Celts Roundhouse

  Well i'm sure i dont have to tell many of you that SAGA version 2 is on its way to us. But if you don't know check out the link below: Click here fore SAGA pre-order! I  have to say this does mean i am in the mood to paint a few more of my Cornishmen, though whether they will all be painted in time is another question. Gripping Beast Welsh: to be my Cornish Whiteshields   Also i have got a couple more battle reports up. First is my Bolt Action batrep, where my Germans take on more Germans... Click here for Bolt Action report... German para's advance through the woods. Some of Warlord Games plastics i have actually painted!   Secondly, i got in a good old bash of Grimdark Firefight, with some classic Necron Raiders Click here for Grimdark Report... Robot legions vs Alien hives on a jungle planet.  At the moment i am wishing my paint brush would move quicker, so many games and so many great figs to get painted... so l...

So I have a few battle reports to get up, after an all day club session. First up is my SAGA game form the previous week with the Pillage scenario. Click here for SAGA report Then I have a Bolt Action game as part of the clubs Gaming league. This was a Point Defense mission, with my Germans against the British Click here for Bolt Action battle report Finally I have a new Sci-fi system we're playing called Dropzone Commander, well worth the look... Click here for Dropzone Battle Report Until next time!

  Many times i have looked at this mission and thought it is quite hard. The ability to move to the centre of the table, pick it up and run back off the table, is no easy task in six turns. I have always thought that transport would make this mission easier.   What i didn't realise is you can pass on the the objective to another unit, which can then do the same. Making it the retrieval of the objective a lot easier.  Anyway here's my latest report with my Germans against the Americans. Click here for Batrep.     Another steep learning curve on keeping you eye on the objective.

So this week at club was an all day'er. So managed to get in two good games of Bolt Action in. This time up against the Finns. Click here for Bolt Action Report

 So our league games continue this time with Bolt Action. Click here for battle report 1  Really like how this system plays, with the random alternative order, but it does slow the whole process down, making even small games take a while to play. I think 40k should have been like this, its a really good feeling of scale and action. Currently Bolt Action is my favourite WW2 ruleset. If you want to see more on the games league of out club and what games we played, check out: diceanddagger.blogspot.co.uk

So i have held true and finally finished a unit of mounted Hearthguard. Nice and pleased with the results.  The miniatures are from Crusader Miniatures. Also with seasons Bolt Action league, i'm trying to get into painting drab germans :D, least the method was quick and they don't look too bad either. I have 3 of these squads in 1000pts each with a LMG, Asault rifle and an NCO with Sub-machine gun. These are the plastics from warlord games.

So i got round to painting it. After a black undercoat I painted it all a dark green. Next i added more light grey to the green, and completed several highlights of drybrushing. Next i made dark brown lines all over the vehicle, then highlighted with a desert yellow. I added dark brown camo shading to the lines. Finally picked out detail, added decals. Used grey on edges to give the impression of chips and damage. Then drybrushed on muddy browns. I am quite pleased with the result, and will probably use the same method on future vehicles.

  Needed a break from the battle reports so i started work on Warlord Games plastic Puma. I have always loved the look of this vehicle and so decided i had to have one..   The box it comes in has some lovely art work on the front, while the back has some information on the vehicle and a nicely painted example of the Puma   Inside you get two sprues to make the Puma, a waterslide decal sheet and instructions. Some of the parts looked quite fragile, so i held off building for a while until i had fresh blades for my hobby knife.   You build the under carriage first. Which has some great detail on the vehicles suspension. Took me back to the old days as a young'un building model planes and the such. But the i don't understand why the wheels where made hollow. You go to great lengths to make the suspension look right encase people see it, but then decide that no-one will notice the wheels underneath. A am a bit confounded on why they weren't cast solid or w...