Yes I have finally managed to get this finished and released. What you will find in this second scenario pack is two very simple scenarios that should give you a few hours of fun playing them. The first scenario is called “Destroy the Supplies!” and in this scenario a Union force makes a [Read more...]
I have been working on re-doing all of the ship cards in Blood Sweat & Iron over the last couple of months and I have finally finished them. It has always annoyed me that I only had the one image on the cards no matter what the ship was, they were all the same using the image of a basic [Read more...]
I put on a Blood Sweat & Iron game at the club last night, this was going to be a playtest of a new scenario I have just written for the ACW river battle rules. This is a nice simple scenario where a Union force is going to attack some Confederate warehouses, these warehouses are protected by [Read more...]
Well as the title says I have more ships ready for my games of Blood Sweat & Iron, they have been painted up so I thought that it may be good to show how they were done. I am hoping that this might be of interest to a gamer somewhere, as I have said previously, I am not a great painter but [Read more...]
Well that has been a horrible couple of weeks! Illness took me away from my hobby stuff which is always annoying, but I am at last starting to feel a little better… well enough to get a small amount of painting done. This time I have been working on my 3D printed ACW ships ready for games of [Read more...]
I have not had a chance for much hobby stuff over the last week, but at least my printer has been busy. I brought a few files from Wargames Vault some of which were STL files for ACW ships, including these three pictured below. First is the USS Indianola, this is another paddle steamer to add [Read more...]
I have finally finished painting the few additional Union ships that I printed a while back and I think they have turned ok again. I did actually print out two more of the Unadilla class ships as I found out I could have more than one, so they will be the USS Tahoma and the USS Huron, both of [Read more...]
Well I have finally made a start on the 3D printed Union ships for Blood Sweat & Iron, I have based them and put on the river surface ready for the next stage. I did find it really fiddly again getting the river, waves and ripples looking the way I wanted, still I think they look ok. Ok [Read more...]
Well I have finally got some paint onto the 3D printed Confederate ships I printed out a while back, these took a lot longer than normal, not really sure why, but now they are finally done they will be great in my games of Blood Sweat & Iron. They are all painted and varnished, all that needs [Read more...]
I had a great game at the club last night playing one of my favourite scenarios for Blood Sweat & Iron, "Find the Lady..." this is the scenario where one side ( Confederates ) are transporting a VIP on board one of their ships, the enemy ( Union ) hear of the VIP travelling along this section of [Read more...]