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Content related science fiction gaming, including Infinity from Corvus Belli,all the rules from Ground Zero Games – Stargrunt II, Dirtside II & Full Thrust II (and 2.5), and whatever other science fiction themed things happen here!
Back To Gaslands
We played a lot of Gaslands in 2020/2021 when COVID restrictions meant we couldn't game in person, because Gaslands is fairly simple to organize over…
Photos from Trumpeter Salute 2023
Brian and I (plus friends) attended Trumpeter Salute 2023 last weekend. No, not the UK one, the smaller one in Vancouver, Canada. We all had a great…
Where does it go? Painted board edges for Sellswords (and other games)
Sellswords & Spellslingers, like a lot of similar games, often has bad guys (foes in Sellsword parlance) appear at random locations or randomly…
Wreck of the Z15A – Green, red and blue ships
On the wreck of the Z15A, near the Great Plain, there are three wrecks near a large lake/sea that always attract attention. The Green, Red and Blue…
Wreck of Z15A #galaxy23
Today we head back to Mephistopheles Cluster and the giant wreck of Z15A. A wrecked generation ship, Z15A is so named because of where it it is - Z…
Cliffside monastery of Sheksha-kah on Halite #galaxy23
Today we find ourselves on Halite, the namesake planet of the Halite Commonwealth and homeworld of two separate intelligent species - the related…
Clouds of Sonnoros #galaxy23
I was going to do a piece on the Halite Commonwealth capital city today, but I thought I would detour with a stop at Sonnoros, a Saturn-like planet…
The Mephistopheles Cloud #galaxy23
Today we turn to an odd enigma - the Mephistopheles Cloud - named for the swirling colours and massive graveyard of ships and space stations that dot…
Beginning #dungeon23, or in this case, #galaxy23
Like a fool, I (Corey) am throwing myself into #dungeon23 to build a galaxy for my upcoming Sellswords & Spellslingers scifi rulset. I'll be…
Still Around… (and some Gaslands content!)
It's been a bit of an odd year for gaming, I've been having fairly regular games but not painting or building things on a consistent…
Gates for Gaslands, Part Five
Up next was the "GATE" lettering and giant numbers for the three numbered gates. Mid-project roundup. Rust basecoat on the big numbers, front…
Gates for Gaslands, Part Four
When we last saw our gates they were basecoated but stalled due to missing 3d printed parts. Those arrived, thanks to my brother's 3d printer, and I…
Gates for Gaslands, Part Two
Got the base gate towers primed, and cut out the huge numbers that will go on each gate. Primed gate towers. I forgot to add damage and scuffing…
Gates for Gaslands Racing, Part One
The Death Race scenario for Gaslands calls for at least three or four gates, for start/finish line (which might not be the same gate) and a couple…
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…
Gaslands by Webcam
It's the pandemic. We can't meet in person, we can't meet in each other's houses, the university and board game cafe we sometimes use locally to host…
Gaslands Jump Ramps
Reading through the rules, I realized that Gaslands Refuelled has rules for jump ramps and jumping, so naturally I had to scratchbuild a pair of…
The Workbench This week, 30 October 2020
No posts for a month? Sorry! The irony is that I've been gaming more regularly than ever, as our little COVID-compliant pod of gamers are now meeting…
BSC 2018: Correcting some too thin errors
As I am fairly new to 3D printing, I am learning a tonne about what not to do. One of the biggest issues I have discovered is that things that look…
BSC 2018: First print of 1956 PANG
The new printer board for my 3D printer finally showed up, so I got to printing the first print of my 1956 PANG. It was less than a full success. As…
BSC 2018: PANG print layout
I finally got around to laying out the 1956 PANG for the first printing. As you can see from the pictures below, I am trying to remove the need for…
BSC 2018: 1956 PANG first printable draft
Build Something 2018 continues and I have been pretty quiet for the last week. Part of this is because I am waiting on the warrantied printer board,…
BSC 2018: 1956 PANG continued
Well, Build Something 2018 is well underway at Lead Adventure. You can follow all the entries, including at least two other 3D printed things, over…
Enter the 3D Printer, early work
Long time, no post. I (Corey) just got a 3D printer (an Ender 2) and so am working through beginning printing with it. Unfortunately after the first…
Alien Dog Monsters!
