FS 28mm painted skeleton HoTT army

SOLD!

I'm cleaning out my gaming cupboard and moving along armies that have not seen much use in the past two years. Thus I have for sale this painted 28mm Hordes of the Things skeleton army. It comprises 84 foot, six mounted and 1 dragon figure. All units are based on 60mm frontages.

First up is the dragon. He is tall and could serve as a dragon, a hero, a flyer or a god.

There are also three bases of mounted, which I play as riders but could also be knights.

The bulk of the foot are these seven large bases of skeletons. I have played these are hordes but they could also be warband or spear.

For a specific scenario I also did five bases of Roman-themed skeletons. I play these as blade but they would also work as spear.

There are three bases of shooters.

The general is a magician (could also be a cleric). He has a custom made cloak, a gem on the end of his staff and reads from a book atop a pulpit of skulls.

There is also one base of lurkers bursting up from the earth. These help balance the point total is you play the base above as a cleric or the large bases as hordes.

All told about 38 AP (and up to 49, depending what you designate bases as). I'd like $120 OBO plus shipping. Shipping in Canada or the US is about $25. Offers to bob.barnetson@shaw.ca.

A Few Acres of Snow

I dropped by Bruce's place last night for a few games of A Few Acres of Snow. We haven't

 played in a awhile and Bruce was keen to try some new ideas for the French player.

Game 1 (above) went badly for Bruce--he just did not get the cards in the right sequence. An early military (mis)adventure, tough cards and amazing card luck for me meant a quick game (15 minutes) for the British. I almost felt badly for Bruce, but my recollection is that showing him any kind of pity inevitably bites me in the ass.

Game 2 was much closer (a tie in points, as it turned out--which goes to the French). I was slower, Bruce was annoying with his Indian raids, and he expanded fast enough to make up the difference. I felt pretty good going up the west side of the map but maybe should have focused on bringing the game to conclusion faster? So a split evening.

I wonder if a good strategy for the British is to buy the two settlers as quickly as possible to deny them to the French. I know the French don't necessarily need settlers as much as the British, but they do if they want to build up their cities and jack their victory points. Maybe a strategem to apply next time?

Up next: Some 28mm LotR are underway and I need to build a bunch of 15mm cavalry to prime when the weather breaks early next week.

LotR goblin warband

The last of the 28mm Lord of the Rings goblins are now dry. These are four bases of warband/blade and are plastic GW figures.

Interesting faces--the rest of the figure are so-so. Pretty good for mass production plastics and they look fine as a warband or blade element in HoTT. I think warband, though.

Up next: I'm off to Bruce's tonight tonight to play A Few Acres of Snow. On the workbench are a bunch of LotR orcs, wargs and a magician to round out this army. Went with a very different paint scheme for the orcs (drybrushing up the flesh).

28mm LotR spear

Some more LotR goblin bases are now dry. These are three bases of spear for HoTT. These are not the most animated figures in the plastic line but the faces are interesting.

I also painted some with hair and some with a cowl (in some cases, the primer on the figures made it hard to tell what was being modelled!).

Up next: Some goblin blades/warband and then a games night at Bruce's place.

LotR goblin bow

I've been working my way through some 28mm Lord of the Rings figures I picked up at the MayDay auction. There is enough here to create an evil army to pit against the good army I built awhile back. First up are the Moria goblins.

There are four bases of shooters (in HoTT) here. Nice enough figures. I chose brighter colours than I might otherwise paint with to get a garish effect.

Up next: I have spear and blade/warband bases drying right now and some orcs, wargs and others underway. After that, it is back to 15mm polish troops.

15mm winged hussars

I finally finished some 15mm winged hussars. These were quite the things to assembly but turned out okay in the end. I am short one figure so left space for it on the base when the horse arrives. The original horse was squashed in transit (think beagle) and had to be put down.

These fellows came with individual streamers for each spear but the ends are forked quite radically. Basically impossible to put on, although I've had a thought about this since I based them so may try a few before dropping the first four units off with the owner this weekend.

Up next: A bunch of 28mm LotR baddies are almost based and I have the rest of the army primed and ready to paint. Then back to these 15mm fellows=.

1/400 WW2 aerial action

I dropped by Bruce's last night to try out a WW2 adaptation of C21 AirWar usings ome old 1/432-scale planes Bruce dug out of storage from our days of playing Squadrons. I had a bit of a misfire right off the bat, with one plane failing a test and ending up blocking his wingman while Bruce moves his 109s info the kill.

Fortunately, Bruce can't roll worth beans and I got out fairly unscathed. But then this happened:

We quickly were down to one plane each and I finally figured out how to take advantage of my better pilot and hang back and wait for him to end up in my sites. We then tried two spitfires versus four stukas and I got my ass handed to me. Good times! All told, a nice set of rules where pilot skill factors in initiative, maneuver and combat.

Up next: A sore back has kept me from painting table but I have a bunch of wing hussars that need to be flocked and a bunch of 28mm goblins underway. Maybe tonight I will hit the painting table.