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Terran Alliance MkII Cruisers – A Review
A slight change of pace from my more recent Spartan Games reviews. This time the Terran Alliance get my attentions and they’re rather lovely looking Hermes Class MkII Cruisers. The MkI Sentinel Class...
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Firestorm Armada Previews
Not content with dangling a fleet of awesome for Dystopian Wars, I’m also showing off some images of new releases for Firestorm Armada. The Dindrenzi and Terran carriers are both getting a badly needed...
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Painting my Sorylians
No, I haven’t been replaced by an imposter, I just have an urge to paint my Sorylians. The problem I have is I don’t know what colour scheme I want to paint them in. There’s no shortage of colour...
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Studio Sparta
The second bit of big news is the launch of Studio Sparta. Much like the Specialist Games range from the Games Workshop – only with support – Studio Sparta will be rolling out models and games that...
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Firestorm Invasion Unit Run Down
So excited am I about Firestorm Invasion that I’ve decided to rob the unit lists from the Studio Sparta website and share them with you. If you haven’t had a look at this game yet then I strongly urge...
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The Spartan Age
It gives me great pleasure to present to you the first Shell Case Contributor article. So without further a do, Chris offers up his thoughts on the recent rash of news from Spartan and it’s impact on...
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Sorylian Destroyers – A Review
It’s been a little while since I gave Firestorm Armada some love and as James Wilson of Political Dice (@ChairmanAsheth) got me some Kestros Class Destroyers as a thank you for doing his blog banner it...
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Firestorm Invasion – A Review
It didn’t seem all that long ago that Studio Sparta and with it Firestorm Invasion, the first in a series of ground war games set in the Firestorm Armada universe was announced and here it is out...
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Of Dice & Men – Episode 2
It’s here, episode 2! Now with 200% more content! In episode 2 of Of Dice & Men the team talk about their hobby, wargaming blogs that have caught their eye and the importance of background in the...
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The Future of Spartan
This Christmas I was very lucky to get a huge Terran Alliance fleet for Firestorm Armada from my folks, and some Covenant cruisers to make my fleet for Dystopian Wars even bigger. As I sat filing,...
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New Firestorm Armada Fleets
It’s been a long time since I had anything to say about Spartan Games. I almost put fingers to keyboard when I saw them releasing a range of HDF scenery for 28mm sci-fi games when they don’t have a...
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Ryushi Previews for Firestorm Armada
I don’t know. I say nothing about Spartan Games for months and now they’re practically all I talk about. Well, not really but still. The Ryushi are on their way and my goodness me they look a little...
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Marauders of the Rift – A Review
Another day, another review. And this time I look at the Firestorm Armada supplement, Marauders of the Rift. There are two things that stand out most on first impressions. 1. The cover is reminiscent...
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Firestorm Armada Second Edition
After a very long wait and no shortage of pissing and moaning I’m pleased to announce that the start of Spartan Games’ second edition rules are starting to come out. First up is Firestorm Armada....
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Firestorm Invading at Last?
Almost a year ago I reviewed a starter set for the Studio Sparta game Firestorm Invasion: Planetfall. I enthused about what had the potential to expand on the Firestorm Armada universe and finally...
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How to Breach Hulls and Influence People
The other week Spartan Games released new free PDF downloads of the Six core Fleet Manuals for version 2.0 of Firestorm Armada. Having had a look through the new files, I’m quite impressed, and there...
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#TheVoxmanPledge 2014
In between recording podcasts and working in real life, I often get into lengthy conversations about miniature wargames on Twitter (My handle is @ATT64 if you wanna say hi). The other day I made an...
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It’s all for the Greater Good
We are coming up to my anniversary. That’s right its been nearly a year since my re-insertion into the hobby. Which I imagine to be a bit like being reinserted into the Matrix but a lot less sinister...
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Gone But Not Forgotten
Some of you may be aware that I have been on sabbatical/hiatus/break/time out whatever you want to call it. I have been taking some personal time or rather dealing with real life which generally...
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Gamers Gonna Game
It’s that time of year again when the Games Workshop releases their financials and the community explodes with rumours that they’re going under, that Hasbro will buy them out, that they’re woefully out...
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