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Hello, dear reader. If you haven't read Jim Chaseley's book "Z14", then you probably should. As threatened, this week I'm going to talk about Robots in ACP164, focusing on the canon, basic principles and rules for using them in your game. If you read to the end,...
Hello dear reader. In this episode, I want to talk about armoured vehicles in ACP164. One of my favourite scenes in the film 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade', is the one where the baddies are doing a deal with Alexei Sayle playing the Sultan. He says: You shall...
This post describes how to play heroic mode ACP164. The basic principle of heroic mode is that you use a smaller space, have smaller units and play a quicker game without needing to learn new rules.
Once upon a time, I met the father of a friend, who made very detailed models of tanks for use in wargames. He was a Major in the Australian Army, and the wargames he was playing were at work. If one of the tanks got ‘killed’ he would take a large hammer out from under the table and smash it to pieces. This was his way of linking consequences to an adverse outcome.
In this post, we'll look at the basics of building an army for the Independent Lapine Republic or ILR for short. This follows on from the post about building an EDF army and, as usual, there's a lot more information in the impeccably well written sourcebook, which my...
I've always wanted to do some table-top skirmish and RPG gaming inspired by the 1963 Planet of the Apes original novel by Pierre Bouelle which sees French Cosmonauts visit a planet orbiting the star Betelgeuse, in which great apes are the dominant...
This blog is going to be used to document the miniatures painted in 2023. Total 28mm Miniatures Painted: 164 & 2 Chariots Updated 26th July 2023 July 2023 28mm Cthulhu Investigators x 4, 3D printed from designs by Enigmatic World and painted using Army Painter...
An article about getting starting tabletop miniature gaming on a budget with restricted space and solo gaming potential.
Hello dear reader, I just wanted to quickly talk about the state of the game, with a return to normal topics next week. New Products Yesterday we launched a new range of vehicles, and by popular demand they are STL downloads. You can buy them from the Sally 4th Store,...
Hi again loyal reader, and thanks for sticking with me. In this post I'm going to talk about artillery, and why it isn't a big thing in ACP164 - at least right now. Is this going to change? Maybe. First, I'm sorry that it's been a couple of weeks since my last post....
As presaged last week, today we’re taking a look at Special Forces in ACP, how they are structured and how they work in gameplay.
This is the third episode in a series on Army Building in ACP164. It discusses HomeGuard units, and looks at a specific example.
This is a rambling diatribe about the origins of the ACP 164 game and future directions.
Over the last couple of weeks, hobby time has been focussed on finishing off terrain and figures and play testing scenarios for our participation game at the Vapnartak Wargames Show, hosted by York Wargames Club at York Racecourse on Sunday 5th February. We will be...
Copplestone Castings - TM2 Half Orc Spearmen Welcome to week two of my getting started with tabletop gaming on a budget blog. If you've not read the first weeks blog, it's worth catching up on as it explains the parameters or rationale, and the thoughts behind the...
The November issue of Miniature Wargames (Issue 475) contains a fantastic set of 3 scenarios for Robin Hood themed miniature gaming using the Feudal Patrol skirmish set of rules, (although the scenarios could be played with any good set of skirmish rules). The article...