Moruya Marauders is now Tidal Wargaming.

 In Batemans Bay is a friendly gaming group now known as Tidal Wargaming. We play the usual SciFi and Fantasy games and a great number of Historical games too. Plus it is not just table top miniature games but board games as well. 

We are meeting every second Wednesday Night from 6.00 pm.

The next night is Wednesday 29th of November 2023.

Where you ask Custom Hire in Batemans Bay behind Betta Electrical. Google it as needed.

Moruya Marauders seems to have come to an end but a Phoenix will rise.

As some know our club moved to Batemans Bay during 2019, fun was had, games played new members even. Alas a rather nasty surprise hit our venue on 31 .12.2019. Yep Custom Hire where we played was clobbered by the fires that continue (Feb 2020) to ravage Australia.

We contemplated a name change and it looks like that will be the case. But we need a new home and wellllllll we sort of lost 15 years of terrain (hard to insure this stuff) and our Custom Hire friend lost thousands of dollars of minis and his gaming paraphernalia along with his business. Truly our thoughts are with him and all the others affected by the ravages of nature.

So we are looking for a new home and are gathering our boxes of unbuilt terrain to rise a new in a splendid new premises.

I shan’t post an image of what remains of our old home it is rather depressing but I will say a huge thanks to Custom Hire for its support along with the Moruya Presbyterian Church for its long years of support.

Here’s to rolling dice, painting figures and having a laugh with friends.

Another Year Coming to a Close but the Dice Roll On

As the title suggests we head towards a new year 2020. This one has been a bit frantic at times but the  move to Batemans Bay has not done the club any harm. If fact it has allowed for a couple of new members to join that are local to the Bay. Alas some of the Moruya Chaps are finding the trip a little hard especially in winter. But the games still go on.

A few images from the past year at our new home.

X-Wing and Impetus

Yep more X-wing

Second Edition but we still play 1st as well.

40K has taken a big leap back into the spot light.

A brief update.

The club is still working soundly. We meet in Batemans Bay now but still throw dice and have fun. Even the odd board game has made it onto our tables.

Just some images to prove our existence.

40kknight army did rather well

Infinity at last, what a close game. I almost lost it all on the last order of the last turn.

Naps at a friends house.

We have moved.

As you can see our club’s webpage had not had an update in 6 months. Well life is busy and the club has moved. Not that these are excuses but Moruya is no longer home to the Moruya Marauders.


For those of you that head south for holidays around the Batemans Bay Area we are now meeting in the small side shed of Custom Hire Batemans Bay address is at 9/2 Cranbrook Road Batemans Bay NSW. Behind Better Electrical on the corner of the highway.

We meet every two weeks now so slightly more often. Still on a Tuesday night from 7.00pm The next night will be 25th of June.

Still lots of games 40K, Basic Impetus, X-Wing, Armarda and hopefully a few more different games I’ve the next 6 months.


This website will occasionally be used but try us now on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/MoruyaMarauders1/

All Quiet On The Martian Front, getting the game to work at last.

Club night again, the last for the year and pizza was provided with the extra funds we build throughout the year.

It was a small night with no 40K but Magic the Gathering made an appearance but I failed to do the photo shoot.

X-Wing 1st edition and Wings of Glory had a run on the table but you will note a nice bit of Christmas cheer on the WOG table.

Clubs a pretty clever in that just because the rules change as the company needs to stay afloat it does not mean there are people that wont play the old edition. X-Wing is a case in point and our club played 5th edition of 40K until the new 8th edition picked up the quality and turned it back to a good game.

Now a game we have had a bash at on 3-4 separate occasions was All Quiet on the Martian Front. This time around the martians from Mars have invaded America in the years just prior to WWI. Some nifty steam tanks and good old US manufacturing technology means that the martians wont have it easy. Or that was the initial story line and hope. But alas when we battled away over separate games with different players we always had the martians winning by a long long way. To play the humans was accepting defeat from the first throw of the dice. tonight it was different. We used the rules properly with ambush ability for the humans, command tokens to keep fleeing units on the table and I saw how wittling away at the Tripods was going to knock them out. So the humans won tonight, a much tighter game. Was it due to two human players versus the one martian or was it actually using the rules properly? I think the latter but it did help having two brains to work on the one task.

