Monthly Archives: March 2016

Creeping Onwards

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Tony

Although progress is slow, work continues on the new Celtos rules. Another round of playtesting between Sidhe and Fomorian armies took place at the weekend. To replicate a typical home dining-room-table setup, we used six warbands per side on a … Continue reading →

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Flag Day

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Tony

It’s Good Friday today, which is a public holiday in the UK. This means I get a day off (woot !) but the shorter working week also means no new releases this time – and with Salute looming large on … Continue reading →

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Hammered by the Slammers

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Tony

I had the very good fortune last weekend to spend Saturday afternoon in a game of Hammer’s Slammers:The Crucible, playing against one of the rulebook’s authors, John Treadaway. I was fielding my shiny new Alaudae Legion mercenaries against John’s New … Continue reading →

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If You Go Down To The Woods Today…

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Tony

Natives of the fourth planet of the Eta Odin system, the Tolero are primitive but intelligent creatures who outwardly resemble terrestrial bears. More than one anthropologist has been taken in by their cute and cuddly appearance but received a nasty … Continue reading →

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The Alaudae Legion – Ready for Battle

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Tony

At the end of last year we released some unit packs and a couple of vehicles for a new Hammer’s Slammers mercenary force, the Alaudae Legion (which translates to ‘The Skylarks’). Over the last few weeks I’ve been putting together … Continue reading →

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This Time, For Real…

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Tony

Having teased you all with CGI previews of the new Imperial Skies designs, we can show how much progress we’ve already made on the models themselves – quite a lot, in fact. When I wrote the posts on the Kaiser, … Continue reading →

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The Dark Side of the Moon

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Tony

Spheres and domes are an ideal design for bases on the moon or other low-pressure environments – no nasty corners to create weak spots and let the atmosphere out. They can be seen in classic science-fiction and old NASA publicity … Continue reading →

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HMS Vanguard

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Tony

The final preview of our new ships for Imperial Skies is the British Vanguard battleship. We’ve given it some slightly different armament in the form of two very large barbette weapons, plus a number of more conventional secondary turrets on … Continue reading →

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The Gaulois

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Tony

After yesterday’s preview of the Kaiser, today it’s the turn of the French. This is the Gaulois, which started off as a battleship but has ended up growing to the size of a dreadnought. The main turrets and masts are … Continue reading →

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SMS Kaiser

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Tony

We showed some preview screen grabs of the USS Lexington battlecruiser a few weeks ago, one of the four stretch goal models we agreed to produce as part of the Imperial Skies Kickstarter campaign. Today we’re showing another, the German … Continue reading →

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