A few days ago Corvus Belli, the company behind Infinity, had a tweet and FB post asking their fans which of two alien "werewolf" varieties they…
LANtasy 2017 Photos!
Our local "big" convention, LANtasy, was a couple weeks ago now. I participated in the Blood Bowl & Infinity tournaments all weekend, and my Infinity…
Links of Interest, 24 Feb 2017
Last time I mentioned a couple of YouTube painters that had good series of to-the-point, well-edited painting videos. Victor Ques is another I should…
More Jungle To Rumble In
Scored another big paper towel roll from our recycling bin, so I decided to make a fallen tree instead of another upright one. Like the other…
In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle…
Several years ago now I did a whole banker's box full of jungle terrain, but it was all fairly low-lying stuff, thickets and bushes and that sort of…
Tables From Last Weekend’s Infinity Tournament
We had another one-day, three round Infinity tournament this last weekend, our first of 2017. We had two players come over from Vancouver on the…
Hab Module LV4-26 Finished
First of all, Happy New Year, everyone! Hope your 2017 is full of excellent gaming, good friends, and completed projects! On the "completed…
Merry Christmas! (with an airlock!)
Between the Christmas season and what appears to be the worst cold I've had in many, many years there's not been a lot of wargaming activity here at…
Papercraft Spacecraft!
I've been calling my Infinity space station table project a space station since I started planning it, but really it's been a collection of big walls…
Hab Module LV4-26, Part One
This shop front/apartment facade for my ongoing Infinity space station project has been inspired mostly by the depiction of some of the habitat…
More Space Station Pieces
One of the big wall modules I built for my Infinity space station tabletop set has a door three inches off the ground, intended to connect to…
Adding Detail To The Space Station
I've been using my big space station walls and the associated scatter terrain for over a year now, and while all the wall modules are fully painted…
Maghariba Guard Finished!
Quiet month here on the Warbard, I've been busy in real life (terrible when that happens...) but getting some gaming and painting time in when I…
Terrain Quick Reference Cards for Infinity
Infinity has really interesting terrain rules, but they're an added layer of complexity over an already complex game so they often get ignored. The…
The Workbench This Weekend, 18 Sept 2016
I've been back to painting Infinity figures recently, after being distracted by some scenery for a bit. Over on the Official Infinity Forums…
Links of Interest, 15 September 2016
I've been spending some more time on YouTube recently, rummaging around the wargaming-related channels. I don't have the time or the patience for the…
Late Summer Painting
Spent the weekend off on what might be our last camping trip of the season and I've been busy doing lots of other non-wargaming things, as one tends…
Crashed Shuttle, Part One
Doing a bit of cleaning up in my boxes of wargaming supplies I rediscovered a shuttle I built at least ten years ago. It was nominally for 15mm…
Yet Another Hill
I mentioned in the last post that I've been working on a third large hill, with a roughly 12"x15" footprint, that being the maximum interior size of…
A Pair of Hills, Part Two
I've finished the first two hills I started a while back, and built a third large hill to finish up the set for now. After the first coat of…
A Pair of Hills
Still quiet around here this summer, but wargaming has been taking place, as has figure painting, and finally, just for a change, a bit of scenery…
A Mid-Summer Update
Awfully quiet around here for far too long, for which I apologize! I've actually been doing quite a bit of painting and a little bit of terrain…
The Workbench This Weekend, 7 May 2016
My girlfriend is out of town with friends so I've had a bachelor/wargamer weekend and gotten a lot done on my Infinity figures. The planters…
PlastCraft Curved Modular Building
While at Trumpeter Salute I picked up one of PlastCraft's Designed-For-Infinity plastic pre-coloured buildings, the Curved Modular Building, from the…
Bring Me… A Shrubbery!
