Some Famine, Sword, & Fire...and some games!

In the past week, I finally put some finishing touches on some units to use in a fantasy version of Famine, Sword, & Fire.

 

I'm not overly chuffed with the giant or the ogres, but the orcs turned out pretty good.

 

 

In addition, got a playtest game of FSF in last week, as well as several games of CCC (the dungeon crawl).

 

 

 

Some solo-Battlegroup.

I ran a solo game of Battlegroup today to test some house rules, and some randomized force tables I wrote up a while ago.  I had the guys on Facebook roll for the units.

 

The Germans ran into a pretty impossible scenario, though they almost eke'ed out a win at the end.

 

 

Scrappen-Heapen Tables.

Some pictures of various tables I've built for Scrapheap lately.  Hoping that Scrapheap will actually be ready for launch in the next couple of weeks.  A few more test orders to arrive and a little bit more editing/reviewing.

15mm Battlegroup Inventory - November '23

While stacking and sorting stuff in 15mm, I snapped some inventory pictures of the current 15mm collection.  The Soviets occupying six 4L boxes, while the Germans have stepped up to five themselves.  Room in both collections for other additions as needed.

Soviet core tanks.

Soviet infantry platoons.

Soviet assault guns, tank hunters and tracked artillery.

Soviet trucks, tractors, armoured cars and light tanks.

Soviet lend-lease vehicles and armour.

Soviet special units, artillery, anti-tank guns, and platoon support options.

German self-propelled guns, tank hunters and assault guns.

German core tank units and StuGs.

German anti-tank guns, special units and platoon support options.

German infantry platoons.

German trucks, cars, tractors, half-tracks and armoured cars.

More walls...this time in stone.

As I sat down at the hobby desk yesterday to pick something to build/paint...I remembered I had to finish off this other set of resin 15mm walls.  Instead of brick these were stone.

 

Finishing off the 15mm stack of shame.

Well, this is it.  I've finally built/painted the large stack of 15mm crap I had sitting in a box lid, staring at me while I was hobbying.  I'll be taking a break for a bit from 15mm...finally, but happy to finish this batch.  Two Battlefront Panzer III M's.

Replacing some old BA-10's (Zvezda)

So, early in my 15mm adventure, I put together (while swearing incessantly) two BA-10 Soviet armoured cars produced by Zvezda.  Why was I cursing?  They decided to make an armoured car in 26 pieces...for 15mm scale (a little over 1.5" long).  Tiny obnoxious tires, wheels, suspension, headlamp stalks, etc.  A really ridiculously stupid kit.  It was so dumb I believe they simply downscaled a 20mm kit.  This also meant that every piece of it was tiny and risked breaking when you touched them.

They also went together poorly with large seams running down the whole bodies...etc.  Basically a nightmare.  On top of that I was painting fast and furious without having done much 15mm, so my end results were poor.  I tended to avoid using them in games solely because I hated them.

Well, around 3-4 years later that has finally been rectified.  I received two 3D print models from a buddy (along with all the other crap I've painted in the past two days), and painted up some replacements.

Nicer models, nicer paintjobs, and more robust for gaming.

Compared to the older Zvezda kit on the right.

New 3D print vs. older Zvezda build.

The BA-10 collection.

One more of my Soviet bins filled to bursting at this point...