Games!: Famine, Sword, & Fire (Scenario: Messengers)

In a continuation of our campaign, my buddy and I played a game of FSF this past weekend.  We selected the scenario 'Messengers' in which a weaker force holds the center of the table and must try to get two messengers off the far end of the table - despite an oncoming larger enemy force.

 

This scenario massively favours the attackers (me!), and we likely knew the conclusion in the first few turns when he couldn't get his units moving and decided to defend...which was nigh impossible.  We both had several units delayed a reinforcements and this really gummed up his plans.

 

 

 

The start of something new...or...very old?

The next of my smaller narrative forces for Famine, Sword, & Fire is a vampire themed undead force.  Similar to my Night Goblin army - this will be smaller, maybe 7-9 units that should fit in one or two boxes.

 

My group already has at least...three(?) other undead forces, so I'll be able to ally with them, or expand our narrative.

 

First unit is simply some undead wolves I got off my buddy.

 

 

An exuberance of walls...(cont.)

The rest of the wall box painted up.  There wasn't enough bits and content to really make two gated yards as I wanted, so I went with some corner walls to match generously with the other straight wall sections.

 

This year has been awfully slow with painted miniatures, a scant 110 thus far.  My yearly goal is always 120 (10 per month), so that's fine, but I won't be reaching the heady heights of the past few years where I've done 400-500.

 

However, I have added/painted a lot of terrain so I consider that a huge win, and I'm making genuine progress on actually writing the games and getting FSF to production. 

An excitement of walls...

I have formally decided that the collective noun for multiple walls is ...an 'excitement'.

 

I picked up the plastic 'stone wall' kit from Warlord Games.  It's a nice kit, and comes with - as they say - 54" of wall.  These four long stretches were too big to put on a solo base, so I kept them single, so they can line a road, etc.  The remaining bits will be done up as some walled gardens or some such.

 

 

Overall, nice and decent kit for around $25 USD.  Not mind-blowing, but very servicable.  I added the bases and the chopped up wagon wheels, obviously.

Some WW2 repaints...

Been a while since I dabbled with 15mm stuff, but I had a bunch of German vehicles I wasn't super happy with.  Instead of flogging them on eBay and buying more stuff...I just tossed them in the ultrasonic with some alcohol.

 

While they came out a bit 'chunky' - some of the primer didn't come off, so these are a bit less 'crisp' on the details, I speed-painted these to put them back into service.

 

 

Games!: Famine, Sword, & Fire

My buddy had the day off today so we managed to try out two scenarios for FSF.  In the first scenario, Bretonnians had to escort messengers off the table, fighting through Hobgoblins and Chaos Dwarfs (they succeeded).

 

In the second game, Mercenary Tileans had to escort peasants off the table through a narrow gap, defended by his newly painted Dark Elves.  In this game, the Dark Elves were about to win the game when I managed to break all the units on the table, sneaking a victory.

 

 Sadly, as usual...I was too busy gaming to take pictures, and missed tons of cool opportunities!