"Roll dice and kick ass!"

So I've finally gone and done my first ever bit of ebay business. I bought a copy of the forgotten 1975 classic naval wargame Seastrike ...

One of the things about journal writing as opposed to 'zine writing is that you don't need to try to write full length articles. You...

I don't know the effect on you all as readers, but I confess that the recent staple diet of ever thinner Combat Commander battle report...

As I pondered the map for our 4th game, Badger was keeping up his own personal whinge, "Oh dear please, not the bocage." Victory...

Getting the choice of map, Badger decided it'd be amusing to send us to the wide open spaces of map #23. Oh dear, I thought, this is the...

So, Badger and I had our bank holiday Combat Commander session as announced. I cooked a meatball lasagne ( Millefoglie alla 'guardiese...

A call last week from Donald broke incommunicado, so he and Andy were round for boardgames on Sunday. A recent thread on the Classic AT b...

Mark and Robert, a couple of old, old buddies, passed through last weekend. Mark was an avid and skillful Up Front player back in the day, ...

So, I did go and see this again as I'd said I would. I enjoyed it about as much the second time around as I did the first. That's pr...

Andy asked me to expand on my comments about The Dark Knight , so here's what I'd written up when I decided I was going to see the ...

Feeling a bit better today. Sleep and self-care indicators have evened out a bit. Some weak late summer sunshine is no doubt helping, but a ...

Still feeling ropey. Sleep cycle and key self-care indicators (medication, feeding and oral hygiene) are all in the red zone. And I've b...

I still made it to this year's DiceConWest , where I took these pictures. Ivanhoe. Here's Donald, Natasha and Andy in the heat of...

Tony and Di came round last night to play some Settlers. Still in the first flush of my new cooking enthusiasm I laid on a proper curry spre...

Regular readers will know that 2 months incommunicado can only mean depression. This was unexpected, confounding, as it did, the seasonal cy...

Last week's Sunday session turned into a bit of an event: Glasgow Games Group (G3) were holding a games day to mark the 10 th annivers...

Bank holiday boardgames bonanza! A busy weekend last week plus a cold I picked up sometime has left me unable to write much. I had Badger ro...

A busy week for yours truly, including trips to the pictures to see the Iron Man movie (IMDb) , and Doomsday (IMDb) ; a Combat Commander ...