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The Workbench This Week, 28 March 2023
The workbench this week... is up and running in our new condo! We had an offer accepted at the beginning of February, got the keys ten days ago in…
An End to 2021 At Last!
Personally and hobbywise, it's not been a terrible year, although it's been a bit low on the number of blog posts, overall. But for the rest...…
2020 In Review
Well, that was quite a year, wasn't it? No conventions, no in-person gaming at all for a good part of the year thanks to our local COVID…
Remembrance Day 2020
All the ceremonies will be streamed online this year, because COVID, so my longstanding habit of going to one of our local ceremonies will probably…
Some End-of-Decade Housekeeping
After a few minutes of experimenting with the new Wordpress Twentytwenty theme (not bad, but not image-centric enough for me) I've taken the time to…
Twenty Years of this Nonsense!
2018 has been a year of not much wargaming. I'm busy and well, just not doing a lot of gaming. Last month was a bit of a milestone, though, that I…
Still Around!
No posts since mid-March of this year. Did't realize it had been that long! I'm still kicking, just doing minimal wargaming these days. First…
Still Around, Happy Holidays, & Such!
Real Life ganged up on me pretty solidly around mid-September and didn't really let up until nearly the end of October, and by then other hobby…
The Workbench This Week, 21 April 2017
...is being relocated and cleaned up! Same room as before - our guest bedroom/office/workroom - but we've moved the shelf unit I used as a…
Dice Problems
I'm off in Vancouver this weekend, so have a brief link to an older Penny Arcade comic about one possible solution for that age-old gamer problem,…
All Quiet On The Warbard Front?
Quiet around here; I was away for a week earlier in December visiting family out of town, caught a rather unpleasant cold right at the end of that…
LInks of Interest, 5 Sept 2014
Just to prevent this place becoming all-Blood Bowl, all the time, some semi-random interesting links. Over on Lead Adventure Forum, I found the…
Reaper Minis Customer Service is Awesome
Looking to assemble unique teams for Blood Bowl without spending a lot of money, I've been poking around the Reaper Bones collection - Reaper's…
Getting Back At It!
I'm back from seven weeks of holiday in Europe, catching up on email and such, and looking to get back into gaming and terrain making. First up is…
The Workbench This Week, 29 May 2014
Quick overhead snapshot of the painting bench recently. As you might have guessed from recent posts, I've been in a "clear the decks" sort of mood,…
Links of Interest, 23 April 2014
Hope everyone had a satisfactory Easter holiday, however you celebrate it. It's a cheap chocolate and dinner with family and friends holiday for me,…
… And We’re Back…
When you forget to renew the primary domain your entire web presence depends on, and then have to wait a weekend for the #%^#@% bank to sort your…
The Year of Missing Conventions…
Victoria's GottaCon is running this weekend, and as I've just flown back into town from a work assignment elsewhere in the province, I'm missing the…
Two for Remembrance Day
I'll be off to the main downtown Cenotaph for the ceremony and two minutes of silence today, but after you do your own two minutes, here's a pair of…
Breaking Radio Silence…
I've been out of town on a work project for the last seven weeks, after rushing through the last couple rounds of my Lead Painter League entries…
Added a “Reviews” Page & Category
I realized I had an increasing number of review posts here at the Warbard, but no category or single point of reference for them, so I've created a…
Always Good Advice
The Known Rule NGR contains a large number of rules, and in the end it is not likely someone will have them all memorized. The rules of this game…
Latest Addition to my Painting Bench
Part of the reason I haven't done much painting in the last several months has been the frankly depressing state of my painting bench. It had…
Getting Back At It
So I promised to run a Russian Civil War game at a friend's place on the Nov. 11th long weekend; I made the promise ages ago and suddenly looked at a…
What I’ve Been Up To Lately
Bit of a slow summer here on the Warbard, and in gaming in general for me. I haven't touched a paintbrush since June (or possibly May...) and while…
Cossacks, Dragons, Cavemen and Others…
I've had a bit of a slowdown in painting and general wargaming involvement lately; partly this is because I haven't had a game of anything in ages,…
Sales of Possible Interest
A quick late night post to alert faithful readers to two short-duration sales of possible interest. First, in honour of Her Majesty's Diamond…
Oh deer! Megamini’s ugulates completed
Always looking for interesting new miniatures, I stopped at one of the local gaming stores the other day, Curious Comics, and I saw these deer and I…
The “Salute Bump”
We track basic visitor stats here at the Warbard, as most websites do. What people are reading, which links they're following, the usual stuff,…
Pardon Our Outages
We've had two outages in the last week here on the Warbard, where our normally-reliable Wordpress backend takes a dump and decides to stop working.…
Paint It Black
This is a wargaming website run by a pair of Canadians. It's hosted on a Canadian server (a very deliberate decision, I should point out). So why is…
A 2011 Review
Happy New Year! Just back from a week away from my computer and my workbench, spent visiting the folks inland, and counting down the hours until it's…
Links of Interest, 9th Dec 2011
If you haven't already read Sidney Roundwood's excellent 29 Ways to (try to) Stay Creative: A Wargamer’s List yet, you really do need to. The…
Pearl Harbor, 70 Years Ago Today
Today is, of course, Pearl Harbor Day, and this year marks the 70th anniversary of that attack. I was on Maui for a vacation about 18 months ago,…
Nov. 11, 2011
Went down to our main Cenotaph on the Legislature lawn this morning for the Remembrance Day ceremony, as I almost always do. Good turnout despite the…
BottosCon
Off overseas (ie, to Vancouver) Friday afternoon to spend the weekend at one of the area boardgame conventions, BottosCon. Boardgames? It's likely…
