My new favorite brushes – Kalish Finest
Michael / Chgowiz Miniatures depend on 4 things – quality of the figure, skills of the painter, the paints they use and the brushes. The first three are worthy of other posts, but…
Gaming
Library D&D – or teaching an old dog new tricks
The big move is complete and the new place is shaping up really nicely. ThePrincessWife and I call this our Dream Home because it really is. I mean, look at…
Hey Chgowiz? Why so quiet? Moving!
It’s summertime! And with the coming of the warm weather (90 degrees already in Chicago? WTF? I thought climate change was a hoax?!?) comes another auspicious day… moving day. Yep,…
Chgowiz goes to GenCon!
Going to GenCon’s 50th anniversary shindig will be amazing! I am running games out of my Entinerra/Dark Ages campaign, and I hope you’ll come join them and say hi! Here’s…
On using a wargames campaign manager – Berthier
So about a year ago, I mentioned how I was starting to move towards using Roll20 to manage my wargaming in my Etinerra campaign world. It was pretty cool, to…
Betrayal at the Border (Chaos Wars Battle Report)
“Marshal always said ‘Trust your fellow Man and little else.’ and sure enough, he was right. Damn Elves! We’d heard reports that a large force from somewhere was moving up…
Storms over the Golden City (Chaos Wars AAR)
“I remember the morning they attacked. It was a quiet morning, nothin’ much ever happens around Nyrana. So we was enjoyin’ a cuppa hot hintea and suddenly horns are blarin’…
Little Wars – Picture Time!
I attended Little Wars on April 28th through 30th in Lombard, Illinois. It’s put on by the folks from the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society Midwest chapter (HMGS-Midwest). I ran two…
My AD&D-lite Morale/Reaction rules
I love wargames and the little bits and pieces that the old school D&D games took from the wargame heritage. One of those is morale. The fact that hirelings can…
Chaos Wars Army Builder Spreadsheet
So I’ve been working on something for a bit – a spreadsheet based Chaos Wars army builder. Given some of the fiddly bits of building armies in Chaos Wars, I…