Friday, 23 May 2014

Swashbucklers, Heroes and Astronauts

 latest paint jobs Alec found me another weasel very old citadel mini I believe, excellent
 I constructed from Wargames factory plastics  some Astronauts for my Planet of the Apes games In my head I'm  collecting
 Foundry Swashbucklers awesome minis loads of character 




 Reaper miniatures for my games , always solid great minis
 two naked ladies care of Reaper 
 Warbases  made me these for when Alec rolls to see if he breaks his weapon, superb service
Three more Tekumel  miniatures, really nice work

Wednesday, 21 May 2014

Dragon Lady on the Dark side of the Moon (IHMN AAR)

 Today’s game was great fun , I set up a dig site for the  landscape using GW bits and my box of  terrain pieces, Alec brought the Dragon tong and I wanted to try my Selenites again..
  Selenites 
 scientists 
 Dragon tong
 The scenario was number 2 fins 3 out of  6 hidden objectives and get off the table, for these we used scientists who have located something  unusual on the blue area of the moon (is an air breathable atmosphere, and the centre is an abandoned alien city from millions of years ago now populated but the earth powers and  companies)
The tong has learned from diggers that the explorers have found items of great interest and power on the dig site; wanting these they dispatch a young dragon lady Vermatrix and a small company of hastily armed tong to secure the scientists.
Unknowing the residents of the Moon Selenites and know through some powers far beyond man that the artefacts are threes and send a war party to retrieve them. The stage is set……
 The 2 companies  move  towards each other the Selenites split and  cut off the scientists in the hope of getting them first, the Tong moved in a group sending their monster to seek the Selenites beast and  defeat it, warriors and  guard weave and push into the camp the tong  fire and  charge the  Selenites, bloody hand to hand  ensures, the 2 mighty monsters meet each other as the  captain of the tong Mr Woo back stabs and slays the huge Selenite, the dragon queen confidant  charge a black guard and  to her shock he  slices her in  two on the first blow.
Scientist are carried off and  acid spiting black guard change shots, Mr woo cannot fail he charges slicing down the  Selenites in his path as his skilled warriors start to make  work of the  moon men who though armed and  well protected are no match of the skills and ferocity of the Tong, Golgotha the Selenites leader grabs another scientist and   finds her  group has all the artefacts her mission complete, Mr Woo is in deep trouble ad he claimed none of the  artefacts and lost a lot of men including the Dragon lady herself…

Great game loads of fun as normal, and yes when you roll a 1 on pluck save that’s the end of anyone…
































Saturday, 17 May 2014

Sheffield triples 2014

Had a nice day out at the triples at Sheffield, the venue was the same and boy was it hot inside?
Some very nice games on display and lots and lots of painted miniatures all to a very high standard, it amazes me how much work  war gamers put in to their games for a show and all should be commended. The large amount of traders makes triples a good place to grab items you want or need to see in the metal, they all seemed very busy in the morning.
Meet a lot of friends Keith, Noel and others and chatted, talked to Mr Thomas, Diane from Foundry, Karl’s from CD we discussed  far too much about  games and  miniatures, Andy from Antsy and his gang, Roland from Stafford  had a very hard chat with about war-game companies, Dave from Northumbrian tin solder. Iron clad and I kicked myself for not remembering to get his new VSF walker, Partisan soon (I was so mad when I saw the pica I took).

I took pictures below of the game if I missed any table please forgive me, standard was very high.








 The new Ironclad walker Brilliant  
















































 Haul of stuff