Oldhammer Blog

Portcullis is a really awesome hobby blog and paper zine run by @echoes.of.battle which has had a lot of really great stuff on there! I was hoping to get a little hobby writeup on the Cult of the Mushroom God in the next physical issue, but since the article was so long he came back […]

Yet another epic 2025 convention! The Nova Open has really grown into a cool cross-genre, cross-game event hosted in DC (interesting historical tidbit, at the very hotel where Regan was shot) that has become a staple of my gaming year. And the number one thing about it that I love is that I can take […]

Week 5 The Grimoire! After the brazen attack of the cultists on the sons of Count Faulkenheim, the city has fallen completely to the warring forces of chaos. The streets run red with blood and green with wrydstone as the forces of Johann and Lothar battle in full blown warfare. City squares are covered in […]

The Lost Prince A week later, the mists clear. Your warband no longer has the cover of the fog to hide its movements. Things are becoming desperate – your band seeks entry into the city again and again, but you run into howling demons or bands of fanatical followers of the von Gottleibs. Your city […]

So this year, I’ve set out to do something I’ve wanted to do every since I was a little kid (at least in Middle School)- enter Golden Demon! I’ve entered several painting competitions at this point, including some really great ones, and I’ve seen a number of Golden Demons, dating back to the old Games […]

The Mists! Demons! Chaos! The city is coming apart: not only is the violence rampant, but servants of Slannesh and Khorne are prowling the streets, killing at will! The city of the damned is becoming a battleground for the forces of chaos. Time is growing short.  In the madness, forces are starting to align- you […]

Hoo boy, what a year! This year I had the good fortune to get out and about, even internationally, to attend a ton of cool cons! For the miniature wargaming and painting community these kinds of events are critical – as a physical hobby with a strong social aspect, people’s gaming and painting reaches a […]

Licking your wounds, counting your coins, your warband plans its next move. The city is worse every day- increasingly there are two factions, those of unbridled hedonisms and those of unrivaled bloodshed. You approach your camp. You find the old veteran. One of the ninety-niners, somehow surviving since the first days of the city’s destruction. […]

It is the year 2007 of the Imperial Calendar. For eight years, the city of Mordheim has been a burnt out husk, full of precious wyrdstone drawing adventurers to their doom with the promise of riches. But for the last few years, the wyrdstone has dried up- warbands risk their lives for a single shard, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]