The Beard Bunker

As many of you might be aware, in addition to wargamers, most of us here at the Bunker are also keen roleplayers. Two of us (Charlie and Jeff) seem unhealthily keen as, well, we've made an entire roleplaying game! With the help of over twenty playtesters and big chunks of free time over the last four years, it's finally ready. It's called The Ministry of Extramundane Affairs , and the pre-release version can be downloaded, for free, at our new website: TwoBeard Games . Carry on reading this post to find out some basics about the setting, the rules, and just what we mean by 'pre-release version.' The setting In Ministry  you play a field officer working for the secret government department policing Great Britain's shadow society of paranormal inhabitants. Unbeknownst to the public, every fairy tale, myth, legend, nightmare and half-remembered old wives' tale is real. Just in case that wasn't enough to keep you busy, the story is set in 1941: right...

The recruitment march goes on! Even more Blood Angels scouts are reporting for final training duty with the third company. I've recently bought a tray table for under my sofa and ooooh boy has it increased my painting output as I'm now painting while watching tv or youtube or whatever. That's why there's been a sudden uptick in my posts! These 15 models bring to a close the infantry component of the scout contingent and it's starting to look rather delightful. The 10 bolter-armed scouts and 5 close combat chaps round out the long/medium/short design of the contingent. A third of it covers the advance, a third holds objectives and provides mid ranged fire support and the last third assaults strongpoints and deals with close contact. These will be bolstered eventually by a pair of Land Speeder Storms to carry the close combat and shotgun squads and a unit of scout bikes. All of these are being led by Scout Sgt-at-Arms Raduriel (Telion) who is currently on my...

There is a rumour, that somewhere amongst the savage forces of Warlord Skumrenda are an elite force. Selected from the kunnin'est and the killiest nobz to be the best of the best of the best of the... something. They are the Speshul Ork Service and they mean business: I'd been meaning to make something like this unit from the moment I started to collect Blood Axes, a special forces unit of orks full of Dakka and punching. Eventually they will be riding in their own Chinork transport but I've yet to settle on how I want to make it. For now, they'll ride in the Battlewagon. Some might be looking at the weapons choices and cocking an eyebrow but these are no normal shootas. Oh no. These are kustom shootas and this unit alone can kick out 40 assault shots a turn... Of course, it wouldn't be Orks without some close combat punch to back up da dakka so there's a couple of power klaws, a killsaw and a big choppa among their number to deal with tricksy targets i...

Greetings! My grind toward having my own slice of the Blood Angels 10th company continues and this time they're even sneakier... pictured here, a blank white wall... Yup, it's scout sniper time. With their camo cloaks, these at least look like they can conceal themselves more completely for relatively close-range recon and fire support. I've had these models for ages, almost aeons, um, I might even have bought them and assembled them when they first came out ... I dread to think when that was. But, they are finally, finally out of the to-be-painted pile and we can thus talk about them! The scouts are painted in the same way as the last lot so I won't belabour that point too much. I needed to do some extra work on highlighting the guns as they take up a huge amount of real estate on the models. Something to notice in the picture above is that I didn't realise until too late that the transfers (thank gods only on four this time) I was using was from two...

We are all nerds. As nerds we take an interest in various different subjects. The one we share in common is war gaming. However, as fully rounded and well adjusted nerds we have interests outside of the war gaming sphere. This could be LARPing, video games, sports (yes sports, if you can name the winner of every FA cup final for the last 10 years you are a sports nerd), model horses, books, etc etc. One of my non-war gaming nerd streams is aircraft. I really do love aircraft and I have done since I was a child. As a child I attempted to make little model kits of aircraft, badly. As I was a child, I knew neither patience nor skill, but I can still remember the smell of the plastic glue and enamel paints (with which I used to ruin many paint brushes) and the joy a finished model can bring. Now that I am a adult I felt it was time to rekindle this hobby and start making aircraft kits again, this time doing them the justice that the nine year old me could not. I have learnt a great ma...