Club Night: August 3

Last night was club night with 11 guys out and three games running. Dave, Mark and Scott game WHFB 8th Edition a trial run. I've no idea how it turned out but I recall someone say "the dice just deserted us" so that sounds like it was good for someone! I believe it was Empire v Tomb Kings.

Chen, Justin and Andy played a game of Nuts (15mm, eastern front) with the Germans sporting a used T-34.

I hosted Barry, Terry, Cory and visitor Steve in two games of 6mm AWI. I used the hex-game Clash for a Continent as the rules and we played out Cowpens and Guilford's Courthouse. In the first game, the British could do no right and could certainly not win a combat to save their lives. They were stopped at the second line as the Americans just retreated away from them and inflicted a thousand cuts.

The second game saw the British roll high and swing out two pincers, eventually working around the left flank of the Americans and rolling it up. Average dice for the Americans and great British dice meant the American could never really slow up the British.

Next club night is August 17th.

Up next: Some 28mm medievals and then some skeletons.

15mm Muscovite DBx/FoG Army for Sale

SOLD!
A friend has asked me to liquidate his wargaming collection. There are a number of eastern Rennaissance armies that I have broken up into DBx-sized lots. These are all based on 40mm frontages and are suitable for DBR, DBHx and Fields of Glory. If you would like more troops for FoG, we can likely oblige.

This lot comprises 16 foot, 21 mounted and two (2) war wagons (I missed one when I took the group shot above) of Muscovites on 15 bases. We're asking $110 OBO plus $20 shipping in Canada or the US. We'll ship overseas as well but the cost would be higher.

This army includes four bases of 2LH.

Here they are from a different angle.

The army also has four bases of 3Cv/3Kn.

Again from a different angle. This shows off the details on the saddles.

The army also has a general figure.

There are four bases of fire-armed foot with ahand-painted banner.

Finally, there are two war wagons. Each contains a driver plus two fire-armed foot. these have not been glued in place so you can affix them as you like,

All offers can be made to bob.barnetson@shaw.ca. Shipping is by Canada Post. Each base will be bubble wrapped and then will float in a box of filler (peanuts or rice crispies). Shipping includes tracking and insurance.

15mm Polish DBx/FoG Army for Sale

SOLD!
A friend has asked me to liquidate his wargaming collection. There are a number of eastern Rennaissance armies that I have broken up into DBx-sized lots. These are all based on 40mm frontages and are suitable for DBR, DBHx and Fields of Glory. If you would like more troops for FoG, we can likely oblige.

This lot comprises 12 foot and 24 mounted figures of Poles on 12 bases. We're asking $110 OBO plus $20 shipping in Canada or the US. We'll ship overseas as well but the cost would be higher.

This army has two bases of 3Kns with handpainted banners.

There are also two bases of winged hussars with banners.

I've done a close-up of the sides of the bases to show off the detail. These were all painted by a painting service.

There are two bases of 3Cv.


And there are three bases of 2LH.

Finally, there are three bases of fire-armed foot, including a hand-painted flag.

All offers can be made to bob.barnetson@shaw.ca. Shipping is by Canada Post. Each base will be bubble wrapped and then will float in a box of filler (peanuts or rice crispies). Shipping includes tracking and insurance.

15mm Cossack DBx/FoG Army for Sale

SOLD!
A friend has asked me to liquidate his wargaming collection. There are a number of eastern Rennaissance armies that I have broken up into DBx-sized lots. These are all based on 40mm frontages and are suitable for DBR, DBHx and Fields of Glory. If you would like more troops for FoG, we can likely oblige.

This lot comprises 56 foot and 4 mounted figures of Cossacks on 14 bases. We're asking $110 OBO plus $20 shipping in Canada or the US. We'll ship overseas as well but the cost would be higher.

There are four bases with five blade-armed figures, including two with hand-painted banners.

There are also six bases of five figures armed with fire-arms.

I have picked a representative base to zoom in and show off the painting detail. All of these figures were painted by a painting service.

There is also one base of 2Ps and one base of 4Pk.

And finally there are two bases of 2LH.

