While I was sorting out the photos from the last games weekend, I stumbled over these. Some nice shots of Toms 28mm WW1 collection not specific to any game. These make a good showcase of Toms figures, as well as being good reference for anyone looking to buy figures for this period
The Stronghold – Hordes of the Things Resource
This page was maintained by Alan Saunders for longer than anyone can care to remember. Unfortunately its been taken offline when BT Internet merged their hosting service with yahoo. This was a devastating blow to the HoTT gaming community. However, there is a snapshot of the site here : http://web.archive.org/web/20100410020120/http://www.btinternet.com/~alan.catherine/wargames/strong.htm […]
Battle of the Philippine Sea 1:3000
The Battle of the Philippine Sea has been on my wish-list of projects for a few years now. Its one of the largest sea battles in history, (In the top three with Jutland and Leyte Gulf, but it’s exact position depends on your method of measurement). Some belated Christmas money […]
First (big) Game of 28mm ‘Hordes of the Things’ – 15th Apr 2011
The night before salute was the debut of my 28mm “Hordes of the Things” game .. although we only got 4 of the intended 6 armies on the table, a close fought game ensued. Armies were 36 points per side (keeping the standard D6 pips). Mat and Tom took the ‘Forces of Light’ (Men and Elves), and Alex and James commanded the ‘Forces of Darkness’ (Mostly Greenskins and Chaos Worshippers). Although The Forces of light commanded the early game, with withering ranged fire from Bow and Cannon and a superbly effective cavalry charge by Mat, the Forces of Darkness slowly turned the tide with a countercharge of Ogres and Vicious Ariel attacks by Dragons. Allied Spellcasters held the line briefly, but were brutally cut off and killed by aerial attack. End Result : 2 Light-Side Commands Demoralised to only one Dark side Command demoralized. Victory to the night, but rematch pending.
WW1 Reference – Ypers, Hill62, Passendale – March 2011
Photos from the day trip to Belgium, 18th march 2011 .. Mostly WW1 reference material for our trench sections but a few nice shots from various sites and museums.
Building a wargames table
Ok, so we have been playing the last few games of WW1 and WH40K on some less than ideal playing surfaces. The first set of battle boards i had made were warped and were suffering from moving house badly. Tom had jumped to the rescue with a games workshop grass […]
British 1918 Vickers HMG finished
Here’s the first finished HMG for my WW1 project. I’ll be writing a couple more articles for my WW1 book over the next week. One showing the assembled 600 point German force, and one showing a step by step walkthrough of method I use for painting up British units like […]
New features 13/02/2011
New features added this weekend 11th – 13th Feb *Forum has been re-enabled (duh) *Image gallry content type has been added *Removed the fuck-ton of image upload boxes from BLOG and STORY content types, now just will be using FTP and IMCE for images *Image gallery now supports uploads of […]
Quote of the Day – 11/02/2011
“We like to call him ‘Occam’s Shotgun’ behind his back. You see, Occam’s Razor states that the simplest explanation is usually the most likely, Occam’s shotgun is similar but it states that the simplest member of the team is usually the one who causes the most damage to the project”
New website graphics, What do you think?
The Bucket Model
“You see what had happened here was you had implemented a strict object hierarchical tree, with each object inheriting from its parents. But that’s not how we work here .. here we use the bucket model of organization…”
Quote of the Day – 03/08/2010
“It’s impossible to roll 15 dice badly” -Lex
Misc Photos
Just a playing around with the new camera. Sony A35 with the standard kit lens
