So, no, I haven’t played my ACW game yet but I did get a game in with my friend Ron using his ships and Osprey’s Fighting Sail adapted to a hex grid, an attempt by my French to breakout from blockade. Looked good at the end of turn 2 before the serious firing started. No real need to talk about the rest is there? The … Continue reading All At Sea
Seemed a shame to clear the table after just one game. The original game was played with Don’s 30mm Spencer Smith ACW figures but my first wargame book was his Battles With Model Soldiers and the figures were Airfix ACW so…….. Hobby time has been curtailed this last week and casting & converting has taken precendence. If all goes well I’ll get to play on … Continue reading Recycle Reuse
One down. Countless more to go! Continue reading THERE is your enemy.
Things are heating up. Well, the melting pot got hot anyway and my new mould was tried out and now I’ve assembled a few prototypes. Left to right, primed figures only: Republican French:Prince August SYW Prussian infantry with Modified Meisterzinn bicorne.PA SYW Russian infantry with one of my original ‘Tarleton’ helmet heads.General: PA SYW Dragoon officer w MM bicorne. Allies:Emigre: Meisterzinn infantry with my original … Continue reading So, you want a revolution? Well…..
Enough playing for now. May and Huzzah are fast approaching and my Revolutionary War armies are not growing nearly fast enough. Converting each hat in particular is taking too long as well as sometimes coming out second rate at best. So I’ve fixed up a couple of my War of 1812 heads to match slightly larger figures better. While I was at it, since I … Continue reading OK Back to Work!
Where to start? This game could have made a great Newport Noodle article or made for a good long blow by blow post describing how the rules worked turn by turn and what affect they had on each player decision but that might have been as tedious to read as to write. So I’ll quickly summarize the game in the picture captions while writing the post … Continue reading The Battle for Light Rock Valley
The Origawn Freestate and Dominion of Faraway armies clash at the Light Rock River. A full report will follow on Sunday morning. Continue reading Teaser: Battle for the Light Rock Valley
Just came across this cool video and project which aims to implement a Mecha game and SDK on the Quake1 engine (Darkplaces specifically): You can find more details on their website and the Github repository. Art assets are apparently not available yet due to some non-free placeholders, but I hope this will be changed soon. Also no multiplayer, but that might be possible to fix. … Continue reading Looks like battleMETAL will fill some Mechwarrior 2 nostalgia
An Old Scenario to try out the new rules again. One Brigade? I’ve got a whole Division marching on and you’re hitting me with one Brigade? Lovely. The Battle for Light Rock Valley will continue tomorrow. Oh…. I guess we are gonna have a fight. Continue reading Ma! They’re at it agin!
Maybe. What I have been searching for, for some years now, is essentially a game that has the simplicity, ease and speed of play of a stand=a unit games such as Morschauser, Volley & Bayonet, DBA, and the Portable Wargame but with just a little bit more tactical colour to feed the narrative (since I play at lower scales of game and am not terribly … Continue reading A Triumph of Persistence Over Good Sense?
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