Hot Blood & Cold Steel

Category: universe

  • Megagame: Invasion from Mars 01

    Invasion from Mars is one of Megagame Makers megagames, designed by Jim Wallman and played in Anerley Town Hall in south London. The Invasion from Mars website has the game rules and the map as well as some background info on the downloads page. I played the part of General Stanley Buck, a loyal and competent…

  • Economics of New Colonies

    I often play in Jim Wallman’s hard SF games set in the universe he’s created. I’ve been thinking about how new colonies get set up and the sort of funding they need. There is a lot of infrastructure required to build a viable colony on a new system. Firstly you need to survey it to…

  • What you missed at the January meeting of CLWG

    The Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group (CLWG) January meeting (Sunday 9th January) was in Jim’s office near Holborn. This one had 14 members in attendance. When I turned up there was a promotion board going on for one of the characters in our long-running Starship Marine campaign (details of the campaign and a history of the…

  • CLWG December 1999

    What you missed at the Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group (CLWG) December 1999 meeting. The CLWG December 1999 meeting started from 12 at John Rutherford’s house and we played until after 9pm. Afterwards we chatted, with the aid of several bottles of wine, until almost midnight. In total we had 13 members at the meeting. It started…

  • Serenity Station Post-Hunt Report

    In character game report of the Serenity Station megagame that I played in on 21 September 1996.