The Beard Bunker

Today's post is brought to you by a desire to have a photo of my entire Empire collection, since until today no such photo existed. As concepts for posts go that's verging on the anaemic, but I like seeing photos of other people's armies, so, er, I'll just go ahead and flop mine out on the table for everyone to see. I call this a collection rather than an army because there are more characters in it than would be practical for use in a single game, even if I were using the whole army. I have six wizards because it's fun to have options, and I have a battle standard bearer for both the Middenheimers and the Hochlanders (although if I'm desperate to use Ms Thiele  whilst also having Kurt hanging out with his greatswords, I designed her so that the banner could be removed from her base ). With no characters included, the units weigh in at about 3,500 points (in 8th ed Warhammer Fantasy). There's then 14 characters, but since you'd never take all...

How do you fix one silly idea? With another silly idea. It's like two wrongs actually making a right. What am I talking about? Well, those of you who've been following our last few posts will know that we're planning a 28mm Inquisitor campaign, among other things. Jeff's idea was that each player would make a warband and a faction of antagonists. In creating their band of antagonists, each player would also write all the background for said nastygribbles, and if/when another player's Inquisitor (or Rogue Trader, or whatever) encountered said antagonists, the player who created them would GM the encounter. To keep it all tied together, everything would be set in the same patch of space, namely, the Cetus sub-sector: The challenge, however, was to create that sandbox without stepping on each other's toes, or writing mutually-exclusive background. There are, you know, reasons why campaigns usually just have the one GM. Surely, this would be an organisa...