Mike at SBS
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...
Mike at SBS
- Jan 16, 2021
- 2 min
Making Splash Markers
When developing Dreadnought, I became fascinated by splashes...
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Mike at SBS
- Jan 12, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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