Three months into the year and my progress on the Very British Civil War figures has been going well. I have also been getting in one game a month. I purchased and played "Of Armies and Hordes" with my 15mm fantasy figures. The game is based on the mechanics from Song of Blades and Heroes, but it is a mass battle agme. It was a very fast game, each combat resulted in heavy casualties to both sides. The game uses an interesting area movement mechanic that could be very interesting in a larger scale WW2/modern/future game with battalion sized units. Overall, I liked the game, but not sure it would replace my Hostile Realms/Pique mash-up. I have re-set the table to play the same basic scenario with my rules to get a better idea.
Despite my attempts to focus on only the VBCW project and to not get into anything new...I have been looking at plastic 28mm fantasy/historical figure (such as the Frostgrave figures) sets that I could use with the animal head conversion kits from Sally4th. This project would revolve around forces fighting over and exploring a lost continent...essentially replacing my Wooden Warriors project (and keeping me from jumping into Lego mini gaming). For now I will just do some figure research and make try to resist any purchases until all the VBCW figures are complete (by Historicon in July).
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| You can just make out the area movement zones broken up with foliage |
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| Ghosts defeat the elk riders |
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| Zombies vs Dwarven Pike |
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| Undead right flank is destroyed |
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| Skeleton Knights flank the Elf Rangers |
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| Second wave of Dwarves attack the hill |
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| Victory! |
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| Skeletons burn the village and retreat to Un-live another day |
PAINTING
52 x 28mm AVBCW figures: 52 points
TOTAL: 52
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| Next batch complete |
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| Socialist ranks grow |
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| Bavarian mercenaries |
GAMES
1 x game Of Armies and Hordes
BUDGET
$84 on the Pulp Alley 2 Kickstarter
$94 total to date
