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    Lonely Cairn
    Mike at SBS
    • Jan 31, 2021
    • 2 min

    Lonely Cairn

    Above: The early DIY-Lonely Cairn prototype In 1992 I was visiting my local library and checked out a brand new book called Buried in...
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    Making Splash Markers
    Mike at SBS
    • Jan 16, 2021
    • 2 min

    Making Splash Markers

    When developing Dreadnought, I became fascinated by splashes...
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    SBS in 2021
    Mike at SBS
    • Jan 11, 2021
    • 3 min

    SBS in 2021

    It's 2021! We've kicked 2020 to the curb and it's time to press on into 2021! What's that mean for Scary Biscuits Studios? Well, let's...
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    Bomber Boys
    Mike at SBS
    • Dec 8, 2020
    • 2 min

    Bomber Boys

    As an avid fan of aviation history, I first noticed this PNP game in July of this year, called Bomber Boys...
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    Tiny Flags
    Mike at SBS
    • Nov 26, 2020
    • 4 min

    Tiny Flags

    Adding flags and banners is a big part of making ships or rank-and-file troops look the part on the battlefield. Not only do these add...
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    HMGS Round Table Interview
    Mike at SBS
    • Nov 15, 2020
    • 1 min

    HMGS Round Table Interview

    Huge thank you to Mitch Reed at NDNG for hosting me on the HMGS Round Table and letting me drag on a bit about Ironclads...
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    Ironclads: On the Table
    Mike at SBS
    • Oct 27, 2020
    • 3 min

    Ironclads: On the Table

    I ran through a couple of playtests of Ironclads a few weeks ago to test out a few game features...
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    Building Ellet Rams
    Mike at SBS
    • Aug 2, 2020
    • 4 min

    Building Ellet Rams

    After the City-class ironclads, I moved on to the Ellet rams. These were a bit tricky to build. Owing to the civilian origins of Ellet's...
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    Ellet Rams
    Mike at SBS
    • Aug 1, 2020
    • 3 min

    Ellet Rams

    Admittedly, when I started working on Ironclads all I thought about were the coastal ironclads like USS Monitor and CSS Virginia....
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    Unterseeboot
    Mike at SBS
    • May 30, 2020
    • 1 min

    Unterseeboot

    A few weeks ago, I was introduced to a free PNP game, called Unterseeboot...
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    Ironclads
    Mike at SBS
    • Apr 27, 2020
    • 6 min

    Ironclads

    SBS embarks on a new naval wargame project...
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    Battle Report
    Mike at SBS
    • Mar 15, 2020
    • 3 min

    Battle Report

    On Friday, my son Theo and I played a test game for Dreadnought. We each had a dreadnought, battlecruiser, and a light cruiser in our fleets
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    Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips for Designing Games
    Mike at SBS
    • Feb 28, 2020
    • 6 min

    Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips for Designing Games

    Ok, ok, ok... I know Kurt Vonnegut never designed games (to the best of my knowledge, anyway). But he was an exceptional author who knew...
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    Scharnhorst
    Mike at SBS
    • Dec 8, 2019
    • 2 min

    Scharnhorst

    Exactly 105 years ago, on 8 December 1914, Graf von Spee's German East Asian Squadron sailed to the Falkland Islands...
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    Dreadnought: Mini
    Mike at SBS
    • Nov 22, 2019
    • 2 min

    Dreadnought: Mini

    A few months ago I randomly bought a bag of second-hand pieces from the classic boardgame, Battleship. I wasn't quite sure to do with it...
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    Merchant Ships
    Mike at SBS
    • Oct 19, 2019
    • 1 min

    Merchant Ships

    After reading E. Keble Chatterton's The Sea Raiders, I found myself wanting to add some civilian merchant ships to my scratch-built navy.
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    Raid on Zeebrugge
    Mike at SBS
    • Oct 18, 2019
    • 1 min

    Raid on Zeebrugge

    I found this fantastic 1923 recreation of the famous 1918 raid on Zeebrugge.
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    Bremen-class cruisers
    Mike at SBS
    • Oct 4, 2019
    • 4 min

    Bremen-class cruisers

    By the time of the Great War, the seven Bremen light cruisers were already a decade old. However, they saw action across the globe...
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    Destroyers: Weapons of Mass Production
    Mike at SBS
    • Apr 29, 2019
    • 3 min

    Destroyers: Weapons of Mass Production

    One of the more difficult things about my Jutland project was knowing that the "Destroyer Problem" was lurking just under the surface...
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    Scratchbuild Shipwright Tools
    Mike at SBS
    • Mar 31, 2019
    • 4 min

    Scratchbuild Shipwright Tools

    After posting my tutorial on building my 1:1500 scale ships, I got a request to quickly go over the tools that I used...
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