Fistful of Lead

Fistful of Lead core rule book
from Wiley Games

Fistful of Lead (FFoL) has been on my radar for a while now. I'm not sure exactly when it started, but my first game of it seems to have been a Revolt in Austria run by Jon Lundberg at Historicon 2023. Number One Son and I played in that game and had a lot of fun, although I don't think I was quite convinced about it at the time.

Since then, I've run several public games for unexpectedly large numbers of players. This got me thinking more about which rules were suitable for large numbers of players in games like this, as well as convention games. I ran I Ain't Been Shot Mum for six players, which felt like I was stretching it, and I ran Blood Red Skies for nine players, which it handled well. Thinking back to FFoL, I decided I wanted to try it again, with the idea of me running it in mind.

Thus it was Number One Son and I returned to FFoL at Historicon 2025, playing in Never Easy for Easy Company by Ed Watts.

Wargaming Podcasts

There are more miniature wargaming podcasts than I have time to listen to! Here's a list of ones I'm currently subscribed to. There's a wide variety here and I'm sure you can find something interesting in them.

Any podcast that hasn't published in the last year, I've left off this list. Otherwise, if I've missed any interesting ones, let me know!

The links I've used are a bit all over the place, but you should be able to find these in any podcast app.

Mann Tracht, Un Gott Lacht

Plenty to do, no space to do it in...

"Man plans, and God laughs"

I see that I kept a public queue of my 2013 projects! I thought it might be fun to go through those and see what has happened to them over the last twelve years...

Operation Vengeance: the Assassination of Admiral Yamamoto

Yamamoto escapes at Nashcon

This is my Blood Red Skies (BRS) scenario I ran several times this year (Siege of Augusta, Rocky Top Gaming Convention, and Nashcon, as well as a couple of times locally), based on Operation Vengeance, the assassination of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.

I have had many players new to BRS play in this scenario, and they have a good time, so it seems like a good way to learn the game. And BRS is a blast to play and very suitable for convention play. I have run games with as many as nine players, mostly new to the game, just fine.

Return to Blogging

Yours truly running a game at Nashcon 2025

What have been doing the past 12 years? Why return to blogging now?

I mostly stopped blogging because of the friction of posting, compared to the ease of posting on Instagram. However, I've stopped posting there, too. And I keep finding myself going back to my blog, to reference past projects, remind myself of what I've done, etc... So, I'm taking a stab at blogging again. No guarantees I'll keep at it.