Adepticon Mid-War Tournament | FOW

Recovering from the Adepticon Wargaming Hangover...

Here are some shots from the Friday morning FOW Mid-War 1000 point tournament. Actually this shows the Early War U.S. Nationals signing in, etc.  Both events were held in the same room. Of course as I stumbled in the room I managed to somehow check into the wrong event. Figured it out when I looked at the armies being set up. Doah!

John Stentz, Jeff Baxendale, and cool guy I met that I can't remember his name waiting to mix it up in the Nationals. Sorry cool guy, I'm old and forgetful.

My 1000 points of GenadierKompanie goodness. The tanks are StuH 42s which I thought fit the infantry support role. Selected a themed and historically based list, little did I know I had brought a knife to a gun fight in this "beginner friendly" tournament. Now, I am pretty a noob. I played Soviets in all three games, went 1-2 overall and won Best Axis Army.

Close up on the StuH 42s.  First attempt at airbrushing, [side note, working on some late war Panthers and IMHO they turning out much better] I will probably go back and rewash them the add more definition. 

Game One vs. Soviet Inf. Company Supported by Heavy Mortars, 3 SU 85s and no less than 4 KV1 Flame Tanks.  I really had no idea how to handle this, and it went pretty much how I predicted.

The KV1s might as well have been King Tigers, I had absolutely nothing for them.

The SU 85s had a field day

KV1s rolled up and flamed me to death. Did manage to kill one with the CMD Panzerknacker TM.  Hmmmm...Loss.

Game 2 vs Soviets Infantry Company supported by the most field guns I have ever seen [with volley-fire, which means they reroll misses...]. Good Player, ended up winning the tournament.

Oh yeah... Army was very well painted and had very clever objective markers and lighted destroyed markers.

Deployment [we had plts in reserves].  Fun game, I managed to kill some guns before I cut volleyed to death.  Once again I had no idea how to attack this with what I had on the table.

Game 3 vs. Soviet Armored Company of lend-lease Shermans and Lees. I did not get photos because I was tired and forgot, Sigh.   This time I knew exactly what to do as we doing the "Fighting Withdrawl" scenario and I was defending. I dug in the infantry and managed to destroy one Plt with the StuH 42s and then motor them across the board to hold up the remaining Armor to steal the win.

Meanwhile... Giant Successors Hail Caesar game in progress.

Thanks for looking

Hastings Redux Quick Update

I'd be remiss to at least post a couple of shots from this past weekend. I have a lot of shots and will do a proper recap as I get some time.

Armies laid out for battle for the Hastings Redux Game [facing North]

Looking South 

Norman Player, go figure... 

Adepticon Quick Update

Updating my last post after the weekend. Great to see folks I haven't seen for a while and catch up. It was an awesome (and tiring) weekend.

Thurs PM | Hail Caesar Match Play
-running Saxons, I have the most rudimentary understanding of HC.
>Fun Game, maybe not my cup of tea though. Went 1 and 1.  Good time for sure though.

Fri AM | Mid-War FOW
-running a freshly painted Grenadierkompanie.
>Toooooo Many Russians for me to deal with my little in Comparison german force (played soviets all three games) Went 1-2, won best axis force though, whooot!

Fri PM | Hastings Redux Mega game
-GM'ing and playing Saxons. Close to 20K of minis on 4' X 16' of sweet modular terrain. Check it out if you can and say hello.
>This was freaking awesome. Mark made a wonderful table for us the fight over. The Saxons won the day (and not because I was GM'ing ;) ). Looking forward to next years big game already.

Sat | WAB Singles
-running freshly painted [and as yet unused] Medieval British. What could go wrong.
>Well and lot could go wrong. Went 1-1-1.  Good times and fun games each time for sure. Need to revise the list a bit and I think they will fair better.

Sun | WAB Doubles
-defending our title with Shawn Welte. We are running Saxons/Vikings.
>Didn't win overall, but did pull off Best General with Shawn.  Huzzah!

I have tons of pictures that I wll post up over the upcoming days.

Thanks for looking.

On the Road to Adepticon

Headed out this morning to Adepticon for my annual Geekation.

A most ambitious schedule for me this year!

Thurs PM | Hail Caesar Match Play
-running Saxons, I have the most rudimentary understanding of HC.

Fri AM | Mid-War FOW
-running a freshly painted Grenadierkompanie.

Fri PM | Hastings Redux Mega game
-GM'ing and playing Saxons. Close to 20K of minis on 4' X 16' of sweet modular terrain. Check it out if you can and say hello.

Sat | WAB Singles
-running freshly painted [and as yet unused] Medieval British.  What could go wrong.

Sun | WAB Doubles
-defending our title with Shawn Welte. We are running Saxons/Vikings.

Hope to see you there!

Adepticon 2013 WAB Hastings Redux Terrain | Final Update

Final update on terrain for Hastings Redux (more WIP, etc. over on Mark Sommer's Baddogz Engineering). This panel is actually not going to be used in the gaem, but is one of two additional boards Mark made to complete the terrain set and give more variety for terrain layouts. This river section will match up with the main river board already shown in prevoius posts.

Thanks for looking

Medieval English Finished | WAB

Whew...
Finished my Medieval British for Adepticon WAB Singles.  A bit rushed, but they'll do for tabletop IMHO.  I really like the look of the army overall, I may have to do a War of the Rose or English army with the Perry Plastics down the road.
Anyhoo, all figures are Perry's aside from one or two claymore castings figs that snuck in.
Technique: Block Color, Min-Wax, highlight and...Bob's Your Uncle

Here are some shots of the army on my cheesy carrying tray, be kind.

Medieval English Banners WIP | WAB

Hmmph, I can't freehand a straight line to save my life, too old I guess.  In light of my limitations, I went with a simple Scheme for the the Army's Banners. 

The Green Banner is a simplification of Sir Thomas Erpingham's (who marshaled the archers at Agincourt as well as some campaigning in Scotland prior) heraldry (and left a little vague on purpose as I don't fell like getting beat up by the hard core history folks :). 

The Black/White banner is for my Low Country Pike unit. 

The Archer's banners will go in one of the veteran archer units in addition to the ubiquitous St. George's Cross. 

All banners are PVA stiffened painted paper. Made templates in illustrator, quick and easy to do

Thanks for looking...