Tag Archives: Meeples & Miniatures

In this show hosts Neil Shuck and Mike Hobbs are once again joined by regular podcast listener and sometime gaming opponent Shaun Randall. For the main part of the show we review Saga: Age of Magic from Studio Tomahawk.

00:00 – Introduction -We welcome back Mike after a bout of illness
10:10 – Confessional – Time to own up to all those hobby purchases we have made recently, and to gaze longingly at other shiny toys
48:41 – Our Hobby – We talk about our recent gaming and painting, including UBoot: The Board Game and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3rd Edition
1:29:04- Saga: Age of Magic – We take an in-depth look at this latest expansion to the popular tabletop wargame
2:16:37 – Outtro – Closing thoughts, including a chat about the War of the Worlds Experience.
We hope you enjoy the show.

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In this show host Neil Shuck is joined by regular gaming opponent Dave ‘The Halfling’ Hickman to discuss their recent hobby trials and tribulations. For the main part of the show we review some recent board game releases from PSC Games: Battle Ravens, Quartermaster General: The Cold War and Milito.

00:00 – Introduction -We find out how Neil got into the gaming hobby
06:13 – Confessional – Time to own up to all those hobby purchases we have made recently, and to gaze longingly at other shiny toys
29:19 – Our Hobby – We talk about our recent gaming and painting.
52:34- Snog, Marry, Avoid – We review 3 games from PSC Games and let you know which falls into each category
2:01:19 – Outtro – Closing thoughts.

We hope you enjoy the show.

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In this show hosts Neil Shuck & Mike Hobbs are joined by Patreon backer Neil Hughes. We chat about everything we’ve been up to in the hobby recently, and take an in-depth look at Supersystem.

00:00 – Introduction -We find out how Neil got into the gaming hobby
29:05 – Confessional – Time to own up to all those hobby purchases we have made recently, and to gaze longingly at other shiny toys
1:05:20 – Our Hobby – We talk about our recent gaming and painting.
1:37:35- Supersystem – Neil gives us an in-depth look at Supersystem – ostensibly a ruleset for gaming superheroes, but actually with the scope to do so much more.
2:36:40 – Outtro – Closing thoughts.

We hope you enjoy the show

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In this show hosts Neil Shuck & Mike Hobbs are joined by guest Andy Hobday to catch up on developments with several games systems from Footsore Miniatures, including Gangs of Rome and Mortal Gods.

00:00 – Introduction -We chat about supporting small businesses within the wargaming hobby
11:03 – Confessional – Time to own up to all those hobby purchases we have made recently, and to gaze longingly at other shiny toys
38:20 – Our Hobby – We talk about our recent gaming and painting.
1:09:49 – Footsore chat – Neil & Mike chat to Andy Hobday and catch up with all the latest developments with several games systems, including Mortal Gods, Gangs of Rome, Test of Honour 2 and a new Dark Age game coming from Footsore in 2020. In addition, we discuss with Andy his latest venture – a range of Baron’s War miniatures he is launching via Kickstarter, sculpted by Paul Hicks
2:15:14 – Outtro – Closing thoughts.

We hope you enjoy the show.

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In this show hosts Neil Shuck & Mike Hobbs take some time to answer a recent question from Twitter follower @Dice_Dad about the relative merits of several small sci-fi rule sets designed with smaller scale miniatures in mind

00:00 – Introduction – We chat about The Other Partizan and the recent cold snap there has been in certain parts of social media
30:02 – Confessional – Time to own up to all those hobby purchases we have made recently, and to gaze longingly at other shiny toys
1:09:43 – Our Hobby – We all talk about our recent gaming and painting.
1:34:52 – 6mm Sci-Fi – We give brief reviews of sci-fi rules designed for combined operations – Dirtside, Future War Commander, Horizon Wars and Epic – and discuss their relative merits
2:18:45 – Outtro – Closing thoughts.

We hope you enjoy the show.

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