After being in charge of game development for the better part of this millenium Gav Thorp has spoken out against comp and tournaments.  In his tirade he did mention that all army books are made to be balanced.  Now I am not ... Read More »

I recently played La Citta again after quite a long break from it.  In La Citta the object to have the most people and the best way to do this is to steal the people from other players.  This done through a mechanic a the e ... Read More »

I got to play Stone Age recently and it was an interesting experience.  In the game you have a number of settlers which can go to various areas to get reasources or aquire assets.  In some areas you roll to get multiple of ... Read More »

I have many fond memories of playing Third Reich when I was younger.  I thought the game was terribly flawed but it was fun anyhow.  When I saw that it had been updated into a new game I was excited but all this faded after ... Read More »

I have now played several games with the dwarves against demons and I finally think I can start to draw some conclusions.  Demon armies seem to be very focused on characters to help them win.  As they are combat armies it s ... Read More »

Now I do not play 40K but there are enough players around the store who do that I get to hear a lot of feed back on armies and the game.  For the last few weeks players have been playing 40k using the new 5th ed rules.  For ... Read More »

I have noticed that the tournametn armies I have the most trouble against are the fear causing and avoid combat armies.  These seem to be the armies that my Ogres are best against.  They have fast enough movement and hit ha ... Read More »

After playing a few warhammer fantasy games I have decided that often the illusion of shooting is better than shooting.  Now it is possible to build armies with 60+ Strength 4 shots a turn, but that first turns off players, and forc ... Read More »

Despite a beautiful Memorial day weekend Boldo's has 8 players come down to play in a Warhammer tournament.  Two Dwarfs, a Vampire Count, a Bretonian, a Nurgle demon, an Empire and two Lizardmen armies vied against each other.&# ... Read More »

Well after long last I finally got a Deamons of Chaos book into my hands and it is some good.  In general the demons are a little worse but much cheaper.  They also do not pop as in the last edition which is a huge bonus ev ... Read More »