6/6/14

6/4/14

I had hoped to get some WW2 pics up with Friday being the 70th anniversary of D-Day, but time is running short.

The US infantry man in WW2 

In other WW2 news, I picked up a copy of the new Two Hour Wargames rules NUTS!  this is a WW2 skirmish, with a lot of RPG elements (you really flesh out your squad) so i'm reading that and thinking of running a few quick scenarios on Sat, maybe some small 1/2 squad skirmishes for Rangers in honour of D-Day

I was able to finally build my Warlord models of an M3 1/2 track, and M5 Stuart and also my German SD.KFZ.222 Armoured car, i will prime them tonight and paint over the weekend.

In Long Rifle campaign news I was able to get a super cheap copy of the old Avalon Board game 1776.  I understand that it comes w/ a game board /very large map that i will adapt to my AWI Muskets and Mohawks campaign when it gets started.

6/1/14

Here are some pictures of some more obscure AWI units that I have.  I am still working on my lighting for pics.  I notice that these are pretty bad.  i'll upload better once I get sorted.  All of the minis shown are Perry Brothers

These are the feared Jagers.  They were Hessian mercenaries who used special hunting rifles instead of muskets.  they could shoot a long way and were deadly accurate, this is reflected in the game Muskets and Tomahawks by them having the best stats of any unit.

The Hessian Grenadiers, another mercenary unit, notice the mustaches on these figures.

A good shot of the flag for this unit, notice the flag matches their facings.

Here are the Queen's Rangers this was a loyalist unit made up of colonists.  I love the face of the guy on the left, he definitely just heard something in the woods.  you cant make it out in this pic, but this unit has great forest green short jackets

Today was very productive, finished the rest of the river sections, and experimented with some modular trails.
I also started to reread the rules for Six Gun Sound and thinking about if I have enough Old West terrain for a cattle drive

5/31/14

I was playing my Long Rifle campaign this morning and thought i should introduce a few of the main characters the figures below make up my band, you can only have as many followers as you have rep points.

 I finished up the campaign for 1777 and decided that Jackson had been neutral for too long in the conflict and would have to choose sides.  He left it to a vote, we ended up joining with the Continentals.  

I expect this to bring a lot more combat into the game, because as a neutral trapper i had been trying to avoid conflict (except w/ Simon the other trapper in the valley)  I'm excited to see what 1778 brings. Time to set the traps for March 1778.

left to right we have Jackson, then master tracker Two Weasels, Zeke Smith and lastly Running Deer

i ended the fall of 1777 by bringing my pelts to Fort #9 i was able to sell 11 of the 14 and made a tidy profit for Jackson's gang.

Wagon groaning under the weight of the fur bundles

lastly i wanted to share my new river i made.  i will discuss a How to in a later post, but for now here are some pictures

Close up of Coffee Bridge, so named because it is made from coffee stirrers.  you can see some rocks and reeds along the banks

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I've decided that my Facebook friends should no longer be subjected to hundreds of pictures of little lead men doing god knows what to god knows who.  I will blog that stuff henceforth.

Case in point:

 
this is a typical woodland fort for either FIW or AWI scenarios.  In my current game of Long Rifle a two hour wargames game this is where my protagonist will sell his pelts in October before winter sets in.  Long Rifle is a kind of  Last of the Mohicans vibe and is very fun solo play.

Trying to get said pelts.  Turnkey miniatures makes an entire line of woodland creatures.

Here are some Woodland Indians by Perry Brothers, i love the sculpts.  It took me a long time to put paint on these guys as I didn't want to mess them up

This is a display only picture, i wanted to see how all of my AWI British would look on the table at once.  Someday I hope to game with them using the 2 hour wargame rule set Muskets and Mohawks.

16th Dragoons.  I used some left over Old Glory Continental Calvary.  These are terrible sculpts, no definition at all, a real chore to paint.  Proving that in the world of miniatures you get what you pay for.

Bolt Action...this is very Saving Private Ryan to me...as the Rangers push past a burning panzer