Having moved at the start of this year I've been sorting and reorganizing gaming stuff, as one does, and working on actually using some of the…
Quick Infinity Terrain: Food Booths
One of the goals with the space station terrain set was to make the whole thing look like not just a collection of tactically interesting obstacles…
Space Station Wall Sections in Progress
Finally have all six of the big space station wall sections basically complete and primed. All the doors are installed (several sections have sliding…
The Workbench This Week, 28 Feb 2016
A vast pile of bare pewter Haqqislam figures for Infinity, and a few in progress... Click for larger, as usual. It's been a quiet month here on…
Infinity Space Station Terrain First Outing
Got my in-progress space station setup for Infinity games out on the table today, as one of two tables set up for a very small (four players!) local…
Infinity Space Station Hangar Walls
I've posted a test print of some printed space station walls previously but after finding a nice batch of Sintra (1/8th foamed PVC plastic board) in…
Review: Impudent Mortal Near Future Elevators
I picked up a pack of Impudent Mortal's Near Future Elevator Set, as mentioned in a previous post, and thought I'd put a few pictures up and do a bit…
Space Station Walls for Infinity
I've been kicking around ideas for an interior table setup for Infinity for several months now - that is, a table that instead of being buildings and…
The Workbench This Week, 4 November 2015
Quick and dirty late night snapshot of my workbench! Front and centre is a Reaper Bones troll (in white plastic still, hence kind of blown out…
Giant Billboard Tower for Infinity
I've previously shown off big (5" tall by 3" wide) advertising graphics intended for use on an Infinity table - Weyland-Yutani, a travel poster, and…
Infinity in the Jungle
Somewhere along the way the default tabletop setting for a game of Infinity became "futuristic urban/quasi-urban environment", which is as true of…
Infinity Ad: A Bit Off-Colour
Yeah, so this one is based on a very, very juvenile joke. I'd apologize but I wouldn't mean it! It's also smaller than some of my other recent…
Infinity Ad: Making Better Worlds
Everyone's favourite terraforming/engineering/evilevilevil megacorp needs a giant billboard ad too! Third and (for now) last of my big 3" wide by 5"…
Infinity Ad: Blue Sun
Borrowing from another popular science fiction universe to provide some graphical fodder for Infinity terrain, here's another big (5" high by 3"…
Another Infinity Ad: Travel to Varuna
I'm home with a stubborn cold that won't go away, so decided to kick GIMP and Inkscape to life and create another couple of billboard-sized ads for…
An Easy Arc Measuring Widget
Infinity has, for most troops, a 180° front arc for Line of Fire and almost all actions. Other games have similar arc requirements - Full Thrust…
In Which Things Get Primered
We have an Infinity weekend event coming up in just over a month (Facebook event link, if you're in the area and interested) and I want to have both…
Post-Labour Day Update
Last post was in June, I'm getting really lousy at keeping this poor blog from getting dusty and neglected. It's been a busy summer for things like…
Taking The Summer Off?
