Middle Ages (no ‘Dark Age’ crap) but soon learned it was fantasy. I was immediately taken by the look of it. However, it was the idea of a rank and flank style of game that kept making me hesitate. But, after seeing some online reviews and some really good introductory game videos by On Tabletop, on Youtube, I was sold and wanted to start playing it as soon as possible. Sadly, this was at the beginning of 2020, and literally a couple of weeks after getting my box set and rushing to get all the models assembled to start playing, the pandemic hit the UK and the dawn of the lockdowns began. Luckily, one of the guys who plays it managed to set up an Excel simulator for the game – now with terrain features and all – and so I have managed to play the game many times now, even over lockdown, and hoping that regular physical gaming can soon pick up again with lockdown in the UK easing up. This game has become very important to me, for several reasons, and I want to tell you about it.
Today we bring you a review of some minis that we got from a new business on Etsy called LichForgedMythics, who are a 3dprinting company based in Lichfield (UK). You can find their shop here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/LICHFORGEDMYTHICS.
LichForgedMythics print their miniatures from the Cast and Play range (https://www.castnplay.games/ ) and are selling different products on their Etsy. The key product are the mystery boxes, which is what we got. It is as simple and amazing as what it sounds: you order a box, it contains 4 random minis from the Cast and Play range, you open the box and BOOM, MINIS! They also offer some themed boxed and some big minis on their own like the werewolf that looks absolutely epic! In any case, you came here for a review, not to hear me rant about other stuff so, buckle up and pics will follow underneath.
First of all I must say that, from a delivery and service point of view, LichForgedMythics get a 12/10 best boys in the galaxy because the minis came in like a day, perfectly wrapped up, no post damage, all good. Here are some pics of them fresh out of the box.
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