Welcome to the Devoured by Saturn blog!

Welcome to the Devoured by Saturn blog! 

 

We’re a hardcore ’eavy metal biker gang with sleeveless patched denim vests, based in Sydney, Australia — and absolutely devoted to the old-school spirit of Games Workshop and Warhammer from the late ’70s through to the early ’90s.

Our aim is simple: to celebrate and revive the aesthetics, creativity, and DIY ethos of that era, and to connect with the broader community surrounding the renaissance of Oldhammer, homebrew rules, indie skirmish games, and classic role-playing. This isn’t just about nostalgia or artistic appreciation for it's own sake. Our gaming philosophy prioritises narrative, creativity, and counter-culture over competitive optimisation or corporate IP.

Currently we are working on a zine, some Warhammer Fantasy Battle 3rd Edition battle reports, tactics, and scenarios, Warhammer Fantasy Battle 3.5 Edition (house rules for cleaning up the sometimes complicated and contradictory yet brilliant ruleset), painting articles, fiction, art, reviews of rules and other items, and lots more.

In an age of clickbait, infinite scroll, and AI-induced brain fog, it’s easy to feel detached from anything real. The world becomes abstract, distanced, frictionless. Connections falter. So we look to a time when miniatures were hand sculpted and art was made by humans.

There’s a strange, quiet joy in picking up a tiny lead figure — a miniature piece of art with so much character you could cry — and moving it slowly and mindfully across hand-crafted terrain. We like to call this “Archeo-gaming”: stepping back to a time without smartphones, doomscrolling, or 24-hour news cycles designed to make our monkey brains go bananas. We open old rulebooks and breathe in the scent of days gone by, when figures were heavy in the hand and a whole weekend could disappear into a single game without distractions dragging us away.

There’s something in us that’s drawn to old things. Their age gives them value that can’t be quantified — no matter what eBay tries to tell you. Our love of tabletop gaming isn’t about crushing opponents with optimised lists, but about co-creating a narrative through imagination and play. The clunky, old-fashioned rules are not a flaw; they are a framework, a scaffolding that lets a shared story unfold in a way that feels strangely plausible. That is the core of our group's ethos — it is what it means to be Devoured by Saturn.