There are few mundane statements that can put fear into your soul like an email from Evri saying "We have your parcel"

So I signed up for the UK Export Agency last year when GPSR hit, and I've been to a few of the webinars since and by goodness they make me weep for this country. Spin the wheel of: - Is it a pitch for an expensive consultancy service? - Is it a pitch for "ask chatGPT and pray" - Is it both?

You’ve just died and the 6th photo in your phone is what killed you Well it’s fitting at least

Hate doing this, because everyone is skint, but Oz is the only important thing in my life and I'm too broke to cover his additional surgery. If you'd like to help, please use OZVET20 at checkout on fenrisgames.com/shop for a nice discount or ko-fi.com/fenrisgames if you don't need toys. Thankyou 💔

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity. We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

Orktober is coming to an end, but the Stompa is nearly done. Needs some final detailing but most of everything has colour on it and the rust is basically done here. #paintingWarhammer #warhammerCommunity #nerdlings

I love this. If you live anywhere in the dark blue areas, you are closer to outer space (defined by the Kármán line) than you are to the nearest seashore. 🧪

I've been cranking out #gce releases for #gorkamorka this month, in addition to doing eight hundred other things, working full time, and looking after a baby. The goal is to have these rulebooks to a really healthy state so I can ignore them for a few years. Time will tell...

Just in time for Payday and the approaching end of the Year - LOADS more Otherworld remasters and re-releases, including some never produced before! Bundle deals and early adopter prices on several of these which are *almost* all Paul Muller sculpts. Fill your baskets here!

improbable.solutions/2025/10/25/y... Vocat Cataegis, my reaver titan, took two hundred hours and several months of my life. The process is documented as fully as I can in this blog post. I think you'd enjoy it. #warhammerCommunity #nerdlings #horusHeresy #paintingMiniatures #adeptusTitanicus

improbable.solutions/2025/10/25/y... Vocat Cataegis, my reaver titan, took two hundred hours and several months of my life. The process is documented as fully as I can in this blog post. I think you'd enjoy it. #warhammerCommunity #nerdlings #horusHeresy #paintingMiniatures #adeptusTitanicus

improbable.solutions/2025/10/24/d... In 2023 I wrote a game called The Spade War, and publishers told me they loved the idea but they'd never publish it because it required people to build trenches. Recent thoughts about game design made me want to write a little about it, so here it is.

An idea for a "how to design a wargame" blog post has been rolling around my head for a while now, but part of the problem is last time I started, I added a joke "Step 1: Don't" intro and actually, like the best jokes and lies, it's got an uncomfortable kernel of truth to it.

Orktober rumbles on and the stompa build is complete! I've replaced the chainsaw with a circular saw, added a belly gun, extended the gun arm, replaced the jaw and shoulder turret. THE DREAD STOMPA WALKS. #nerdlings #warhammerCommunity #paintingMiniatures #orktober

Last night brought this current season of Runequest with @shinygames.uk to close with the following message: doesn't matter how "advanced" a god learner thinks he is, an angry orlanthi with a sword is still going to cut his head off.

We're excited to announce that TANKHEAD Plastic Model Kits are finally coming! We've partnered up with model kit makers Bellfine for this effort, who will reveal the first 3D printed prototype at the All Japan Model & Hobby Show this weekend.

I don't really shout about the work I do on the #gorkamorka project GCE but perhaps I should. It's essentially an open source reimplementation of the game with some quality of life fixes and universality changes (for example the additional rules for the base game have to be loaded down with […]

fuck off with this shit you racist cunts. i forgot the word "tumbledryer" the other day so i called it a tumbley bumbley and english is my only fucking language. abolish the home office.

It is Orktober and that can mean one thing and one thing only. STOMPA #paintingWarhammer #warhammerCommunity #warhammer40k #nerdlings

Youtube has been recommending me a new video titled "How did the world get so ugly" for the last few days and I finally watched it over lunch. Beautifully filmed reactionary coswollop that refuses to engage with why things changed in exchange for just going "why victorians so good?"

The thallax are here to help. Please stop screaming, they're very friendly. #paintingMiniatures #horusHeresy #warhammerCommunity #nerdlings

So I feel like I gave the new "AI complete" in @pycharm.dev a good shake, but over half of the suggestions it made were straight up wrong, and the best I can say of the times it wasn't just flat out wrong was that it saved me from needing to use the regular autocomplete a few times.

