The first lot I will be tackling will be the Viking types which are suitably heroic looking and ideal for a fantasy type set up. There are also some Samurai types - more like well dressed Ronin to be honest that look pretty good and should be useful. The rest of the models are mainly sci-fi types (excepting the dragon of course) which is not a problem as I will have a use for them as well.
The great thing about skirmish level games is of course the fact that you do not need a huge number of figures and so are a good option for me at the present especially as even a DBA army presents a real challenge in terms of time to prepare.
The terrain tiles I am especially pleased with as I have a number of plans for these. You may recall that I have a large selection of these that have been flocked and painted courtesy of Bob Cordery which I have used for a couple of games. The plan is to use the additional tiles for a desert type set up (Bob's old set is in grass green) in due course and I may well be tacking this as my Christmas project. My firm shuts down from Christmas Eve until the New Year so tackling terrain will make a pleasant change from eating, drinking and watching endless repeats on the TV!
The blue tiles are also very welcome as I now have sufficient to make a 13 by 9 hex playing area - the standard Command and Colours battlefield - ideally suited to smaller scale ship models. This will enable me to revisit my 1/1200th Ancient galleys in due course and the often mentioned Salamis type project.
Much to ponder methinks.
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Good man DC there's definitely something to be said for having stuff ready to go. There's a goodly amount of prepainted fantasy stuff out there (check em4 miniatures and the hasbro prepainted figures) if you know where to look.
David,
I only wish that I had kept the huge collection of these figures that I acquired when I bought my Heroscape terrain. I know that you had some of them, but quite a few were passed on to a young fantasy gamer ... and I hope that they are still getting fun out of them.
All the best,
Bob
Ancient galleys sounds good - I fancy expanding my hex system to blue waters next for some naval gaming. Tumbling Dice (UK) have a good range of smaller models.
Hello Mr Kinch,
Funny you should mention EM4 - the whole range looks pretty good so I may well dip into it for some bits and pieces.
All the best,
DC
Hi Bob,
Sadly the figures I got from you I got rid of when having one of my periodic clearouts - BIG MISTAKE!!
If the younger gamer has made use of them then that is all to the good - I know of a number of fanatsy gamers that have morphed into historical types over time.
All the best,
DC
Hi Norm,
My galleys are all Navwar 1/1200th and so they fit on the Heroscape tiles very nicely - they are a little lost on the Hexon version. I have a number of dormant ideas around this that I now have the terrain to realise so watch this spca e (although not too closely....)
All the best,
DC
You ancient galley project is likely going to make me cave on my own long postponed project.
The 1/1200 stuff is very nice - but then I found this...
http://olicanalad.blogspot.com/search/label/Naval%20Wargames
Probably a bit beyond my own capabilities and resources but, wow...
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