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
Flintcon is a one day annual gaming event held at St. Paul Lutheran Church and School in Flint Michigan. It is an all day event featuring Miniature, Role Playing, Board and Card games.
This is the registration site for the Pathfinder Society events durring Flintcon
Two sessions are scheduled.
9:30am to 2pm and 3pm to 8pm.
All times EST
It is with a shattered heart that I have to report the passing of one of my oldest and dearest friends, Gary Vikar. Known in the modeling/gaming/blogging world as oldSarge. He has been a great friend and fellow wargamer for the past forty years; a man of vast knowledge, a kind heart and a wicked sense of humor. My world is diminished by his passing.
Funeral visitation will be tomorrow, Monday, at A.H. Peters on Schoenherr from 9am to 1pm. Interment will be in Resurrection Cemetery for military honors
Anton and I got together for another of our WRG Ancients Games. This time we randomized the First book for army selection. This meant that we each had 60 armies to choose from, and we both happened to select the same army, Ancient Indian. The Indian Army has four different versions in this time frame. Anton and I happened to both select the same version (the third which is focused on the infantry). Furthering the "Civil War" nature of this game we selected almost the exact same armies as each other, with only some difference in unit numbers between our troops. Below is out initial deployment. Naturally there was no "out scouting", so it was simultaneous deployment, right to left.
Spartacon24 iwill be held on 13JAN24 which only four days away. You can find the info here at Tabletop Events. This is a fun local convention and I like to start the year off by attending.
I tried to sign up to run a game but Tabletop Events said that they were full. This will be the first time in nearly twenty years that I'm attending as just a gamer, it seems weird. But this is a good sign that the hobby is active and vibrant and has fully shaken off the Covid curse. See you all there!
