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Interested in the lore stuff: apparently we're going to get an idea of what it's like to live in Shyish, which is the kind of nitty-gritty stuff I need in order to involve myself with a world. (I know we're supposed to just make it up, but if I was good at making stuff up I'd be designing games...

https://kaptainvon.com/2017/10/22/middlehammer-battle-report-the-second-battle-of-point-lestroud/

Forgive the blog link, but I've just got the formatting looking nice, and I'm not doing it all over again. https://kaptainvon.com/2017/10/22/middlehammer-battle-report-the-first-battle-of-point-lestroud/

https://kaptainvon.com/2017/09/14/middlehammer-fun-with-fifth-edition/ About a month old now, but here's some pre-emptive list-wrangling for testing out a fifth edition event.

I'm not hugely impressed, but with the scabbard and that mysterious hourglass whipped off it'll look all right.

Welcome, welcome... it's been so long that I've forgotten if there was ever any sort of welcome wagon tradition, but welcome nonetheless. From the references to 'Mantic' and 'Vampire Counts' I deduce that you're sticking your lads on square bases, as God and Rick Priestley intended? Good show...

I've been playing this quite a lot recently (now that I actually have a PC capable of wrangling it). Obviously I picked VC first. My first game was a washout - I wasn't losing per se but I didn't have the economic power to recover from the kicking Archaon gave me around turn 120. I was quite...

https://kaptainvon.com/2017/08/20/middlehammer-circle-of-blood-hack-job-for-the-vampires/ I didn't exactly want to write a 3500 hack of Circle of Blood, bringing it into 6th/7th/8th edition, but I couldn't stop thinking about it until I did.

Pursuant to the eight edition list at the end: I remember that the REAL problem with my eighth edition lists was that my collection didn't have any really killy stuff in it. I have a lead on some extra models for it - mostly Ghouls, new Black Knights and a Corpse Cart - which would put a bit of...

Every so often I stumble across something that makes me think of the good times. It might be "seeing my dusty old Vampire Counts army in the display case" or it might be "playing some of that Total War thing and saving the World That Was from total destruction like the unsung hero I am". Often...

Good stuff. I have a real soft spot for fifth edition, it's where I came in, and the territory based campaign system was really neat.

I call shenanigans. Needs more Chaos Dwarves.

:thumbsup: It's how I get by. I can't stand the current Citadel ghouls and occasionally play in environments where being 100% Citadel matters, so I'm planning a few work-arounds; a kitbashed Ghoul King or maybe just the current vampire-with-big-wing, some old metal Ghouls as and when I can...

This is what I'm getting at; if people are OK with it, it's fine, but I've played in communities that would raise eyebrows, voices and the roof if you always put the terrain down in a way that benefits you. Even playing the rules to the hilt, there's the opportunity to game the terrain (two...

This is a joke, right?

It's more bloody stupid world-building from the people who brought you "this vast trackless wasteland where nothing grows but squillions of Hobgoblins/Marauders/Orcs still survive there somehow". Honestly, I've gotten to the stage where I cleave to the generalities of the background - 'the Von...

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I've a much better beard now. Basically accurate apart from that.

Eh, I'd go with whatever isn't going to start arguments at the gaming table. It helps to negotiate this sort of thing at the start of the game rather than in the heat of the moment too, to avoid those "well if I'd known you played it that way I wouldn't have done X and now I demand backsies"...

So, your solution is basically 'never play unless you can guarantee a favourable terrain setup'? I knew an Imperial Guard player who used to do that - always slap a river across the front of his deployment zone, come what may. Webb's Wiver was a bit of a laugh at first, but when we realised...