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An Orcs in the Webbe Original!

Orcs in the Webbe started out in 2004 as an online repository of articles styled after the original Wessex Games Flintloque magazine, Orcs in the Hills, containing reprinted articles from other Flintloque websites, the Orcs in the Hills magazines themselves and other wargaming publications. As time passed however more and more people submitted brand new original articles written exclusively for inclusion on OITW. Now, nearly twenty years on, the list of contributers includes dozens of authors including the current Flintloque team at AA as well as most of the original creators of the classic articles on whose principles the site was created. 

 

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  • Casino Rhyll

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! Austin Powys, International Hobgoblin of Mystery in his latest Christmas Adventure!

  • Dead Birds Don't Lie

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! Continuing the tradition of bringing you something a little spooky on All Hallow's Eve Tony Harwood brings us a horrific tale featuring Dwarves, gold and a malevolent Undead scarecrow....

  • Fear Itself

    Fear Itself

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! A surviving unit of shell-shocked troops struggle to survive as the pain felt by The Land is made manifest in this Panzerfäuste scenario for Solitaire or Group play written by one of the games' creators.

  • With The Devil at Your Heels

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! Race through the countryside with pursuers hot on your heels in this steeplechase style scenario for two players of Alternative Armies' Flintloque.

  • Dungeons Deep

    Dungeons Deep

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! A Troglodyte squad, tasked with escorting a very important dignitary through an underground complex, run into a few surprises along the way in this Panzerfäuste Short Story.

  • Foul Mouth Freddy and The Wrong ****ing Wagon

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! Freddy's latest venture takes an unexpected turn when a group of local wine barons mistake his wagon for one laden with something rather more potent in this Flintloque scenario for three or four players.

  • Glimpses of The Land - Warbeast!

    Glimpses of The Land
    Warbeast!

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! This year we welcome the return of the popular 'Glimpses' series from previous calendars, Martin Cutbill turns his attentions towards the Land to bring us this cracking image of a Dwarf Panzerbär. 

  • Gamer Archetypes

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! Helena Nash returns to OITW once again this year giving us a humorous rundown of the different types of games masters and players you might encounter... Whether roleplayer, wargamer, LARPer or online gamer there's something in here you'll recognise. Which one are you?

  • Poldorc

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! This year classic Flintloque alumnus Danny O'Hara weaves an hilarious story based on a 'somewhat better known than it used to be because that chap got his top off to scythe corn wrong' tale. Perfect for the Flintloque setting we are proud to present, for the benefit of several audiences, Poldorc.

  • Beach Head II: Entwickler and The Crustacean Frustration

    Beach Head II:
    Entwickler and The Crustacean Frustration

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! Hauptmann Entwickler - pride of the Ausdenkerkorps - bolstered by the success of the Zinn-Mann project has been granted unlimited funding (and a choice of secret locales in which to design something) and is about to unleash his next great invention on The Land.

  • The Terror of Toadula

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! The fearless Giglamps, “Giggers” to his many friends and admirers, faces up against a terrible duo in this Flintloque scenario for two players.

  • Tôrg-Baraz of Doom

    Tôrg-Baraz of Doom

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! The Deathless have found the fabled Lava Stones of Power and intend to unlock their power. Fortunately young lieutenant Pipsy Pipworthy has stumbled upon the plot and aims to grab the stones for Branzhûm. Will the Halfelin reinforcements arrive in time to help, or will the Deathless gain the power to conquer Tôrg-Baraz? 

  • Piob-mhor - The Great Highland Bagpipes

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! The bagpies of Joccia are more than just an instrument, herein lies but one tale of just how they can be used to fight the evils found upon Valon, the land of Alternative Armies' Flintloque.

  • Sharke's Amon Kyaat

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! Carrying on from last years tale of the Fellowship of the Thing in Moria, having lost Giglamps to the Bal Rog, Captain Sharke's Fellowship is about to be broken in more ways than one in this two player scenario for Alternative Armies' Flintloque.

  • The Aftermatch

    The Aftermatch

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! Everyone remembers and talks about the famous Futbowel match of the trenches. Very few remember the incidents that followed; the hangovers, the bruises, the embarrassing silence between Orc and Dwarf who woke up together, and least of all the case of the swapped jerseys...

  • The Splatta

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! Master modelmaker Tony Harwood shows us a little something special from Maveryc's S.P.Q.o.R.c.

  • The 2016 Christmas Eve Interview with Hysterical Games' Rob Alderman

    An Orcs in the Webbe Exclusive! A return to form with the Christmas Eve interview this year as Rob Alderman, the man behind Hysterical Games, sits down for his first OITW grilling...

  • And Death Shall Have No Dominoes

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! In a normal inn, in a normal town by the normal sea, an extraordinary character plays dominoes...

  • Assassins

    Assassins

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! A crack squad of Orc Commandoes have been chosen for a mission in the perilous mountains of Tôrg Baraz to ensure information sensitive to Branzhûm does not fall into Dwarven hands. 

  • The Cursed Snuffbox

    An Orcs in the Webbe Original! Continuing the tradition of bringing you a tale of terror on All Hallow's Eve, Tony Harwood tells us of a cursed snuff box that nearly destroyed the entire army of Albion...