“Power over spice is power over all.” OPR Grimdark Battle

 

Had a Grimdark One page Rules, using the lists of BobafettlG88 for my Dune collection. Standard game 4 objectives, the Harkonnens with some imperial help, facing the Freeman, who could be scouts or ambushes, this proved to be interesting game wise and ensured the right feel, the Harkonnens and Imperial moved to the objectives and the Freemen struck for the scout, hand to hand combat was fierce and fatal, the turns progressed and the ambushes struck combating the large enemy forces, this was a bloody encounter and the casualty's were high. By turn 4 the end the Harkonnens held 2 objectives and the freemen only 1, a good result, balanced sides and was great fun.

BLAME manga, characters

 

Not took any pictures of late of my painting, these I thought I would show, 3D prints of Characters from Papsikels of the Blame Manga, very inspiring and used  a very old technique, which I believe works?.

Also 4 Eve Stella blade characters again from Papsikels..

                                                    Killy, Cibo and Dhomochevsky. 

                                                     Silicon Life, Maeve, Ivy and Sanakan

Electofishers

                                                                            Group shot

                                                                   Eve stellar blade

Wargames World Solo, rules play test.

I love new rules and ideas, this was on adverts and FB pages so I ordered a copy wrote by Gregory Ward, it is a solo war game rules, featuring some to me great Ideas, Gregory posted many u-tube videos of the game in play, I looked over my collection and had 2 boxes of Perry Franco Prussian war plastics, these gave me enough units to play test the rules. So a glue job and quick paint up and base, I was pleased and ready to try the rules out.
 

The table layout decent GW mat and some very old building and walls provided the area.

In the set up you make 3 plans for each army attacker and  Defender the , French were my solo army and the Prussian the VY (virtual you), the  french deployed hoping to stop the Prussian advance, markers for the Prussian advance are placed and theirs a roll to see which is the actual force, its a very good idea, the Prussian were spotted and Deployed in the 2nd plan to take the center and hold the village. The game is solo gamer and VY turns, the Solo army rolls for the number of units to activate, and bad rolls made the rapid French advance stall, the Prussian set and gave fire into the advancing French, there flank attack stalled and the Army suffered from fire, they did return but made no real mark on the  Set in Prussian's. 

The game was actually fast and  it involves the solo gamer in choices and the VY  side makes rolls to activate, I found the French unable to even get close the the center. and loosing a complete unit, decided the Prussians won the day.

I did not use all the rules and made morale and tests on standard rolls the French morale being 9 and the Prussians 8, the combat and shooting works for me extremely well and makes a challenge to your tactics, the VY side worked fine I did not use the moving  tactic but it worked fine, next time I will see if taking hits alters it, theirs loads to use and  occupy the game, Gregory states its your game do what you want! . I recommend to anyone with boxes of miniatures and alone to try these out. 

Brady Yates his creations!

 

My edits Grandson Brady (17) always astonished me when growing up he did hundreds of drawing of creatures and monster, He like's miniatures and to paint them , he has become quite a sculptor in his own right making some of his creation come alive as miniatures using FIMO putty, he always brings his latest creations for me to view, today he turned up and showed me the things he had made, I was gobsmacked and delighted, his talent and creativity rely made me very happy in my self to see the miniatures and how he visualized them.

Here are some pictures of his creations and i hope you get the same pleasure I did from seeing them!!