George Barker

❌ Lightning Train
✅ Tracks of Quedlinburg

This is one of the things that really gets to me. I’ve seen so many amazing historians have funding bids shot down because games weren’t seen as viable.

But janky ethically putrid AI? Sure why not!

Boy at the window, holding an ice cream.

Sometimes you have to abandon your friends in the pub because ice cream is calling your name through the window.

Miniature painted model of Ahsoka Tano.

Different angle of a miniature painted model of Ahsoka Tano.

Painting Ahsoka's white lightsabers proved tricky. I know the method is to not paint them white but not sure I quite got it right.

Love the sculpt though with the baggy trousers - any excuse to paint rough cloth. Finished just in time for a #StarWarsLegion balance update and a -30 pts drop!

Three sleeper cell miniatures by Atomic Mass Games kitbashed with clone armour parts.

Three sleeper cell miniatures by Atomic Mass Games kitbashed with clone armour parts.

An Astromech miniature Infront of sleeper cell miniatures kitbashed with clone armour parts.

Latest unit for Legion finished - a sleeper cell of old clones fighting their inhibitors to join the Rebellion.

#StarWarsLegion @atomicmassgames.bsky.social

Having been to UKGE as a volunteer demoer, tournament player and as press - I still wasn't prepared for how exhausted I'd be after working a full show - an awesome experience thanks to a brilliant team.

Checking out the latest board game releases. Heard the Kickstarter extras were crazy, might late pledge.

A PMG x Parabolic Theatre crossover is everything is everything I've ever wanted. Excited to watch this.

✋ VOTING CLOSES TOMORROW @boardgamegeek.com GOLDEN GEEKS: bit.ly/3R4hHyt

- Undaunted 2200: Callisto – Best Wargame...

- Imperium: Horizons – Best Solo Game...

Alongside so many other incredible games!!

🎨 Roland MacDonald

Played Condottiere for the first time in ages last night. Still brilliant and I'm always amazed by the magic trick it pulls - my brain just doesn't register it as an auction game.

4 painted miniatures. L to R: A man in a jacket with a hand on his holstered blaster, a woman yelling into a radio reciever, a man duel welding pistols and a surgical robot holding up a syringe hand.

A group of rebel trooper miniatures - blue and grey fatigues with orange spot colour on autumn foliage bases.

Troopers prepped for a Rebel Army I'm running at a tournament this weekend. One last run of this iteration of @atomicmassgames.bsky.social's SW Legion before their big rules update next week.

Were the product descriptions written by AI?

Ai really ruined April Fool's posts.

For a long time, historians of the home wrongly assumed smoking rooms in stately homes were where men retired for a cigar. When in fact they were an oft-forgotten Paprikash expansion module.

For my leaving do at work, I've pulled the mask off to reveal I'm a board gamer - trying to convince confused colleagues to sit down for Blood on the Clocktower in my final hours next week. The first game to be held in a museum? Probably not. An art museum? Maybe.

He's blond, he's pissed, he'll see you in the lists!

“If the little grey shells are not exercised, they grow the rust”

A painted miniature of Luke Skywalker stood on a rock in a black outfit with a black cloak and hood. One arm is under the cloak, the other ends out a hand holding a green light saber to his side.

Local games store is running a painting competition. Didn't have time to work on a whole squad so painted up Operative Luke from #StarWarsLegion

Nice to practice some OSL - still lots to learn there. Not sure if I've made the saber itself too dark? Let alone working out the right reflection points.

Love and Heartbreak in Georgian London As a second-grader, I despised recess. Not because I enjoyed class — it was boring and tedious, hemmed in by schedules and busywork — but rather because I was lonely. Some people don’t unders…

Molly House is a strange and meaningful beast, at once a celebration of queer love, a critique of imperial power, and a call to solidarity. More than that, it is a game that can't help but be personally meaningful to the lonesome and tired. My review: spacebiff.com/2025/02/12/m...

I think they already made Netrunner.

Board game statistics infographic of the games I played. Star Wars Legion 52 plays Kill Team 2018 12 Plays Kill Team 2024 9 plays Mahjong 6 Plays Longshot the Dice Game 5 Plays Battalion: War of the Ancients 5 Plays General Orders: WW2 5 Plays Pucket: 5 Plays Imperium: Horizons 4 Plays 177 Plays total 59 Games

Stack of board games Ironwood Civolution Voidfall

A good year of board games and 2025 is starting strong with some chunky titles in the queue to review.

Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate

If you protest against the destruction of our planet, you are more likely to be arrested in Britain than anywhere else in the world. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I didn't listen to as much music this year and apparently most of it was a playlist trying to progress from Johnny Cash's Chicken in Black to Florence and the Machine's Hunger.

open.spotify.com/playlist/48o...

Finished of Volkus for #KillTeam, so much detail across this terrain you could paint it forever. Then had some fun attempting a few action shots.

I would say the sweet spot is somewhere between 3 shots in and the point you break the bottle over someone's head the third time they steal your equipment.

It was an odd experience playing it. Felt both very nostalgic for this sort of game (the beautiful grotty art and all the 'take-that' squabbling) while also getting the sense no decisions I made mattered that much. They don't make em like this anymore... but maybe that's for the best?

A board game being played on a coffee table. Cardboard ranks of soldiers face off in battle lines. Also there are bowls of bean stew nearby.

Greatful for friends that will help me test out wargames I'm reviewing. Luring them in with food helps.

Tonight Bean Stew and Battalion.

(Battalion: War of the Ancients by @ospreygames.bsky.social)

He's done! Nice break from what I'm usually working on and the chance to try out some new ideas.

Two painted heads for a plastic miniature mounted on a cork. One has a helmet the other has big muttonchop facial hair.

Mutton chops and mutton chop protectors painted.

The purest battlefield? Final Destination.