Melbourne to Melbourne: Five Hours to Get Nowhere
Our nine-hour flight to Thailand was reduced to just five hours. Incredible, I thought. Finally, an airline exceeding expectations. Unfortunately, our departure city and our arrival city were both Melbourne. We’d boarded with dreams of tropical beaches, cocktails and affordable massages. Five hours later, we were back where we started, having enjoyed a very expensive…
Retirement? Not Quite Standing Still
Maree and I have never been ones to stand still, and entering retirement has certainly been no different. Today we are off to Thailand for the next little step in what is becoming a new chapter in our lives. The main purpose of this trip is to conduct a final check on the build of…
Voices of the Bayou: A Houngan and Arcanist of the Congregation
Étienne and Mathieu Baptiste may be the Vessels through whom the Loa most dramatically make their presence known, but they are not the only members of the Congregation capable of drawing upon supernatural power. The struggle against the Dark Confederacy requires people who understand the forces operating beyond the mortal world and, when necessary, are…
Guns of the Bayou: Two Pistol-men of the Congregation
The Congregation continues to grow around its supernatural core, but most of those answering the call of the Baptiste brothers remain ordinary men and women who rely upon gunpowder rather than Arcane Power. The musketmen and riflemen provide fire from a distance, while others prefer the mobility and simplicity of a pistol when fighting through…
Long Guns of the Bayou: Two Riflemen of the Congregation
The Congregation may draw much of its strength from the Loa, but supernatural power alone will not stop every enemy that comes through the Louisiana bayou. Alongside its Vessels, Houngan and Arcanists are ordinary men carrying considerably more conventional weapons, and among the most useful are those who know how to put a rifle bullet…
Old Guns of the Bayou: Two Musketmen of the Congregation
Not everyone who follows the Congregation speaks with the Loa, practises Voodoo ceremonies or understands the increasingly complicated discussions between the Houngan and Arcanists. Some are ordinary men who have seen what the Dark Confederacy is doing to the Free South and have decided that something needs to be done about it. They bring whatever…
Already Returned: Two More Zombies for the Congregation
The Congregation’s campaign rules allow fallen members to return as Zombies, which gives plenty of opportunity for characters to develop their own stories before the Loa decide that death is not quite the end of their service. A one off game presents a slightly different situation. Zombies can be purchased as part of the initial…
War Among the People
Most accounts of Australia in the Second World War are understandably dominated by the major campaigns. Singapore, Kokoda, Milne Bay, Buna, the fighting in New Guinea and the final campaigns of 1945 provide a familiar framework for understanding Australia’s war against Japan. There was, however, another war taking place beyond these conventional battlefields. It was…
Not Finished Yet: The Zombies of the Congregation
There is a certain irony in the Congregation dedicating itself to opposing the necromancy of the Dark Confederacy while occasionally marching into battle accompanied by Zombies of its own. To an outsider there may appear to be little difference between the walking dead serving Lucien Saint Clair and those fighting beside Étienne and Mathieu Baptiste.…
1945: The Reckoning: War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World
There is no shortage of books about 1945. Most understandably concentrate upon the destruction of Nazi Germany, the battles for Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the atomic bombs, the Soviet entry into the war against Japan and the eventual Japanese surrender. Phil Craig takes a rather different approach in 1945: The Reckoning. His concern is less…
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