More Nam then on to Afghanistan

Got in 2 games of Belloludi Vietnam first game had Johns NVA lying in wait for the Aussie patrol a really quick win for the Vietnamese as the cards went against the Anzacs forcing an early withdrawel so a Victory for John . The second game last alot longer but I wish it hadnt the VC ambushes took aheavy toll on the Aussies and it was adefinate victory for the NVA with almost all the Anzacs either getting wounded or killed . Photos from both game below

Next we got in 2 games of the FOF/Ambush Alley enduring freedom supplement the first my Brits were dealing with Johns Taliban and did a great job taking out the taliban which suffered from alack of leaders getting rolled for during the reinforcement stages plus the Taliban seemed top arrive at the wrong Hotspots Second Game i ran the taliban and John brought his french on , I got my initial deployment wrong so the French dealt with my forces pretty easy at first I ahd lost a lot of tribesmen and 3 technicals before the French were half way across the board ,howevewr I had been lucky that I had rolled an I.E.D in my initail forces and then a Fog of War card gave me another ,the fisrt bomb did nothing but the next turn the French managed to roll opne of their vehicles on a smooth road I tried not to laugh but I had to . after spending 3 turns getting the vehicle back upright and making a mess of my Taliban at the same time , Johns French ran straight into my second I.E.D which destroyed bith his vehicles and killed or wounded all his troops , a great day for the Jihad . Again a selection of pics from both games .

Vietnam Week

I played a solo game of BelloLudi Vietnam My Australian SAS bumping into a NVA paytol , a nice simple set of rules that keep the period well and I plan to play a game against John as soon as we can . The pictures below are from thge game THE SAS pulled off an easy victory . Figures are all Empress

Next got a couple of fame of Force on Force Ambush Valley ,in the first game I used my Anzacs against Johns VC . John used his tunnels to great effect and caused quite a few casualties but I amnaged to Scrape avictory on points but only just . The second game my NVA attacked Johns Firebase full of US Marines , I did what I thought the most obviuos tactic and just charge with everything I had and it worked almost wiping out the Americans to a man . As LAway the Ambush Alley games are excellent such a shame they disapered . Pictures below from the two games

Hellboy the Board Game

Not played Hellboy for a while so got the Hellboy mountain out and played the introduction game to get back into the rules ,loads of fun and will start playing on a more regular basis . a picture of my collection and a few from the game

Pink Panther

Built the old Tamiya S.A.S Pink Panther , a really nice kit with hardly any clean up neeeded ,I picked up a resin kit which replaced all of the supplies and kit carried and got 2 resin figures which had a look of Sekonaia Takavesi and Austin "Fuzz " Hussey , 2 of the heroes of the Batle of Mirbat .

Games Old and New

Got a few more games in over the last couple of weeks , Firstly we played a game of 02:00 Hours Using the desert raiders supplement and cards , The SAS made a night time raidagainst afew Luftwaffe Planes and ammo dumps and failed quite quickly ,only blowing up one aircraft and losing more tha 50% of the troops Next up we went old school and dug out Ambush Alley ,John fieleded his French and I took the Taliban ,I must admit French Vehicles blow up much more dramatically than British Ones and the troops die alot quicker as well , even though John hjad a awful game losing most of his troops he did actually win by sneaking his person of interest off the table . A fantastic Game we had forgot what asuperb set of rules these were ,we ahve more games planned . Finallt we played Ambush Z and we were not impressed to be honest , we bought these just to complete our Ambush Alley /Force on Force collections and we never played them i dont think we will again below are Pics from all 3 Games First off 02:00 Hours

Next the French v Taliban Ambush Alley

Finally Ambush Z , I do love the Army Waste disposal Unit with Body Bags