We played it at around 1400points and as the game was in 15mm I decided to bring on His Majesties own Royal Gloucester Fusiliers. A purely fictitious force of infantry and advisors that had the core elements and commanders still in it from the first Martian Invasion from the late 1800s. See if you can spot them on the table.

pic time

Evil Martians capable of who knows what?

Setting out the human forces

Small American town with odd British allies assisting.

Mark II tanks, nice paint job but not mush chop, the Mark III are much better.

WOG at Christmas

Yes you see correctly, first exchange of fire and Snoopy and the Red Baron knock each other out of the sky.

Such a fun game and when played on the smaller table it is so fast and furious.

See you in January

The End of November sees the club moving along down the Sci-fi alley.

This blog is a bit of a show and tell of club happenings. I always plan on putting more on the blog to promote the club, alas I get involved in real life and the blog takes a back seat. Next year will be better.............one hopes.

The benefit of a small club is the diversity of opinion and choice. 40K has made a real resurgence so much so that I introduced it to the school I am at, but have not played a game at the club itsself. I had to have a new army of course and the cheap beginners boxed sets started my Death Guard force. Great minis as usual from GW but I have not really been into the rot and gore of this most loathsome of the Chaos gods. The kids at school wanted to play marines so I had to be the bad guy, cool. Soon my pretties will make it to the club soon. (maybe pretties is not the right word)

So Age of Sigmar killed off warhammer fantasy in its old form but our club jumped on to Kings of War and the toys still make it to the table for the regular bout of dice throwing. Some of the chaps do play AoS but again it has not surfaced at the club.

Infinity is still a goer and a great game. We tried a bigger table at the End of November games night. 3 sides with 300 points and used the TACO2 system again with some success. Bigger tables really mean more turns I feel but we ran out of time to really give it a proper run. Maybe back to a 4 foot by 4 foot table and 200 points a side.

Wings of Glory is still a staple as Barry not only loves the game but has enough models for the whole club to play if we wanted to.

So enough blather and a quick picture show.

Kings of War ( a fond replacement for WFB )

Baz and the Wings Game from early November

Infinity from early November, hmmm a few cans of spray paint and this will look beyond awesome.

End of November big Infinity game

Another view of the larger than normal table

My Haqqislam, purchased second hand with a view to repaint until I realised I have only one lifetime to paint and play games with and to be honest they are well painted anyway!

Yu Jing a mix of my minis and second hand painted again but controlled by a friend on the night

Mordheim, a venerable favorite that stands the test of time

Nicely painted Necron walker

Destroyers?? this table looks so good with models on it.

Even unpainted minis look great against this mat and the buildings

My Death Guard begin

More nasties to beat the school kids into submission

Owned this for 25+ years sat 3/4 painted for 3 years and a last done, I love the old Mithril Miniatures.

The reason I am having a go at Haqqislam in Infinity, a lovely Odalisqque from the game with the brilliant spitfire gun. oh I painted this one and was quite chuffed how it turned out.

We have one more games night in December as the other night will be too close to Christmas, so if you are around drop in. There will be Pizza too.

A queit night at the Moruya Marauders Games Club, yet fun was had.

It just goes to show that if the email that is usually sent out does not make it as people are ill then we all seem to forget that it is games night. It is warming up here in Australia and so the winter blues should be fading and yet a mere 4 of us made it to the games night on Tuesday. After the usually set up for 10+ and the obligatory show and tell from club members (more below) we came to realise that only two of us were ready for a game.
I had longed to introduce Infinity to all and sundry and took the chance to suggest a 4 way battle at a lower than usual points tally. 200 points we decides and we had to come in on the corners. Plus I introduced TACO 2.0 to the game.
Infinity is scenario driven and the TACO system is a nice way to use cards to give objectives that can be made turn by turn. Once one is collected you add more to the pile. So each round can be quite a challenge.
I was pretty chuffed at how the game came together and I hope all had fun. It did look pretty good.

Set up

different direction

Show and tell, a great little Slave diorama that was in a build and paint online competition one of our members keenly applies himself too. His last effort was a massive Chaos Dwarf Airship!

Some really great old minis in this lot and one or two I might add to the pile if I can get hold of them.

The huge TAG on its side took most of my orders for a turn and a half to get rid of.

The bear was an Intelligence Operative in the game, brilliant use of CRSPR Cas-9 technology to add bears and intelligence together.

The Avatar TAG behind the flyer would also not die no matter how many players shot at it.

Well lets hope next night is a bit bigger. But then maybe I need to promote us a bit better.