15mm hex based Fantasy Battle

 Played a game of my home brew hex based 15mm fantasy rules. They are loosely based on Command and Colors / Battle Lore with custom dice.

Human kingdom and barbarians vs Orcs/goblins+.

The humans pulled out a victory by taking the hill (uncontested) and destroying enough enemy units. The Orcs were 1 base away from winning by destroying a whole command and enough units. Final score...9 to 4.

I will make some rules edits based on the battle and then they are playable minus refined rules for leaders/characters, and magic.

Of Armies and Hordes (15mm fantasy)

I got the urge to get a 15mm fantasy game on the table over Christmas. I set things up and played it out in January using the Of Armies and Hordes rules. These rules have a very interesting area movement mechanic that I like, but the rules just don't beat out my Field of Battle mash up.

The Hobbits, Gnomes, and Fauns took on Orcs, Goblins, and Hobgoblins.

The evil forces surged ahead but the Fauns got to the ruins in the nick of time. The Hobbit cavalry won the day with one unit of militia ram riders destroying three enemy units.

Next up on the table...my inaugural game with the Slaughterloo fantasy Napoleonic 28mm figures.

July 2019

A fine month in the hobby. I attended Historicon, painted a few figures, and got in a game at home even with traveling for work for a week.

In August a I expect to finish 36 x 28mm figures, and get in 1 game.

Last picture is a test game of my hex based Commands and Colors fantasy variant...turned out better than expected. Some more tweaks to do.

PAINTING
2 x 28mm armored cars for AVBCW: 4 points
1 x 15mm dragow with rider: 2 points
Total: 6 points
---I also worked on the 28mm fantasy project.

GAMES
7 games at Historicon
1 game at home
8 total

BUDGET
$1000 total for Historicon including travel expenses
$2225 year to date

June 2019 and mid-year review

Great hobby month. Finished off a major project, rebased some figures to match all the rest, played a game and started another. Prepared the next two months of figures with the next project, and got my shopping list for Historicon all set.

Half way through the year. Time for a review of the year so far.

15mm fantasy game with my home brew mash up rules, Piquet/Hostile Realms variant

Humans crushed the Undead on one flank, while the Undead crushed the Elves on the other

Dwarven Pike held the hill against the zombies

Ghosts were the Undead heroes of the day

Last of the AVBCW figures painted and based

Hex 15mm fantasy game set up for next game

72x 28 MM fantasy plastic figures from several different sets, primed and washed, ready to go

Based the last of the Pulp figures

Plans for 2019

1- Complete all on hand AVBCW figures by end of June
--- DONE!

2- Game more than 10 games
--- 4 so far, good start since I have 7 planned for Historicon and 1 on the table at home

3- Attend Historicon
--- All set for next month

4- Keep spending under $1000 (plus Historicon)
--- FAILED! Started a new project...I was doing great.

5- Consider the next major task from the list below:
- Phase II of 6mm SciFi--- bump to 2020
- Phase II of Wooden Warriors--- Will be taken over by the new 28mm plastic fantasy figure project
- Phase II of Zombies--- I want about 20 survivors and 20 more zeds
- Phase II of AVBCW --- I think I will call this done after getting 2 armored cars at Historicon
- Return to 15mm Fantasy--- huge # on hand
- Start Slaughterloo--- same

--- Selected a new project not on the list...28mm fantasy. I will take PH2 of wooden warriors and AVBCW off the list above. Will look for the zombie figures/survivors at Historicon.


PAINTING
42 x 28mm AVBCW figures: 42 points
Total: 42 points

GAMES
1 x 15mm fantasy game

BUDGET
$85 for the month, Litko bases for the next project
Total: $1225 YTD

May 2019

Painting continues apace...one last group of AVBCW figures on the table to finish in June.

I went off the rails again and purchases a large batch of figures for my next project...28mm Fantasy with a focus on small skirmish and medium sized warband games. I am going to kitbash from all sorts of plastic sets.

Signed up for Historicon...looking forward to lots of gaming and minimizing purchases.

Mixed bag of AVBCW figures

PAINTING:
42 x 28mm figures: 42 points
TOTAL: 42 points

GAMES:
1 x 15mm fantasy game in progres
TOTAL: 0

BUDGET:
$971 in figures, $75 for Historicon!  10 times what I had spent this year.
$ 1140 to date, blew my budget this month.

March 2019 and Of Armies and Hordes test game

Three months into the year and my progress on the Very British Civil War figures has been going well. I have also been getting in one game a month. I purchased and played "Of Armies and Hordes" with my 15mm fantasy figures. The game is based on the mechanics from Song of Blades and Heroes, but it is a mass battle agme. It was a very fast game, each combat resulted in heavy casualties to both sides. The game uses an interesting area movement mechanic that could be very interesting in a larger scale WW2/modern/future game with battalion sized units. Overall, I liked the game, but not sure it would replace my Hostile Realms/Pique mash-up. I have re-set the table to play the same basic scenario with my rules to get a better idea.

Despite my attempts to focus on only the VBCW project and to not get into anything new...I have been looking at plastic 28mm fantasy/historical figure (such as the Frostgrave figures) sets that I could use with the animal head conversion kits from Sally4th. This project would revolve around forces fighting over and exploring a lost continent...essentially replacing my Wooden Warriors project (and keeping me from jumping into Lego mini gaming). For now I will just do some figure research and make try to resist any purchases until all the VBCW figures are complete (by Historicon in July).

You can just make out the area movement zones broken up with foliage

Ghosts defeat the elk riders

Zombies vs Dwarven Pike

Undead right flank is destroyed

Skeleton Knights flank the Elf Rangers

Second wave of Dwarves attack the hill

Victory!

Skeletons burn the village and retreat to Un-live another day

PAINTING

52 x 28mm AVBCW figures: 52 points

TOTAL: 52

Next batch complete

Socialist ranks grow

Bavarian mercenaries

GAMES

1 x game Of Armies and Hordes

BUDGET

$84 on the Pulp Alley 2 Kickstarter

$94 total to date