Sunday, 5 March 2023
Hammerhead Wargames Show 2023 - Swag
Friday, 17 February 2023
Resistance is Futile - Star Trek Borg
Saturday, 21 January 2023
Xenos Rampant - First Game
After reading some very exciting and enthusiastic reviews for this new game, set alongside the same type of rules from other Rampant series games by the Author Daniel Mersey (Published by Osprey) we were looking forward to organising our forces and getting our starter game in.
Miniature agnostic and a game that can be played in any scale really, we went for 15mm as we had a multitude of 15mm Sci Fi miniatures that we had already got for games like Gruntz and Tomorrow's War, it gave us a depth of options for a 24 point force.
This however didn't stop the usual butterfly shiny habit and I delved into Alternative Armies website and ordered myself a brand new Grey Alien force!
The Alien Commander with his detachment of invasion troops had recently attacked and sacked a Federal Stats Europa (FSE) research facility to recover a horde of stolen tech from previously downed UFO strike flyers.
Whilst preparing to transfer these to the Mothership an FSE detachment attacked!
We chose to do a simple Sweep and Clear Scenario from the rulebook and although we had built our force and chose which unit would be our Commander. Before a game you roll randomly for a commander trait to be added, this can be from a number of tables to make him either a Tactical, Strategic or Warlord type etc.
Both of us rolled traits that would not really impact this first game - this is not unusual!
Another D6 roll and Nic ended up as the Attacker and I the Defender, Nic would go first after deployment.
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The Battlefield - Greys bottom Right, FSE Top Left deployment |

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UFO finally gets the advantage and Heat Ray's the Tank |
Sunday, 25 December 2022
Sunday, 25 September 2022
Burrows and Badgers Knight Retinue

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Fighting Fantasy Fest 4
Fighting Fantasy Fest 4 held at the University of West London in Ealing, this year was celebrating 40 years of the release of the first Fighting Fantasy book - The Warlock of Firetop Mountain.
Featuring as honoured guests the two men who started it all off - Steve Jackson and Sir Ian Livingstone numerous other authors and artists who have wrote and illustrated the various gamebooks and other material were also in attendance and would be holding talks and signing sessions.
Also in attendance was Rhianna Pratchett, daughter of Sir Terry Pratchett of Discworld fame, who had recently lent her talents to writing a Fighting Fantasy gamebook. As a massive fan of the Discworld series and Pratchett's work as a whole, it would be interesting to listen to her talk and hopefully meet her and have a chat.
For anyone who is new to Fighting Fantasy and would like to know more about what the gamebooks are or the history of how they came about click this link: YOU ARE THE HERO.
Kicking up a Storm - Rhianna Pratchett talks to Johnathon Green about her Fighting Fantasy book - Crystal of Storms.
Meet and Greet the Artists |
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Alan Langford, Illustrator on Titan-The Fighting Fantasy World Source Book |
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John Sibbock, Illustrator on Titan-The Fighting Fantasy World Source Book |

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Mike McCarthy, Cover Artist on Shadow of the Giants (and Fable the computer game, along with the new forthcoming Harry Potter Hogwarts Legacy game) |
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Duncan Smith, Cover Artist on Scorpion Swamp |
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Marc Gascoigne, writer on Titan-The Fighting Fantasy World Source Book |
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Zagor the Warlock of Firetop Mountain illustration, signed by Steve Jackson, Sir Ian Livingstone and Artist Russ Nicholson - went for £310 |
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Solution book for Tasks of Tanthalon - went for £300 |
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Fighting Fantasy map - went for £60 odd |
