Krasnovia is Mature

After accomplishing little in September, October has been turning out very well.

I have finished the last of my modern generic 15mm figures for my Krasnovia modern imagi-nation skirmish gaming. Several different groups of figures including more police, some mercenaries, civilians, and many others.

This makes the Krasnovia project mature. By that, I mean that my on hand figures are done and I will only add to the project as the mood strikes. I don't consider any projects ever complete...just mature.

Next up I am moving into sci-fi and ancients. Have some figures primed and will start painting the Chewks from Khurasan today.

Pictures of the Krasnovia figures will follow when my Litko base order arrives.

Jail Break

After having some of the gang captured while trying to buy some new weapons, the King's Grand Legion under the infamous Black Death Seamus prepare to launch a rescure operation by attacking the government forces guarding the local jail and police barracks.

The prison in the bottom right corner.

Three teams start the attack.

Seamus and crew move up one flank using the buildings for cover.

The allied troops run into heavy fire in the middle and suffer some casualties.

Maurice takes up an overwatch position.

The speed of the attack catches the defenders unprepared.

The attackers move on the jail from three sides.

The last of the police surrender and all the prisoners are set free.

The renagade government troops that sided with the KGL have one returned to duty, one wounded, and one killed in the rescue operation.

Clone Wars, Battle of Noahland

7th Airbone under heavy fire.

Man down!

Droid in cover.

SUPERS!

Second Wave.

Darth Sideous and support.

Commanders Cody, Green, and Fox.

Battle overview.

Some shots of my son's new clones in action on one of the side skirmish tables in the wargame room.

The Battle of Noahland initially went in favor of the Droid Army, but the Clones won for two reasons. The Droids underestimated the Clones and Clones outnumbered the Droids three to two. The images above are a small part of the mopping up operation at the end of the battle. Darth Sideous fled after the defeat of his Droids.

Sci-Fi Plans

I am jumping on the 15mm Sci-fi bandwagon. This has been on my list of projects for some time and I did buy a few figures when purchasing some for other uses ...saves on shipping. My wife asked what I wanted for my birthday and since the buildings I had asked for are not in production right now, I asked for some Khurasan sci-fi figures. I got a mix of their line to see what I like.

The plan is to play sci-fi with Tomorrow's War and Flying Lead. One for Company/Platoon games and the second for smaller scale skirmishes.

I keep up on the 15mm sci-fi stuff on Dropship Horizon and TMP.
http://dropshiphorizon.blogspot.com/

I will have an "imagi-nation" set up...or is that "imagi-planet"? Lots of different factions to take advantage of the great figure ranges now available.

http://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/

http://www.groundzerogames.net/mambo/

http://www.rebelminis.com/15mmscifi.html

http://www.15mm.co.uk/

http://www.stanjohansenminiatures.com/15mm.htm

http://www.criticalmassgames.com/default.asp?category=homepage

http://eurekamin.com.au/index.php?cPath=87_102_107

http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=RAF&Category_Code=GRAV&view_perpage=30

http://www.zombiesmith.com/collections/quar15s/

http://www.fighting15sshop.co.uk/science-fiction-787-c.asp

http://bluemoonmanufacturing.com/index.php?cat_id=45

September 2011

No figures painted this month. Had a hard time getting motivated and was distracted by playing a few computer wargames.

I did get some painting in a large batch (about 150 figures) I am finishing up for modern skirmish use. They can also double for use in sci-fi.

On that note, I am planning on starting 15mm sci-fi for use with Tomorrow's War. I have some figures on hand, and will pick up more in the next few months.

I played a big Field of Battle game with my Katzenstein forces and a few small Krasnovia skirmishes including some with my son.

I am attending the Fall In convention next month and will play in my first convention games. Signed up for two and plan on trying to get in two more when I get there. I don't expect to buy many figures, but I do have some books/rules on my list and I am going to get one of each of the 15mm JR Miniatures Middle East buildings.

For the second month I did not add to the mead mountain. My stock is actually under control. I have a small amount of sci-fi miniatures (and expect some more from Khurasan for my birthday this month), 18/19th century civilians, pirates, and my ancients. I will do the ancients and sci-fi in 2012. Trying to keep the mountain to a mole hill.

Comments: my apologies for not answering the comments...problem with blogger. Trying to resolve it now.

Rules

I made a post a few months ago about the rules I use. I am still checking out new systems.

I used Carnage and Glory II computer moderated rules for my last Katzenstein Campaign battle. I liked that they provided the exact #s of casualties and tracked morale.

They will still be a contender, but Field of Battle holds the lead. There is a new FOB2 being published that I will pick up at Fall In.

I am going to try the Die Fighting rules for a game as well. I like the concepts such as use of resource dice.

I have Black Powder and have not played them but I think I will like FOB better. I do like the special rules that can be used to make units more period specific...would like to see that in FOB.

I was listening to the Meeples and Miniatures Podcast and heard more about the Too Fat Lardies rules. I will investigate them further.

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I have been collecting and reading lots of rules the past few years but I think I am settling into what I want for each period/genre. I originally thought I wanted lots of detail, but in practical application, it just does not seem feasible.




ImagiNation (Horse and Musket): Field of Battle

---Blackpowder and Carnage and Glory II are contenders.



Individual Skirmish: Flying Lead and the rest of the Songs of Blades and Hereos series



Squad/Team Skirmish: Force on Force and Tomorrow's War for Sci Fi



WWII: Flames of War



Ancients: Clash of Empires

---Hail Ceasar and Piquet are options



Space Ships: Starmada



Pirates: TBD (most likely SOBH variant)



Wild West: TBD (most likely SOBH variant)

Father and Son gaming

My son wanted to do a similar battle to my last Krasnovia battle on the same small board with the MBA Italian Village buildings.

He fielded a dozen soldiers in a three way battle with some law enforcement and masked gunmen.

He played well until risking a helo landing in the courtyard after I gave him repeated warnings. I commended his desire to not want to leave any soldiers behind. I did not get a good picture of the crash site!

Picking up supplies in the truck.

An aerial view of the battle zone.

1st box of supplies loaded.

Still doing well, but casualties starting to mount.

One of the cops takes down a soldier before getting hit in return.

The final butcher's bill...only two soldiers made it out in the HMMWV.

A very fun game. He has the Flying Lead rules down...just needs to exercise some judgement on when to risk it all.