Count me in!

Well I've taken the plunge and ordered one of Alex's excellent modular gaming tables

The first set of tiles I hope to make for it will be something along these lines - for my Lustrian project.

There's 33 more days to go on the campaign and 9 more tables to be sold to make it all happen - spread the word!

So who wants a great table!

Dreamfish, he of the 3rd ed army builder lists and remote gaming has put together an Indiegogo campaign for his modular gaming table design. The campaign is for the frame work that is both table and unique storage system for the modular boards. These you would need to supply yourself.

If you have the time and skill to make the boards, and the albeit small extra room to keep the storage racks I don't think a finer design is out there. Had I the time to make the boards I'd probably be all over this.

More Up and Coming Oldhammer Blogs

Having just had a very nice comment left for me over on my blog (Somewhere the Tea's Getting Cold), I thought I'd repay the favour and mention GoblinLee's excellent new blog here at Oldhammer Central - and yes flattery, along with bribery and corruption are the best ways of getting ahead in this world!

The pictures of his hoards of Slann are worth a look as are the teeming multiudes of Goblins - a promising start indeed!

While I'm here there are a few other mentions I'd like to make - I'm not sure if these chaps' blogs are widely known or have been mentioned previously but I've certainly been enjoying them recently!

Check out the Privates Eternal for some awe inspiring shots of large scale Oldhammer battle - and an eclectic mix of all sorts of other entertaining stuff!

There's a lovely Wood Elf army shaping up nicely over at the Masterwork Guild.

Lots of Chaos-y goodness at the Technicolour Tomb.

Fantastic story telling and miniatures to match at Tales from the Big Board - Mouse, is this a reference to Dr Strangelove by the way as it always makes me think of the War Room featured in the film?

I'm sure there's a few more I could mention who are lurking in my reading list so apologies for any glaring omissions!

Hitting the nail. What is Oldhammer, view two.

Last Hitting the Nail post I refered back to Zhu's post where he coined the phrase Oldhammer. But that isn't to say others were not expressing their own views about old styles of play around the same time so I thought it worth looking at Gaj's exploration of Warhammer for Adults. It has a separate page on his blog but many of you may not have found it yet, this is I belie the second iteration the original appearing some time in 2011:

http://warhammerforadults.blogspot.co.uk/p/why-is-it-called-warhammer-for-adults.html

Again I don't want to summaries Gaj's points, he does that very well himself, give them a read and let Gaj know what you think on his post. Would love to hear from you here too though? Has he got it right, or what's he missing? Next time I'll post a more recent take on the whole shenanigans.

Bring out your lead, Oldhammer day(s) - Amazing Tables.

Being amazing hosts Foundry have had Rob really working hard finishing off a whole load of tables. So far three 6X3 tables have been finished and a  7X7 is in process. Thoughts are even being given to another 20 tables. And its still 5 months till OH-day! Just take a look at these finished table and WIP photos and see if you all agree that these are the perfect balance between modular easy to use and thematic diorama style tables.

With tables like this it makes me realize, I only have 5 months to raise the game of my painted armies to do them justice!

Another Three to Watch.

Continuing on with the theme of pointing out blogs that chime with oldhammer I have another three sites that should form part of every enthusiasts weekly perusal.

We start with a couple of Oldhammer 40K sites:

Classic 40,000

This blog has only been going since the start of the year but has collected a good number of us oldhammerers as followers already. Currently the posts on this site by Ork Lords of Legend are mainly collecting and game history posts including an interesting article by Jervis Johnson from the mid 90s . So far it is all good stuff and OLoL is clearly helping lead the charge for old school 40K but we’d love to see some paint on minis and gaming write-ups!!

Rogue Heresy

Second in our pair of Oldhammer 40K blogs is Jason Fulford’s Rouge Heresy also started in January. Currently this is mainly a painting blog with some cracking paint jobs on some classic RT miniatures. There is some collecting and history bits and pieces dotted about and just the hit of true Oldhammer creeping in with Jason's project for the up coming Realms of Chaos game at Bring out your Lead.

The Boarder Princes

 

This blog has been going a long time and it may be that it is very well known, hard to tell without a follow function. The WHFB content of the blog is however relatively recent starting again in January.

The blog consist of many considered and erudite posts on DnD and as mentioned latterly Oldhammer. Starting with an excellent series of reviews of Oldhammer and its races Evan goes on to look at lethality over editions and Alcoholism. With such scholarly articles I’m certain that Evan will be contributing a great deal to the Oldhammer community.

Oldhammer awards, a good idea?

We are I think officially a community now, we continue to grow with more members of the BLOOD forum each week and more blogs starting on a regular basis. We have an event to look forward to in the summer and people are getting together and having games, either in their local area or across the internet. Indeed as with everything else on the internet our community is world wide. Another thing I’ve noticed is people who don’t necessarily feel they belong within the community are talking about what we are doing, blog and forum posts mention us and link back to us.

Assuming it is desirable to do so how do we as a community promote excellence within the projects, posts and participation that make up our community. Excellence both for our own consumption but also to really fly the flag for passing browsers on the web.

My proposal is simple we give out annual awards. A nomination period would be opened for say a month each year. People and or blogs would be nominated within categories by say at least two people. All nominations after light touch vetting by the organiser(s) (nothing too distasteful allowed no matter how many nominations) would be posted on the BLOOD forum for people to vote upon. The voting could be transparent or possibly kept secret until close of the voting period, I’d suggest a month for this too. The person/blog with the most votes in the given category scoops the award to display on their blog for a year, or if we date them always.

Possible categories that spring to mind:

Oldhammer hero, for promoting the community through their blog and or forum posts.

Oldhammer general, for the best battle report, either through one outstanding contribution or a multitude of them.

Oldhammer wizard, for someone who has really turned the magic on. That one spectacular post that you keep going back to. A catch all category that rewards creative, magic posts.

Oldhammer army. Best post, set of posts about a complete painted collection old or new.

Oldhammer painter, no fancy in game name for this one unless some body can think of one. Awarded to the best post detailing a great paint job or how to.

Oldhammer Cartographer, awarded to the best post or series of posts about terrain construction, map building, you name it.

Oldhammer Historian, awarded to the person who comes up with the goods detailing insider information and or histories of the way we used to play. This could be interviews, detective work on previously mentioned but rare sources or reenactment, replaying the game as it was back then and writing it up.

Oldhammer mentor, who always encourages people on the forum or through their blog to bring out our best?

Oldhammer recruit, best new blog on the scene.

I guess if we gave people a few months to get posted that set of posts they have had in mind for some time it would only be fair. With a month for nominations and a month for voting we could be ready to award these by the time of the Oldhammer weekend and what would be about the anniversary of when we first really got together.