All offers can be made to bob.barnetson@shaw.ca. Shipping is by Canada Post. Each base will be bubble wrapped and then will float in a box of filler (peanuts or rice crispies). Shipping includes tracking and insurance.

15mm Tartar DBx/FoG Army for Sale

SOLD
A friend has asked me to liquidate his wargaming collection. There are a number of eastern Rennaissance armies that I have broken up into DBx-sized lots. These are all based on 40mm frontages and are suitable for DBR, DBHx and Fields of Glory. If you would like more troops for FoG, we can likely oblige.

This lot comprises 28 mounted figures of Tartars on 13 bases. We're asking $110 OBO plus $20 shipping in Canada or the US. We'll ship overseas as well but the cost would be higher.

The lot contains two 3Cv/3Kn stands, including a general stand with a hand-painted banner.

The detail is difficult to make out so here is a shot of the General figure with the saddlework highlighted.

There are also 11 2LH bases.

These figures were all done by a painting service and would likely also serve as Mongols.

All offers can be made to bob.barnetson@shaw.ca. Shipping in by Canada Post. Each base will be bubble wrapped and then will float in a box of filler (peanuts or rice crispies). Shipping includes tracking and insurance.

28mm Celtic Camp

Continuing with some historicals, I finished off a Celtic camp for DBA (or HoTT, I suppose) using some 28mm metals from Warlord.

While I considered doing a stockade with BBQ skewers (as several guys I know have done nice camps like this) I decided I wanted to go for more of a woodland glade.

And thus we have some sort of nefarious merchant and his Celtic bodyguard making a deal with a barbarian elder or druid somewhere in the woods. Based on the druid's pose, I'd say the opening proposal is outlandish!

I spent a lot of time getting the ground clutter right. My recent canoeing experiences reinforced just how bleeding messy nature is!

Up next: I'm going to run two scenarios at the club on Tuesday: Cowpens and Guilford's Courthouse using the Clash for a Continent hex-based rules and 6mm miniatures. I have a bunch of medievals on the workbench. And I have put together four 15mm renaissance DBx armies for sale that I will photograph today and post up this week.

28mm Zvezda Medievals

Awhile back, I traded Dave something or other for some plastic 28mm medievals that used to be produced by Zvezda for their Ring to Rule fantasy game. I was looking for some foot to complement some GW Bretonnians I had impulse bought on eBay. I put together two bases this weekend and painted them.

The box comes with 20 guys (basically 10 foot and 10 missile) but you can customize them somewhat. The foot can be spear or halberd and if you want 10 of each and no missile troops, you can do that. You can also make 10 long bow or 10 cross bow or make 20 missile troops and forgo the foot entirely. You can also make up a swordsmen army if you prefer.

Overall, they went together nicely. The spears were a bit finicky. Basically there is one set of hands and half of the shaft (single piece). Then you pick spear or halberd, cut the appropriate head piece out and attach it to the hands/shaft piece. The trick is mating the two shaft pieces together firmly and straight. The glueing surface is about half a mmm by 1mm (sort of a shelf cut out of the shaft on each side). This was periodically frustrating even with blue tack and much beseeching of the gods.

The spearmen look okay. I borrowed the colour scheme from Neldoreth but, of course, did a poorer job of it then he. I think these guys could be part of either a HoTT human army or part of a Burgundian Ordannance DBA army (based on the figures I have lying about).

I expect to do one more base of spear in the king's colours. I will also likely do a base of crossbow in the king's colours. The rest of the foot can be militia in more mixed outfits. I have a bunch of sprayed up bow for the first of two 8Bw (!) bases required.

The bow themselves were pretty easy to assemble and came with some loose arrows which were a nice way to vary the figures some. I also carved an arm or two. I also broke two feet of the figures while cutting due to the way the sprue is constructed. Oh well!

Up next: A 28mm HoTT/DBA Celtic camp is done and drying. It is very woodsie. I continue to work me way through some 28mm skeletons and have a bunch of 28mm medieval bow and knights with the primer drying. Tuesday is also club night so I need to pick a scenario or two for my AWi game. And I expect some 15mm commission figures (AWI and dwarves) to arrive. Finally, I have sorted out a large collection of 15mm eastern renaissance DBx armies and will be posting those up for sale.