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Introducing: War Horses Tabletop Skirmish Game

Hey guys! I've been working on a side project as a companion to my War Horses series. I love tabletop war gaming, miniature painting, and 3d modeling/printing, so I thought I'd try my hand at combining these to make a version of War Horses playable on the tabletop. The result is War Horses TSG. This is an always-free digital ruleset that I will be developing and updating in my spare time. Where the future may take it? Who knows? But it's at a stage where I'm comfortable with people getting th...

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MBGSP chpt 165-167

Hey everyone! Just as a reminder, I'll be taking a 2 week break from updates starting this week as the story on Royal Road just hit the end of the penultimate arc.

I also wanted to let people know that preorders for all 3 formats are now available. Kindle and Paperback through Amazon, and Audio through Audible. I've put a link to the audio book above. Mary Cruz did a great job with the cover, and you can see more of her work on Instagram @adonyne.

Please enjoy the chapters!

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MBGSP Chpt 162-164

Hey everyone! It looks like the Podium Entertainment paperback editions of the first book are available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble, so if you want to snag yourself a physical copy it'll come out November 11 of this year. I don't have details on the ebook or audio version, but I would expect a similar time frame.

Here are the next 3 advance chapters, taking us closer and closer to the conclusion. I'm almost finished with the first draft of the third and final book, so I can see the e...

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MBGSP chpt 159-161

Hey everyone! Here's the next 3 chapters of My Big Goblin Space Program

Chapter 159 - Heightened Gains

I was more than a little peeved that our first orbital launch, despite a solid fuel cook-off on the ground, was still more successful than my doomed NuEarth moon mission, despite several crews being vaporized. On Earth, a rocket disaster with just a couple deaths would have been a national tragedy for years. For tribe Apollo, losing 100 goblins in a flash of rocket flames ...

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MBGSP Chpt 156-158

Hey guys! Massive reveals in this week's update. A lot of theories that have been floating around since the very beginning of the story are confirmed/disproved here. If you are still following the story on Royal Road and participating in comment discussions there, which I highly encourage, please please please avoid spoilers for those who aren't reading ahead.

Chat and comment areas on Patreon are the only safe places to talk about advanced chapter spoilers.

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MBGSP Chp 153-155

Chapter 153 - The Greatest Huntress

The front end of the railgun shattered as the carriage hit the suspension springs of  the hard stop and blew straight through them, twisting the rails outward. The concussion from the passing dart splatted the broodling near the muzzle, instantly liquifying its entire body to black ichor that splashed across half the turret—my half of the turret, coating everything in a layer of obsidian filth that tasted...

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MBGSP chpt 150 - 152

Hey everyone! The null devil arc is drawing to its climax here, and the story is swinging towards its final arcs. In a couple weeks on the Patreon will be some big story reveals (many of which readers have guessed from hints and foreshadowing), and we're still on track to wrap up the third book in under 200 total chapters.

I want to thank everyone for following on Patreon to support me and the story, and I hope that when I launch my next project you'll continue to follow.

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MBGSP Chpt 148 - 149

Hey everyone! Just two advance chapters this week, bringing us up through chapter 149 and continuing the battle with the null devil.

I got another cover update for the official release version of My Big Goblin Space Program through Podium Entertainment, and I'm excited to show you guys the finished illustration once it's cleared for release! It looks really great so far, and really captures the spirit of the book well.

Chapter 148 - The Devil’s Workshop View Post

MBGSP Chpt 145 thru 147

Hey everyone! Here are the next 3 advance chapters for MBGSP

Chapter 145 - Festivities

Watching orcs and goblins hammering side-by-side at the forges for hours in the sweltering desert heat was certainly not on my list of things I wanted to do. But damn if it wasn’t an impressive sight. Lura’s smiths had access to good quality iron and steel on top of a wide array of materials the nomadic people collected in the course of their journey. The eclipse came...

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My Big Goblin Space Program chpt 142-144

Hey everyone! Here are the next 3 chapters for MBGSP!

Chapter 142 - The Stars’ Measure

I have told you,” said the priestess. “We have come to observe Raphina more closely.”

I looked at Rufus.

“It is the truth…” he said. Then, casting a nervous glance at the priestess and the elite guards, added “Not the whole truth.”

“That’s better than an outright lie, I suppose,” I said. I g...

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My Big Goblin Space Program chpt 139-141

Here's the next advance chapters for My Big Goblin Space Program! I hope you all had a good week.

