A Sci-Fi whiz's wargaming blog about cybertanks and mecha, amongst other things.
Friday, 29 September 2017
Making Life Multiplanetary
Call me a starry eyed dreamer, but this was what Heinlein wrote about when I was a kid. I've waited all my life to see mankind go back to visiting other planets.
Made me emotional to watch this, so good I've posted this on both blogs.
I Don't Know
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I'm sharing, "Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones..." because it nails down
the issue of the drone sighting in New Jersey, without me having to do any
of...
Inaugurating a new wargames room
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Phil has been talking about turning his spare room into a wargames room for
a while. Goodness knows he has enough to put in it. At least two large car
lo...
Back to the River Plate: Reevaluating the Battle
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Recently I did several posts here describing my new interest in WW2 naval
wargaming, and how I picked the 1939 Battle of the River Plate as my entry
poi...
HMAS Sydney versus Zeppelin L43 (LZ92), 1917
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HMAS *Sydney*, famous for her destruction of the raider SMS *Emden* in 1915
in the Indian Ocean, was in 1917 part of the home seas fleet under the
comman...
The Battle Raged To An End
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It is hard to believe that more than two months has passed since my last
post. I had just started back into my Barbarossa battle, a German attack
near P...
Some toasters
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Another batch of battlemechs, which my wife christened "toasters" because
of their resemblance to the Cylons from *Battlestar Galactica*.
These guys were...
Game Design #109: Cinematic Moments
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I bought the *Titanicus *rules out of interest (though I'll never afford
the minis!) and when experimenting with them I found myself thinking "this
is re...
The Miller's Tale - Episode 10
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Episode 10: In which the podcast reaches double figures, and Mike has his
first ever guest, namely James Morris!
Links from the episode:
- James' we...
Happy New Year
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Hi everyone, normally I would be posting my "review of the year" today and
my plan for 2024 tomorrow.
But as some of you may know I'm poorly in hospital...
Postponed - A Clash of Demons - CosCon 2020
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Due to the coronavirus chaos, I'm going to withdraw this game and run it at
a later con. I am also developing another scenario using more of the
city-kille...
I'm renaming my French Pan European Federation 7th Demi Brigade Légion Etrangère to 7e Brigade Blindée , "Force et Audace"...
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You are a starry eyed dreamer. But you are right, it's about time.
ReplyDeleteI am, which is why I write science fiction. Without dreams life is pretty dull.
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