Hitherto unknown to science!
`Hoenir stood on the frozen ground with the other youths of the tribe, listening to his father speak. “Fight with the shield.” He said. “Kill with the sword.” Hoenir was clutching both items, the shield one of the many battered examples his tribe had for the training of the drengir, the sword was new, and […]
9th is upon us! The Rulesmiths have unleashed their latest creation, and across the world happy gamers skip happily to war. I was not fortunate enough to get a pre-order of Indomitus (I was down at Butser Ancient Farm pretending to be an Anglo-Saxon of the 9th century), but I have taken advantage of the […]
I have always admired painters with large armies. Aside from looking impressive, a large army is a testament to the creator’s commitment to their vision, planning skills in selecting a colour scheme that can be replicated across a vast range of models, and patience in carefully applying that scheme to dozens, often hundreds of models. […]
When I first got into the Warhammer 40k hobby in the twilight months of 7ed, I started with a force of Bad Moonz. In hindsight, this was a terrible decision. I wasn’t able to paint them to a standard that I was happy with and spent the few games that I played getting shot off […]
Welcome to Disordered Retreat – a blog created for the express purpose of collecting our hobby-related rambling. Some say that, if you arrange the posts into a chronological order, the result will closely resemble a recollection of our hobby journey. The most interesting aspect of the hobby for me personally is the narrative – intentional […]