The United Earth Federation captain watched as the pirate ships moved slowly towards his position inside the asteroid field, he gave the order for his fighters to be launched and moved forward closing the safe gap into the asteroid field. Three more frigates came in behind the pirates closing the [Read more...]
The sound of the engines revving on the desert track could be heard all across the valley, the two vehicles waited next to each other for the ganger to drop the flag to start their death match. The gang had decided that this was a good way to pick which gang member was the best driver and so get [Read more...]
I had a lazy day and decided to get some spaceships out and have a game of Stars & Lasers, this time I thought I would use some of my Aquan Prime ships, but as I haven’t managed to get any rules done for these ships yet they will just be used as normal “Earth” ships maybe from a water world [Read more...]
A small force of Alien Bio-ships has been seen close by a small colony on the edges of UEF space so a colony force has been sent out to investigate and to engage if the Aliens are found. A small Bio group have found a small Human colony on the edges of bio system space and they have been given [Read more...]
The pirates had arrived while most of the stations crew were sleeping they hadn’t had a chance, a few had put up a fight in and around the control room but that didn’t last long. But before they had all died one of them had managed to send out a destress call, although it would be too late for [Read more...]
Today I managed to get a small game using some of my 20mm British and German forces, I set up a small 4ft x 4ft table of a French village somewhere in Normandy. The rules I was using were a simple set called USE ME Ultra Simple Engine for Miniature Engagements and has been designed for 15mm [Read more...]
They had killed the creature in one of their outlying sectors and towed the great ship back to the colonies jump gate to be dismantled / dissected and shipped back to Earth system to be analyzed. Very few of these bio ships have been seen over the last 100 years or more not since the great alien [Read more...]
My orders were in and they were what I had expected “send in a strike force to sector Alpha 200065 Delta and take the mining station from the enemy as this would set their ship building plans back a few years if it could be held or even destroyed” Even though I knew these orders were coming I [Read more...]
I was going to do some painting of the last few ACW ships I have but I ran out of basing card so a picture of the ships will have to do for now, three new simple 3D prints and a long lost USS Commodore Morris ( from Peter Pig ACW range ) I only found this a few days ago hiding at the back of one of [Read more...]
Well now I am back at work I am finding it harder to get in a game but over the last few evenings I managed to get in a playtest of another Stars & Lasers scenario, this time using some simple solo rules mechanics. So for this game the idea was that a local policing force finds a pirate fleet [Read more...]