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Post by loyalist on Nov 24, 2017 2:10:12 GMT
After spending the last 4 months painting hundreds of 15mm Anglo-Zulu War figures and a lot of 40K figures and vehicles I'm back to assembling and painting AQOTMF models and will be hosting a game in 2-3 weeks. (Next week's game is Anglo-Zulu).
The third and last battery of Canadian medium field guns and third mine tank were assembled this evening and 30 more Lobototons were based. There are about 10 tanks left to paint including new S2G tows for my medium coil gun conversions. They're a special order with normal S2G side doors and hull HMG but have S2G 'Faraday' tank generator castings on top (the charging for the medium coil guns happens in the tow tanks). That'll finish the Canadian force.
The next task is to assemble 6 more drones, paint 45 of them, 90 lobotons and 12 more tripods of various types, which will finish the Martian force.
I doubt much work will be done on the BEF force until 2018 - hopefully after I get some better tank and carrier tracks printed or cast. For now the painted BEF force consists of a converted Land Ironclad, a squadron of armoured cars, and 4 heavy coil guns.
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Post by Quendil on Nov 24, 2017 9:51:52 GMT
Great to see you back at it. I tend to have lots of projects on the go at once as I cant focus on just one thing
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Post by Quendil on Nov 24, 2017 9:52:25 GMT
It would be good to see some pics of your Anglo-Zulu game when you play it
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Post by loyalist on Nov 27, 2017 11:26:11 GMT
It would be good to see some pics of your Anglo-Zulu game when you play it There are photos of the last game (October) on the Facebook group The Men Who Would Be Kings, which is the name of the rule set. Photos of the next game will be taken in 3 days - I'll post some here.
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Post by Quendil on Nov 27, 2017 11:31:34 GMT
It would be good to see some pics of your Anglo-Zulu game when you play it There are photos of the last game (October) on the Facebook group The Men Who Would Be Kings, which is the name of the rule set. Photos of the next game will be taken in 3 days - I'll post some here. Found the group and requested to joinn
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Post by loyalist on Nov 28, 2017 3:34:13 GMT
I don't know if the photos are still on the FB group but if so will be far down the page in Sept. or maybe early Oct. About a dozen photos of my British and Zulu forces on a Tiny wargames 'Arid Green' mat.
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Post by boxholder on Nov 28, 2017 12:20:31 GMT
Man, loyalist, your hobby schedule makes me tired just reading it! Go get 'em!
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Post by loyalist on Nov 28, 2017 20:47:21 GMT
A benefit of being self-empoyed, able to semi-retire and work 2 days per week is that I've been able to finish painting models I've had for years but didn't have time to paint or game with. Our local gaming group has Anglo-Zulu War, AQOTMF, FoW, and ACW 1/600 naval games scheduled.
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Post by loyalist on Dec 6, 2017 22:53:10 GMT
The Anglo-Zulu game a few days ago was a massacre for the Zulus. The British player usually does much better but seemed to have forgotten how to use firepower and movement effectively; he didn't move his Gatling out of charge range so it was over-run in turn 2 without firing, assaulted rather than shot at a Zulu unit with irregular colonial cavalry (which you should not do), and stood his ground with the infantry but without getting into close order for volley fire (which can be deadly). By the end of turn 4 he had lost 95% of his force versus 13% losses for the Zulus. Only 3 mounted British figures escaped the Zulus. I'd planned to take photos but by turn 2 there was just a mass of Zulus attacking British units so it was not a bit photogenic.
I tried to persuade the guys to try AQOtMF next week, but they wanted to do another game of The Men Who Would Be Kings first. Looks like it will be early January before I host the first game of AQOTMF at my place.
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Post by greenbeanie on Dec 7, 2017 0:08:18 GMT
looking forward to the BATREP and pictures of your AQMF game next year.
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Post by loyalist on Dec 27, 2017 3:13:01 GMT
The Anglo-Zulu game a few days ago was a massacre for the Zulus. The British player usually does much better but seemed to have forgotten how to use firepower and movement effectively; he didn't move his Gatling out of charge range so it was over-run in turn 2 without firing, assaulted rather than shot at a Zulu unit with irregular colonial cavalry (which you should not do), and stood his ground with the infantry but without getting into close order for volley fire (which can be deadly). By the end of turn 4 he had lost 95% of his force versus 13% losses for the Zulus. Only 3 mounted British figures escaped the Zulus. I'd planned to take photos but by turn 2 there was just a mass of Zulus attacking British units so it was not a bit photogenic. I tried to persuade the guys to try AQOtMF next week, but they wanted to do another game of The Men Who Would Be Kings first. Looks like it will be early January before I host the first game of AQOTMF at my place. Here are a few photos of the November 15mm Anglo-Zulu war game. (The palm trees were not a feature of the historical landscape but we didn't have acacias.) Most of the British units at the start of the game. Those with a mix of mounted and dismounted figures represent Imperial Mounted Infantry. A unit of Imperial Mounted Infantry foolishly letting the Zulus get into close combat. The IMI unit soon ceased to exist. Zulus hit the head of a column of 2 more units of IMI, while to the right the other British units are being finished off.
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Post by easye on Jan 4, 2018 18:16:20 GMT
The Men Who Would B eKing sis a fun system.
Were some of those "mistakes" due to bad Order dice, or were they actual mistakes?
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Post by loyalist on Jan 4, 2018 21:25:04 GMT
They were bad tactical decisions, not due to bad dice rolls.
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Post by greenbeanie on Jan 5, 2018 14:05:17 GMT
That happens when you let the Politicians run the show and not the Generals/
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Post by hardlec on Jan 14, 2018 16:09:16 GMT
That happens when you let the Politicians run the show and not the Generals/ What would the world be like if Hitler had been a better soldier than Churchill?
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