Wednesday Night Gaming -7TV2 Star Wars

Had a great game of 7tv 2nd edition last night using the free star wars supplement . The scenario was basically the escape one from the rule book with the added story of teh AT AT had been disabled and certain items (objective tokens) needed scavening from the wreckage ,It was really good fun with the countdown cards and gadgets adding loads of moans and groans along the way ,The dark side won basically I was going to do a more in depth report but got so involved didnt jot down all the info and forgot to take turn by turn pics .Figures are hero clix ,mat by Urbanmatz ,rules 7tv .

Pre game story -the AT AT under attack

pilot eyes view

My forces 

a very slow advance 

thats gotta hurt 

Luke and is Dad have afall out 

your not going to sneak up on Solo in that 

Anzac Platoon HQ

Just finished my Platoon HQ for Ambush Valley a mix of RH and Brittania figures . The HQ consisits of officer ,Nco , medic RTO and a scout/runner .

L-R Medic ,Officer,RTO,NCO Scout

Anzac armour W.I.P

At Triples iIvisited the Grubby Tank stand to complain about the quality of the vehicles i had ordered from them and asked to inspect the next ones I wanted to finish my units off ,they admitted that a lot of their resin was not up to scratch but they now had a  new moulding processes ,I had alook and the 2 centurions I wanted were a lot better the M1113's with Gage Turrets were out of stock but I took a gamble and paid for 2 to be delivered ,again they were a lot better but not as good as the centurions and still needed a bit of filling . Work in progress pics below of the models to give me a force of 4 Centurions and 4 M113's for the Battle of Binh Ba .Also a pic of the 1st finished M113 ,theFoul Boy took part in many actions in Nam .

The last 6 Armoured Vehicles for Binh Ba 

Foul Boy 

RH Models -Australian S.A.S

When `i ordered my Ambush Valley Australian infantry off of Rolf at RH models I also ordered apack of each of his SAS for nam as well ,they are as always lovely ,they are in 3 packs ,one has 9 figures with different headgear and Rifles and smg's ,the second contains 3 with M203 grenade launchers an the last has 2 LMG's .The 9 figure pack is my favourite one chap has asterling with silencer another has a M79 grenade launcher in one hand and ashotgun across his chest , a alot of the figures I thinmk were inspired by the Anzacs in Nam osprey . Again as always there is little or no flash and the figures are full of character .

10/10

OZSAS-9 figures with mix of weapons .

OZSASLMG

OZSASGREN

wednesday night gaming -Cursus Honorum 11

Went to Sheffield wargames Society gameless last night but on arriving was offered the chance by John Armatys to take part in the dry run of wargames developments Triples participation game ,Cursus Honorum 11, now I have played the Cursus Honorum 111 card game but this was almost aroman version of monopoly . The game is wonderful ,again a game of possible promotion through the Roman society with plenty of chances to get honour and ramk by either being loved by the people or being down right dirty (that would be me then ) .The game took about 35-40 minutes to play with 6 players ,4 of whom had not played before we all picked it up really quickly and had a great time ,especially me has not only was I first around the board but I won with an amazingly high score .If you are at Triples look out for this and take half an hour out to play it at least once ,highly recommended plus I also understand John and his team will be offering a discount on WD membership ,even though I am running a game I am hoping to take time out to play again .

My game card just before my last flurry of gaining lots of honour and dignity 

John (wearing the laurels )and Dave look on in amazement as I do a victory parade  around Rome 

Deutschland 83

I purhased some cold war Bundeswehr figures about 2 years ago from Elheim  and after watching the C4 drama Deutschland 83 and then a request by Tim Gow to borrow some of my cold war toys I was spurred on to get them painted ,not a complete wargames unit I still need a command group and a couple of Milans plus marders or M113s depending on year Im playing but a nice start I am sure they will stand side by side with my Brits

.A couple of pics below but i will take some better ones later .

Wednesday Night gaming-Terminator

Had our 2nd game of Terminator last night ,1st game with all the rules and really enjoyed it (I won ) ,this tme i played the resistance and John ran the Terminator infiltrator which caused havoc and went through my forces like aknife through hot butter until alucky shot took him down just as all seemed lost . The game from Warlord is very good has the flavour of the movies and has agood support from Warlord .

The resistance waits ,the sniffer dog starts getting edgy 

The infiltrator advances 

not used in this game but had to show old Arney 

kyle Reese and Johhn Conner again not used but nice figure all belong to John Grayson 

Anzac Centurion

Finished my first centurion for Nam ,I am pleased with it seeing as it was such awful casting and its the first time I have used pigmenst for the mud and rust effects .

Urbanmatz second review .

I was incredibly impressed with my first Urbanmatz purchase so I ordered 2 more ,The service was just as good , emial cofirmation when my order was placed late Sunday and another with tracking details before they  arrived thursday and if you read my last review you may remember I mentioned there was no name or markings on the bags and as I knew I would be ordering more and would end up taking the wrong bag with to the club ,well Martin at Urbanmatz read my post and not only remedied that issues by putting name and size tags on the nags for free but even sent me aspare one for my previous purchase . I will ask Martin if they are going to produce a desert terrain in 6x4 and a Urban mat with a British road lay out ,if so they will be my next purchases .

My collection so far with name tags 

6x4FT Grasslands Mat
My favourite so far the grass and rocks have an amazing 3-D look to them and jsut by coincidence almost matches my basing .I used this today for another play test of my "Nothing Remains but to Fight " Rules Pictures below

The Mat in its full glory

The detail is amazing almost 3D

Zulu's Fasans of em !

The Zulu's close in

The thin Red Line awaits its fate 

The NNC ,one of the new rules I wanted to test ,they ran as expected 

The cavalry another new rule , They performed very well but died enmasse when they dismounted 

Marching to their doom

One group of the Brits make a last stand 

3x3 Snow Terrain Mat
Very nice indeed perfect for Frostgrave and snowy 7TV games I have planned .

The detail is just as good as my other 2 mats