The Magmahold

 It’s time for the obligatory end of year blog when I look back at the hobby goals I set myself at the start of 2024 , and think ‘oh gosh, I did mean to do that, didn’t I.’ Finish painting a useable 2000 point Kruleboyz army I think I can just about say I did this one. I started the year with around 1500 points of Kruleboyz and I did go back and paint some more bits to take it over 2000 points, but then AoS 4 came along and I was suddenly woefully short of Gutrippaz. I then forgot all about Kruleboyz for a while as I was focused on my OBR army, but there are twenty Gutrippaz on my painting table at the time of writing this, and I’m planning to start using the army in matched play in early 2025. Paint a Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game warband and play a few games with them This one I definitely did, no generous accounting needed. I painted a bunch of dwarves for the Army of Thror, and played some games with them. I enjoyed the system a lot and would have liked to have played m...

During the pandemic, I wrote a blog post about how to play Warhammer Underworlds over webcam. Since then I still play most of my games over webcam, because my regular group are quite geographically dispersed and it works well for us. I know a lot of people play on Vassal or TTS, but I like being able to use the actual minis for the game. So here’s an updated post on how to play the new edition over webcam. What do you need to play Warhammer Underworlds: Embergard over webcam? Everything you'd normally need to play Embergard - your own models, dice, tokens, board, and cards. Some spare models to proxy the opponent's warband. It's easier if you have the actual models for the warband they're playing, but you can make do with any models. A webcam, or a phone you can use for video. A reasonably reliable internet connection. A friendly opponent. It's just about possible to play a game if only one of you has a camera...