Eleventh Game in Atlanta: The Atlanta Eastside Light Irregulars become acqunted with War and Conquest

This Sunday the 3rd Atlanta Eastside Light Irregualrs met for a learning game of War and Coquest (written by Rob Broom). I finally got the full colelction of 15th Century Western Europeans in Danian colours to the table vs. Khayman's and Preston's united Hussites and Pole-Cossaks. 

We only played 3 of 12 turns, as Khayman was also working the shop, and me and Preston were babysitting. Still it was a good chance to get an idea of the War and Conquest rules. There was a lot we liked, but we found that the organization of the rule-book and the lack of a good free QRS was a major problem for the rules. Now the QRS problem will be solved, and that will help with the organization issue, but I felt that a good sumamry of some rules at the end of the rulebook (i.e when do you get disordered) would be great. 

Combat was very, very smooth, and once we got the hang of it we loved it. It does not bog down.  In general a system we will try again in the future, hopefully with a good QRS.

Projects finished in 2024

 I was able to finish two projects before the passage of 2024. These are my 28mm 15th century Western European Army in heradly from Mark Smylie's fantasy Known World setting (Artesia, the Barrow, and Blackheart are set there) and two lances of Battletech Inner Sphere mechs from the A Game of Armored Combat box.  I will write a repospective and  2025 plans post closer to New Year.

Pictures below 

Some done stuff

 Over the two weeks I have painted some stuff for all of my current projects (28mm 15th century, Battletech, and 40k). As you will notice it is all sloppy, but I care not. The older I get the more I care just about a hint of personalization, and tabletop ready

1st) A vile Rhino for my sick old men army (i.e the Death Guard for 40k)

2nd) The last infantry for my Mark Smylie Artesia inspired 15th century 28mm Armyu 

3rd) A Thudnerbolt for my Battletech 

Project Done: 28mm Chivalric force for Saga inspired from the Araswell contingent in Mark Smylie's "Blackheart"

 While I am still working on the Erid and Dain Dania contingents inspired by the Black Day Battle in Mark Smylie's Artesia series, I have completed the Araswell contingent inspired by the "Blackheart" novel in the same setting. I used 28mm Perry Miniatures plastic War of the Roses Foot Knights and Infantry, and Old Glory War of the Roses crossbowmen. It took me about a year and half to finish this. Cost for these specific is about 35 USD (from a total of 100 USD for all three projects-Erid & Dain Dania and Araswell). 

The force is organized with Saga: Age of Magic in mind using the Great Kingdoms list. Thus a warlord, two units of hearthguard (4 each), one unit of warriors (8), and one unit of levies (12 crossbows) 

Last Painting of 2023

 I completed all the projects I had on my table for 2023. 

1) A Tau Commander and a another drone/tower for my Xenos Rampant/ Combat Patrol force. 

2)  A necromancer/vampire/ undead commander for my generic Undead force for Saga: Age of Magic/Age of Sigmar/ Generic Fantasy 

3) Standards and heralds for my 28mm Artesia Known World inspired Chivalric Army for Saga: Age of Magic/ Generic Fantasy/ Warhammer: Old World (?)

Iliada Game Studio 6mm Ancient Mediterranean Buildings

 Ali from Iliada Game Studio was nice enough to gift me some of his lasercut, soft mdf infra structures from his ancient world line (Click here).

While a bit of a challenge to put together, they look great once placed on a base with flocking and vegetation. They come already painted. They will be used for my 10mm games. I highly recommend them.

Touched a brush after three or four months.

 Nothing fancy. Just finishing some of Perry 15th Century Men at Arms in livery from Mark Smylie's setting of Artesia. 

Finished gluing the Perry Plastic War of the Roses era Plastic Foot Knights

 Well I finished gluing the Perry Miniatures Plastic Foot Knights for the War of the Roses Era. 

Now these are not the first Perry Miniatures Plastic set I have worked on. I built a generic 15th century army using their War of the Roses Longbowmen and Bellmen set, European Mercenaries set, and Mounted Knights set. I liked all those sets. The Foot Knights set was the only one I was not able to get into my hands then.  Perhaps it was for the best.

Gaming and Painting Update

 Praise the hellish move. My wife relaxed our harsh (but needed) covid protection measures and I was able to play again last Sunday at Nahco's. 

1st Game: Lasalle II 6mm game pitting my 6mm Prussias vs. my 6mm French. A good fun game even if I lost. (Pictures below)

2n Game: WAB 2 game using Nacho's 28mm Macedonians and Persians. I lost again. I did have fun, though it hit me how primitive WAB felt after years of Too Fat Lardies, and Sam Mustafa games. DBA does not give that feeling or primitive. But WAB did. Happy to play with Nacho who knows the rules by heart, but not something I would invest time in (Pictures below)

I also completed my painting projects finishing my 28mm Old Man's Creations Greek Revolution figures (Pictures below).