Gaming Weekend - The Photos

As promised here are the photos from the weekend:

Gaming Weekend - Jan 09

Colonial

Lenin has a frankly astonishing number of the Wargames Foundry and Copplestone Castings Darkest Africa figures - I wouldn't be surprised if it was all of them actually! Anyway, the ones he has managed to paint (and it's a surprisingly large number of them) don't see the table anywhere near often enough as they're very nice (as you can see). So we decided to kill two birds with one stone and try out the Antwerp Fusiliers' Afriboria rules with them.

Colonial

The rules are inspired by the Commands and Colors system but give a different type of game. We enjoyed it but there was rather too much of people being surprised by animals and eaten for our liking (not enough variety in the event cards!). It certainly has promise though.

Russo-Japanese War

Lenin picked up a load of 15mm figures for this period when he was in the States and, as you can see, has made a fine job of painting them. We had previously tried a modified version of Fire & Fury for an earlier game but they didn't quite give the feel we were looking for. So I suggested making some small tweaks to the Too Fat Lardies' Triumph of the Will rules and cobbled together the Battle of Yalu River, 1904 as a trial. The results were pretty good.

Russo-Japanese War

Renaissance

As with many period it can be quite different things that get you interested. In this case it was the figures more than anything else. Vendel Miniatures produce a number of excellent 28mm figure ranges and whilst I couldn't justify their Greeks I managed to convince myself that I needed their Border Reivers.

Renaissance

I have since extended the period with the acquisition of some of the Vendel Elizabethan Irish which I am in the process of basing.

I've tried a number of rule sets with these figures including Vendel's own Hot Trod & Red Hand, Fyre and Sword and the Antwerp Fusilier's Renaissance Raiders; however, for skirmish I think I may fall back to Two Hour Wargames' Black Powder Battles (with suitable adjustments). I'm still trying to work out which rules I will use for the Elizabethan Irish games though...

Steampunk

I have been slowly collecting some interesting miniatures to use for Steampunk or Victorian Science Fiction if you prefer. The album shows my 25mm Parroom Station Masked Minions and an Ironclad Miniatures steam tank on the surface of Mars.

Steampunk

Photo Spring Clean

I know it's a little early to be spring cleaning but I decided to organise my gaming photos - hence the massive growth of my Picasa albums. I'll be putting in additional entries for each of the new albums over the next couple of days. Some of the photos were previously published on a small Yahoo website I was running and some haven't been on the web before.

Pictures from the Gaming Weekend

Gaming Weekend - Jan 08