Saturday 29 September 2012

Changing course.

Firstly let me start with UPDATE: x/x. I am now putting The proposed 7TV game on hold. It came clear to me that at Skirmish it was very self indulgent of me to push 7TV at shows. I still like the game and will still support it. The problem is that the people who support the club at shows don't play 7TV. So after some soul searching I am moving away from it as a game at shows. I do feel sad about it and am not totally abandoning it but I can no longer justify working on a show game that only I know the rules and background for. Being a slow thinker it has taken a week for me to come to this conclusion.
At this stage I do not know what we will do, but I am open to ideas from the other club members who will support us at shows. The ones that don't support the club, much less so. As a club we do have a number of assets that I feel we should utilise. Graham is a rules Guru, he can read rules and understand them to a far greater degree than anyone else I have ever met. The other major asset is Tim, owner and proprietor of both Frontline Wargaming (http://www.frontlinewargaming.co.uk/) and IT MINIATURES (http://www.itminiatures.co.uk/). So it would be good to help support his business. Therefore the most obvious solution would be to do a 20mm WW1 game. This would not be my choice, but with about 12 weeks until Christmas I really do need to get my act together and get a game started. 12 weeks does sound like a long time but it quickly evaporates especially if I have to paint 2 armies and make the terrain. I have asked Tim and Graham to come up with a show game idea time will tell if they do. I hope they have come up with something by this time next week.

Moving on as mentioned a couple of days ago I have been working on a Hunchback mech. The Hunchback is a medium mech with a huge "Auto-cannon" on its shoulder which causes 20 points of damage every time it hits. With this level of damage also comes the problems that it has very little ammunition. It does have two medium lasers as well but people seem to forget the 5 points of damage these can each deliver when they know it can inflict 20 points from the Auto-cannon. I have shown it here with the plastic version from the Battletech 25th Anniversary Introductory set. I hope this clearly shows they are both the same (other than one is metal and painted while the other is unpainted plastic).

The final pic is the two "Finished" mechs together, Hunchback and Griffin. Two medium mechs for a total of 105 tons. I have found these two work well together The Griffin for long range exploits and the Hunchback for close in work. No two mechs will ever be ideal and a lot does come down to how you think of them and use them, but for me I did enjoy using these two, and that is far more important than trying to find the "right" mechs.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading, have a great weekend (what's left of it) and I will post again on Tuesday. All the Best Clint.

Post script: I have already started to think about SELWG show shopping list, looking at which traders will be there and both what I need and want. 2 Weeks to go and I am already feeling poor as I look at what I need.

10 comments:

  1. I'd go for IT WWI African Range, the adventures of Paul von Lettow and his Askaris are remarkable considering how outnumbered he was, all WWI figs are quite easy to paint up, but these are very different from the norm and you've probably already got some terrain that you could use.

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    1. Thanks Ray my WW1 knowledge is minimal. I was thinking of Arab revolt, the classic Arab Train attack from Laurence of Arabia. But lets see what others come up with.

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  2. I'm sad about the 7TV project I liked its concept. But then I can't comment as my 'Unfinished Project'ear future. Box is bursting. That's a project for the near future. How about the Anglo/Irish War or the Irish Civil War, with possibilities for an British Invasion from the North? Similar to WW1 but with a twist.

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    1. I like the Irish twist. (No offence ment to any Irish readers). Theer are quite a few other possibilities IF (and it's still an IF) we settle on WW1.

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  3. I understand about the 7TV game it makes perfect sense. Perhaps you could do a show in the future and perhaps collaborate with some fellow 7TVer's instead.

    The mechs look surprisingly alike which I suppose is a good thing I'd imagine they'd be cheaper than there metal counterparts if they are ever released as separate boxed sets.

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    1. I may do a show or two solo for 7TV fun. I know Karl would support it. Already got the basic Quick play idea sorted in my head.....so not a DEAD project by any means.

      Considerably cheaper mechs as 26 in the £38 box set which cheapest metal mech x26 would be over £100. And I love the compatability I felt it was important to demonstrate.

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  4. A shame about 7TV. It looks like an interesting game to me, everyone always has awesome set ups that I see (from shows).

    Nice looking mechs too.

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    1. Thanks mate. 7TV is a good game, but not all the club play it. Not being abandoned entirely (nudge nudge wink wink!)

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  5. I hope you continue with your hillside monastery idea as a sid project; for a WW 1 campaign there are some really good scenarios to utilise in German East Africa.

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    1. Cheers Joe. I shall not dismantle the monestary yet, I really need to get some feedback from club before I know for sure what to do.

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