Black Powder Napoleonic

Thought I'd post some pics of the game that my son and I started playing. It's a 15mm version of Black Powder rules. French vs. Prussians. We both enjoy the rules. 

The Prussians are on the right lined up for action. 

A pic showing my WW1 map of Europe on the wall in the background. 

Hey John Patrick what are you doing over on the French side?😄. He joined in for about 3 full turns. 

The Prussians surge up the center. 

The French open fire and disorder a few units. 

The center is starting to get real hot. 

Prussian right pressures the French. A unit of lancers route a French hussar unit and one infantry unit! Wow! It happened fast and that is one reason we really like these rules. 

The French occupy two of the center building complexes. 

A Prussian reserve division sits and waits for an opportunity. Btw we consider each unit a brigade so 3 to 4 brigades make up a division. It seems to work well. 

Prussian cavalry reserve waiting...

The Prussians deploy their artillery reserve to blast the French out of the structures! 

To be continued....

Some Workbench Activities

I've found a little time in between house work items to hobby a little. 

I started to scratch build some bocage for my upcoming WWII campaign. John and I are going to play the TFL's pint sized campaign 'Kampfgruppe Von Luck'.   I need to paint up some supports for my Red Devils as well as some terrain. 

I am using materials that I have laying around. Poly board on wooden sticks for support. 

Here is the foam cut with my hot wire cutter (from Hot Wire Foam Factory). 

I used wood glue for a strong bond. 

Here's a pic with both 20mm & 28mm scale figures. I wanted something in between for both scales. 

The glue is dry. Now time for some stakes and paint. 

Slow Progress

I'm finally feeling 100% again. Some of my time is being applied to the shop area and so the shield maidens are progressing slowly. 

Painting female flesh tones is something I'm not use to. I have to admit it is challenging. 

Shield Maidens

Just getting over a really bad bought of flu. Ugh. Happy to be able to sit and do something!  I decided to finish a full SAGA unit of 8 shield maidens. Here's a couple of photos of the start. 

New Years brings Black Ops

Decided to just game on New Year's Day. We broke out some of my son's fantastic modern figures and used the new rules set "Black Ops". 

It was our first game so it took a little while to figure out the rules. 

We played the stealth mission: The Raid. 

Special forces are using blinds to move in close. 

Taking casualties!

The street was swept by the Seal team. 

Building cleared. 

Run away!!!

Time to leave! 

All but one tango eliminated and no casualties taken by the special forces team. It's a shame that I was on the losing side😉

New War Room

Now that my basement project is about 80% finished I 

started to unpack a few of my minis. Sneak peak of the 

new war room "The Bunker"!

Soon I will be posting my before and after photos of the project. Which by the way has soaked up most of my time since We moved in back in August. 

More Dark Ages

I've completed 6 new dark age characters. 

Not sure what to do next. Maybe Shield

maidens for my Vikings but I'm getting an

itch to finish my Zulu stuff that I have.