I had a great fun game on Monday night, a friend and I played another game of my new ACW Ironclad rules set. We just did a simple meeting engagement on a stretch of river somewhere maybe along the Mississippi, we used about 1500 points per side, the list of ships was – The Union force was [Read more...]
Another mixed bag this time mainly because of illness, this has slowed down a lot of projects which is very frustrating. I felt bad all through Salute this year which made the show even harder than usual, so many issues on the Friday afternoon and the Saturday morning I was surprised that the [Read more...]
Sorry for the slight delay in getting this report up on the site, but illness has been a bit of a problem this last week… I had an excellent game / playtest of my new rules for ACW river battles, it was great fun even though I lost again! We decided just to run a simple blockade running game, [Read more...]
I think these have been the hardest models I have ever painted!!! Well actually that’s needs clarifying… Ok the models were easy very easy, really quick paint job, fairly good finish, and they should look great on the table, but the bases are another thing, they were the hardest things I have [Read more...]
I found a couple of spare hours over the Christmas break so started going through a couple of boxes of half-finished projects and came across some buildings I had started making a while back, these buildings were for me to use with my 20mm WW2 figures. I found that I needed more buildings to [Read more...]
Well it’s a bit of a mixed bag of stuff for this post, first off, I have spent the last week adjusting datasheets for some new ships that will be for use in games of Stars & Lasers, these ships are variants on existing ships. It was suggested a while back that it would be good to have ship [Read more...]
I had an hour or so spare last night and while fighting off a cold that just will not quit, I decided to get a few ACW ironclad ships painted. So, through sniffles and watery eyes I managed to get paint on half a dozen ships, including the USS Monitor, USS Essex, USS Switzerland, CSS Tennessee, CSS [Read more...]
Had a playtest of a new set of rules ( work in progress ) at the club on Monday, five of us sat down to run through a new set of ACW Ironclad river combat rules I am in the middle of writing. A historical set of rules is a new venture for me and a bit of a challenge, I knew very little about the [Read more...]