Irregular Wars Wargaming

Bedtime's Children - also known as "those onesie-wearing wastland weirdos" - finally have some pets! I have been looking for suitable warbeasts for my growing  This is Not a Test  tribal warband for a while. After a couple of false starts, I settled on these crazy 3D printed mutant bunnies from Yedharo - sold as 'Crazy Rabbit Troops'. Given the Onesies are led by a young teenage psychic, and most of the tribe wear onesies in a variety of unflatering pastels, I figured that some sort of bunny-squigg-soft toy hybrid creatures would work as pets. It is unclear whether the tribe has specially bred them or if Poppet has imagined them into existence? Perhaps they are merely a natural reaction to the end of the world...?

Sarge looked over the shanty town from his rooftop vantage point. After a gruelling campaign, his veteran squad had never been physically stronger. But mentally they were tired - worn down by the endless waves of mutants trying to break their thin blue line. Now they had the mutants on the back foot, but a beast is always most dangerous when cornered. One way or another, the ongoing grudge match would end today. Four their tenth mission, and the last in the FMRC campaign, the stout stunted rangers from Flores Minor faced off against Andrew's Mutants for the final time with the cold vengeance scenario. The FMRC were buoyed from their previous victories and were able to field 10 rangers, a dog, a depend-o-bot, and their two remaining tame hill folk. There were less mutants, only 11 in total, but they had caught the FMRC flat footed. Demo III, Snake Eyes III, and Pup were away on a side mission and would arrive late to the skirmish. Andrew also took a whole lot of luck, and bum rush a...

On wee side quest which has been both enjoyable and adorable in equal measure, I have recently picked up Michael Lovejoy's skirmish game of anthropomorphic animals - Burrows & Badgers . The Dirty Paws are my starter warband of rogues, chosen purely because I liked the models - all from Oathsworn Miniatures and, as I understand, sculpted by Michael himself. I'm looking forward to trying out the system which reads very well. In the meantime, here are the first members of the Dirty Paws (the rest of the warband can be seen HERE ).  Their families dispossessed and slaughtered by corrupt lords acting in the name of the king, the outlaws known derisively as the Dirty Paws have embraced their new life of roguery in the dappled sanctuary of Chestnut Glen. Hunted for blood money, they have taken up arms to seek justice and take back what is rightfully theirs. Osgood Broadwater, the otter Sgian Dhubh, the polecat Old Broc, the badger Tibbot Thornberry, the mouse Gypsy Thornberry, th...

Another of Mark's Utterley-Barkinge mad adventures using his underwater variant of  Palaeo Diet: Pulp ! **** The Utterley-Barkinge Time-Travel & Landscape Gardening Corporation led another safari back to the marine environment of the Cretaceous era. Rather than the usual big game hunting theme, this year the aim was to search for the giant pearls known from rare fossil examples. These would be the largest, highest quality pearls ever found, with the added lustre of being snatched from ancient seas in the face of terrors innumerable. Sells itself, what. As usual the limited places available were greatly oversubscribed despite the astronomical price. The Final Cut of 6 intrepid adventurers comprised entirely Hollywood movie stars. Three are armed with glaives (counting as clubs) and three with spearguns (counting as guns)  The expedition guide was Boris Utterley-Barking (speargun). Here are a couple of views of  the area the expedition will explore. It’s a 900x900mm clo...

It's February and, for Mark, February is prehistory month. He's found time to dust off the Palaeo Diet rules and see how the Grey Wolfs and Trouts are doing in the aftermath of the plague that struck both clans last season . The survival of both remains uncertain. The mammoths have failed to return to their summer grazing lands, again. Other sorts of animals, never seen before, are making their presence felt. The Grey Wolf clan has weathered the great sickness / attack of the evil spirits better, and has remained on its traditional hunting grounds. The Trouts, almost wiped out, have retreated up into the hill country. **** In the first game , a small Grey Wolf hunting party is sent out, with instructions to bring back at least “8 bulk” of meat to the main camp.  Here is the traditional pre-hunt charcoal and ochre painting of the hunters. They are imaginatively named Red, Yellow, Brown, and Grey. Grey has a hound, named of course Greyhound. The humans are all armed with spears....