Celts Roundhouse

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

This is a short video as i chat about current projects and some generic thoughts on things. It will also cover, to my youtube watchers what i have been putting up on my blog, so nothing new in the pictures but may be of interest!   Click here for Celts WIP

 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 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...