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Mike at SBS
Jul 10, 20214 min read
Designing a Game: Part 1 - The Core Fantasy
July marks the start of the 2021 Solitaire Print-and-Play Game Contest on Board Game Geek. Last year I entered my Ironclads game in a...
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Mike at SBS
Jun 20, 20211 min read
Juneteenth 2021
This 19 June 2021 marks the long overdue first officially recognized Juneteenth. This holiday marks the end of slavery in the United...
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Mike at SBS
Jun 13, 20212 min read
Building Mortar Boats
One of the interesting little innovations of the US Navy during the Civil War was the mortar boats (sometimes called rafts). These were...
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Mike at SBS
Mar 16, 20212 min read
Building Erebus & Terror
A big part of my inspiration to finally make Lonely Cairn came from my little scratchbuild project to make HMS Erebus and Terror. After...
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Mike at SBS
Jan 31, 20212 min read
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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Mike at SBS
Jan 16, 20212 min read
Making Splash Markers
When developing Dreadnought, I became fascinated by splashes...
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Mike at SBS
Jan 12, 20213 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20201 min read
Unterseeboot
A few weeks ago, I was introduced to a free PNP game, called Unterseeboot...
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Mike at SBS
Apr 27, 20206 min read
Ironclads
SBS embarks on a new naval wargame project...
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Mike at SBS
Mar 15, 20203 min read
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, 20206 min read
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, 20192 min read
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, 20192 min read
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, 20191 min read
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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