Tournament of Blood
Sunday we held our monthly 40k event at Redcap’s. Six players came out despite being summer break for the colleges, Sunday, and Father’s Day to boot. Armies featured Space Marines, Blood Angels, Khorne...
View ArticleMortalis Solypsus WIP
Yesterday Colin and I got started on construction for the July PAGE/Redcap’s 40k event: Mortalis Solypsus. A bit over-ambitiously, we intend to run a full day of Zone Mortalis-styled games, capturing...
View ArticleBootstrap Navbar Centered Vertical Alignment
Recently I was working on a website layout using Bootstrap for which the design called for a large logo image as the navbar brand, with the navbar entries vertically centered with it. I thought “Yo,...
View ArticleBasic Scaling, Animation, and Parallax in Pixi.js v3
A basic challenge in mobile games is dealing with varying screen sizes and resolutions. This post is a quick demo and writeup playing with the Pixi.js 2D graphics library for HTML5 games, showing how...
View Article40k: Alternate Maelstrom
One of the big changes to Warhammer 40,000 with 7th edition was of course the new class of official missions: Maelstrom. Upon first hearing rumors of it I was really excited, enough to pre-order the...
View ArticleStanding Flyer Cards
For my upcoming Combat Patrol League, I made a little flyer to put in the store: 2015 Winter Combat Patrol flyer. Sadly I did not draw the Firewarrior, he’s by Darcad. But I did make sweet little...
View ArticleImporting TTF Fonts Into LaTeX With Kerning & Ligatures
This past weekend I spent some time revamping the styling of some of my work and gaming documents. Generally I write all of these in LaTeX. Long story short, for the uninitiated, it’s a typesetting...
View ArticleFirst X-Wing Tournament: Redcap’s X-Mas Wing
After resisting for years, a couple weeks ago I finally caved and started playing X-Wing Miniatures. Yesterday I entered my first tournament, X-Mas Wing at Redcap’s Corner. Fourteen players were there...
View ArticleNightmaw
For the holidays and our annual club Apocalypse game last week, Jason and TJ organized a Secret Servitor among a good number of the PAGE 40k players. Everybody was secretly assigned a random person,...
View ArticlePAGE Apocalypse 2016: Rebuffed at Barnes 595
Without a home and newly without their major supply base, the Kingbreakers Space Marines drifted through the void for a time seeming interminable. Then they turned toward action and their sworn...
View Article40k Battle Report: Necrons vs Kingbreakers
Phil and I had a great game of 40k last night at Redcap’s Thursday night fights, so I was inspired to draw up a map and post some photos. Nagash brings oblivion! Phil’s Transcendant C’Tan. Top of Turn...
View Article40k Battle Report: Enter the Eldar, Come Captain Nitrol!
Recently I painted my first couple hundred points of Eldar after talking about starting an army for quite some time. Last night they made their first appearance, battling Jason’s Chaos Marines. He’s...
View ArticleNecron Night Shroud Bomber
Heading into last week’s narrative event I finally finished painting Lovell’s Necron Night Shroud Bomber after having it for more than two years, with occasional half-painted appearances in the...
View ArticleSergeant Tolek Shows How To Photo Minis
Fantastically, several people harassed me at PAGE’s 40k narrative event last week about using my Sergeant Titus model given that in a separate, parallel narrative he was captured by Chaos and is most...
View ArticleDeathwatch: Overkill Card Boxes
Games Workshop’s new Deathwatch: Overkill board game comes with a lot of amazing components. But it doesn’t come with boxes to protect the two card decks while traveling around. So I made PDF patterns...
View ArticleThe Fury of a Dying Race—Eldar Detachment!
After a couple years of threatening, I finally put together some Eldar! Over the dust of a thousand worlds shall we ever chase the slaves of the foul ones. I just finished the Autarch, but the two...
View ArticleObyron, Lord of Hugs
I finally finished the last of Lovell’s models that the Kingbreakers had captured—Vargard Obyron, Lord of Hugs: Nothing too fancy here. The overall style is to match the Overlords I did for Lovell...
View ArticleVector Art Boltgun
In the course of finishing up my Legacies 40k skirmish campaign packet last week I drew a boltgun to use as filler art, though it was eventually cut for space. I traced over and colored from an...
View ArticleFirst Round Gaming Tournament Seeding
This post discusses the challenge of first round pairings for wargaming (and boardgaming) tournaments, and an idea for improving them in larger events. My primary interest at the moment is organizing...
View ArticleBaleful First Prototype
First goofing around with pieces on the table of a new game I’ve been thinking about off and on for a bit now: Baleful.
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