I spent much of early November renovating my gaming room so painting has been slow.
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Miniature wargaming in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Saturday, November 16, 2024
One-off building
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Some Gaming
I've been doing bit of afternoon gaming with Bruce lately.
We playtested a campaign mechanic for generating miniature battles for his 1920s gangsters. The mechanics entail tough decisions and should give players reasons to interact as well as fight.
We also play tested a grand strategy game called Swords Around the Throne. Basically point-to-point movement, 22 locations, card-driven, and super hard choices (made worse by only getting half of you card deck (at random) for the first half of each turn (a turn is a year and you have six actions per year). I would love to play this again now that I understand the rules!
Saturday, November 2, 2024
25mm Star Wars Villain
Things are slow on the work bench right now. Awhile back, I had the idea to use up some old bits and extra WEG Star Wars figures by creating "hero" bases.
Up next: Zero idea. Maybe some more HO-scale buildings. I'm rapidly reaching the bottom of the paint pile.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Pulp terrain
I finished another of the rehabbed HO-scale buildings I got at the spring model train swap meet. I missed this fall's swap meet but, honestly, do I need more buildings?
Saturday, October 19, 2024
15mm fantasy
I've been grinding out a few more 15mm fantasy figures for Dragon Rampant. Today, I have some plastic game tokens from LotR Risk.
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Fistful of Dice Endgame Mechanic
For the past couple of weeks, Bruce and I have been playing some Gangster scenarios using the Fist of Dice rules. The rules work very well for skirmish games and I played a short superhero campaign with them the spring.
- +1 for gunfire having occurred in the game
- +1 for machine-gun fire having occurred in the game
- +1 for each figure KIA'd in the game
Saturday, October 5, 2024
BSG Land Ram
A couple of years ago, I got an mdf kit with an order of figures. I promptly mislaid the kit, then rediscovered it, and finally built it.