Showing posts with label Salute. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salute. Show all posts
Monday, 11 April 2016
Salute !
Folks me and my eldest son are making our annual pilgrimage to Salute and we'll be in the Fox pub from about 830 on Friday night if anyone fancies a pint and a natter. The pub is right next to excel heres the link Fox @ Excel
Monday, 11 May 2015
Update, Salute, Ambush Alley and stuff for sale!
It's been a couple of weeks since my last post, due mainly to work on my house, decorators, joiners and the like causing chaos!
Salute was its usual high performing self and without a doubt the highpoint of the show for me was getting to play a pre-release version of "Fighting Season" the new adaptation of "Chain of Command" for Afghanistan and Iraq . The supplement is a collaboration between Rich Clarke and Leigh Neville, who is a friend of mine, and is due out in the summer.
I'm not intending to go into a long winded review of the rules, these are only a test version at the moment, but what I will say is that these are looking to be the system of choice for Afghanistan and Iraq at the platoon level. The collaboration was obviously worked really well, Rich Clarke is one of the leading tabletop wargame designers and Leigh Neville has the up to date military knowledge of systems, units, and tactics that give the feeling that your out there in the irrigation ditches and the heat!
A fuller review will be forthcoming when the rules are released. Its always good to regularly check the Lardies blog for up to date news, the links here, toofatlardies
On the gaming front I've been playing a little Ambush Alley again and the photos below are some recent additions to my 20mm setup. First up are a couple of contractors, figures are Liberation.
A container
A couple of skips
Some Cararama cars, including a repaint into an Iraqi taxi
On the painting front I've started doing some work for sale, the stuff below will be going on eBay very shortly but if you want to make a reasonable, sensible offer for any of the items get in touch. Dougie
The first is a Confederate artillery stand, this has been on eBay but there were a few issues with the buyer so its available again. 28mm by the Perrys when they worked for Foundry.
A group of 7 Renaissance gun crew, 28mm again by the Perrys when they worked at Foundry.
As I've said get in contact if any of these items interest you, I'll shortly be available for commission work, there'll be a full update on the blog when I kick off.
Salute was its usual high performing self and without a doubt the highpoint of the show for me was getting to play a pre-release version of "Fighting Season" the new adaptation of "Chain of Command" for Afghanistan and Iraq . The supplement is a collaboration between Rich Clarke and Leigh Neville, who is a friend of mine, and is due out in the summer.
I'm not intending to go into a long winded review of the rules, these are only a test version at the moment, but what I will say is that these are looking to be the system of choice for Afghanistan and Iraq at the platoon level. The collaboration was obviously worked really well, Rich Clarke is one of the leading tabletop wargame designers and Leigh Neville has the up to date military knowledge of systems, units, and tactics that give the feeling that your out there in the irrigation ditches and the heat!
A fuller review will be forthcoming when the rules are released. Its always good to regularly check the Lardies blog for up to date news, the links here, toofatlardies
On the gaming front I've been playing a little Ambush Alley again and the photos below are some recent additions to my 20mm setup. First up are a couple of contractors, figures are Liberation.
The first is a Confederate artillery stand, this has been on eBay but there were a few issues with the buyer so its available again. 28mm by the Perrys when they worked for Foundry.
Thursday, 17 April 2014
Salute 2014
Folks,
had my yearly pilgrimage from the north down to Excel and what a show it was! The show for me was really about meeting Colin Phillips and Craig Watterson from Radio Dishdash Publishing, the folks behind the "Skirmish Sangin" system. As the majority of you know I get very excited about this game and its been my main wargame focus for a while, when it came out I already had my large 20mm setup so I was off to a good start.
The lads had set up a very cool table and played numerous games throughout the day, the feedback I got was extremely complimentary and a credit to Colin and Craig. Anyone who is in the slightest bit interested in this period, or indeed post WW2 conflict, the core rules are a dream to use, should pick a copy up!
http://www.radiodishdash.co.uk/
Its very well supported on their blog and yours truly has a "How to" on painting 28mm Empress Brits, the link for the blog is below,
http://skirmishsangin.blogspot.co.nz/
At the risk of setting some heads spinning I've been looking to start off a very complete Skirmish Sangin Afghan set up in 28mm, I'm still keeping my 20mm stuff, a number of folks have already been tempting me with cash for my collection! Based around Empress and Eureka figs the show purchases centred around this.
I'd preordered some of the superb Eureka Taliban as well as their packs of Afghan National Police, these are awesome figures and will be featuring on the blog soon. Because you need so little figure wise to set up a visit to Empress got me some USMC for Afghan as well as the superb M-ATV. I was fully expecting to be scratching my buildings however while passing Renedra I picked up one of their new Mud-Brick houses so we'll see what that's like.
In the Fox@Excel the night before Salute the conversation with Colin and Craig covered all aspects of modern gaming, my main wargaming interest, and the old eighties film "The Beast" about the Soviets in Afghanistan, was discussed and its suitability as a scenario.
"The Beast"
The clever folks at Eureka have just released an excellent pack of Soviet Motor Rifles, as well as a pack of dismounted tank crew based on the characters in the film. More money spent!
All this stuff will feature in the blog so keep dropping in.
Dougie
had my yearly pilgrimage from the north down to Excel and what a show it was! The show for me was really about meeting Colin Phillips and Craig Watterson from Radio Dishdash Publishing, the folks behind the "Skirmish Sangin" system. As the majority of you know I get very excited about this game and its been my main wargame focus for a while, when it came out I already had my large 20mm setup so I was off to a good start.
The lads had set up a very cool table and played numerous games throughout the day, the feedback I got was extremely complimentary and a credit to Colin and Craig. Anyone who is in the slightest bit interested in this period, or indeed post WW2 conflict, the core rules are a dream to use, should pick a copy up!
http://www.radiodishdash.co.uk/
Its very well supported on their blog and yours truly has a "How to" on painting 28mm Empress Brits, the link for the blog is below,
http://skirmishsangin.blogspot.co.nz/
At the risk of setting some heads spinning I've been looking to start off a very complete Skirmish Sangin Afghan set up in 28mm, I'm still keeping my 20mm stuff, a number of folks have already been tempting me with cash for my collection! Based around Empress and Eureka figs the show purchases centred around this.
In the Fox@Excel the night before Salute the conversation with Colin and Craig covered all aspects of modern gaming, my main wargaming interest, and the old eighties film "The Beast" about the Soviets in Afghanistan, was discussed and its suitability as a scenario.
"The Beast"
The clever folks at Eureka have just released an excellent pack of Soviet Motor Rifles, as well as a pack of dismounted tank crew based on the characters in the film. More money spent!
All this stuff will feature in the blog so keep dropping in.
Dougie
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