Three More Ragged Veterans of the Dark Confederacy
The Dark Confederacy has never been particularly fussy about the men who answer its call. Courage is useful, loyalty even more so, while a clean conscience is probably a positive disadvantage. Among the latest veterans to drift into the company are three men whose reputations were made during the Civil War, when each performed deeds…
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner
Superforecasting is one of those books that takes a subject most of us think we understand and demonstrates how casually we often approach it. Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner examine why some people are consistently better than others at predicting future events and, more importantly, whether the habits that make them successful can be…
The Men Behind the Dead: Reverend Malachi Graves, Quantrill and Mad Bill
The zombies may provide the walking dead for my Dracula’s America Dark Confederacy posse, but every collection of reanimated Confederate corpses needs somebody responsible for the whole dreadful business. In this case that dubious honour belongs to Reverend Malachi Graves, Necromancer of the Dark Confederacy, accompanied by two particularly unpleasant Ragged Veterans, William Quantrill and…
The South Shall Rise Again: The Dark Confederacy Zombies
The first recruits for my Dracula’s America Dark Confederacy posse are four gentlemen for whom recruitment standards have become considerably more relaxed. Being alive, for example, is apparently no longer considered essential. The Dark Confederacy is one of those factions where the background and the miniatures fit together wonderfully. These are Confederate diehards who have…
Tiny Dinosaurs: The Late Cretaceous Completes the Collection
The great dinosaur downsizing programme has finally reached its conclusion. After much painting, tiny terrain construction and the slightly disturbing experience of watching enormous prehistoric monsters shrink before my eyes, the tiny dinosaur collection is now complete. Appropriately, the final three take us into the Late Cretaceous, with Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops and Ankylosaurus joining their…
Victorious 26: Almost Ready to go
Preparations for Victorious 26 are almost complete, and for once I seem to be approaching a convention without discovering at the last minute that something essential is still sitting unpainted on the workbench. The Tiny Dinosaurs are finished, their equally tiny prehistoric world is complete, and everything is ready for some suitably small scale mayhem.…
Another End of Reign: Run Away!
Last night saw another game of End of Reign using Dux Bellorum, this time with my Romans facing Wayne’s Sea Raiders. The Romans lined up with their usual mixture of legionaries, auxiliaries and noble cavalry, while across the field stood the considerably less civilised Sea Raiders, apparently confident that enthusiasm, large weapons and questionable personal…
The Great Dinosaur Shrinkage Begins
The first victims of the Great Dinosaur Downsizing Program have now emerged from the painting table, and I am pleased to report that an Allosaurus, Stegosaurus and Apatosaurus have successfully survived the process. They are considerably smaller than their predecessors, although I suspect none of them are particularly happy about it. Millions of years of…
The Dark Confederacy Posse for Dracula’s America.
After finishing my Church of Dagon posse, I have finally started work on my second Dracula’s America faction, the Dark Confederacy. In my last post on the Dark Confederacy posse I mentioned that I had picked up the Dark Confederacy posse, along with a couple of extra blister packs and Quantrill’s Raiders, all from North…
The Congregation Beneath the Tide
There are places along the coast where sensible men do not linger after sunset. The fishermen know them. They know the coves where the water remains strangely still even when the wind is blowing, the beaches where footprints emerge from the sea but none return, and the lonely settlements where church bells sometimes sound beneath…
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