Pirates on Land, Pirates in Town

On proposal of a good friend and brother-in-law, we had a couple of games based on those magnificant Legends of the High Seas rules published by Warhammer Historical.

Being pirate and priveteer crews the quest for loot and liquer normally takes place on sea. But our scenario brought them on land, in a small town, near a ruined missionary house and even in the jungle.

The crews soon became quite dispersed and being seperated from each other they fought small mostly individual battles with a lust for loot in their excited eyes. Many brave crewman perished and only the strongest made it through. Finally these survivors had a showdown in the dense jungle, near the old temple.

Captain Badeye Burt the Buccaneer then entered this temple and went for that one golden-yellow price only to find out that it was the monkey that went bananas!

In the end all seemed lost and even in the dark some lonely crew members wandered through that treacherous jungle in search for both captain and fruitcake monkey.
 

We players had a very good time with this Legends of the High Seas scenario. For us it became certain that there will be much more pirate games in the near future. So hoist the colours!   

IMPACT of the Hired Guns

Its gonna be busy times with very interesting and relative new hobby events in the Netherlands. About a week before the previously announced and very good FIGZ convention in Arnhem, the Dutch Wargaming Club "the Hired Guns" will be holding their 2013 IMPACT MINIATURE EVENT.

After the success of the first IMPACT in 2012 there will be the expected and hoped for 2013 edition. This year there will be more different demogames, models, scenery and other wargame related items.

You can look at and perhaps particpate in demogames like Black Powder, Warhammer World War Two, Saga and Dystopian Wars. Several dealers will be present with their sales tand and there is a painting competition, a scratchbuilders happening, a second hand market and a wargaming tournament.

I visited IMPACT in 2012 and took these photo's. IMPACT 2013 will be held on May 26th 2013 at the Wijkcentrum Kom In, Germenzeel 800 in Uden. Entry is € 5,-
 

FIGZ 2013 is coming

FIGZ is an event in the Netherlands for collectors, painters and wargamers of miniatures scale 1/32 and smaller. For example scales like 28mm, 1/72, 15mm en 6mm. It is becoming a yearly event. It started in 2011 and this years edition is the third in row.

At FIGZ 2011 I participated in a 15mm Fire & Fury ACW wargame demo. There were many more gamers and standholders, modellers etc. I took these pictures at that years event.

When you are a miniature gamer or a scale modeller or just want to have a look out of interest FIGZ is certainly worthwhile paying a visit! FIGZ 2013 will take place on Sunday the 2nd of June at the Dennenweg 106 in Arnhem. Entry is FREE!

  

"Jean A De Longue Moustache"

Ici Radio Londres; "Jean a de longue moustache".  Je répète: "Jean a de longue moustache".

The new Battlegroup Overlord book is almost here! The book is from Iron Fist Publishing and the Plastic Soldier Company and is written with WW2 miniature games of 20mm or 15mm models in mind. It follows the Battlegroup Kursk rules but covers the D-Day landings and Normandy campaign.

The army lists in the book are; British Infantry, British Armoured, British Airborne and British Beach Assault. German Infantry, German Armoured, German Ersatz Panzer, Fallschirmjager and German Atlantic Wall defence. US Infantry, US Armoured, US Beach Assault and US Airborne. SS combat units can be build out off the German Armoured list and Commandos are on the British Beach Assault list.

Battlegroup Overlord seems to be available on the market very soon, so no beardgrow here from waiting, not even a longue moustache!   

All along the Watchtower

On our second hobby day my son and I were very productive. I painted up the final layer of greenskin on an Orc Warriors unit and prepared some Napoleonic troops.

My youngest (he is fifteen) finished his scratchbuild Orcish Watchtower. In my opinion this tower has become a beautiful terrain piece and I must admit that I'm a really proud to show some pictures of the structure here.

The base is from a railway hobby H0 gauge bungalow model that I quite often bombarded with marbels and other stuff while playing with toysoldiers in my youth. The smashed bungalow is long gone but the base survived and now fullfills a new purpose. How nostalgic, but Orcs donotta grinn!

Bert

Today Orcs roamed the attic

I have two holi-hobby-days. Been working on my 7YW Russian infantry. Had a lot of trouble with the coat coming of  while putting on the first layers of paint. I stopped and decided to clean them up again. Shit happens!

My youngest son was sitting next to me, busy painting a Warhammer Fantasy Battles Orc Warrior unit. He however preffered to work on his scratchbuild watchtower. That's how I ended up painting greenskins this afternoon. All in all we had a good time, sharing work and fun with our mutual hobby today.Tomorrow we continu. I promised painting the final skin layer on the Orc unit. After that I'll switch back to historical again.           

Borodino 1812 with Black Powder

Paint it black; that's what I did today with four different Russian Infantry units. These troops are for my 7YW Black Powder army. But I have plans for more Black Powder Russians. I'm going to make troops with which I can refight the famous battle of Borodino 1812 and some fictional 1812-1814 battles between Napoleonic Russian and La Grande Armee troops too.

The funny thing is that I already have some painted 1:72 Russian and French troops. These troops are oil-painted and consist mainly of old Esci figures. Now I plan for acrylic painted ones with better quality figures from companies as Zvezda, Hat and Italeri. Below are two pictures of a wargame battle with my oldies.

Bert