Worlds FoGR

the runners and riders for the Worlds being hosted in Koblenz.

Its a smaller comp, but its in Germany, so, beer anyone?

The Runners and Riders are:

- Ben Jones Thirty Years War French
- Christian Pelka War of the League of Augsburg Anglo-Dutch
- David Allen Later Imperial Austrian and German States
- Fredric Bohm Later Swedish
- Fredrik Bodin War of the League of Augsburg Anglo-Dutch
- Ian Poade Later English Civil War Royalist
- Jim Gibson Later Swedish
- Jürgen Müller Hungarian-Transylvanian
- Matteo Pasi Caroline Imperialist
- Michael Schmidt Early Thirty Years War Swedish
- Mike Pickering War of the League of Augsburg Anglo-Dutch
- Richard Young Savoyard
- Robert Medcraft War of the League of Augsburg Anglo-Dutch
- Sebastian Welkerling Early Thirty Years War Swedish
- Simon Leray-Meyer Later Thirty Years War German
- Tim Porter Early Thirty Years War Swedish

Britcon 2014

So,

the runners and riders have been posted for Britcon 2014

I've got a nemesis game vs Paddy for the first game, so, let's see what I can do this year.

All the  top seeds are there, few interesting choices, lots of the usual ones.

15mm Power Loader

Gruntz has gotten me inspired to go shopping for 15mm stuff and GZG just knows how to take your money.

So, "Get Away from her you @£$%)!&$"

It is one nice model

Run up to Britcon 2014

So,

its the run up to Britcon 2014 and the Worlds in Koblenz.


I've submitted my army and now got to finish painting the generals.

the runners and riders should be up soon, will be interesting to see what people have gone for.

Roll Call 2014

Went to Roll Call this weekend and placed 3rd!  Missed 2nd place by a point, soo close.

I borrowed a Chinese army and had a lot of fun with it.  I can see myself buying an army like that shortly.

This is the runners and riders

Ben took 1st place and Stephen got 2nd.

I played Adrian to a draw, got thumped by Alasdair and two big wins vs Mike and David.

Well happy with my performance, my game against Alasdair was the hardest, it was working all to plan, then he tore my army to pieces. 

On the positive side, got to sit in the sun for an hour.

:-)

Mad Mecha terrain

after getting all inspired by Gruntz, I found a vendor called Mad Mecha guy who makes really nice MDF terrain in a few different scales.

So, a quick order later and this is what I got for £27.  Now to paint them up

8 solar panels, they have removable bases so you can turn the panels around

15 cargo containers, 5 x 9cm long ones and 10 x 7cm long ones.  You can make them up with the doors open or closed.

8 x 8cm long billboards.  I added the base as I ordered ones that were meant to be attached to a building.

3 x helo pads

Gruntz games

Got to get a few games of Gruntz in and it's a nice little system.

nice and straight forward, we didn't have to refer back to the rules too often and it just worked.

Makes me want to go buy some more 15mm...

1st game, nothing too fancy, equal forces, basic vehicles, just enough to get our head around the system.

Tamsin had the Arc forces (blue) and I had the Titan marines (brown)

Tamsin got the first go, everything came rushing forward

The walker hiding behind a building

The plasma tank cruising up the road

The titan walker rushing up to get ready for an assault

The Titan VTOL hiding behind the cargo containers, about to pop up attack the tank

The VTOL relocated, trying for a side attack on the tank

Front look of the tank

The Arc forces attack, pushing forwards

Ambush sprung on the tank, it's dying act was to knock out the walker that killed it.