Excuse moi, I haven‘t been posting a lot lately. But that was because, I was concentrating on painting and other stuff.
So here a few samples ...
I was busy painting my 10mm Franco-Prussian contingent. I bought miniatures from a club member to built the French Guard corps, and of course, as my Prussian grenadier were running around in parade uniforms, I could not resist to buy the Italian Unification war version of the French grenadiers WITH the Bearskins, haha! I also had a dash army home grown rules for that period "The Tattered Tricoloure", where I had an idea for another set of rules, after involuntarily dabbling in Seven Year war lately, enduring lots different rules of Napoleonic complexity, I wanted to have my own ...
I was wargaming WW2, with Bart‘s 15mm German and Polish troops on one of his scenarios in the early war. Bart seems to have a fable for the same village, which I think is quite a cool thing. And yes, I played, together with Campbell, the Germans, the game was fun even though I didn‘t know anything about the rules.
Next thing was we played a board game in the club, hey! JUNTA its called and 7 people turned up (3 from the boardgames faction and 4, me included, from the miniature faction. I even had to turn another one away. That game is about a Banana republic were the players elect a president and form a junta. Full of power games corruption and stately affairs. We had consequently a lot of fun, none of the elected presidents were surviving a turn, and I even managed to break a record by changing sides in a coup (military tactical phase) that often that I escaped the wrath of the president ... unfortunately I forgot my camera ... in the end I won (25m pesos on my swiss bank account!)
Next time Thursday we will play a Renaissance game with the usual suspects, Venetians, Germans Spanish and French will hark at each other, a plain tactless matter just a forward bashing each other ... I guess the one who‘s standing last wins ...
 |
| The Germans are coming ... |
 |
| ... and a lot of them piling up and dying ... |
 |
| ... in front of these tiny Polish bridges ... |
 |
| ... a tactical disaster, if you think about it too much ... |
 |
| "playtesting" my new rules with adhoc tokens ... |
 |
| French Guard Foot Artillery |
 |
| French Guard Foot Artillery |
 |
| Some Guard Grenadier is the making, long live the Bearskin! |
 |
| The Guard Cuirassiers, Carabiners and following the Dragoons |
 |
| after the Dragoons (green), the Lancer and then the Chasseurs |
 |
| The new English version of an old-timer that is not for the democratically faint hearted .... |
 |
| The cover of my FPW game adaption |
 |
| an inside spread of it ... |
 |
| Cover of my new Seven Years War rules |
 |
| an inside spread of it ... |
 |
| and another ... |
Beautiful figures, a very impressive scale...but my best picture today is "Junta", one of my favourite games...I spent an incredible amount of time playing this awesome and original game ..."bien jugado señor"!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Phil, yes, junta rules! to quote a infamous German b-movie... "She kamen als Freunde und wurden zu Wurst."
DeleteSo many souvenirs...and scams!
DeleteLove the bearskins, early war Germans, rules look interesting and I'm looking forward to your renaissance game!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thank you Iain! Me too, it will hopefully a flat-out frontal assault straight outa Firence massacre, no subtle tactics, just charge! :)
DeleteSome updates. Figures and models are a little bigger, it is 20mm. About the Junta, I managed to survive 1.5 turn, when killed by Campbell when I tried to put money on my swiss account. Splendid game, we need to do it again.
ReplyDeleteYour rules looks very interesting, we need to test them ASAP.
We will, we will, promised! :)
Delete