FSF Campaign Game 3: Dwarfs ambush poor Hobgoblins (and pay the price!)

 Just a few pictures from my third campaign game with my buddy.  Here is a quick recap:

 

Game 1: Hobgoblins ambush a Dwarf trade caravan headed toward Barak Varr.  A Dwarf shaman escapes, but the caravan's captain and his son are captured by the Hobgoblins.  Brivoli's Great Company arrive to help the Dwarfs.

 

Game 2: While tracking the Hobgoblins, Dwarfs find a destroyed town, and try to locate evidence on whether or not the Dwarf captain and his son are still alive.  The Dwarfs drove off another Hobgoblin ambush.

 

Game 3:  Dwarf scouts tracked the Dwarf captain and his son to an abandoned estate in the middle of the woods.  A large number of Hobgoblins were asleep in the estate.  The Dwarfs, with some mercenary cavalry, ambush the Hobgoblins in the middle of the night.  Having slain most of the Hobgoblins, the Dwarfs were fleeing with the hostages when they were set upon by a large relief force of wolf riders.  The Dwarfs were wiped out, and the captain and his son were taken hostage again..or slain(?).

 

 

Siege of Augusta, FSF and more FSF!

This year I almost didn't attend Siege of Augusta (a wargaming convention in...shock...Augusta, Georgia). I decided to attend last minute, so I didn't schedule a table, etc.

I showed up and was able to set up my dungeon crawl in the hall outside which turned out to be great (less noise, smell and heat!).  I only ran three games before calling it a night.

The next day I decided not to run demos of Famine, Sword, & Fire..as it really is a bit too much for a convention game.  Instead I played a few games with my friends and had a good time (also managing to sneak into a side room - even lesssss noise, etc.!).  Thanks to the guys running the ADLG tournament!

I only took a few pictures, but snagged some from my friends.

And then some games of FSF...

 

 

Following this, my buddies did a game of FSF the following day when I returned home. A game in which my buddy's rapidly expanding Bretonnian army demolished an Orc raiding party along the Black Peninsula.

Also including some army pictures we took of his Bretonnian force. 

Random Reaper Wizard

I enjoyed painting up this Wizard mini from Reaper today.  I'll be using him in Famine, Sword, & Fire along with some other skirmish games.  Unfortunately he's slightly large (he'd be a solid 7'!).

It's nice to sit and paint up a simple, whimsical mini in around an hour.

Mercenary Characters

Managed to assemble a last sprue of Northman cavalry combining left-over bits with a buddy who also had some leftover horses.  This allowed me to assemble a cavalry commander, another courier, and a minor mounted hero ('il bastardo grigio'!).

I was hoping to finish another infantry unit before Siege of Augusta next weekend, but it's not looking likely, particularly with the local weather.

Getting 2025 started...

Getting 2025 started with a volley gun artillery piece and a kind of kit-bashed Araby wizard for my mercenaries, and a couple quick heroes for the Hobgoblins.

Sliding into base at the end of the year...over 500 minis painted!

Yes, it's cheating.  I 'painted' up these last 10 minis today.  These are spectral heavy infantry which can be summoned by a spell in Famine, Sword, & Fire.

These ten guys put me over 500 painted miniatures in 2024!  That exceeds my previous best by...around 250 minis.  These are Fireforge Living Dead Warriors just primed and hit with some Vallejo contrast paints.