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!
Really nice paintjobs, John!
ReplyDeleteEven if painting can be recreational I think gaming is more fun than painting. perhaps that's why I keep to small unit skirmishes. I tried a game of One-Hour Skirmish Wargame last year as I found the core rules for free at 'Google Books'. I really liked the game.
Thanks, Roger! I find I tend to paint when I'm not excited to play anything in particular or when I am excited, but the figures are not painted (unless they are 54mm, in which case, unpainted plastic is completely fine with me). I highly recommend looking for a 2nd-hand copy of the OHSW book - there's some stuff in the various scenarios/period chapters that the core rules don't contain (like the vehicle and armor rules for 20th C. and beyond).
DeleteAnother great month of accomplishments John! The French and Italians are excellent! All of the lizards are really impressive when seen en masse! And the gecko is a really special piece! All well done!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Brad! I'm inclined to pick up some more of the Grenadier lizards, as well as some other early 80s lizard figures - there are several poses, I think it was a boxed set - at the very least I may pick up the Grenadier 'lizard- man champion", which I had when I was a kid.
DeleteThe Skellies and Lizards are fun!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Maudlin Jack! I had bought the skeletons to cut up for my Christmas game as scatter terrain, but i had around 80 or so left over. A small force of them for my 54mm fantasy gaming seemed an obvious choice.
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