Precinct Omega

Precinct Omega Design #25 - Models of Success

No pun intended.

I had some technical disagreements with my recording software and after five attempts to record this week's episode I ended up going live on YouTube instead. This might end u...

Kickstarter Pre-Launch Page

A link for those of you who want to follow along, whether you plan to back or not. I'm going to be doing some podcasts along the way, looking at the experience, talking through my doubts and de...

Kickstarter Video - Feedback requested

This is the final brick in my Kickstarter plan.

Those of you who missed Bernard will be glad to hear that she's back and doing the Kickstarter voiceover. The video is slightly less than 90 se...

News #51 - I'm Back! Didja Miss Me?

I've been away. But now I'm back.

In this short episode, I talk about what led to me having to step away from both podcasting and Precinct Omega in general, what I learned from the experience...

Kickstarter Preview

I don't plan to spam this Patreon with Kickstarter stuff. If you guys are already following any of my social media feeds, you'll get to see enough of that once it launches.

There will be new ...

Kickstarter - Zero Dark Miniatures

As promised earlier: actual news!

Right, it's finally going to happen. 18 months later than planned, but there you go. Target launch date is mid-July.

My main objective here is to raise...

I know you're not here to see me learn Blender...

...but I hope this is a useful early illustration of the kind of thing I'm hoping to do with it to enha...

Early days, obviously, but...

Yes, I have jumped on the bandwagon and am learning to use Blender.

Although, yes, technically I...

Midnight Dark #005 - Heroes

I'd welcome my patrons' thoughts on the place of heroes in the conceptual space of Horizon Wars: Midnight Dark. As it stands, the rules are very much a bolt-on so can be extracted almost e...

Midnight Dark #004 - Abilities & Ratings

A feature of my design philosophy has always been to make simple things work as hard as possible. Hence why, for example, Presence in Horizon Wars was a tool for army building, and a CQB s...

Midnight Dark #003 - Command Decisions...

I seem to be reporting a lot on the changes to orders and command in Horizon Wars: Midnight Dark, but so far it's the part of the re-write that is occupying the most time and engaging me i...

Ultramodern - The ethics of wargaming current conflicts

There's a lot of whataboutism going on in the current media debate over the war in Ukraine, in which th...

Zel-1 Tow Tractor from Strato Minis

UK patrons might like to know that I'm organizing a group order to the UK of the Zel-1 Tow Tractor from Strato Minis, in aid of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Strato's own profits from this mini...

I'm nearly back (Discord Session?)

Quite a few patrons have, very understandably, wandered off over the last few months on the grounds of getting nothing for their investment. The fact that so many of you are still here is little sh...

The Ukraine Invasion

I could fairly be accused of sometimes stretching things to make them fit the context of a wargaming content creator. In the past I've talked about capitalism, intellectual property, BLM, #MeToo an...

Still kicking!

To those of you who offered to have a chat about marketing and strategy, thank you! I will be in touch eventually to take you up on that.

Just so you know, I am working consistently on new co...

Zero Dark - Experimental Weapons

Back some time last year when I was still holding things together a bit better, I was all enthusiastic about publishing some fan-made content for Horizon Wars: Zero Dark.

Well, here'...

Behind the Curtain

When I set up this Patreon, it was with the idea of providing patrons with an insight not just into forthcoming products and designs, but also into the process of running and growing a small busine...

Midnight Dark #002 - More Orders

So, after grinding through some calculations and playtesting on the ideas in my last blog, I've stripped the whole concept back quite a lot.

The main problem was that I was adding tests that ...

Wargaming on Smaller Tables

This article began as a look at playing Horizon Wars: Zero Dark on smaller tables but, as I thought more about the subject, I realized that there was room to look both wider and deeper at ...

Patreon Blues

Very quick one (I have more content in draft, but it's not quite ready - watch this space).

Listen, quite a few patrons have dropped off recently and I just wanted to say, to anyone who wonde...

#hobbyneutral - Turning minis into money?

It sounds like the perfect solution to our "pile of shame*", doesn't it? Just sell stuff off and your pile gets smaller and your bank balance gets larger. But there are some significant problems wh...

What does it mean to be #hobbyneutral?

I need to go straight in, here, and say that #hobbyneutral can mean different things to different people. What I have to say is about what it means to me. You can take some or all of this ...

Zero Dark - 8 Things that Might Change in Second Edition

A second edition of Horizon Wars: Zero Dark has always been the plan. And the plan was always to give the game a minimum of five years in the market. So there's no need to discourage peopl...

#hobbyneutral

It was @apocrypha_now (who is a patron, btw) who tipped me to (his?) tag, #hobbyneutral, that was largely inspired b...

Midnight Dark #001 - Core Mechanics

I've talked about my plans and aspirations for Midnight Dark before, but ignore that stuff. It's kind of still relevant, but I'm moving forward from there.

An aspect of the original ...

I'm back! - Big Update Time!

First, let's hit the personal stuff. If this isn't interesting to you, scroll down to the business stuff.

Non-Precinct Omega Work Stuff

I've spent two months working on...

Social Media Break

Quick heads up for my favourite people:

For various reasons, I'm going to be taking a social media break for a couple of months. I want to dial it back to just Patreon and Discord - and only...

November Rewards and Updates - Postponed

I have some cool new stuff, rules and story for you all this month, but... as you know I have literally just started a new job. Give me a few days and hopefully I'll have it up for you thi...

Design #24 - Warsurge

I've mentioned Warsurge a little on social media, and I thought it was, perhaps, time to bring it more to the fore. So I was pleased when Nick and Rich, two out of its three creators, agre...