Burrows and Badgers street gang ,townsfolk and city watch

The latest kick starter figures have arrived from Oathsworn today ,as always well packed and beutiful miniatures . The 26 figures depict various beasts as towns folk who have special rules in an upcoming supplement ( test rules are in Oathsworn 5 for all 3 new factions), along with the city watch to protect them and the gang which remind me of Peaky Blinders lots of rough looking villains in flat caps and waistcoats Two new animals are included a pigeon Union Boss and a Chihuahua Watch Sergeant

02:00 hours first 2 games

Played the first two scenarios from the rule book , the First HUNTED had the SAS trying to get past the German patrols ,the SAS won by taking out most of the Germans after lucky dice rolls had the Germans corner the Brits things looked dodgy for the SAS but some great shooting cleared a path through the Germans and The Brits escaped the table. The Second scenario BUTCHER AND BOLT saw the Royal Marine Commandoes getting into a gunfight with a large German force ,a bloody game but the Commandoes just won the day . Really enjoyable game with enough differences from other ww2 games .

Ready for Action ,my 02:00 hours figures

Finished enough miniatures todo a few scenarios for 02:00 , mainly the plastics ,which come with the starter and first 2 expansions ,plus the metal figures from the expansion and the preorder figure ,Ifancied some typical Commando comic types for the RM commandoes so ordered a few from `Dixon miniatures. The plastics are nice made by Wargames Atlantic they suffer from the usual multi part issues that some of the arms do not fit the shoulder position properly but overall they are really nice Ihave seen afew complaints about them holding weapons in the wrong way but the game is I think cinematic and after all they are toy soldiers . Not sure who makes the metal miniatures that came with the game but they are very nice and for the Commandoes I chose Dixon miniatures as the ones that come with the box set are basically the SAS figures again , the Dixon fit in nicelly and are lovely except on acouple of figures the weapons look abit short . All based on the plastic bases that come in the box sets ,these are again great and come with a cemtral hole to fit a magnet in so they all fit nice and safe in one of the steel lined foile boxes Tim Gow gave me .

The above show off the Germans ,vehicles by Anyscale and terrain by Sarrisa

The SAS with a couple of thetroopers helping the SOE agents reunite the pilot and his aircraft

And the Roayl Marine Commandoes ,mainly Dixon but acouple of the metals from the expansion box as well

02:00 Hours German Sentries

Stuck together a few of the plastic Germans ,just enough for a small game , I included the metal sentry pulling on his coat , late for duty . This was free with the preorders . Nice figures go together well my only gripe is the very small ammo pouches for the rifle armed soldiers are very fiddly but this is probably down to my huge fingers and poor eyesight . Will try and get these painted before I try the SAS . The pictures show agroup of sentries in variuos poses incluidng the metal one , a pair of feldgendarmes ,an officer and NCO and 2 dog handlers

02:00 Hours

Well after my earlier post regarding my HellBoy Kickstarter ,I had hardly stopped drooling when the postie , knocked and my 02:00 hours preorder set arrived , a quick look and I m impressed , the rule book was slightly smaller than I expected being used to the normal A4 books ,but this is well printed and looks sturdy . The plastic figures are nice made by Wargames Atlantic ,I supose the only issue is that in the expansions the plastice figures are the same as in the main set ,so are not quite what I wanted for commandoes but not a big problem really , the metal figures are very nice although mine were mispacked and I didnt get a demolition expert but got 2 downed pilots ,but an hour after my email informing them about the error I had areply saying the correct figure would be posted out and I could keep the spare pilot. Counters are good thick card stock ,will have aproper look later and get some better pictures put up , also today the Post brought me the rule book Dawn of Iron ,the ACW at Sea . from scary biscuits studio . What a day

And the Dawn of Iron

The Big Box of Doom

As you will know I love the Hellboy board game and eagerly took part in Mantic's last Kickstarter ,which not only gave me tha massive big box of doom containing loads of figures and new missions and new or upgraded agents but also the free Hellboy Dice game ,it also gave me change to pick up some of the earlier releases I missed so grabbed the Conquerer worm expansion , Christmas Hellboy diorama and a resin Johann Krauss and a resin Nimue plus of course some add ons which consisted of the limited edition Hellboy drinking with Skeletons diorama ( 2 actually one is a present for my Pal ),a folding dice tray and probably more as I ahve not had time to look at the stuff yet . Lots of new scenarios and charecters to play and dozens of figures to paint .

Cluedo Hostage Rescue Team .

Had the pleasure of helping run Sheffield Wargames Societies participation game at a local show Chilcon. I have played the game before and it is tactical but great fun ,John Armatys has done a great job turning the classic cluedo game into a special forces rescue mission with all the characters Miss Scarlett , Reverand Green and friends being held hostage by some nasty terrorists whose first act is to execute Dr Black and leave his body as a warning on the steps to the mansion . The players take the part of the special forces team and make the plan then execute it to save the hostages ,not knowing where the hostages and terrorits are or even how many bad guys there are . The show was pretty quite but we managed to run one practice game before the show opened and then ran it three times for the public who all seemed to enjoy it , i even overheard one group saying it was the best game at the show. Games such as this can be found at Wargames Developement or along with more serious games at Sheffield Wargames Society .

Ambush Alley =The Next War

Itys taken quite a while but its here at Last ,the latest version off Force on Force from Ambush Alley Games . AmbushAlley The Next War is available fromWargames Vault as a download at the moment its awork in progress but as Shawn updates orf adds things you will get free updates once you have purchsed this version . This set covers skirmish actions from the cold war period to the far future A really exciting deveopement from Peggy and Shawn .