Fur-grave - Mikedemana's Ghost Archipelago spin on things (2nd game AAR Pg5)

[mikedemana]

One of the Badger Crew prepares to enter an overgrown temple in the Ghost Archipelago

Thanks, everyone! And now, the first of the player reports. I will add them as I receive them. I don't expect all 8 players to write up as detailed a report as this one, but it's a great start, I think! Check out a Badger's Eye view on our first game, Drake's Perch:
https://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/2018/07/drakes-perch-badgers-eye-view.html

Lots more pictures and blow-by-blow Ghost Archipelago action there...

Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com
http://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/

[mikedemana]

The Mice Crew Heritor leads his band through the jungle, searching for treasure

The reports from my players are coming in. Here is the Mouse's Eye View of the proceedings...

Click on the link to go to my blog to read the report:
https://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/2018/07/drakes-perch-mouses-log.html

Hope you enjoy it!

Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com
http://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/

[mikedemana]

A Satyr Crewman secures a central treasure from a towering, semi-ruined temple

More player AARs! This time from Brett, my player in charge of the Satyr Crew:
https://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/2018/07/drakes-perch-satyrs-story.html

More pictures and blow-by-blow accounts on my blog!

Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com
http://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/

[mikedemana]

Weasel Heritor inspecting a treasure after scrambling over an opponent's Brambles

And perhaps the final installment of my player's reports after our first game. Here's the take of the Weasels, Squirrels, and Pine Martens:
https://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/2018/07/drakes-perch-weasels-squirrels-and-pine.html

Hope folks have enjoyed reading these...

Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com
http://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/

[LiamFrostfang]

  very cool...reps, table ,mods...all of it...great stuff!!!

[Bloggard]

pine-martens are obviously, err, men of few words ...

very good write-ups, and love your photography 'style'.

[mikedemana]

A Weasel prowls the jungle ruins, hunting for treasure

And here is my report from our second game of Fur-grave. Since a few of our regulars were out, I actually got to play with my own crew I'd created. More photos and the story as seen by Wolverine Captain Hugh and his "Crushers" crew on my blog:

https://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-splintered-light-miniatures-weasel.html


Looking along the length of the 6'x4' board

Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com
http://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/

[Bloggard]

another fantastic looking set-up.

love the AAR, and can sympathise as far as bad dice-rolls go 

[LiamFrostfang]

  sweet!!!

[mikedemana]

A party of Raccoon adventurers snatch up treasure while moving towards a cage containing a prisoner

Thanks, everyone! I received two reports from the the other players, so I went ahead and uploaded them to my blog...with more pictures of course!

Here's the link to my blog:
https://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/2018/08/mice-and-squirrels-tell-their-tales.html

Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com
http://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/

[Bloggard]

must say - like the Squirrel's terse and tense writing style!
amusingly succinct.

'the end' !

[mikedemana]

Thanks, everyone! Our next adventure is a couple weeks out. The host with the long table 
is out of the country for a couple weeks, so it has put a delay on our Fur-grave games.

I promise more furry madness soon...!

Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com
http://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/

[Dr Mathias]

Very cool, that's a seriously impressive set up. Looks really fun!

[Tungdil]

So many cool critter figures and every single one superb painted.

Your terrain, miniatures and of course your painting is impressive Mike. Thanks for sharing.

[Smoke Frog]

Good lord your work is fantastic! I loved the pictures, your terrain is truly inspiring.

And the miniatures are great! They might not be everyone's cup o' tea, but they reminded me so much of the Redwall series that I read growing up! Well done, I especially loved the raft with the little rats and the frogs:

Jungle Rats
These guys were not painted up specifically for this project, but instead for a grand finale, Lead Painters League entry (see photo below). SLM's take on Jungle Rats is they are savage tribesmen -- perfect for the South Seas theme to Ghost Archipelago. The line has an obvious shaman figure (white one, front center), which will be the Warden. Plus the dark-colored jungle rat with the stone hatchet seems a good leader figure, which makes him a good choice for a Heritor. The rest of the figures are warriors. I like the variety that SLM added to this line. It is not always the case for some of their more obscure animals, but they seem to go all in when it's rats, for some reason. I especially like that they have missile armed troops -- blowguns in this case. Now obviously, G.A. doesn't have rules for blowguns (despite one of the paintings depicting them ). I think I will just count them as bows. I know, I know, blowguns don't have near the range of bows. However, these are special jungle rats with enhanced lung capacity that spend their lives practicing to shoot them at high velocity out to range...ala English longbowmen practicing into adulthood to be able to pull such a powerful bow. Make sense? Ah well, if it doesn't then just remember line of sight in a jungle setting will be more limited, so effective range is more influenced by the terrain rather than the weapon.
 

My "Frog-gigging Gone Wrong" entry from the very first Lead Painters League I entered

All of the warbands you have created are so unique, I think my favorites overall were the badgers. Well done sir