Precinct Omega

Good Game #3 - Full Spectrum Dominance

Full Spectrum Dominance is one of those games that just kind of came out of nowhere. One day, under his online handle of The Lazy Forger, Giacomo Pantalone started posting picture of his amazing 6mm scifi terrain and a few early designs for mechs and tanks and, suddenly there was Full Spectrum Dominance the wargame and eve...

Good Game? #2 - BLKOUT

I first stumbled across Enemy Spotted Studios back in around 2019. I can’t remember exactly how I ended up on their website, but I think it was from an Instagram post of one of their minis and I found myself exploring and, as a result, bought a few of their early minis: digitally rendered and 3d printed in resin. They were great but, it turned...

More Op KURGAN Photography

Way back, when I was still developing Horizon Wars: Zero Dark for the first time, I wrote to GameMat.eu to ask if they would be OK with be featuring their mat designs in the mission briefings I was writing for the game and, on the off-chance, if they could possibly spa...

Good Game? #1 - Trench Crusade

I have been trying to ignore Trench Crusade for the last several months, but it’s getting more difficult as it seems to pop up on every social media feed I have (and I have many) and now I’m getting back to social gaming it even seems to be making an impact on my local wargaming scene with a few enthusiastic early adopters.

Good Game?

Hey, folks. I'm still hard at work and there will be an uptick in post drops over the next couple of months to reflect some of what I've been doing, but I thought it would be fun to tease a new series of articles I'm working on.

Ideally, I will carve out the time for these to be turned into podcasts and/or video essays, but so that they do...

Operation Kurgan: Early Photography

Just to wet your whistle, here are some early photography set-ups for Operation Kurgan, featuring miniatures from Heresy Miniatures, Enemy Spotted Studios and White Dragon Miniatures.

I'm working frantically on getting enough civilian miniatures painted for the CIVPOP and I'm going to have a Patreon-exclusive tutorial on making crowds fo...

On a Mission from God...

...or possibly Glod.

Anyway, I've been moderately surprised by how many people showed a real interest in the Millennium supplement, which got me thinking about custom missions to add to the book, which led to me having a bit of a splurge on new missions. My studio is better set up for playtesting than it's ever been (unless y...

Product: Zero Dark Millennium

As I hinted at last week, I was looking at doing more work on ZD: Millennium after being inspired by the Kill Team Adeptus Arbites squad that I'm working on. When inspiration hits, you have to roll with it, I find, so I did a full review and re-write of the v0.11 edition to release this v0.2 edition, now with deminhum...

Zero Dark: Millennium

Zero Dark: Millennium is an on-going project to offer an alternative, grimdark gothic sci-fi setting for tabletop games of Horizon Wars: Zero Dark . It is not an attempt to exactly replicate anyone else's game or setting, but rather to open the door to the use of a range of grimdark sci-fi miniatures to use in Horizon Wars: Zero Dark that might ot...

The Dark Roots of Precinct Omega

There's a handful of folks who know the true, dark origins of Precinct Omega and I thought it might be fun to tell the (honestly, rather dull) story in the context of something much more interesting.

Precinct Omega began in the deserts of Oman in late 2001, when I had some precious downtime and rare access to the internet (courtesy of a ce...

Zero Dark: Millennium Beta 0.2

Zero Dark: Millennium is a supplement for the Horizon Wars: Zero Dark skirmish game that pushes the narrative setting a thousand years further into the future than any Horizon Wars game has gone before. This is a time when the human galaxy is crumbling, technology developed with the help of the long-vanished artilects is barely understood, and huma...

Happy New Year!

It's 2025.

As far as my 12-year-old self is concerned, we are now living in the future. He anticipated it being either a glorious digital utopia or a smoking, post-apocalyptic wasteland. But if history has taught us anything, it's that the impetus required for extraordinary change is always greater than we expect.

And the subject of ...

BLKOUT review

Progress on new Horizon Wars content is slow and tortuous. Building and painting new minis and terrain for photography takes its time and I'm trying to get some decent playtesting of the missions and campaing in over the next few months to ensure it's as tight as I can make it.2024-11-28 15:05:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Unboxing Killwager

I bought another batch from Enemy Spotted Studio's Killwager range, which I specifically prefer to the BLKOUT stuff, because it feels a bit more grounded.

This batch was specifically bought with Operation Kurgan's photography in mind, which I hope to get started in November to begin finishing the layout in January. So e...

Zero Dark: Combat Bows

Some of you may have noticed that I recently painted a new mini. This one:

 In case you're not aware, this is a Ninja from Corvus Belli's Infinity the Game. It's a real classic of miniatures design. But, as I was working on a few Infinity m...

The Shocker!

...is not that I am, in fact, alive and still working, but a new Weapons upgrade I'm testing for Operation Kurgan.

I'm refining the CIVPOP rules, for more missions that involve trying to deal with an enemy using civilians as cover. Heroes will have to work hard to work out who their targets are and then take them down without acci...

[Podcast] News #56 - Asmodee ditches X-Wing

Here's a link to the Podbean episode for free members. Paid members have an embedded audio through Patreon as well as exclusive sight of the script for those who prefer to read their content rather than listen to it.

[Podcast] News #56 - Asmodee has ditched X-Wing - What is going on over there?

Script Follows>>

In my last show about Steamforged Games, I playfully suggested that Steamforged’s private equity investors might see Asmodee as their possible exit strategy. Practically as the words left my mouth, though, news broke that Asmodee’s parent company, Embracer Group, was splitting up operations and m...

SPOILER - Is BPRE a Libertarian PsyOp?

As mentioned on the Discord, I'd like the opinion of Mech-level backers on this analysis of Echelon Software and the background and associations of its main creative mind, Jon Chang, the priniciple driver behind Black Powder Red Earth.

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I’ve got into this habit of giving my videos titles that are questions that I...

SFG/Warmachine Video is live on YouTube

Phew! Finally got the animation finished, so now I can go and record the Asmodee video...

Yay.

Robey Rants about... Sci-Fi Masks

Quickly: yes, I have written a script about Asmodee and X-Wing. I will be recording it as soon as I can. Also, I've not yet finished animating the vid eo for the SFG script. I forgot how long that s*** takes! I need to come up with a simpler way of doing this...

Anyway, my rant. Some of you have heard some of my rants over the years (battl...

Killwager/BLKOUT Miniatures - First Look

A little Patreon-exclusive video to take a look at the Killwager minis I recently ordered. I also got 4 civilians, but they're much less interesting.

However, I thought I'd also tell you all that, although I am looking at the BLKOUT rules, I specifically bought these minis to feature in the photography for Z...