Once More Into The Thirteenth: Thousand Sons vs Space Marines

Back on the tellybox - and no paywall this time!

I actually managed to get further than my garden to play against Winters SEO.

How To Play Warhammer Over Skype

I've had a few requests about how we play our games of Warhammer over Skype.

+++ My noosphere is buffering! +++

Since keeping indoors is the current fashion, I hope this is useful to stay-at-home gamers.

Wolf Hunt: Thousand Sons vs Space Wolves

"Once more into the fray. Into the last good fight I'll ever know...

...Live and die on this day. Live and die on this day."

In the Black Midwinters: The Cabal vs The Thirteenth

I'm behind the paywall again!

I don't know whether this is a mark or quality, or being caged up like Quasimodo...

Silver and Gold: Thousand Sons vs Adeptus Custodes and Grey Knights

More televised battle reports - and this one is an absolute monster!

Behind the paywall again, I'm afraid. By access to my boundless screen charisma with worth the shilling.

Televisions of Victory: Thousand Sons vs Blood Angels

February was a busy month for battle reports - I'm back on the telly!

We'll be back after these important messages...

From Behind The Paywall It Rises: Thousand Sons vs Death Guard

Merry Christmas! Here's something to help you sleep off the turkey.

The Thousand Sons return to Swindon!

I'm Ready For My Close Up: Thousand Sons vs Primaris Ultramarines

I've spoken before about how I enjoy wargames on t'telly... well now I'm in one!

Let's play the music, light the lights and meet the muppets!

For Your Viewing Pleasure

It's a rare occasion when the WoofBoot plugs something that we didn't create (we're insular like that), but here's something where we can all come together...

... the telly!

Watching the WarTube

Here’s something I discovered after diving back into Warhammer 40K: there’s a metric ton of video reports out there!

Warhammer Fantasy had some presence, although the rank ‘n flank style seemed equally suited to the written word and flat images. Age of Sigmar is getting some traction, but OH BOY is there a lot of 40k content available.

It's basically watching this for several hours.
Better than the snooker.

But which ones are the TV Times' pick of the week?

Time Commanders - Resurrected!

The most popular post (over 4 views!) of our humble blog is the one that references War Games on The Telly (nice to see those hours of painting eyeballs is going unappreciated).

So when I saw the series had been revived after a decade, I thought I'd take another look at Time Commanders!

I said TIME, damnit!

War Games On t'Telly

No project updates, as I've been busily painting all week (the boring kind, that involves walls and stepping in paint trays). But Kraken's mention of how BBC 2 once tried to make Total War into a viable gameshow got me thinking about the few and failed attempts to put games on the gogglebox.

Game of War

A Channel 4 pilot series. Broadcast in 1997, with the production values of 1970s Open University and the strategic insight of Hungry Hunrgy Hippos.

It was hosted by Angela Rippon, whose main qualification for the job was that she could look directly at the camera and say, clearly and loudly, at the beginning and end of each episode, "It was just ... a GAME of war!"

She didn't even do that thing where she kicks her legs
and sings about facing the music.

The premise of this show was an interesting one (certainly enough to draw in a War Studies undergraduate): two opposing commanders (actual ex-military officers), each supported by a pair of advisers (usually military historians) would re-fight historical battles: Balaklava, Naseby and Waterloo.

To recreate the 'fog of war', each team would be sequestered into different rooms with two different tabletops. They knew where their own armies were moving, but they could only guess (or find out, from reconnaissance, or people shooting at them) where the enemy were.

... because if you're going to recreate history, it's important to be as boring as possible.
And also to wear a tie.

In a central room was Ms Rippon and a third tabletop, where the 'true' battle was taking place. This was monitored by a pair of gamemasters – straight out of geek central casting – who made the decisions, and rolled the dice, and whose word was law.

For they wore the Cardigans of Authority.