Well after a few weeks of no gaming, hobby stuff or rules writing I am finally getting back into everything.
The forced hiatus was from moving into my daughter’s house, well annexe, and all I have been doing is putting cupboards together and trying to find space for all of our stuff… my hobby stuff is all shoved into a spare room for now and I have been promised a games room at the bottom of the garden next year!! this I can’t wait for.
But for now, I am using the conservatory on the back of the main house for my games room, this is great as there is enough room for my games table with plenty of room for everyone to move around it without bumping into the chairs, the walls or even the two dogs!
I have managed to start work again on some of my rules writing, I have been going through the Hostile Action supplement, this will bring some new stuff for the game including “Drop Pods”
This new supplement will also bring in rules for super vehicles, battlefield operations and special operations.
I have also started getting back into the new Ironclads of Ferrosia supplement, this will see “Pirates” along with these there will of course be all their rules, ships and new weapons.
I will need to finish off the 3D prints for the Pirates, I am hoping to get some paint on these models fairly soon.
I have not managed yet to get in a game, but I did lay out some tables to see how my new mats look.
These are 6’ x 4’ mats (printed cloths) that I got from China a few weeks back, I had to supply the images to be printed and so far I have done three.
The first is a river cloth that I will use for my games of Blood Sweat & Iron, like the others it does need a rub over with a warm iron to get rid of the creases, but I was very pleased with the way it turned out, if was to find fault with it I would say that the river turned out a little lighter than I had wanted, but I am guessing that was partly to do with the colour on image I sent.
But I think I should be able to get some good games on the cloth.
The second cloth is a wasteland track for The Last Drifters, this is a simple oval track combined with a figure eight track, with a bit of scenery on it I think it looks great.
I have seen some tracks on the internet that have the tarmac road at one end which I liked so I added one as well.
I am looking forward to getting in some races on this cloth. It should also work with Driftcore Racers the hover vehicles would look good on the track.
The third cloth is a city cloth, this I will use for Hostile Actions and my 15mm sci-fi models, although I think it would work well for 28mm figures, but with bigger buildings.
Again if I was to try and fault the cloth, I could say that the grass has turned out brighter than I wanted, but I don’t think it looks too bad.
These cloths are obviously not neoprene quality, but they were only about £7 each so I for one will not be complaining about them.
Hopefully I will be getting some games on these mats over the next few months, so watch out for those battle reports.
