More Proxying Fun: Ars Victor with MechWarrior Minis, Part 1

Late last year I picked up Ars Victor and immediately saw the potential for more Hybrid Gaming: the unholy union of a boardgame with miniatures!

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There was plenty of info and buzz surrounding this game so I had to give it a try

All set to play. Got the plexi to keep things flat and grabbed
whatever mini I had to proxy with and on we go...

This 15mm figure is a recent acquisition from the last gaming
convention I attended. Again, I don't know the manufacturer.
It was cool looking, cheap and prepainted - what's not to like?

MechWarrior clix (10mm) removed from bases will be perfect
for proxying these Heavy Infantry Units

PicoArmor Industrial and Factory Buildings, Part 2

Victorian Factories, English Farm Buildings and Railroad Yards Buildings from Brigade Models line from the PicoArmor site. These are to be used for an upcoming Stalingrad scenario in the Memoir 44 game system.

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There are enough RR tracks here to choke a horse

My Favorite Martians: Tripods, Part 1

EUREKA! Literally. After a long search for just the right mini to represent a Martian Tripod for use on a conversion of a fan generated special scenario for LnL's World at War Board game series, "To Save a Life", I found these super cool tripods from EUREKA Games.


As I've mentioned in my past blog posts, I've been a loyal fan of LNL Publishing (which has just changed ownership) and Mark L. Walker's game systems: World at War (WaW) and Nations at War (NaW) series and the Lock n Load system for infantry platoons. 

I've been dying to try out this Mars vs Earth (circa mid-1980s) using my micro armor on a Hexon terrain table. Imagine period Warsaw Pact and NATO armor and armament duking it out with the aliens from the Red planet. Earth forces, check. Civilians, check. Civilian cars, check. All that I was lacking were the tripods. And here they be, by golly!

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Straight out of the box, these non-painted and
assembled Tripods look great

"Get away from her, you bitch!"

Thunderbolt coming to support

Poor Bloody Infantry gets into the mix

Black Scorpion Pirates, Part 4 DONE

Happy New Year! Looking forward to another year of geeking out with miniature gaming.

OK, Let's get on with it shall we?

On a nice Sunday morning, I laid out some terrain in preparation for some wacky gaming... 

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A peaceful and pastoral village, an amalgamation of scratch built 
cottages, sheds, haystacks, hills and store bought prepainted building 
from Pegasus as well as pre-flocked and painted hill from War Torn Worlds

Lots of terrain to take cover in with a good view of the prepainted 
cottage and wooden fences from Pegasus in the foreground, 
the plowed fields were carpet samples

Kegs and barrels were unpainted from Hobby Lobby (or any craft store)
while the crates and chests were prepainted from War Torn Worlds

From Black Scorpion line, I took a collection of Pirates Rogues and Privateers line, these are one of the best sculpts around IMHO.. 

I have 6 done and 13 more to go. 

Some of my would-be marauders

Ready for action!

Some infighting to see who gets the rum 

Coming up, my Pirate marauders vs British Napoleonic regulars...

Happy Holidays!

Scale Differences: Time Cast vs GHQ, Part 2

Russian Orthodox Churches are very interesting structures that lend a regional flavor to any Eastern Front table top battle field. Other 6mm manufacturers have this particular building type in their inventory but Timecast has one of the best that I've seen, IMHO.

Authentic wooden Russian Orthodox Church 

GHQ's Russian Orthodox Church from their online catalog - nothing wrong with this excellent model except that most of my battles in the Eastern Front are in rural areas and this particular model seems to fit in a more urban setting.

Timecast's Russian Orthodox Church next to their Lvov Townhouses

I love the rustic look of this wooden church

Black Scorpion Pirates, Part 3

Some more progress...

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These scurvy dogs from Black Scorpion paint up really nice!

PicoArmor Industrial and Factory Buildings, Part 1

Tiny yet detailed, these 2mm scale buildings are perfect for boardgame conversions to miniatures. We use them mainly for Memoir 44, Eastern Front Scenarios and any other genre I can think of.

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Milleniumcon 2014, Part 2

In between demo games of Incursion, I had a chance to sight-see all the gaming goodness going on around me. I did get there at Friday afternoon so before my first demo session that evening I got to play.  

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An excellent, card driven, cinematic style, western shoot-em-up, cowboy! game

The table makes the game more enjoyable (one of the main reasons for miniatures)

My band of Outlaws: two thugs (left) and two braves

One of my braves in position

My two thugs looking for an opportunity to bush whack!!

My second brave on the rooftop for some Hollwood-style sniping

Getting ready to make a move

One of my allies getting the drop on a lawman in the overcoat

*BANG* "You're dead!
"How's about a face full of buckshot, Lawman?"

My Brave advances across the street

North Atlantic 1944 naval action (using GHQ Micronauts)

Close Action

All Quiet on the Martian Front

Excellent table for Bolt Action

Swashbuckling action: 3 Musketeers style with Dumas

A Call to Arms, Star Fleet Regulus IV

A good example of Wacky Gaming: The Witches of Edgewood using Witchfinder General

Epic Warhammer 40k

10mm Napoleonics using Honor and Arms

Classic Cowboys and Indians (Native Americans)

I stand corrected - this is the classic Cowboys and Indians

I can hear them Injuns war whoopin

ATZ (All Things Zombie) played on this ginormous,
scratch built island in 15mm

And the ubiquitous 'A Bridge Too Far' scenario
using Operation Market Garden

I was impressed by this over-sized reference sheet,
perfect for these aging eyes of mine

Another Bolt Action table using a TableWar mat and 4Ground buildings

These are 54mm miniatures

Dr Who?

15mm Gale Force Nine terrain that I acquired at the flea market

Another cool acquisition were these 28mm Rednecked Hillbillies