Dr. Matt Lee (mattl)

Web standards, accessibility, free/open source software, old UNIX/TV/Music and occasional wargaming

Mantic Elite and the quest for Space Dwarves (2012)

As mentioned previously, I have a Mantic Corporation army due in the next few weeks. This is the first of three packages from Mantic as part of their first ‘Elite’ subscription. In the next three months, I will receive: 1. Corporation Army and General 2. Project Pandora: Grim Cargo, the first space-themed dungeon crawler from Mantic 3. Veer-myn Army and GeneralThe Veer-myn are a new race to Sci-fi gaming — Space Rats, whereas the Corporation are fairly standard Humans with big guns, hell

Recent miniature painting (2012)

Last weekend saw the 25th anniversary of Warhammer 40k, a game I have never played and have little interest in the game in its current state. However, 25 years ago, Warhammer 40k was a very different game (then called Rogue Trader, with the Warhammer 40,000 name bolted on later) — largely compatible with Warhammer itself.Rob Myers often talks of these days as being quite awesome, and over the summer while waiting for Mantic’s Warpath game to be released, I spent some time and energy picking s