Well, I wanted a good game and I got one! Not having a definite idea I decided to roll dice to pick and layout terrain items such as hills, woods, buildings and road entry points and to deploy all my ready Origawn Rebellion forces. Somewhere in the Origawn Territory, Advance Guards clash. I had been having some fun experimenting with using a 3″ grid for … Continue reading The Battle of Four Square Junction
With city builder games climbing back into popularity, it was about time for a serious libre project to tackle the genre once again. After many years of abandoned efforts, it is now the turn of Cytopia to try to scratch that itch. The project had its inception in 2018, when now lead developer JimmySnails announced in a forum post the intention of creating an engine … Continue reading Let’s keep an eye out for Cytopia
Battle is joined! Details to follow. Continue reading Sunday Early Edition
Late last century, I ordered a 4 horse Britain’s Royal Horse Artillery team from Soldierpac. Today, I painted them. Recast Britains’ RHA team from Soldierpac, BMC limber, AIP 7pdr RBL gun. Well, some of them. I always intended to use a plastic ACW limber but somehow I kept putting it off. Properly speaking I should have had a 6 horse team plus mounted gunners and … Continue reading Bring up the guns!
Yes, in blue tunic and black campaign hat. ……..Blue?…. I thought Britains’ Reb cavalry wore grey? With yellow kepis? Ah……yes, ….well…I meant rebel in my Red ‘Dominion’ Army vs Blue/Grey ‘Rebel’ Army in my toy soldier game….. But its OK, I was planning to eventually add such a cavalry unit. I guess its time to do it. Continue reading Somebody order a dismounted Reb cavalryman?
Its taken a while but the Black Horse have finally found a bugler to bring their numbers up to a full squadron of 4 toy soldiers. His kepi doesn’t match the rest of his regiment but that’s how I pictured him. The First or ‘Blue’ Brigade of the Origawn rebel cavalry. What’s next? Well……there are limber horses and riders on my desk and some Rebel … Continue reading All present!
A Scottish soldier. And a squadron of Republican French Hussards. Can they take him? Should he take his musket off his shoulder now? Continue reading There was a soldier
Not impatient, merely curious. Scruby/Historifigs N Gauge/10mm As suspected, they were fairly easy to paint as long as I eschewed trying to do accurate detail and shading. I’m pretty sure I did a better job 30 years ago on my 10mm Afrika Korps and Falschirmjaeger but I won’t lose sleep over it. 1/72nd vs N Gauge Given that ’20’mm are easier to paint and 6 … Continue reading I was curious.
My toy soldiers now have their own toy soldiers. The Major and his sergeant discuss uniform choices for their new Scruby N Gauge figures from Historifigs. More about this little (sic) sideshow when I get some painted. Continue reading Preparing to N-gauge the Enemy
This game was worthy of a proper battle report but no correspondents or professional photographers from the Newport Noodle were on hand. (Possibly they were also working overtime in the garden during a rare burst of good weather.) I’m afraid we’ll have to make due with a quick summary of the action and a few fuzzy snaps. Somewhere around turn 5 or 6 out of … Continue reading The Quick Version
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