This will be a photo heavy post as there was some painting in March - not so much gaming though.
What gaming there was featured five Sisters of Battle trying to escape a hoard of 21 Tyranids by reaching an extract point. I played two games of the same scenario - once with Grimdark Future:Firefight - which I'm not fond of as a solo game anymore - and once with some improvised rules that were equally unsatisfactory. I think One Hour Skirmish Wargames is going to be the way to go, or something very much RPG-lite.
Painting-wise, I made some progress on my Alps 1940 forces:
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| French MG base, two infantry bases, and a leader. |
The Italians received reinforcements making one full platoon and one 3/4 (using Crossfire organization):
I'm trying to code the units by basing material. Not an original idea by any means, but very useful.
Work began on the fourth army for my fantasy ... campaign? ... I don't know, I have ideas.
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| The microphone in the back tells you about what I've been spending most of my time on. |
They are WiP. I have a lot of gear remaining to paint - I am hopeful the headgear will really make the figures pop as I don't want to shade them (going for toy soldier look). As they are, the white just washes out the details.
In my last post, I mentioned painting some lizards (but no picture) and then I painted a few more. Here are the ones done last month:
Next up, some heavies - a unit of gator warriors:
I don't know who made them - they kind of remind me of Age of Aegyptus figures but not anything currently available.
My favorite of the bunch:
He is an old Grenadier model from the early 80s I believe. His color scheme is based on the yellow-headed gecko (they tend towards orange in spite of the name). He will be a Gecko Hero for Age of Fantasy.
And, just for giggles, the current painted 28mm lizard folk army:
Obviously that excludes the dinosaurs I have, as well as the yet to be painted frog mage and gator hero. Plus I have a fair number of Wargames Atlantic figures to assemble and paint to add to my red-tailed skinks.
I just get a kick out of looking at them.
Will they ever be used as a full force for Age of Fantasy? I have no idea. I'd have to be able to find people that play it locally (I know they exist but I am no longer on FB which is where they are). I do have an idea for games of small skirmishes between the various tribes that will get them on the table regardless.
I am fairly certain that if I had to abandon all of my stuff to relocate, I'd find a way to pack my lizard folk figures in 28mm and 54mm!
Until next month!