13 Years of This Nonsense!
Sometime in November 1998 I sat down in the computer lab at the college I was going to at the time, signed up to Geocities (remember them?), and got…
Testing, testing…
Assuming this works, I can now post to here from my shiny new Android smartphone, in other words from pretty much anywhere, anytime... Be afraid, be…
Messrs. Clarke & von Clausewitz
"Everything is very simple in War, but the simplest thing is difficult." — Carl von Clausewitz, On War Richard Clarke of TooFatLardies has…
Greetings, TGN!
The excellent editors of Tabletop Gaming News have just added The Warbard to the TGN Blog Network! Assuming the TGN feed works the way I think it…
The Dropship Drops Out?
Over on the excellent 15mm science-fiction focused Dropship Horizon blog, a rather startling notice that Mark, the blogowner, is planning to "bring…
ECW Painting, Other Randomness for 28 May 2011
An entire week since my last substantial post! The horror, how will our dedicated readership cope? I've been painting up an English Civil…
New Painting Category and Page
I've created a new "Painting" category, and a new page to collect all the Painting-category articles. You'll find the page as a submenu item under…
First of May
What? It's gaming related, WoW was used for the video. Besides, how could I resist? Link to "First of May" video on YouTube just in case the embed…
.45 Adventures 2nd Edition, A Review
.45 Adventures 2nd Edition Rattrap Productions released the much-anticipated 2nd Edition of their .45 Adventures pulp adventure rules a few weeks…
A White Russian, And Other News
A bit quieter around the Warbard right now; I'm having most of my gaming time sucked up by the Lead Painters League 5 and real life; Corey is however…
1920’s Egypt in colour
Egypt, much in the news today as it was in the 1920s when these pictures were taken, is the focus of this photo collection: Egypt in the 1920's in…
Pulp Design Tools & Resources, Part Three: Inspiration
A necessarily brief, personal and idiosyncratic tour through some websites with noteworthy archives of 1920s/30s posters, postcards, luggage tags and…
Pulp Design Tools & Resources, Part Two: Fonts
This is the second in a series of posts (three or more) aimed at introducing gamers to some of the resources out there they might not be aware of for…
Pulp Design Tools & Resources, Part One: Inkscape
Everytime Corey or I post player aids, faux-vintage ads, building signs, faux magazine covers or similar to forums or elsewhere, there's always…
Advice to a British Lead Soldier
Being a Kipling fan, I kept this when it came on one of the mailing lists I'm on, and decided to post it here. I have no idea who the original author…
Where is the Orbiter stuff?
The Orbiter meshes for the Percival Lovell and space stations were for a very old version of Orbiter and are not currently supported. Check out the…
Pulp Music Online
So, you're writing a classic interwar pulp scenario to play with your favourite rules. Or you're just reading one of the great pulp stories for…
Trebuchet!
Apparently not many people have webpages featuring working model trebuchets. Except the old version of this webpage! Transplanted and spruced up;…
The New Re-Launched “The Warbard”
This website is devoted to wargaming, mostly in pulp adventure, hard science fiction or fantasy settings. The rules we play include Rattrap's .45…
Gradient Backgrounds for Photography
I've created a number of simple colour gradient backgrounds that I've printed out for use in miniature photography, and recently decided to bundle…