Gaming has been a bit slim here since my arrival, but I have had to opportunity to play with the folks in Big Spring every now and again, and I have found their group to be friendly and very creative. I teamed upo with Faron Bell about a year ago for a Pulp skirmish project, for which we wrote rules (called "High Road to Anywhere") and split GMing duties. My games were set in Warlord period China (basically between the wars), and then his brought the same groups of adventurers and archaeologists to Egypt.
Above left is the Chinese town in which the action for the first game was set. I am using my Euro buildings here, but added a few pieces to give an Asien feeling to the place. The martial arts school is the biggest project in terms of buildings (lower left). Right is the arrival of two of the characters, Commander Meil li and Yuri Yansen, and their henchmen.
This is the final combat, in which four players clashed at the center of the board. Each player had 10 troopers and tweo characters, so the troops tended to get into it while the characters were searching for the scenario objectives or role-playing to get allies.
Here are some more pics of the action:
Tai Pan Dooly and his brother meet some Nazis and their henchman, Thai Bum Cho.
The Martial Artists are bribed to join one of the players, and rush out to to close with the enemy.
Dr. Merlin Tuttle and his adventuring niece, Hermione Barrow (with her dog, "the Colonel"), search the shrine for clues.
That's pretty sweet. The one thing about your tables that I am always impressed by is the "small" terrain -- the barrels, furniture, statuary. It makes such a huge difference to the board. My boards need a lot of that -- especially since it will help 40k-up some of the fantasy terrain.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, what are the disc looking things on the ground in the third pic?
ReplyDeleteFaron takes washers and then puts a flattened dab of putty/spackle in the center. He then indents the center, and then "draws" outward from the center indentation in irregular lines. It isn't all that easy to see from the pic, but the effect is kind of like a blast crater from a small explosive. We used these as "pinned" markers, and the red skull as morale test failure markers.
ReplyDeleteOh Yeah - on the small stuff -- a collection of small-sized kitch makes all of the difference, I think, in making a good looking board. I try to keep an eye out for cheap-assed small models of things that can be turned into a statue or something like it. Every gamer should have a couple of bags of wooden barrels from Hobby Lobby (like 2.19 for 12 or something). Military kitch from Hobby Lobby military model boxes are also great, and work well even out of scale, I think (really big barrels look fine for modern stuff.
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