Adventures on the Wargames Table

Crikey! Real Life (tm) has been rather hectic recently...  When I haven't been working towards crazy deadlines I've been out having heaps of fun with my lovely girlfriend Sarah.  Anyway, I've managed to squeeze in a bit of brush time and fancied painting something a bit different. The figures are Front Rank miniatures - beautiful sculpts!  The resin fountain is by Grand Manner and the church is from Charlie Foxtrot Models . Painting Napoleonic figures has always been a slow process for me as I tend to get bogged down with lots of details.  So with these I've tried a slightly different approach. The flesh is painted in the usual Foundry triad but most of the rest of the figure is just block painted or given a very quick single highlight.  I decided that lots of highlights and details are just lost when you're actually playing and viewing the figures from several feet away.  A friend (thanks Paul) suggested I follow the old adage of "faces, bases...

Like many of us I was playing fantasy wargames ‘way back in the day’ using various incarnations of GW’s Warhammer Fantasy Battles.  So when Warlord announced these rules I was mildly interested, then I noted the author and my interest increased substantially.  Some good chums got the rules and said many good things, so I jumped in and bought the book. The Book. The pic I took for eBay (oops... Spoiler alert!) Initially I thought the production quality was very good, despite the book arriving with an errata card for some missing text.  But after an initial read through I see that Warlord still aren’t bothering with a thorough proof read.  This is a pity because otherwise the book is a thing of beauty. Reading rules and actually playing them can be quite different experiences.  I skimmed through to get the gist of things knowing that a friend was going run some games for me and another friend me.  There are plenty of detailed explanations of how the ...

Following the hard fought encounter at Capela do Campo das Estrelas, the wounded Lt Carruthers fled into the hills and found refuge amongst friendly Portuguese villagers at Vila Nova de Capelo. But with French patrols closing in, the villagers hid Archie (and any grog they couldn’t carry) as best they could and headed for the safety of the higher hills.   Both sides are searching for Carruthers! The main objective is to find him and move off your own table edge.   The secondary objective is, as ever, give the enemy a good thrashing! Dramatis Personae Paul – French (Boo!) Colin – British (Huzzah!) ( Who, as it turned out, was “indisposed” ) Matt – Portuguese (Huzzah! in a Portuguese accent ) Paul’s French Force Capitaine Pierre d'Escargot (III)   3 groups of Line Infantry Lieutenant Victor Feu (II)   2 groups of Line Infantry Lieutenant Rennie Lescun (II)   2 groups of Grenadiers Lieutenant Francois Rapido (II) Sergent Hector Soixante-...