So I'm about halfway through the layout for Hypersteel Meatgrinder (infantry expansion to hypersteelnightmare.com) and as is inevitable, my mind is cast to the next proper project. I really want to make Able Artemis, my Cold War Gone Hot On the Moon wargame/alternate history. 🧵

2010: The Year We Made Contact About Your Extended Warranty

So I'm about halfway through the layout for Hypersteel Meatgrinder (infantry expansion to hypersteelnightmare.com) and as is inevitable, my mind is cast to the next proper project. I really want to make Able Artemis, my Cold War Gone Hot On the Moon wargame/alternate history. 🧵

Robots you say?

I thought I was prepared for how long this would take. I was wrong. picrew.me/image_maker/...

Behold, Vocat Cataegis. My full scale reaver titan. The work of months, I tried today to get some decent photos of it, but goodness it's hard. So please enjoy this 360 turnaround. #nerdlings #paintingMiniatures #adeptusTitanicus #warhammerCommunity #horusHeresy #yesThatIsAnEntireKnightOnTheBase

I have nearly finished my work on Vocat Cataegis, my full scale reaver titan. In the process of building it I’ve taken nearly 150 photos. Tomorrow is photo day for the titan, but I hope you might enjoy this peak into the construction process. #nerdlings #warhammerCommunity #paintingMiniatures

I painted these prototype Compact tanks for Hypersteel Nightmare (still on the docket for production, the last few months have been rough) #nerdlings #findFolkFriday #paintingMiniatures #hypersteelNightmare

Escutcheon of Charles V of Spain https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12075

DOOMSPIRALL www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...

So Royal Mail have finally started to charge for collections again, which on the one hand is fair. And it's only 30p, but the fact they do it in a separate transaction means if I'm only shipping one thing, surely it's costing them more to charge me than they're getting.

“Nothing is inevitable” – @cj.shearwood.games #PyConUK

It is day one of @pyconuk.org and I’m very excited to get started with the first day of talks. And more than a little nervous about my own talk at 4:30 on the main stage. Feedback from the rehearsals has been good, although both groups did point out that I can’t call Manchester the Midlands.

Always lovely to see Hypersteel Nightmare in the wild. Ever wanted a breakdown of how the game works? Listen here:

Vocat Cataegis (my reaver titan) is almost complete. There's still a few minor details here and there as well as the base left to finish. I feel like the base maybe needs something more though. What do you think? #warhammerCommunity #paintingWarhammer #horusHeresy #nerdlings #adeptusTitanicus

Vocat Cataegis (my reaver titan) is almost complete. There's still a few minor details here and there as well as the base left to finish. I feel like the base maybe needs something more though. What do you think? #warhammerCommunity #paintingWarhammer #horusHeresy #nerdlings #adeptusTitanicus

Vocat Cataegis is nearing completion! I'm not going to have her finished for the weekend, but it's geting very exciting. #paintingWarhammer #horusHeresy #nerdlings #warhammerCommunity #miniatures #paintingMiniatures

Another "where's the AI code?" question: where's the shovelware? If AI coding is so hot, we should be seeing a flood of crappy little apps, and we aren't. mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the... note this post is from a huge AI bro too

Continuing work on my reaver titan Vocat Cataegis. Spent last night working on the top plate and rendering out all the details here, but still need to write the titan's name on the scrollwork. #paintingWarhammer #horusHeresy #warhammerCommunity #nerdlings #paintingMiniatures

(To the tune of Modern Major General) 🎶 He is the very model of a mini wargames general, He's miniatures of plastic, resin and of old cast white metal. He knows the forms of warhammer and can quote the rules historical, From Marathon to Anvillus, in any scale imaginable, 🧵

Vocat Cataegis might not be walking yet, but her cockpit is nearly done. #warhammerCommunity #nerdlings #paintingMiniatures #adeptusTitanicus

Vocat Cataegis might not be walking yet, but her cockpit is nearly done. #warhammerCommunity #nerdlings #paintingMiniatures #adeptusTitanicus

To celebrate Hypersteel Nightmare being available on Wargames Vault, the PDF is 20% off for the rest of August www.wargamevault.com/product/5328... or hypersteelnightmare.com/product/hype...

It is desperately unfair that I really want a cup of tea, but I know that if I drink a cup of tea that I will either catch fire or melt. Or both.

hypersteelnightmare.com/2025/08/13/g... Are you interested in Hypersteel Nightmare but maybe don't know where to start? Our new How To guide will give you everything you need to know to get started.

With Hypersteel Meatgrinder about to enter layout, we'll be looking for review outlets for it, and for the core game Hypersteel Nightmre. If you are interested, email us at [email protected] or reach out here on Bsky and we'll see if we can make something work. #wargames #indie #miniatures

I'm still very proud of Hypersteel Nightmare, and the new infantry expansion is due out later this year, and so there's never been a better time to get started with tiny tank (and mech, and plane) combat.