Precinct Omega

Interrogation Room - Painted

Not a lot ot say about this, except that I broke out the airbrush, which I'm slowly getting to grips with. Nearly ready to commit to a more expensive airbrush and a better-quality, tanked compresso...

Interrogation Room - Build Guide (Take 1)

In the course of the Operation KURGAN campaign, the player(s) will eventually need to extract a prisoner from hostile custody. Who the prisoner is would be a bit of a spoiler and, in fact,...

Cover Sketch Update!

Hi, folks.

The post yesterday about the cover art wasn't actually supposed to post at all. I had a bit of a struggle with the Patreon mobile app, which isn't the first time.

Here's the ...

Cover art sketch

The cover art sketch follows the broad pattern of previous covers. In this case, we have a soldier from MASC, the Mars Assistance & Support Command, front and centre. Either side of him is a Sp...

Some new rules for KURGAN

In case it still needs to be said, I stand with Ukraine and desperately hope that peace, a full withdrawal of Russian forces and payment of reparations and the repatriation of captured soldiers and...

KURGAN Week! - Bal Anub Update

So, as those of you on the Discord may have noticed, I'm on holiday all week and it's time to push to get KURGAN finished. That is, finish the writing, finish the last few missions that are still a...

Zero Dark: Smog Experimental Rules

Operation KURGAN will take players into the refugee-choked and flooded streets of NuSingapore,...

Op KURGAN Crowd Proof of Concept

Those of you who've been hanging around patiently for Operation KURGAN to drop, will be pleased to know that it inches ever-closer to release. But you may also be interested to know that d...

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 a...

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 ...

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 ...

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) an...

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 ser...

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 w...

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 t...

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 inspir...

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 e...

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 interestin...

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 befor...

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 ...

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 ...

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 specifical...

Zero Dark: Combat Bows

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

 In case you're not awar...

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 tryin...

[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...

[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 s...

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...

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 ...

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...