Felix, Author at Felix's Gaming Pages

Putting the cat out…

Nice homemade video.

WWI German Infantry Advancing in 1914

With Warhammer Historical available, GamesDay 2008 wasn’t just Fantasy and 40K, in Hall 1 there were a fair few historical wargames on show using the various Warhammer Historical rules. This is nothing new, last year we saw was Aly Morrison and Dave Andrews’ excellent World War One demonstration game.

Demonstrating The Great War rules were two games one set in Gallipoli and one in 1914. Here are some 1914 German Infantry moving forward…

Beautifully painted and modelled.

You can see many more pictures of the historical wargaming on my website.

To see more pictures from GamesDay 2008 have a look at my GamesDay 2008 Gallery.

Plastic Stompa and New Apocalypse

Having written before about the plastic Stompa, from another source I have got further confirmation that there will be a plastic Ork Stompa and it will cost £60.

This same source did not deny the Plastic Shadowsword either.

One new thing from them was that when these models are released in April, there will also be the release of a revised version of Apocalypse.

Ork Trukk

Here is my Ork Trukk from a recent game.

Full workbench feature on my Ork Trukk.

More pictures of Ork Trukks.

With the release of the new Trukk model, I am considering now using my existing Trukks as Warbuggies. I never liked the Warbuggy model so for me the Trukk would be an ideal alternative.

The Triffids are back…

BBC reports on the return of the Triffids.

A new television adaptation of classic sci-fi story The Day of The Triffids is being made by the BBC.

The drama, about menacing plants taking over the world, will be shown in two feature-length episodes next year.

I really enjoyed the 1981 series and am looking forward to this new interpretation.

Flying over the battlefield

The Orks are moving forward, shouting at the top of their lungs, whilst overhead Ork Bommerz scream and release their payloads of bombs.

This is the scene faced by Simon’s Imperial Guard in a game we had.

Great fun!

See photographs from a range of games we’ve had.

Forge World Ork Gunwagon

If you have been following my workbench feature on my Forge World Ork Gunwagon, you will know that it is nearly finished. Though not quite finished, it’s finished enough for me to use in a game (or two). Having read the Forge World Masterclass Volume One book I am re-looking at the model and will see if there are things I can add to the model.

It performs quite well, and just ensure you have a few Meks around to fix it when it gets shot to pieces.

Full workbench feature on my Ork Gunwagon.

More pictures of Ork Gunwagons.

Why You Can’t Travel Back in Time and Kill Hitler

Nice article on the problems with time travel and travelling back in time to assassinate Hitler.

Next month sees the release of Valkyrie, a film about Claus von Stauffenberg, the man who tried to assassinate Adolph Hitler. Plenty of time travelers have had the same idea, although their plan was to kill Hitler before he enacted mass genocide. Their intentions may be noble, but the plans always seem to go awry, leaving history unchanged or even worse than when they left. We list all the ways their attempts go wrong, so you can plan your time travel accordingly.

The article that is mentioned and linked to that I enjoyed was Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel:

One of the bylaws of the International Association of Time Travelers states that you can’t kill Hitler. The problem is, everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. This leaves more experienced time travelers the onerous task of undoing the historical edits of n00bs.