If you're not also following the Royal Road updates, I had a few announcements that I made over there this weekend. Book 1 of My Big Goblin Space Program is right now scheduled to launch in or around January of 2026 through Podium Entertainment. If audiobooks are your jam, that'll be a great opportunity to enjoy a narrated version of Apollo's antics. I'm rounding out the end of the current ...

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My Big Goblin Space Program chpt 136-138

Hey everyone! hope you're doing well. Here are the next 3 advance chapters for My Big Goblin Space Program!

Just as a heads up, there will be no update this coming weekend on Royal Road or Patreon. I am taking some time off this week to enjoy Monster Hunter and spend time with my wife.

Chapter 136 - Apollo Rising

It wasn’t the first time I’d flown over Lanclova, but it was the first time I’d done it straddling 30,000 RPMs of turbine power. Twist...

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MBGSP Chpt 133-135

Chapter 133 - The Siege of Red-Rock Rise

It was surreal seeing the bat-winged silhouette of night haunts against the blue afternoon sky. The creatures that hunted forest goblins asleep on their bluffs were night-time terrors, Rava boogeymen. The stuff a mother goblin would whisper to her child to keep them straying too far, if goblins had discrete mother/child relationships.

“Steady!” I shouted. Beside me, non-variant goblins quaked behind hastily erected barricades made prima...

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MBGSP Chpt 130-132

Hey goblin fans! Here's this week's three chapters, hope you enjoy!

Chapter 130 - Sky Kings

I was a little surprised when Taquoho elected to take the radio back to Bluff Apollo, considering how disorienting his first trip had been. But then, trying to keep an Ifrit from possessing a piece of technology that had caught their interest was nigh-impossible. And in all honesty, I wanted them to continue exploring the possibilities of transmission by radio freque...

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MBGSP Chapter 129

Ahoy! Only one chapter this week as I'm focused on revisions for both MBGSP book 1 and War Horses book 6.

Enjoy the chapter, and we'll be back next week with 3!

Chapter 129 - Fire by Wire

“Wise, is caution, all I say,” said Sourtooth.

“And caution I’m taking,” I said. I moved back toward the other end of the bluff where the long range radio antenna had been erected. “It’s not like I gave them the keys to the kingdom. Canaveral is a tertiary bluff n...

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Two of Knaves Chpt 105

Chapter 105 - Raze Lucita

I held my hand out and extended my will. I think, without Daggertongue’s mental training, I still would not yet have had the fortitude to call them to me through the fading silencing spell ushered in by the four of storms. Immediately, I touched Annalisa with both the dragon juice and the devil’s tongue so I could speak mind-to-mind.

“The shrine is under attack, we have to get Problems out of here!”

“DARCENT DID YOU SEE WE BEA...

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MBGSP Chpt 126-128

Chapter 126 - Damnable Midnighters

With glass came grinding and lens-making. As our bi-glider flew over Canaveral, I peered down the length of what the System had called a ‘brass scope ‘em out’. The simple telescope made from a series of lenses and leftover brass tubing from the Ifrit was a simple spyglass with a fixed magnification and a focusing ring, mishandled to the point it had a visible elbow in the metal sleeve. Yet, unsurprisin...

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Two of Knaves chapter 104

Hey everyone! Here's the next advance chapter of Two of Knaves, where Darcent and Annalisa get a second round against the delvers that betrayed them in the undercity.

Chapter 104 - Tactical Acquisitions

The stands erupted with shouts and chaos as the lights dimmed and the booming voice of the commentator—enhanced by magic artifice—choked off. Also the fact that the entire arena had turned black and white like a pictograph from Madam Peaks’. Cel froze as I da...

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MBGSP Chpt 125

Hey everyone, sorry about the mixup! Apparently I had a blunder where two chapters were skipped because of duplicate chapter numbering. It has since been retroactively fixed with the correct numbering and the two missing chapters added in. Today's upload of Chapter 125 puts us at the correct 12 chapter lead ahead of the Royal Road story.

Chapter 125 - Assemble’em Lines

The turbine plant was on the second floating ring above Village Apollo, directly across from the aircraf...

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MBGSP Chppt 121-124

Ok, all chapters should have correct numbering now.

