Category: Wargames

Tabletop wargames, fow, wh, lotr etc….

Posted on

Elf Lord with Bow

Elf Lord with Bow

One of the reasons for creating this blog was so I could show (Martin at least) my minatures I’ve painted recently.

This is my latest Warhammer Fantasy figure.  Amber bought it amongst other things as a wedding anniversary present.  I’ve always liked the model.  It’s essentially painted exactly like the GW version, though sadly with a little less skill.  In fact I was so dismissive of it in it’s completed form that I decided that I was not going to paint fantasy again until I got some new good quality brushes, brush care material, flow improver, improved my technique (or at least stopped being so lazy) etc etc.  Essentially it was painted with a fishtailing synthetic size 0 brush, which though adequate has not produced a finish I’m proud of.  So in the meantime whilst I restock on essential art supplies I’m painting FOW Fallschirmjager (again with crappy synthetic brushes which are starting to fishtail or hook but meh they’re so small it’s not really noticable).

Posted on

Wargame Nutters

Why are we wargame nutters?

The darnedest thing came whizzing into my mind set this morning like a ricochet dumb dumb bullet bouncing around the corrugated iron confines of the field post.  Unfortunately Baldrick copped it and in the process dropped the turnip soup.  The Soup will be missed.

Had a terrific conversation with dearest friend Mr Potter and he convinced me to brush of the dust of Operation Overlord by Battlefront.  I had then two days of considerable renewed fun playing this game. Of most fun to me was playing God and setting up the terrain and the battle field and pitting units against each other in some mad scientist way of experimenting. (Decadent and propostrouse I know.. but when you feel you can’t get any further in life, this is terrific)

This I realised is what I love about wargaming… I actually think of my units as real flesh and blood.. and over the years I have become much more as Kitchener in my tactics than the “slowly slowly catch a monkey” tactician.   Which is working in the games be they on the table or on the computer.

So obviously games are so much nowhere near a reality simulation (unless you play Japanese Bayonet charges).  And yet we harken to take ourselves to a place from books of fantasy or heroic commando commics….

In essence we are wargame nutters.