Skirmish Sanguin at the club

 Tom ran a beautifully staged Skirmish Sanguin game at the club last night.  This as my first time with the rules and lets just say it showed!

The scenario was a British Patrol, along with a squad of Afghan Police trying to sweep a Village.  Ed and I each took a four man British section with the Keith taking the Afghan Police.  Ed and I weren't too sure about the loyalties of the Police so had them take point.

The high point of the game for my squad - landing a grenade close enough to do a little damage.  The rest of the scenario was pretty much a disaster.  Ed's squad found an IED the hard way, The afghan police got shot up but did have the best showing of our group.  I had one medium wound and decided that retreating was a much better option.

My squad retreating.  I liked the rules, but this is a game that requires you to both really know the rules and likely takes 2-3 play through before you're proficient.  I would like to play again - especially on Tom's wonderful terrain and minis.

AHPC VII: A few more posts of stuff I painted

 The following are a set of pics of the stuff I finished in the last weeks of the Challenge, excluding the last weekend

12 SAS troopers (Perry minis)

 A British Sherman without any decals

 A US infantry regiment from the War of 1812 (Brigade games)

 Some insurgents and modern Aussies from Empress miniatures

Analogue Hobbies Challenge: Modern Russians and Brits plus some Chindits

 I'm starting to get back into "high production" mode for the Challenge.  With this group I've completed all the figures I need for this years Historicon games.

 16 Modern Russian infantry from Empress miniatures.  Wonderfully sculpted minis.

 A group of 10 Warlord Chindits.  I'm sorry to say the casting quality of these figures was really awful.  They came out alright but required a lot of clean up.

 Lastly a largish group of British infantry - 20 regular infantry and

8 SAS operators.

Like the Russians, these figures are from Empress and are truly superb.

AHPC VII: Modern US Marines

Another entry in the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge - a small force of US Marines with some transport.  All the figures and vehicles are from Empress Miniatures and are are superb.  Empress is beginning to Challenge the Perry's as my favorite miniature maker.

 A Striker IFV to provide a little armor support

 A team of four Delta operators.  I'll be repainting the red hats a different color as they were not meant a s a political statement about the current moron we have in office.  The latest debacle with Michael Flynn is pretty horrifying.

 16 US Marines

 and finally a HMVE - got to have one of those!

I've got a few other catch up posts to make this week.

Mummies, Afghans, LRDG, Big Monsters - More Challenge entries

Another big photo dump from the Challenge

Some dungeon baddies

The mummies are Reaper Bones figures and I really can't recommend them - way to bendy

Modern Afghans from Empress Miniatures - superb figures

LRDG vehicles from Perry

Dungeon monters - these are reaper figures also but much more fun to paint.  The Bones material works very well with larger figures.

Frostgrave Demons

Action shot - you might see something like this as Historicon 2017