Apparently I've basically taken most of the summer off from blogging and doing wargame-related things I felt the need to blog about... last post was…
Antennas for Infinity
A number of the stock scenarios in Infinity need some sort of antenna or console for the troops to interact with/hack/seize/blow up/etc. You can use…
Billboard Ads for Infinity
While building another piece of scenery for our Infinity tables I built a roof that didn't turn out; it just wasn't working out physically the way…
Sci-Fi Warehouse for Infinity
After building the first building to use on Infinity tables, which turned out to be a complex shape and two storeys plus roof, I decided the next…
A Building For Infinity
I've previously shown my urban scatter terrain for Infinity, and after getting that assembled I decided to tackle something more challenging and…
Links of Interest, 4 March 2015
Another handful of links of interest! James Ernest of Cheapass Games has a short video on three ways to make cards. Nothing earthshaking, but a…
Links of Interest, 28 March 2013
Short links of interest post while I buckle down and get more cavalry painted for our Russian Civil War games — why is it that six damn horses take…
GZG Links Edited
Just updated the Ground Zero Games/Dirtside II/Stargrunt II/Full Thrust Links page, which has, like some of the other resources on this site, needed…
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…
Gallery: Shipyard Photos for Inspiration
Another revival from the old Brian's Wargame Pages version of the site, and one that I should have brought forward ages ago! You can see the…
Sci-fi Signage
Note: These signs are Brian's work from the old Warbard. One day they may be recreated in Inkscape and SVG — Corey This zip file contains…
15mm Science Fiction Sources
15mm science fiction (Stargrunt II, specifically) was one of my starting places in miniature wargaming; I don't do much these days but I still have…
Gallery: Full Thrust
Another repost from the old site — Brian As always click for (slightly) larger…
Scenery: Cardboard 15mm Cargo Containers & Crates
More refugees from the old site; I still like the graphic work I did on these shipping containers & crates. I might eventually do some more. No…
Full Thrust Datasheets & Shipbits
More useful reposts from the old website, this time for Ground Zero Games' Full Thrust starship game: blank datacards & ship-bits for the…
Stargrunt II Blank Datacards
Another repost of useful stuff from the old site; this time it's two decent quality scans of the Squad/Vehicle/Scenario sheet from the back of the…
Pizza Box 25mm Skirmish Scenery
PIZZA BOX SCENERY: This 25mm science fiction scenery was inspired by a 25mm pirate tavern from a now-vanished webpage. That one was designed for a…
SG2 Gallery #4 – UNSC & Aliens
Photos from September 2003 of GZG 25mm & 15mm United Nations Space Command troopers (in Martian Legion camo) and Alien-movie aliens from…
SG2 Gallery #3 – 25mm SF
These were the first 25mm figures I ever painted, sometime in the first half of 2002; I've still got them but haven't used them in years. GZG never…
SG2 Gallery #2
More 15mm stuff from 1999-2000. Click for full/larger view. Original caption for the first four images: About the VTOL: This is a kitbashed…
SG2 Gallery #1
More old photos, from 1999-2000. As always, click for full/larger views. Although these are from the Old Days of the web, so they're not huge images…
Dirtside II Gallery
A blast from the past - a few photos from a Dirtside II game way back in 2000. I'm still in touch with both guys in the first photo, and we still…
Links: Ground Zero Games
The collected links from the old-format site for Dirtside II, Stargrunt II and Full Thrust, all from Ground Zero Games. In need of weeding and…
The Woods Tomorrow: Dangerous Flora in SG2
"If you go into the woods tomorrow,You're in for a HUGE surprise..." In early April 2002 there was a very good discussion of alien, generally…
Kra’Vak House Rules in Stargrunt II
SGII KRAVAK RULES By David D. TaylorKra'Vak Design Doctrine: The Kra'Vak use a doctrine of a 4 soldier element unit known as a claw. Most fists…
Stargrunt II Xenomorphs (Aliens aliens!)
'We Believe A Xenomorph May Be Involved...' Rules for Ripley's Nightmares in Stargrunt II.Written by Brian Burger, June 2001 The aliens of the…
Dirtside II House Rules
A group of us here in Victoria, BC, Canada who play Dirtside II regularly. Individually & collectively, we've come up with some house rules to…
Stargrunt II House Rules 2
Industrial Accidents in Stargrunt II The Dangers of Firefights Near Explosive, Hazardous, Poisonous or Flammable Materials!Written by Brian…
Stargrunt II House Rules, Part I
Semi-Autonomous Combat System (SACS) Fixed (sentry guns a la 'Aliens' movie) or Mobile (mini-tanks a la 'X-Com' computer game). (F-SACS or…