Devon and Cornwall...Summer holiday 2018

 

 

 

 

 

WINTER'S END

This Walking Dead All Out War Tournament will be taking place in Stockport (UK). It looks great! I have already booked my ticket!

Big Battle D.B.A.

   Nick and some of the guys at C.O.G.S. invited me over to join in on a four player game of De Bellis Antiquitatis last night. It was Late Persians vs Greeks in 15mm... We played a scaled up version (Big Battle) of D.B.A. on a double sized board with the equivalent of 3 standard D.B.A. armies per side.  The Big Battle rules introduce the demoralisation rule, which was a very interesting addition. Nick and I were the Greeks. It was close, but in the end the Persians won.

PARTIZAN Wargames Show - August 2018

I had a great day out yesterday at the PARTIZAN wargames show at the Newark Showground... It is a smaller show than the Hammerhead show that they have at the same venue - just using one building rather than two, But there was some great stuff to see and do. Half the hall were demonstration games, and the other half were participation games... plus there were lots of stalls selling miniatures, scenery, books and wargaming supplies..

 

 

My friend Lizzy who likes skirmish games also came over with me from Sheffield.. and we tried out a handful of games in the participation area...

 

Deadzone

Gaslands.

"Cliches of the Russian Generals" (??)

Test of Honour.

   I picked up some interesting books from the second hand book dealer -  a couple of Osprey books on ancient Romans, and a big hardback book with beautiful illustrations called "Warfare in the Ancient World" by General Sir John Hacket... I got a few trees and small resin buildings for some 6mm scenery pieces I'm going to make for D.B.A.... and I couldn't resist getting a couple of packs of really nice 28mm Gladiators from Crusader Miniatures that will make a cool warband for the "Broken Legions" skirmish game...

Frostgrave - "The Living Museum"

Last night's game of Frostgrave saw two teams of warbands fighting it out in the Living Museum... 6 silent statues in the centre of the board standing guard over 6 treasure tokens. What could possibly go wrong?... Well quite a lot for my Orc team!

We drew Ulterior Motive cards before the start of the game, I had "Guess the ghoul" which brought 3 ghouls into the centre of the table... and Lizzy had "Oubliette" which brought a Minor Demon onto the table before we had even started! As the treasure tokens are picked up, the six statues would randomly come to life becoming medium constructs.

 

The table set up for "The Living Museum"

  After some initial good dice rolling, things went quickly down hill for my guys... in a struggle to get near the treasures, they had to take on the Demon and a Ghoul that just wouldn't go down... meanwhile Lizzy's spellcasters  managed to use telekinesis to extract some of the treasures from the centre - at the same time activating living statues to come and engage my soldiers...

  I managed to get two treasures off the board... and kill one of the statues... in a hard messy fight my soldiers got entangled with 3 of the statues at once - but then lizzy's wizard blasted the whole lot with an elemental ball - causing a bloomin' load of damage. In the end I managed to get two treasures off the board... and kill one of the statues and the Demon...  I had four knocked out soldiers (one badly wounded). Lizzy managed to finish off 2 ghouls and 5 statues (after I had weakened some of them!) before disappearing back off the table to her dingy laboratory to peruse her magical loot! Neither of us completed our Ulterior motives...

The Demon taking on some of my soldiers...

From B&M Bargains lorry... to WAR RIG!!

 

 

So - Inspired by my friend Kes's War Rig (see previous post)... I finally got around to working on my own.

I bought a £1.99 B&M Bargains truck... and stuck various bits of textured plasticard and stuff to it. The rusty cars on the side are just plastic party bag cars (8 for £1 from ASDA)... the chains are from a cheap toy necklace... I was lucky enough to score a bag of random miscast resin bits for £1.00 from the nice Ramshackle Miniatures chap when I met him at the UK Games expo - so that big engine thing with the arrows on was out of that. The crew are also from Ramshackle miniatures - from the 20mm vehicle conversion kit... and I built the ram out of plasticard.

GASLANDS - Bringing down the War Rig...

My friend Kes finished working on his War Rig... so this months Gaslands game night was spent playing two games of scenarios from the first Gaslands free expansion "Time Extended #1"... Kes's War Rig looks great - and is about 12 inches long (already 1/4 the length of the table!) - our two teams managed to stop him both times... but it was close!

Kes's Team - War Rig and support cars..

Liz's Team

My team - two buggies with rockets and a car with exploding ram...

The set up for the first scenario...

One of my buggies gets in position for a rocket strike...

Heavy damage causes the War Rig to Jack-Knife...

Lizzy finishes off the rig with heavy fire from the opposite side..

Boom!

I've had all the bits ready to make my own war-rig for a while - seeing Kes's in action has inspired me to make a start on it... My £1.99 B&M Bargain rig is going to be half the size of this one however!