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A Tiny Castle!

Sometimes its fun to just do something simple. A friend of mine runs the 3D printer farm at work and was doing some test prints on an SLS machine. He printed a tiny castle, but didn’t really have a plan for it. We were hanging out and he asked if I wanted it, and, with […]

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UnionCon 2025!

The crisp fall air begins to creep in, the gardens of Maryland are producing their final harvests, and the leaves are just beginning to turn. This is when the gamers of Maryland congregate for that most sacred ritual – UnionCon! Run by the UnionGang, this was the second (hopefully annual) UnionCon on the books. What […]

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UnionCon 2025: Mordheim!

And of course, no UnionCon would be complete without some Mordheim, everyone’s favorite long-dead GW game, brought to you by the great and powerful Broheim (https://broheim.net/). For the uninitiated, this is a fantasy skirmish game set in the ruins of an Imperial city, where warbands scavenge for wyrdstone. It has has been reskinned and reused […]

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Yarr Mateys!

So Gorkamorka was one of those classic 90s boxed GW games I didn’t actually play a lot of (and still haven’t). I think with the high school crew we tried it once or twice with a bunch of proxies (as we did with many other GW games of the time, like BFG and Inquisitor). But […]

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Grimgor Ironhide

Back in the 6th edition Orc and Goblins army book, GW went ahead and introduced Grimgor Ironhide- the new badass orc on the block. Having started playing in the fun and cartoony days of 5th edition, this was a definite turn towards the grimdark and away from Grom the Paunch and the more fun fellows […]

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