The Oldhammer Fiction Podcast

I attribute some info to Lost and the Damned in the outro to this. It actually came from the document that Rick Priestly wrote for the warhammer authors

Me and @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social played it at Bring Out Your Lead last year and had a great time- its quite cinematic and strategic...But it takes ages and you cannot imagine a worse bridging games between MBs Space Crusade and wargaming proper.

I made an image for the poster for this Norse Myths play im doing and a student made an image too and i like both so we're going to run a radically wide ranging advertising campaign that stretches from "horse skull in cloth that might be landscape" to "fey manga inflected Ymir"

They had one little moment in that commentary where one of them was like "i suppose we are all English..."

Drop something YELLOW!

Post saying- does anyone else think its super weird to be calling children adults? Referring to anyone under the age of 18 as a "young adult" sounds a lot like saying "underage woman". Maybe if we didnt market things to 12 year olds by calling them adults, we wouldn't have people thinking stuff like this is okay?

Someone saying "exactly mu point. Why can't it be called teen fiction? And then young adult is like 18-26

I see we're trying to make the term Young Adult (as in fiction) problematic with a side of "young adult" should be books for 18-26 year olds....

You could have done a PhD on James Joyce by the time you're 26.

This is all to do with people saying a young adult book has necrophilia in it.

The Taiping Rebellion shows both the strengths of the Gaokao (anyone from around the country can partake and succeed) and the weaknesses (it can't test for soft skills, like having the interpersonal charisma to convince hundreds of thousands that you're the brother of Jesus Christ)

Being dyslexic is great because I initially thought this email was about these guys.

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Episode 66 of my podcast of readings and analysis of the late 80s and early 90s Warhammer fiction is now up - This month we go under the knife and learn deep lore the second part of the second Inquisitor novel- Harlequin
open.spotify.com/episode/2Oby...

Also the important Welsh skill of winding up an opposition prop so much he looks like he's going to have an embolism is back on show.

I left this yoghurt in the airing cupboard about 20 years ago, it tasted pretty good back then so im assuming it will still be delicious....

This book is fromwhen I had got out of playing warhammer got back into playing warhammer and then got back out again....and it's still being covered by a warhammer history channel.

People living in Dubai are a sort of 21st century International Brigade but with the communism being replaced by having really white teeth.

Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

They should get LLM based on dead AI boosters.

But there arent any dead AI boosters

Not yet, but if they carry on with this shit....

Works been a bit manic this week but the next episode of the podcast is on its way....look forward to coverage of "whats wrong with planetary governors", nude squats in the vein of Le Carre and the cross over point between 1st and 2nd ed 40k.

And the system was one where you hit a model with the same WS on a 5+. So it was really quite hard to beat.

Killed in a war named like DLC for an arcade brawler.

The town 1,500 living residents and 1,500,00 dead residents is willing a Wraith the Oblivion source book into existence just by describing it.

Instead of being shocked at how few of the English are dead, shocked at how few of my high quality posts have taken off.

Gorton and Denton could be one of those two model character units from Warmachine.

Twink, Bear, Muscle Queen, Truman Capote.

Lots of aspects of Mussolini's final days are funny. Not least the bit who has spent 20 years putting his face on everything tries to disguise himself by wearing a hat.

Allegedly Mussolini's last words were "shoot me in the heart" to the partisan firing squad sent to execute him, and I have always thought that, under the circumstances, the funny thing to do would have been to instead shoot him right in the penis.

Yep. He's talking about the coinage and also what Einhard says about him.

If anything was going to get me to play modern 40k, it would be the idea of just playing little games of combat patrol.

I think im remembering that quote right....im doubting myself now.

Anyway- Roger Collins says Chalremagne looked like Obelix and that is also good and there should be more of that type of thing from academics.

Its sort of a joke! A joke that ellucidates!

The article "plunder and tribute in the carolingian empire" by Rueter is a key text on the carolingians,and one of the reasons its so good is that it explains the shift to a tribute system as conquered territories being "invited to plunder themselves" which is just a banging way of explaining it.