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Behold! The steam-powered budgie!
There is a weird piece of music playing in my head, it's Ride of the Valkyries playing on a piano accordian. Why? Because of this:This is a mental contraption, a Dwarf Gyrocopter. It is essentially a...
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More Hochlanders (because yes)
Holy bum grapes, the Beard Bunker is now one year old. And it’s 2013. That sounds suspiciously like the future. An awesome-yet-nightmarish future in which there are only six weeks to go before the...
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Sneaky little Dwarfses
Eyup fellow bunker dwellers, much like Charlie's post this finds me firmly on the home straight of the Dwarfs ready for the (as yet still unnamed) big beard bunker bash - surely there's something in...
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If I had a cannon...
...I'd cannon in the morning, I'd cannon in the evening... No wait, I do have a cannon!I really ought to have seen this coming, I post something Dwarfy and a couple of days later have something else!...
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Five to Beam Down
Hello All, it seems like the bunker has been on a bit of a fantasy binge lately with everyone focusing on getting their campaign armies up to strength. Since I am a cheeky whatshisname and got the...
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Creating your own characters
If you enjoy the narrative element of wargaming, having a story behind a character or unit can genuinely enhance the games in which you use them. I’ve touched on this before when I talked about why I...
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Campaign Week: part one
It's been over a year since the Beard Bunkerettes embarked on their quest for glory. Finally, unavoidably, the finish line is here. Five gamers had a year to build themselves a 2,000 point army, and...
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Campaign Week: part two
In the last post we showed you the Warhammer Fantasy armies we’ve been building over the last year. Today we’ll explain the minimalist way our campaign works, along with the setting and the major...
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Campaign Week: part three
Arr, gather round, ye Beardlings! Here be the third part of the Beard Bunker’s campaign coverage, and now that we’ve shown you the armies and explained the background, style, and characters of the...
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Campaign Week: part four
Something I’ve learned from the first week of campaign play is that the “narrative” in “narrative wargaming campaign” doesn’t come so much from the battles you play, but the little bits of story that...
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Campaign Week: part five
Come one, come all, to this: the final instalment of the narrative that evolved over the course of the Beard Bunker’s Campaign Week. If you’re new here, you might want to start at the beginning, then...
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Meet the Stormbournes
Greetings and salutations Bunker dwellers. Well, 9 days of warhammer with my Dwarfs taught me a thing or two! I thought I'd share what I'd figured out about the units in the Stormbourne Host.General...
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Be thee a sporting gentleperson?
Jeff dropped some truth bombs in his last post. They concerned sporting conduct, and I’d like to elaborate on the theme, not least of which because he wasn’t the only one to have an uncomfortable...
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Lessons from 2012 and ideas for 2013
Last year, the inhabitants of the Beard Bunker challenged themselves to produce a decent Warhammer Fantasy army in a year, and we all succeeded. Um. Well. Some more than others. If anyone's hobby won...
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Inq28 - Welcome to Cetus
You have been told of the Inquisition; that shadowy organisation which defends Mankind and the Emperor from the perils of heresy, possession, alien dominance and rebellion.You have been told the...
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28mm Inquisitor Warband: Drake
Jeff’s last post gave me multiple hobbygasms. The Inquisition is cool, the Cetus sub-sector is cool, the concept of skirmish games is cool. The whole state of play is pretty boss sausage. That being...
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One story, many GMs
How do you fix one silly idea? With another silly idea. It's like two wrongs actually making a right.What am I talking about? Well, those of you who've been following our last few posts will know that...
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Inq28: The Chronicles of Bastian Vandemar - Episode I
Greetings bunker dwellers! Carrying on with the Inq28 excitement I've started writing the back story for my merry warband. Before long, I realised that what I really wanted was to pull an Abnett and...
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Inq28: The Chronicles of Bastian Vandemar - Episode II
In which we meet the treasured inner circle of the Inquisitor. Read episode Ihere. Follow the links beneath the pictures for the painting articles that accompany the models.In common with almost all of...
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Inq28: The Chronicles of Bastian Vandemar - Episode III
In which we conclude Vandemar's introductions with the outer circle of his operational unit. As before, links under the pictures lead to painting articles. Follow these links for Episodes one and...
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