Despite some far-fetched claims that the Vikings made it as far as Central America during the Dark Ages it seems unlikely that Anton's Anglo-Danish armies ever faced off against my Mexican force. But Anton and I made it happen anyway! Since Anton's army knew what a horse was, and mine did not (an old Steve Breismeister joke to those of you who knew him), Anton Out scouted me and I had to deploy first. Here is our initial deployment.
the Japanese bombers
Last Saturday I ran my scenario for Battlefields with my usual gaming group. The conversion from hex-based movement to octagonal movement went without a hitch. Some valid points were made regarding the rules and adjustments have been made.
I was puttering in the workshop and struggling to resist the urge to build a vast underground cavern system to go with Zhodani Commando's cave men. To keep myself busy I decided to add some wallboard compound to the existing hills to blend in the features and add to the texture. I use the sort with a latex base as it survives handling better than regular "mud". Now I have to wait for that to dry so I'm back to the "idle hands" problem......
Maybe I will build a model airplane as a distraction.
My good friend, Zhodani Commando, is setting up to run a caveman game using the Tribal! rules. You can check out his beautifully painted minis over at his blog. I offered to put together some terrain for the game using the still massive pile of insulation board that I have. He happily accepted. I haven't been painting much lately so I thought that a terrain project would re-light those fires.
I dug out my old friend, Proxxie, and got to work cutting insulation board. Pretty soon I had several bits sorted out and enlisted my buddy, Mr 60-Grit, to round off some edges and get the models ready for spackle and paint. That is where things stand for the moment.
I have to confess to being incredibly lax about posting of late. In my defense the first couple of months of this year have been rough; on top of my usual "January Blues" a couple of sudden funerals and a long-running revision of my air combat rules have eaten up both my time and energy. That is all behind me now and I have renewed energy with the arrival of a package from 24 Hour Crafts (a specialist woodworking shop) who made me a custom set of octagonal bases for my revised rules. Everybody and their brother makes hexagons but these guys were the best price/service that I could find that would cut octagons. Product quality is top-rate and they got me my fifty octagons in less than a week, I would happily recommend them to anyone.
This time around we were working out of the first book once again Anton selected the Early Hebrews (list 13) and I selected the Illyrians (list 26). Anton's army had absolutely no cavalry, and there was not enough terrain on the table for his light infantry to count for scouting so he had officially "Zero" scouting points. With my army I had presumed that I would be outscouted and elected to have my CinC on foot. I also chose to include an allied contingent, whose general could only be selected as on a horse, so I had exactly 1 scouting point. Due to the odd system of scouting in WRG because "1" if more than "50%" more than "0", I out scouted Anton and his troops had to be deployed first. I also had the option of flanking him on either, or both flanks if I wished. I did not! So here are our deployments.
This time around in Anton and my game we were working with the third army list book for WRG 7th edition. Anton went with one of his preferences, French Ordinance and I went with one of mine, Hundred Years War English. The terrain dice proved kind to me and I managed to clutter up the fringes of the board as well as Anton's deployment zone with some woods. Unfortunately Anton went against type and stocked up on missile troops some of which could handle woods. Anton outscouted me HORRIBLY 60:12 so I deployed first. Here is our Deployment
