More for Northern Ireland

After completing the required figures I moved on to vehicles and was looking for scenery . The vehicles I got a Humber Pig and a Saracen from Battlefield 3D both are superb ,no clean up or sanding was needed I also bough a Hotspur Land Rover from Butlers Printed models again nice but lots of sanding needed and the lines can still be seen .The crimes toppers decals came from Butlers and these are superb , I also bought a lot of decals for my 15mm IDF as the decals supplied with the battlefront models were awful . As for scenery I looked at Warbases new Table ready Scenery and orderd a single terraced house and acouple of fields and I cannot poraise these enough ,the building comes ready painted and was ultra easy to put together ,probably the easiest MDF kit I have built , it comes so you can easily detach the roof and upper floors to place figures inside and my 1st Corp figures match up nicely with the vehicles and buildings.

The Long Ships

Well just one of them a rather bttered looking long boat for my viking games ,all done with speedpaint markers

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