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Flashcove's cay: April 2015
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Thursday, April 23, 2015. Captains and Kings and the War of the Roses. I decided to have another go with my War of the Roses retinues. Unfortunately for the poor figures, the dice gods were unkind on the Leader rolls! Sir Blue's Foot Knights were led by Sir Red himself a Rep 5 leader. His men-at-arms were led by a Rep 3, which would effect them mightily on activation, and his bow were led by a Rep 4. Sir Red was not so lucky. He was a Rep 4, his men-at-arms with a Rep 3 leader, as were his bows! Turn 6&#...
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Flashcove's cay: July 2015
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Monday, July 13, 2015. Modifying Fat Dragon Games' Borderline Keep tower as a stand-alone piece. I recently decided that I needed a stand-alone tower with a basic interior for gaming purposes. Searching through my paper models, I found that Fat Dragon Games http:/ www.fatdragongames.com/fdgfiles/. Borderline Keep had a tower that was about 5 " square and should do admirably. Since the tower sides are symetrical, I just printed each side twice for the exterior and interior. Here's a bottom view. I had...
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Flashcove's cay: March 2014
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Sunday, March 30, 2014. Rally Round the King armies from Mighty Armies boxes. So, I now have a couple of friends who are willing to play Rally Round the King. I have converted my Barbarian army to that ruleset and done my Orc army to the same. Let's start with the Orcs. Here's the whole army in one shot. There are 5 Orc bases at 24 points for a total of 120. Plus a Foot Skirmish (Archers) at 8 points, a Black Orcs base (where my general is) for 36 points and a Dire Wolf Rider base for 36 points. Then we ...
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Flashcove's cay: April 2014
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Sunday, April 27, 2014. Yes it's always that black orc Grishnac, isn't it? Well, he won't be coming back! This is a Rally Round the King game of orcs versus elves. It did not go well for the orcs. But yours truly forgot some things, of course. For this game the orc commander had a War Rating of 4 and the elf commander 3. Of course, the orcs out-scouted the elves, with a skirmish unit against nothing but heavy infantry for the elves. So the orcs are the attacker. Turn 4: The orc commander orders a charge,...
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Flashcove's cay: SAGA Irish Warband from Gripping Beast.
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Friday, May 8, 2015. SAGA Irish Warband from Gripping Beast. As always, from Gripping Beast, these are well produced figures. They're easy to paint. A caveat, however. The hearthguard don't match the options listed in The Raven's Shadow. They should have either javelins or Dane axes. There are 4 Dane axes included, but no figures properly configured to hold them with the shields on their back. So here they are are, and a few comments on painting, etc. And the warriors. The dogs were easy and fun to p...
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Flashcove's cay: November 2013
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Monday, November 11, 2013. Colonial Battles III, Nov. 8-10, 2013, The Sheraton near Causeway, Metairie, LA. This is the 3rd (obviously) Colonial Battles, a convention devoted to Larry Brom's "The Sword and the Flame". On Friday, I spent most of the afternoon kibitzing and buying Ral Partha from Dale Kemper. In the evening, I played in Dale's 55 Days in Peking. I spent some more money, though I'd bought most of what I needed (wanted) on Friday. Jim Pitts put on A Very British Civil War game in the morning...
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Flashcove's cay: November 2014
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Due to the nature of my job, I was only able to attend a little while on Friday morning, missed the entire afternoon session, and returned to play in Jim Pitt's game, "Marines in the Forest" using The Sword to Adventure. I actually managed to be on the winning side in a French and Indian War scenario. Saturday started at 3am, when my Mom was taken to the hospital. It turned out to be missing a particular prescription, and so ended well. We held to Romans to a draw. At the top ...
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Flashcove's cay
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Friday, April 17, 2015. War of the Roses via Captains and Kings. Ed Teixeira of Two Hour Wargames. Published Captains and Kings. In September of 2014. It replaces Montjoie! And was awaited with baited breath by yours truly. Unfortunately, I didn't have quite enough of anything painted to give a try. So I started spasmodically working on Saxons, but then remembered that I had bought 350 primed and based War of the Roses figures a couple of years ago, for the proverbial song. 12 bowmen AC4, Rep 4, move 8".
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Flashcove's cay: Modifying Fat Dragon Games' Borderline Keep tower as a stand-alone piece.
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Monday, July 13, 2015. Modifying Fat Dragon Games' Borderline Keep tower as a stand-alone piece. I recently decided that I needed a stand-alone tower with a basic interior for gaming purposes. Searching through my paper models, I found that Fat Dragon Games http:/ www.fatdragongames.com/fdgfiles/. Borderline Keep had a tower that was about 5 " square and should do admirably. Since the tower sides are symetrical, I just printed each side twice for the exterior and interior. Here's a bottom view. I had...
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Mongo's Wafflehouse: March 2014
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Saturday, March 8, 2014. I During the winter of 1927-28 officials of the Federal government made a strange and secret investigation of certain conditions in the ancient Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth. So after my ridiculous flurry of activity in January I slowed down a bit due to a busy calendar and a chest cold that wouldn't go away, but I finally got some more stuff off the table this weekend. These are the pulp hardsuits from http:/ www.recreationalconflict.com/. Links to this post. Vampifan's Wor...
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