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Mr. Wargaming
@NotJonMollison
Aggressive Catholic Paladin. Family Man. Wargamer. Host of "The Joy of Wargaming"
May 5 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Wargamers, we need to talk about giving advice to beginners.

Some of you have never baited a hook and it shows.

Read this request and then peep the replies for a few good examples and a lot of terrible advice. Lemme just shine a spotlight on the keyword here: BEGINNER.

My man the Dakersaurus is starting from zero, probably not even sure the hobby is for him, right?

What we want to do is get him to the table with an easy little setup all his own, at a reasonable cost. Image
Feb 18 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The Blackreef Syndic, in the person of a mid-level Admin named Joan Alice, offers Chad Solo a freelance gig.

In exchange for his service and discretion, our solo #Traveller gets toplisted for a job as Engineer on the next outbound freighter.

What's the job?
(Poll to follow.) Image What we know is that Blackreef was up to something they didn't want public, and they need Chad to go with seven other thugs to recover some of Blackreef's lost property.

One of their smaller transports ran into trouble 1,100 miles out of Blackreef Station and lost contact.
Dec 19, 2021 • 27 tweets • 9 min read
Imagine:
A group of buds sitting around the fire on a chilly night.
Their charges have settled in for the night, and they gaze down a mountain valley to the bright, warm lights of a small village. Image It looks warm down there.
But it's nice here, too, in it's own way.
Hard, honest work, with hard, honest troubles. 
Not like the worries down there.
They talk of money problems.
Pressure from the wife to live beyond their means.
Will it be a good year for the price of wool? Image
Dec 16, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Orcs versus Crusaders in a bigger battle of Chainmail.

Clockwise from the upper left:

ORCS
Heavy Horse
Heavy Foot
Light Horse

HUMANS
Heavy Foot
Light Horse
Archers
Heavy Horse ImageImage A 300 point battle using vanilla Chainmail and 2mm figures.
Each base represents four figures in a more reasonable scale.
The orc figures are actually wolves, but same difference.

With equal parts foot and horse in the fight, this became a sweeping engagement. Image
Nov 30, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Competitive vs. Co-operative wargames.

Do I really have to choose?

Most games these days are presented as a binary choice, but something tells me there is a lot of room in between those poles for interesting game-play. These are the bad guys from the TV show "24".
Our plucky hero, Jack Bauer, was forced to work with each of them at times.
Even knowing they were opposed to his goals, he found himself co-operating with them in the short term to achieve a long term goal.