My heartbreak and sorrow for the civilians in Ukraine is quickly turning to anger as I see the footage come in of the attacks on the innocent. I wish there was more that I could do.
My charity auction for the Save the Children Fund in Ukraine is live for two more days. All proceeds…
My heart breaks for the people of Ukraine, and most especially for the terribly vulnerable children who are in the middle of this crisis. I am auctioning off three of my most prized models from my collection, all painted by me. 100% of the proceeds will go to the Save the Children Foundation.
The…
I, like so many around the world, have been horrified and devastated by the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Although I hold a degree in political science and international relations, I do not claim to be an expert in the intricacies of this war or any war. I am, like so many fellow gamers,…
Should hobbies be a luxury? This is the question that seems to be coming up more and more as various game companies (Games Workshop, we're looking at you) are raising their prices--prices that were already very high to begin with. When something is a luxury good (no one can deny that Games Workshop is the…
Female Space Marines? Let's be civil.
Let's start this conversation right up here at the front with the clear caveat that we all (I hope) are rational adults who can behave in a civil society. I know that's a steep ask in some realms of fandom, but I also know that it's a perfectly fine…
We recently hit some pretty significant milestones in the size of the website, so I thought that it would be nice to recap where The Wargame Explorer has been, what we have achieved, what we're currently working on, and where we plan to go for the rest of 2022.
Where Have We Come Since We Launched?…
2022 Hobby Goals: The Ovelist
I have been wanting to post my 2022 Hobby Goals and had kind of an amorphous list of them floating around in my head, but this morning one of my favorite YouTubers, Arbitor Ian, described something called The Ovelist. The Ovelist is a pictorial list of all of your goals…
Games Workshop Half-Annual Report: Good News or Bad?
Games Workshop has released a preview of their next half-annual report and the numbers are, well, mixed. And whether or not you see this as a good thing or a bad thing depends very much on 1) how you interpret the numbers, and 2) whether you want…
2021 has been a heck of year, no matter where you live. The year that was supposed to solve all of 2020's problems has seemed to just drag on and on with a never-quite-back-to-normal grind. But that doesn't mean that the entire year was bleak. There were quite a few things that I enjoyed about…