Fistful of Lead News

In honor of one of my favorite holidays, I hosted a series of Star Wars games last Saturday. The first was a Fistful of Lead: Galactic Heroes game, and the second Fistful of Lead Starfighters! game. The first game had Rebel leaders having a clandestine meeting on Covid Prime. Which of course was detected by the Empire which dispatched forces to capture them.  All was looking good for the Imperial Forces (me) until those Rebel scum slowly got the upper hand, mostly due to poor shooting from the Stormtroopers (who'd have guessed that).  First one, then in a contested hand to...

As some of you may know we released Arena of Blood last year and it turned out to be more versatile than I hoped. After a few historical tournaments, I started running The Great Goblin Games. An Olympic style day of different games between the goblin tribes to decide who would be the best tribe and making their chief the Great Goblin.  There was a Wolf Chariot race, a joust, Squig Tickling, a Doom Diver distance contest and finally a gladiatorial match. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I simply matched existing Gladiator types to fantasy creatures. A heavily armored Murmillo...

The Wiley Games Fistful of Lead: Fantasy books are the most underrated and underused titles we have.  “Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of.” A lot of games out there force you into specific builds like Wizard, Apprentice and Henchmen, or factions. Fistful of Lead Fantasy lets you build your Retinue the way you want. Want the classic Barbarian, Wizard, Cleric Thief group? You got it. Want an all monster group, or thieves or undead? These rules are for you. Check out these valuable resources...

How cute are these guys? I saw them on KMFP_Designs on Myminifactory and had to find a use for them. Those bases are 25m to give you scale. After I printed them, I mounted them on a 25mm base and gave them a base coat of grey primer. Next was a layer of Contrast Militarum Green. And you can't just do contrast and call it done. Sorry you can't. I hit the green areas with a drybrush of Valleji Golden Olive to make those details POP. And some contarst on the barrel. For the basing I use an acrylic textured...

Working on some more modern games for Fistful of Lead, but I wanted to be more in line with Imagi-Nations. What's Imagi-Nations? It's using historical troops in a fictional setting. It really started with wargamers using early 18th century troops in made up campaigns taking place in small fictional (usually Germanic) countries. Players could use their painted armies and fight other opponents regardless of whether those armies fought in "real life". My own campaign in Unkerlant was a blast to come up with and play. It's since spread to other periods like Napoleonics and Medieval, but I've always been fascinated...