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My Wargaming Week 11
Managed to get a dozen figures painted for Geoff this week. These are Mutton Chop Early War British. Really nice figures, with quite fine detail:Â Geoff bought the AK Interactive British WWI Uniform...
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Samurais and Supers
I finished off another ten figures for Geoff today - some North Star Ronin figures. This was a mix of figures from the Bandit Buntai and Koryu Buntai sets. They are really very nice figures to...
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Woodland Indians, Vikings, a geriatric hillbilly woman and Oliver Cromwell...
And they all say ouch.Seriously, how was I supposed to end that title? It refers of course, to the latest batch of painting for Geoff. Without further ado, here is the parade:These are some of the Blue...
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DBA - only took a year...
So I finally put some figures on the board and had my first DBA v3.0 game last night, having purchased the rules a year and a half ago. This saw the Carthaginians invading Italy (for a change).The two...
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Pacifying Palestine
It has been almost a month since I last posted, and that is largely because work and life got hectic. But I have not been idle on the wargaming front. I've taken the opportunity to use these middle...
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I guess Rome reigns down in Africa
I had an hour or so to myself today and thought about doing some painting, but I've lost my painting mojo at the moment. So instead I broke out the DBA Polybian Romans and Later Carthaginians and...
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Time to sit back, have a beer, and invade England.
Or more accurately, Wessex.It being the end of the week I felt another solo DBA game was in order, and this time I rolled out the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, the vast majority of which landed on my...
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Blundering through Bohemia
Today I glued some Prussian Musketeers to their bases and thought I'd break out the whole 7 Years War collection for a game.I rolled a d6 and a d10 and consulted One Hour Wargames for a scenario. I...
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Seven Years War
I haven't been totally idle over the past couple of months but I have been quite distracted by work, family and other things so progress on the painting front has been a bit slow. I decided to work on...
View ArticleRogue One gets the tick (no spoilers)
Despite being so badly burned by the abomination that was episode VII, I remained tremulously optimistic about the next Star Wars movie to be made under the auspices of the mouse. Surely Rogue One...
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One Hour Jutland
Having finally finished work for the year I have been able to get the paints out again over the past couple of nights. I started the last couple of Seven Years War battalions but then changed tack and...
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Six by six - challenge accepted
Over on his blog Kaptain Kobold has laid down a challenge. He wonders why a lot of online challenges revolve around painting and modelling. What about a challenge around playing? This makes much more...
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Backyard bash. Clobberin time game.
Time to start my attempt to play 36 games this year as part of the 6x6 challenge. Now I'm on holiday at the moment and couldn't bring much, so I grabbed a few supers with the idea of having a couple of...
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Attacking the Moth's Lair
I played an additional two games of Clobberin' Time while I was at the beach last week, both of them really just small battles to get the feel for how the characters played with the stats that I'd...
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Rescue the candidate!
Today I constructed a bit bigger scenario for the four members of the Alliance of Awesomeness to work together to stop Mr Anarchy.The scenario involved Mr Anarchy and a group of his punks appearing...
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Get Barry! A Clobberin' Time game.
It is a fantastic feeling when your child asks if they can have 'another game of superheroes'. There she was sitting at the wargames table waiting impatiently for me to hurriedly draw up a scenario and...
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Seven Years War ready to go
On Monday I put the last bit of static grass on the last Seven Years War unit. I now have 2 equal armies available for battle - Austrians and Prussians. Originally I was going to use my own Neil Thomas...
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Atack on a prepared position - an Honours of War game
'My dearest WilhelmineAs you are aware His Majesty has granted me the honour of an independent command, covering the border area while the main armies operate elsewhere. But Old Fritz has given me an...
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Some days it just isn't worth being an intergalactic conqueror
After rescuing Barry, the clever alien learned to speak English and joined the Alliance of Awesomeness. He and Aphid managed to build a starship that allowed the Alliance to return to Barry's...
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