Muskets & Tomahawks

Not played these for a long time but John recently started painting up some AWI figures and was looking for a rule set so dug my figures out for the FIW and played a simple (we thought ) scenario . Johns Fench had to defend a village and my Brits were to capture or kill 3 traitors that were with the French .The French claimed a narrow victory We both enjoyed the game and Johns chosen these for his AWI project . A few pictures of the game ,figures mainly the excellent Galloping major ones but a few odd ones from other ranges .

Muskets and Tomahawks

 Ive been struck down with a really painful throat infection but managed to get my first game of Muskets and Tomahaks 2 in before I lost my voice and found my self struggling to do most things .I must admit I enjoyed playing the first version of M&T and was looking forward to v2 until i recieved it and found out the supplements , cards and tokens were really poor quality so put off playing until now. Well the game is excellent really enjoyed playing it and we were playing without too much consultation  of the books after a couple of moves ,The game itself went back and forth and we were not sure who would win until the very last move , a very exciting and bloody adventure with the Brits stealing the game in the end .The random drawer of cards which can give you your opponents cards to play actually added alot of suspense and made it very tactical . Below are aseries of pics from the game , mat and table by Urbanmatz ,buildings mainly 4ground with the barn from warbases ,the pigsty was charlie foxtrot the treees fencing etc a mix of show bought and home made .The figures mainly Galloping Major with some AW and a few warlord /conquest) .

October Painting Challenge -FIW update

 Another part of the challenge completed ,the largest part a mix of 40  F.I.W figures for either Sharp Practice 2 or Muskets and Tomahawks 2 , all have been sat on my painting table for a while one complete unit and the others left overs from other completed sets 

A group of Huron French Allies ,mainly Galloping Major with one odd Northstar 

12 local militaia led by self appointed Major Disaster

Two versions of daniel hyacinthe liénard de beaujeu a Fench officer who led the troops into battle in Indian garb ,the left hand figures is from Northstar and rminds me of Charles Hawtry and will never grace my table the other is a much more impressive version from Galloping Major

Rogers and some of his Rangers

A few Brave settlers led by Reverend Mister Bligh 

A lone French Militia again galloping Major

 A few Mohawks a mix of Galloping Major and Conquest Miniatures before they became Warlord 

Muskets and Tomahawks second edition.

Just received the new version of muskets and Tomahawks along with the 1st supplement and the cards and tokens. I do have the first edition which I liked but I converted to Shjarps Practice a while ago .There are alot of changes at first glance ,this ediition is acore rule book with the basic rules and you have to buy supplement books to cover different periods muchlike the black powder rules from warlord. The other changes are moving to D10 rather than D6 and how the cards are used .The book is an impressive hard back full colour but only 79 pages long which are packed with colour photos which hint at future supplements such as the Zulu war and Napoleonics . There is alot of explaining of the rules with examples throughout but a quick run through shows there only about 17 pages of rules so a pretty expensive book .The first supplement is Redcoats and Tomahawks ,a magazine like book of 42 pages ,mine is already suffering from folds and creases ,the army lists cover the French Indian war ,war of Independence and the war of 1812 ,I must admit Im not impressed with the lists at all ,again lots of colour eye candy making it a very expensive magazine .The cards again are nice but flimsy and the token set is actually a card punch out set ,written in French on one side and English the other ,again expensive for what they are , I presume some one will bring out MDF or plastic tokens soon you also need new cards and tokens for each supplement you buy . I recieved 3 free minis which are nice .Overall from what ive read so far im not looking at giving up sharp practice . 7/10

AW Miniatures French Indian Wars

My kickstarter stuff from Andrew at AW arrived today so eagerly opened the package to find the lovlie goodies shown below, 2 canoes 1 with Rangers 1 with Indians for crew ,a mounted officer for the French and British and a French Regular battle pack for muskets and tomahawks .Really nice figures fit togerther with my Galloping Major stuff  well which is a bonus ,the canoes come with loads of extras ,packs rifles etc .The battle pack contains Ix French Officer ,2 x Regular units each of 7 infantry and 1 NCO (these contain slight variations ) and six indian allies ,fantastic value.

my goodies 

The mounted officers 

The Ranger Canoe

The Indian Canoe

The M&T battle Pack

A close up of some of the Regulars

Comparison with a Galloping Major Ranger 

Wednesday Night Gaming - Muskets & Tomahawks

A 3 player game with John running the French forces
1 x regular officer
10 x Marines
6x coureurs de Bois
1 x Indian Chief
2 x 6 figure Indians

Ian played the Provisionals
1 x officer
2 x 6 figure units

and I played the Rangers who started off table
1 x officer
2 x6 figure units
4x indians

The side plots were :
John = truce
Ian = The Hostage
Me= Romance
All the officers were pretty much restricted by the side plots and when my Rangers came on table they stumbled straight into the Hurons and a bloody battle started .The game saw huge casualties on both sides with both Moral cards coming into play .The British won the game but we ll won our side plots .Everyone enjoyed the game and it caused alot of interest with other club members .

December painting

When i find that my desire to paint goes away i find jut grabbing afew figures at random gets me interested again ,so here are the chaps I turned out in December ,I wanted to finish the frostgrave gang the others helped me along .

Galloping Major Hurons

Warlord/Conquest Last of mohican characters 

7TV Big Jock and Major Twat 

NNC from Warlord

Assorted Brits from Empress

and finally my frostgrave boys . 

Galloping Major Provincials

Finally finished my provincial units for Musket & Tomahawks ,personally love these figures the entire range is stunning and I am holding out for Lance to get his British and French Regulars in production .