Catching up on posts on the Tell Me A Tale, Great or Small blog a couple of weeks ago, I noticed that the July 2026 Middle Earth FAQ and Errata had made Uruk Hai Shamans available to the Lurtz’s Scouts army list. I’m not sure how that had passed me by as I usually give the FAQs a look over when they’re published on WarCom, but anyway, my newest MESBG army could take a new thing (yay!). With a…
Back in May Death Reaper Games (DRG) announced a forthcoming foray into tabletop gaming with Lords and Legends: The Voidshadow Requiem. Set in the fantasy realm of Luminaria, Lords and Legends is billed as a narrative driven skirmish game where players assemble warbands of Legends, Heroes and Minions and try to lead them to victory against their opponents. "Narrative driven skirmish games" are…
"Under the watchful eyes of the lanista of Ludus Fulgur, the magister prepares a thraex and murmillo for a practice bout. There'll be blood on the sands before long..." This month's Wargames Illustrated came with a frame of miniatures and the quick start rules for Dead Again Games' soon to be released gladiatorial combat game Blood on the Sands . The free miniatures were definitely of interest,…
Preface I’ve been feeling at a bit of a low ebb of late. Last year was pretty challenging personally and professionally and unfortunately this year is not shaping up all that differently. On top of that, there have been precious few opportunities to game due to my availability and lack of awareness of the local gaming scene. My confidence took a huge hit last year at the hands of some former…
It's been a couple of months since my last Missive from Middle Earth , but I've been busily expanding the battle company into an army using the Lurtz's Scouts list from the Armies of the Lord of the Rings book. This happened rather more by design than some of my other MESBG projects and I'll get into the why of that a bit more below, but suffice it to say that I'm pretty chuffed to have gone from…
The second edition of Warhammer 40,000 was only a year or so old when I stumbled into the hobby and I have very fond memories of shuffling squads and mobs of mono-pose miniatures across dining tables covered with upside-down subuteo mats, strewn with cardboard terrain, wargear cards and dice. So, when it came to planning an entry for this year's Olden Demon competition, the shortlist of miniatures…
My recent dalliance with one of the minions of Sauron got me thinking about a project I’d been contemplating in late 2025; painting up some Uruk Hai scouts. The main barrier to doing so was that I didn’t have any Uruk Hai scout models but some quick calculations and a recce of my local Warhammer store, I decided the best way to remedy this was to exchange a kit I’d bought last year and hadn't done…
Last autumn I was offered the opportunity to pop some paint on to models from the forthcoming Mythos Motors range for Kore . When they asked what I fancied working on, I asked them to surprise me and so it was that just before Christmas last year, a mystery package arrived at Tangential Contrivances HQ containing a Mercedes-Benz W31 G4 and LG3000 printed in high quality resin. Incidentally, the G4…
Life has been quite busy since I shared the last instalment of this intermittent series, and the resultant combination of tiredness and the cold, dark nights have meant I haven't spent quite as much time at my hobby desk over the last few weeks. Nevertheless, I've continued to chip away at things, so as I have another four of Caras Galadhron's finest ready to pop in the cabinet, now seemed like as…
Over the last few weeks I’ve been chipping away at a pair of Leman Russ Executioner tanks to join the epic scale Dracosan and Malcador that I shared back in November as well as a display base for the whole lot to perch on. With the Executioners completed to the same stage as the larger tanks, now seemed like a good time to share a bit more about the project and where I think the ultimate…