Chapter 121 - Daytona Beachhead

The airship dock certainly looked empty without Gemini docked there. I watched the goblins break down what was left of her for firewood while the canvas was folded and hauled away on the back of a flatbed buggy. The elves were still out there, and I accompanied the scrappers on the daytime water patrol to Daytona Island. Sourtooth came along as well, with his blunted spears,...

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MBGSP Chpt 119-120

It's good to be back from Hiatus! The last couple days have been a bit of a jetlagged fugue, but I'm getting back into the swing of things. War Horses Book 6 is done and my focus is back on Goblins and 2oK, so regular serial updates will be resuming over the course of this week and next week.

Chapter 119 – Like a Bat out of Hell

Fire at Huntsville wasn’t unusual. In an outpost dedicated to fuel production and iron refining, it was really a mainstay of t...

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WHB6 - Chpt 10-12

War horses fans! You'll be happy to know this last week has been productive. Progress has resumed and is smooth on book 6, and that means I should have a finished first draft in the next 4 weeks, and depending on editor availability, have a release in the second half of next year.

Here are the last 3 advance chapters for the next War Horses book. Enjoy them, and thank you for your support!

Chapter 10 - The Order of Heaven

 

Ia Yukhar was mo...

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WHB6 - Chpt 7-9

Here are the next 3 preview chapters for War Horses Book 6: The Sunstone Imperative!

Chapter 7 – Leadership Qualities

 

We didn’t find out what the Something Big entailed for another week, when Colonel Swift gave the order to consolidate all personnel and materiel for departure from Bashtu. The remainder of our contract had been bought out, which meant that someone out there wanted us so badly that they’d paid the Bashtu Gover...

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Two of Knaves Chpt 103

Just a reminder, both MBGSP and Two of Knaves are going on a 4 week hiatus while I finish the newest War Horses book. Please enjoy the chapter!

Chapter 103 - As Below, So Above

 

The prep room for the duos duel was beneath the north end of the stands, and I could hear the stomping feet and murmurs of deals being made, as well as the subtle clink of coins passing between hands. Not to brag, but I was pretty sure I could tell the who’s-who up there by the soft so...

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MBGSP Chpt 116-118

Here are this weeks' advance chapters for MBGSP

Just a reminder, the story is going on a 1-month hiatus after next week's updates so that I can work on War Horses.

Chapter 116 - Huntsville Hunters

 

After George calmed down about Armstrong eating his prisoner (mostly because George himself had wanted to eat him), he left to coordinate with the scrappers on the rescue mission for his king. I sat with Sourfang and Rufus to figure out our next move.<...

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ToK Chpt 102

Chapter 102 – Old Friends

 

The city was fully alive on the night of the fight. I hadn’t realized how big of a deal it had grown into until I saw the crowds, electrified as though by drakkyn living lightning. Revelers packed the crowded streets, and barkers shouted odds from every corner. Lucitan fights were rare, since neither side could impact the outcome with a capital-G God preventing cheating. But for followers of bloodsport, they were the real deal for that very sam...

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WHB6 Chpt 4-6

The second update of chapters for the new War Horses Book, bringing us up to Chapter 6. Next week will be 7-9.

Chapter 4 – A Patrol Like Any Other

His voice came through strained and rough. “I’m alright! Significant damage to my upright.”

I turned Ardennes south. “Moving to assist!”

Negative! Move in, find that fucker with the bombs and take him out!”

I grit my teeth, hesitating while rounds...

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War Horses 6 - chpt 1-3

Hey all! I could have sworn I posted this already, but I can't find it on the page, so just to be sure, here are the prologue and first 3 chapters of War Horses book 6: The Sunstone Imperative

Prologue

Interim Catalan 222nd and 223rd Fleet Joint Intelligence Office:: Analysis Report RE:: Wyking Bloodletting Ceremony

Following event RE:: Operation SUTURE, Wyking clans have withdrawn approximated 85%-90% of their forces from regions bordering Catalan ho...

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MBGSP Chpt 113-115

We're back from our short break with 3 new chapters! I hope you enjoy them, and have a great rest of your weekend.

EDIT - It's come to my attention that a few chapters were skipped due to duplicate chapters in my manuscript. I'll be fixing it here.

Chapter 113 - Research and Rescue

<Your tribe has decreased to 899 members>

<Your tribe has increased to 925 members>

 

Once again, we sent  scrappers out. Once again, they...

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Thanksgiving Skip

No chapters this week on Patreon or Royal Road for MBGSP or ToK. Enjoy your thanksgiving and family time!

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