Thursday 11 September 2014

Setting up Sunday's game.

Another Post. so early what's going on! Well that I just don't know. here however are a few scenery bits and bobs for my upcoming game at the Reject "Shed of War" more of that later. Here I have 5 generic explosion markers as well as 10 craters. (I cropped the picture so you'll have to take my word!) They are from frontline wargaming and are very simple to paint. I did look on google for explosions then went and did my own thing anyway so this is not what explosions actually look like. I did my own thing just because I wanted them to look like this and not like the explosions on google. But if you get some feel free to make them more realistic. As for the Craters just brown and drybrushed with a lighter shade of brown and then an even lighter one! Not a lot m,ore to say about them at all.


The Main reason for the post today is that I will be playing a game in Posties Shed of war using my 10mm Spanish Civil War figures when I arrived the table was NAKID! As you can see which gives a different view of the shed of war to any I had seen before. So I set up a 6 foot by 8 foot board!

When I left though I had all the terrain set up and Postie had positioned his first few figures. So I thought it was worth a look at what the table would look like prior to the game starting and the hordes mucking the game up erhm I mean carefully considering actions and reaction in a wargames environment! (Yeah mucking it UP!)
The left hand side of the Picture is North West and the Right is south east. The Nationalist will be on the left and the Republicans will be on the right.

Ray, Lee and John will have the job of defending the road and farms on the Republican side right side of the picture. While Postie (everyone said he had to be a Fascist so I put him in charge of the right wing Nationalists), Surgit and Smiffy will be attacking from the left! Postie has already started setting up his starting positions and allocated where his "subordinates" will be. Ray has yet to do this but will do so either this anytime between now and Sunday morning. I have left him a brief note on a scrap of paper and while this is not sufficient to warrant a detailed objective I will (eventually) email him more instructions. (Maybe Saturday Morning at 3am hee hee..... can't give him too long to plan!)

Final thought

Seb has kindly volunteered to take over "San Francis" in the PBB game and will do so with immediate effect! So can you all kindly get your turns in (those yet to do so) by 9am GMT on Saturday. That way I can post an update on Saturday morning!

All the best folks take care and roll some dice... but roll high! "Anything but a One!"

Cheers Clint

 

14 comments:

  1. Those craters and explosion markers are very nice Clint.

    I hope the weather there is cool so the 'Shed of War" doesn't turn into the "Shed of Blistering Heat" Have a grand time!!

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    1. Thank you Anne they were a doddle to paint. I worried about them more than actually painting them! If you know what I mean. I kinda wanna get some more now!

      I like the idea od showing the terrain sometimes before they squabble over it. The weather here is quite cool but not at all cold. I am still in tee shirts, but back to wearing jeans and not shorts now!

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  2. Looking forward to the chaos on Sunday!

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    1. It should be fun..... well fun ish. Thank you Lee

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  3. Very cool that you guys have all that space to play.

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  4. I like your explosion markers and craters, Clint, but how big are they?

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    1. Thank you Bryan, In answer to your question they are about 40mm tall. So usable with most scales even 28mm figures, but better suited to smaller figures. 15-20mm would be ideal.

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  5. Great gmae aids and the table look great too - looking forward to seeing how Postie likes being on the receiving end !

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    1. Thank you Joe. I have seen Postie play 2 games so I am not expecting too many surprises!

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  6. The markers are great Clint - realistic is not always cool (did you ever notice how exaggerated Hollywood explosions are? :P) and some fire in them is a lot better than bits of smoke and dust!

    Looking forward for the game report. No paseran!

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    1. Thank you Mathyoo. "No Paseran!" is exactly right as they will be doing a very little bit of the battles to cut the road into Madrid. (They all know that!)

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  7. Ah yes. Lovely setup. We'll see how Postie fares when commanding on the terrain, and not giving orders to the gaming group as umpire, ie slapping on Ray's head because he didn't listen... again

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    1. Thanks Seb. Postie and Ray are the opposing commanders so there should be a 6 foot table between them most time! Which should reduce head slapping.

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