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Midnight Dark Army Cards

Those of you who've been here for a while will know that a feature I like to try to build into my game...

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Referencing: Indexes, Contents Pages & Cross-Referencing

I know that some of you will find this very dull and not what you're here for. Feel free to move on. In fact, why not go and check out what's left in the 2023-11-12 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

50% Minis Sale Exclusive!

Hey, patrons!

I have decided to stop stocking minis on my site for the foreseeable future and will focus exclusively on promoting my books and games and directly related products.

As a ...

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Cover Art WIP

So, for clarity, the stick figures are my contribution to David's work in progress, because he asked for some guidance on where to put the infantry in the image so as not to overwhelm the impact of...

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Contents Page

Still here!

In fact, I'm excitedly looking forward to next weekend, when I have a full weekend, a whole week and another weekend to plough through getting the book finished and ready...

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Weapon Upgrades

This is an area I'm sure lots of you are interested in, because everyone likes their boomsticks! I put a great deal of thought into what types of sci-fi weapon actually felt like they belonged in <...

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More Upgrades!

I recently posted a preview of the Utility Upgrades page in the rulebook. It occurred to me (as I read the replies - thank you, we now have a "Combat Engineer" utility upgrade*) that you guys might...

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Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines...

I have carved out a week - by which, I mean a weekend, a full week and then another weekend - in which I expect to get everything finished for me to send the manuscript for test printing. This fits...

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August Update

"The Briefing" by Mike Doscher, used with permission.

Midnight Dark

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July - Rule of the Month - Civpop

I didn't manage to sustain the content I was providing back in 2021 in the face of having to also do a day job, look after my family, stay fit and not have a mental breakdown. The fact that so many...

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I seem to have lost Operation Kurgan

I was planning on using Zero Dark: Operation Kurgan as a palate cleanser between sessions working on the minutiae of Midnight Dark. But I've turned my hard drive upside down and i...

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Update Time!

First, new job is going well, but I'm spending more time in the office than I originally intended. Hopefully should get to work more from home in the next few weeks, which will free up energy and c...

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I gotta job

Just touching base to keep you guys up to speed.

If you follow @precinctomega on Instagram at all, you'll know that I've been ploughing relentlessly through a range of items, largely focused ...

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Terrain Progress & Sense of Humour Failure

I thought you folks might like to see one of my first very nearly finished buildings (I'm making some additional street furniture details that may or may not end up being attached to build...

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Shiny new thing!

Some of you will have been aware that I've been working on the same laptop since 2017 which, in laptop terms, is practically the Dark Ages. Despite despite my being temporarily between employments,...

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Midnight Dark - Fiction

I've very nearly finished laying out the book and finalizing the text. I've just got a few more missions to write and a few more upgrades to devise and we'll be done.

Which means, of course, ...

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ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED - Platinum Best Seller

I posted a while back that I was on the cusp of reaching the Platinum Best Seller status but, well, it turns out that things are never quite that simple.

Wargame Vault (or rather, their paren...

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Horizon Wars: Midnight Lite?

I've been asked about producing a "lite" version of the Midnight Dark rules for commercial partners to use to promote their own products - as well as to serve as a PWYW version of the rule...

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See Your Mini in Lights!

I'm ploughing ahead to get Midnight Dark finished and am now talking with artists and others to help add photography and illustrations to the text, and it occurred to me that patrons might...

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Midnight Dark - Cover Art Sketch

One thing I've learned over the nearly-eight years I've been doing this as a regular thing is that artists benefit from clear guidance.

And while I may lack the technology and experience to ...

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It's an ill wind...

From your perspective, everything I have to say here is good news. I'm going to be getting a lot more time to work on finishing Midnight Dark and even to get back to creating more content ...

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TONKS & Salute

Work on HWMD continues. But if you're itchy for a new gaming experience, you might to check out Tonks, by Apocrypha_Now (who might, possibly, also be a patron).

Development of T...

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ADHD Powers... Activate!

I'm not going to make A Big Thing about this, but this is by way of illustration of how my brain sometimes gets "switched on" to do something utterly irrelevant to anything else it is supposed to b...

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...Also, it turns out, I have ADHD

I try to keep personal stuff off this feed as much as possible, because it's rarely relevant to the purpose of the blog and not what you're hear to read about. But in this case, I thought it was ac...

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Rubbish Patreon Continues to be Rubbish (also, thoughts on narrative in miniatures wargaming)

Man, I am not at all surprised by how many of my patrons have cancelled their support recently. This place has been rubbish.

I wanted to assure those of you who remain that I am stil...

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Can CMON Challenge Games Workshop?

Finally got a new video done.

If you're interested in why I think GW might have a fight on its hands from CMON, despite the company's rocky history with miniatures game and, well, lots of oth...

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Update 3 Feb 23

First, Horizon Wars: Midnight Dark. Most of you have seen at least one version of the text, by now. These are strictly, I supposed, alpha versions because they are all to some extent incom...

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Horizon Wars Beta v0.02 - Elite Edition

See attached, as promised.

It's not the document I was hoping to give you in some respects. I wanted it to be closer to finished-finished whereas this is still, very much, um, no...

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I ate'nt dead

This should be a nice, long update, so go and get yourself a cup of tea or coffee or a glass of mulled wine or something seasonally appropriate.

Sorted?

Good stuff. Let's chat.

Fi...

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Midnight Dark #006

First up, many thanks to the Mech-level backers for their notes and feedback.

The raw rules are pretty nearly there, with two big features still needing further detailed work: solo play rules...

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