cold war commander trial game

Did a quick trial game of cold war commander ,set in the Gulf War using 15mm toys all provided by John G with very little terrain to get in the way ,we even forgot to put the play mat down . We basically lined everything up and started heading for each other to try and get used to the rules , we picked them up pretty easily and I learned the hard way you need more than onee command unit rolling some awful dice and only twice managing to issue orders any damage I did was with oppurtunity fire and Johns Iraqi army well and truly kicked my ass

Modern British Infantry

Painted up some of the Design for Battle British i purchased , really lovely resin figures that paint up nicely

Mars -Code Aurora

Bought a copy of these new rules which appear to allow you to use any sci-fi minis you already have without having to buy a dedicated range . The rules read well and seem to be simple to pick up the army lists if thats what you can call them seem to tie in with all popular sci fi types ,I hope to get my first game in this weekend so dug out my Predator range to try them out I have chosen Science faction for the Predators and the Greed faction for the humans mainly as this allows you to pick figures from all the listed factions so I get to field Dutch and his team plus Anna . Figures are from Phalanx

Phalanx also do a Arnie version with a sci fi type weapon as well

I also have a few more Predators on my paint desk including some of the Hunting Hound creatures from the Adrian Brody film , plus another Arnie from the first films finale .

Some solo Gaming

Just spent a couple of weeks at our place on the coast and took some solo games with me from Mike Lambo and Minden Games , managed to get 3 games of Battles of Medieval britain ,realy love this game , 2 games of Torpedoe raiders ,1 game of Sniper Attack and tried a play through of Vimy Ridge but didnt get finishes as a friend turned up with a board Game he had bought cheap which turned out to be great fun , it was Top Gun which started with a game of beach volley ball to decide how the air combat part of the game commenced .