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Jacob Martin
Written by: Jacob Martin
# Sometimes, the high school education of Australia, as good as it is, leaves you unprepared when entering into the baptism of fire that is tabletop wargaming. You might complain that Warhammer 40,000 con...
September 4th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
# I don't know where this thought started niggling in my brain, but round about the time I turned twenty and a half I started to notice that miniatures do not make the game, and if it is it's rather gimmi...
September 3th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
# Now I know that this isn't exactly a place with incredibly young gamers posting, but it's something to think about when I consider my place as one of the youngest people here. In the comments, feel fre...
August 26th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
# I have an on-and-off relationship with Warhammer 40,000 - it was a game that changed my life and introduced me to science fiction beyond the naive and (sometimes) badly written Star Wars movies. Warhamm...
July 30th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
I submitted an article about Warhammer 40,000 being an epic parody that goes over people's heads, but considering the last Cleaning Out My Closet article had a few factual errors in it, I wanted to do b...
July 27th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
# Warhammer 40,000 might look like a genocidal mess of a game that holds no value in human life, but in reality, it's one of the most subtle parodies of humanity's warlike nature that many miss the joke ...
July 26th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
# Man, I pulled out a small black box of stuff the other day, and boy did it make me feel old. Just looking at these little plastic men on black bases made me reminisce about times gone by, and campaigns ...
July 24th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
"Isn't it ironic?" - Alanis Morrisette There's a certain dread that you find creeps over you when you discover you have become the fashion plate you have mocked for at least a year, the terror as you fi...
July 23th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
I'm slowly discovering... uncomfortable facts about myself. One of those facts is that I'm a bit over-dramatic when I feel stressed out - the pain in my side was from drinking too much coffee - not a bu...
July 13th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
# The Allies mechanic in Magic: The Gathering seemed like a boon for me, since creatures of the similar type could team together and create special ability effects. Too bad in practice that rule is ter...
July 9th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
# It was about one o' clock in the afternoon when the regrets of insomnia set in - I had slept too late yet again and barely managed to budge myself out of bed, shower - and get ready for what I was unpr...
July 8th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
In Sydney as far as hobby gaming is concerned you might as well be in the middle of nowhere - but fear not! There's a few decent game stores around I visit to get my games in person instead of online. Be...
July 1th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
# You may have seen this webcomic from Irregular Webcomic. Here's my response. Monopoly is a controversial game indeed, and it has suffered much slander from BoardGameGeek and even the board game commun...
June 27th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
# Sometimes you get sick and tired of all the generic fantasy games out there - but then comes a game which can only be defined as a "bizarro" game. A bizarro game is the equivalent of experimental avant...
June 25th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
#It was about three o' clock in the afternoon when I decided I would surprise the hipsters at my art school. We were just chilling outside, relaxin' all cool, until I suggested we play Barrel Of Monkeys o...
June 25th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
#For the longest time I reckon I've grown up with video games and board games in equal measures - video games are to my generation what Transformers is to Reagan Babies - it's just something you have to b...
June 17th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
# And here you have it: this video spawned among my gaming buddies a meme called "trollrolling" or "roll with the troll". But what is "trollrolling" in terms of how my gaming group perceives it? Tr...
June 16th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
# I found myself browsing the internet, as I do - and I found out about the Kobo eReader which is available from Angus and Robinson from Australia. Some don't like eBook readers - I used to be one of thos...
May 20th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
# I admit it, I'm a university student - and because of this I have only now realised just how expensive adult life really is. I still have financial security because at only 20 years old I still live wit...
May 16th, 2010
Written by: Jacob Martin
# If you play Magic: The Gathering, you may have noticed that the new rules provided in the intro decks allow for things like creature healing which confuse older Magic players but nonetheless intrigue t...
May 13th, 2010
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