We had a couple of games over Christmas. First up was a game of Balins tomb from the Lord of the Rings GW franchise that Des had painted up . I got the Fellowship, although none of the Fellowship had so far survived in any of their previous games!
The goblins kept coming and I kept killing them and found out that hobbits dont last long ! I tried to keep other members of the fellowship around them but by turn 12, the final go, I'd lost enough that I couldn't surround Frodo, I was lucky that the cave troll didn't turn up until the last go and of course meant I got to say " They have a cave troll" which was fun! I thought I was going to get through and win but on almost the last roll Des managed to kill Frodo but was unable to kill the rest of the Fellowship so we ended up with an entertaining draw. A fun skirmish game and difficult to get anything out of it with the Fellowship, nice figures. Next up on Boxing day we had a game of Bolt action . We came up with a couple of forces,a US and German one to go with the terrain and said whoever was in occupation of the town square at the end of turn four would be the winner.
I managed to get in and under cover relatively rapidly, Jack was more circumspect, I realised I needed to get rid of his armoured cars as they were a big threat and having eliminated those and a few other units I was ahead by the time turn 4 came around, he didnt really have many units near the square whereas I had a number,plus due to the vagaries bolt action activation, all of his force were activated while I still had five units left to activate so I kind of easily won but great fun all round and nice to get the terrain on the table, I did think maybe I need to do a bit of work to tie the church in with the other terrain, what do you think?
Some fantastic looking games Iain, that was a bit ironic being in the vicinity of Milliput factory ! LOL
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave, it was just funny seeing the sign in the car park that we were leaving our cars in!
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Very nice looking Games!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Michal!
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Your building collection can now put on a really convincing town layout. The Church? It probably needs a tie in probably best served by applying muted colours, but I do think a church needs to be different enough to stand out as a key building, just dampening down the vibrancy may be enough.
ReplyDeleteI agree! Your ruined town terrain is properly ruined! The photos all look very convincing.
DeleteThanks Norm, I think Im going to do something on the roof tiles, to try and make it work a bit better?
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Thanks Jonathen, getting there, I think it could do with some back yards as well?
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Two very different games but both looked good fun. Your terrain on the Bolt Action game looks great, and I think Norm has hit the nail on the head regards to the church.
ReplyDeleteThanks Donnie, yes two different but fun games!
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Two cool looking games, Iain.
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Some fun Christmas games there Iain, and great to see the new terrain in action. Good to see the Milliput factory is made out of bricks.
ReplyDeleteNice to see the milliput factory is real? I thought of your dark age Welsh army you are planning, especially when the heating packed up!
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Yes, looks like some fun gaming with cool minis, and great terrain for the Bolt Action game. Sounds like maybe the LOTR game doesn't make the hobbits resilient enough or something?
ReplyDeleteYes great fun, I think its realising how weak the hobbits are early and managing your resources, I dont think the fellowship had got a draw up until that point and it went to virtually the last roll of the dice, which is always good!
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Two great games there Iain and nice to see your ruins in action. For the church I think it needs a slate coloured roof to tone it down a bit, as it looks too 'clean' compared to the rest of the terrain.
ReplyDeleteI think you could be right but I need it to remain tiled so I can use it in Italy! But your right the roof is where I'm going to give it a little TLC to improve it!
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Two cracking looking games. The ruined town looks brilliant.
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Good to see you keeping busy over the festive period - and I have to ask…what’s with the knight? A statue?
ReplyDeleteThe knight is an old lead 54mm figure from new hope designs based on an osprey illustration, that was inside the church as possible/future interior decoration statue that we used to signify the town square?
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Well, of course I have a soft spot for LoTR, but both games look good indeed!
ReplyDeleteYes me too,LOTR is what got me into the hobby but the bolt action game was fun too!
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Superb games although the WW2 is obviously my favourite...the buildings are great! Check out my replies to your comments about a V2 on my blog, Iain!
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked them, will do!
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The Fellowship needs a power-up, methinks!
ReplyDeleteAll very nice!
I think you can win with the fellowship but its very tough!
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