15mm Wargaming for Fun and Sanity: OAAH. A clash of Martian cavalry!

15mm Wargaming for Fun and Sanity: OAAH. A clash of Martian cavalry!: In February 2020 (if man is still alive)   I'm planning to run an Of Armies And Hordes participation game at Beach head in Bournemou...

FUBAR Wargames

The FUBAR Wargames blog is dedicated to publishing free, simple, brief and clear rules for wargames.

Many of the sets featured here are the products of a collaboration between Craig Cartmell and a group of stalwart and imaginative wargamers who are called collectively The Forge of War Development Group.

The group’s golden rule is credit where credit is due. Thus each person who contributes to a game is credited for that contribution in the ruleset.

Craig has been designing and publishing free sets of rules for over twenty years, and gaming for a lot longer than that. Recently he hit pay dirt co-authoring the In Her Majesty’s Name series of wargames rules for Osprey with his old friend Charles Murton. This led him to not working on FUBAR and other projects, something that will now change with the creation of this blog.

Craig Cartmell, is a little strange and likes to talk about himself in the third person.

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Fight For The High Ground Part II

Fight For The High Ground Part II

Fight For The High Ground!

*Location* Graveskul Orbit *Background* The War for New Texas is in full swing, and in the previous action  the telemetry of fighters that engaged revealed the location of the enemies' capital ships. Cpt. Thuries, commanding the Shelley, coordinates with the Lone Starr ...and both ships max thrust to intercept The Dragon and Cerberus eagerly turn to meet them ...and the Lone Starr and Shelley deploy their boarding teams to be ready for whatever the battle brings. LAUNCH FIGHTERS! The initial salvos are savage. Unexpectedly, the allies roll... ...
The Battle Of Two Moons

Mayhem in the Midwest: The Fight for New Texas

Now a look form the other side of the battle for New Texas

Fight For New Texas

TJOTMS, Ep 18: Arrival - Battle of Apache Canyon

Well They've gone and done it!  Hats off boys great game and the lead up was to die for!

From The Major:

*The big weekend finally arrived. We played 8 games (7 connected) games and it really lived up to everything I thought it would....* *Background* After fighting her way across Sector Six and beyond, the KCS Mary Shelley has finally arrived at her goal, New Texas: the source of teleportium and possibly the key to galactic wide instantaneous galactic wide teleportation. (see all previous posts labeled "Voyages of the Mary Shelly") Unfortunately, not only is the planet engulfed in a brutal Civil War, but the sworn enemy of Colores, the 4th Reich, has also sent a warship to New Texas.

Big weekend!

Mecha Monday: House Hawkshroud Imperial knight

Fawcett Avenue Conscripts: House Hawkshroud Imperial knight: I finished my Imperial Knight a few days ago and finally got around to taking some pics. I'm fairly happy with it, though I won't wi...

David's Cold Weather Sahadeen by Rebel Minis

Way back in May 2009, I bought a pack of Sahadeen from Rebel Minis after seeing a review of them on the Dropship Horizon blog. I eventually bought a weapons pack and a pack of Sahadeen War Maidens to go with the basic squad and then I got stuck for painting ideas.

A thread on TMP discussed the lack of suitable cold climate troops - the only figures people could suggest were either a small range from Khurasan Miniatures (which I can't find on their website) or the Scandinavian Federation figures from Ground Zero Games.

It was at this point that I began to wonder how the Sahadeen might look if painted up for a cold climate.

I decided that the breather masks would be GW Scab Red - a splash of colour in an otherwise subdued pallet of greys and middle blue armour. Bases were also painted Tamiya XF-24 Dark Grey. I then glued on scattered pieces of my green sponge/bush flock and dabbed these with Tamiya X-2 White as if they were little snow dusted bushes.

As the paint went on, the figures began to come alive and I felt, in my own mind, that my colour choice was sound. While the Sahadeen were conceived of as a desert people, their hoods and breather units and goggles could equally be used by a people living in a wet and/or cold or otherwise bleak climate.

Looking at the figures, I'm reminded of the cover art for the Andre Norton novel, Night of Masks. Set on a blasted world orbiting a red giant, anyone needing to go out on the surface has to wear both breathers and light-enhancing goggles.

So, I'm pretty pleased with the way my Sahadeen have come out, and I like the fact that with a little bit of lateral thought, one can make any science fiction figures fit into any story you wish to tell.

And here's the entire unit - two squads of riflemen, a heavy weapons squad, and an HQ squad.

See more of David's splendid work here : David's Painting and Modeling Log

Mecha Monday: Future War Stories: VOLTRON: Defender of the...

Future War Stories: Military Sci-Fi Oddities: VOLTRON: Defender of the...: After President Reagan altered the relationship between the media and advertising around 1983 came the deregulation that was the genesis o...

Mecha Monday: Xulutec, 15mm Mech

Xulutec : 15mm Mech: White Dragon mini again, 15mm Fiddler Mech. Airbrushed using masking tape.

All Arms In Action (1961)

I saw this and thought of one of Al's Cold War Games

Mecha Monday : At Cold Wars

Mecha Monday

"It's Them! Blast 'Em!": Panzer Marsche! Follow Up

"It's Them! Blast 'Em!": Panzer Marsche!: Haaaloooo, Possums!!! So, an old client coaxed me out of my lair to build him a combined arms combat brigade for Hammer's Slammers, and ...

(pictured below is another of his units that I'm currently aping    not exactly copying
but using as inspiration to do something similar with some cheap toy tanks with nice turret
changes and other add ons....more to follow )