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Title: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: TWD on May 17, 2020, 10:22:09 AM
Unable to attend Partizan this weekend chum and fellow LAFer James Morris has written a guest blog post about the Silmarillion game he was planning to stage.
All shared online as part of the #PartizanInTheCloud event

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Full write up here:
https://tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-silmarillion-driving-out-orcs-in.html
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: Yuber Okami on May 17, 2020, 12:34:42 PM
That's so incredibly beautiful...
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: Swordisdrawn on May 17, 2020, 12:46:15 PM
Excellent stuff
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: Sunjester on May 17, 2020, 04:13:55 PM
Superb games and lovely figures.
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: Lord_of_Moria on May 17, 2020, 06:55:17 PM
Awesome board & miniatures. Thanks so much for posting.
Love the elven tower! Is it store bought or home made?
cheers
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on May 17, 2020, 07:13:48 PM
Gorgeously epic game! So much to love about it.
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: FreakyFenton on May 17, 2020, 08:23:33 PM
Wonderful to share it! Gave the facebook group a look, sounded good!
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: James Morris on May 18, 2020, 04:33:05 PM
Wonderful to share it! Gave the facebook group a look, sounded good!

Thank you!  The Facebook group has been a great inspiration; good to have you on board.
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: James Morris on May 18, 2020, 04:37:45 PM
Awesome board & miniatures. Thanks so much for posting.
Love the elven tower! Is it store bought or home made?
cheers

Thank you!  It wasn’t the same as Partizan but was a great experience.

The elf tower is a scratch build from foam with some MDF parts.
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: Nordic1980s on May 18, 2020, 04:43:02 PM
A nice game indeed. In the linked blog images, the elf hero on steed (the one that charges a werewolf) looks quite good with all the detailing on the shield and cloak!
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: trev on May 18, 2020, 05:37:14 PM
Excellent set up guys.  I saw the pics on Tom's blog yesterday and followed the link to watch the video by James and his glamorous assistant.  lol   Lovely painting as always.  Your quick and slapdash is better than my careful.  That tower is a very elegant idea.  I like how it can be repurposed so easily. 

Totally agree wwith you about how researching Tolkien is like researching history.  Middle Earth is so detailed there is often more to find than on real historical periods.  I listened to a lecture series on Fiction a while back that argued that besides the terrifiuc detail it is the multiple and somehwat inconsistant versions of the story, with reference to lost accounts or sources, that gives it the added verisimilitude.

Looking forward to seeing the rules.  I don't do facebook but may have to find the group you talked of too.

Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: James Morris on May 19, 2020, 08:07:27 PM
A nice game indeed. In the linked blog images, the elf hero on steed (the one that charges a werewolf) looks quite good with all the detailing on the shield and cloak!

Cheers everyone!  The mounted hero (Gwindor of Nargothrond)was fun to paint. He’s not amazing close up but there’s just enough squiggles to create the right effect.

Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: James Morris on May 19, 2020, 08:18:42 PM
Excellent set up guys.  I saw the pics on Tom's blog yesterday and followed the link to watch the video by James and his glamorous assistant.  lol   Lovely painting as always.  Your quick and slapdash is better than my careful.  That tower is a very elegant idea.  I like how it can be repurposed so easily. 

Totally agree wwith you about how researching Tolkien is like researching history.  Middle Earth is so detailed there is often more to find than on real historical periods.  I listened to a lecture series on Fiction a while back that argued that besides the terrifiuc detail it is the multiple and somehwat inconsistant versions of the story, with reference to lost accounts or sources, that gives it the added verisimilitude.

Looking forward to seeing the rules.  I don't do facebook but may have to find the group you talked of too.

Cheers trev.  I’m really glad you enjoyed it and that we have similar thoughts. That’s a great point about the inconsistencies actually adding to the historical feel of Middle Earth.

When I have any news on the rules I’ll post it up here.  Lots of discussion is on Facebook at the moment but I do try to cross post to LAF.
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: Atheling on May 20, 2020, 08:12:13 AM
The Partizan in the Cloud videocast was great. Very informative and just as importantly a lot of fun.  8)

Tom's pics on his blog are ace too  8)
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: TWD on May 20, 2020, 12:36:06 PM
Not my pics - all James' work.
I am merely the host vessel.
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: Atheling on May 20, 2020, 02:19:14 PM
I am merely the host vessel.

Sounds quite spooky  :) ;)
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: trev on May 20, 2020, 05:24:28 PM
Lots of discussion is on Facebook at the moment but I do try to cross post to LAF.

I'll have to sign up to FB with a cunning fake name to have a read.  ;)
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: James Morris on May 21, 2020, 11:32:13 AM
I'll have to sign up to FB with a cunning fake name to have a read.  ;)

If it’s as cunning as Baldrick, I may have spotted it. Welcome! Membership seems to have gone up since the weekend.

Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: trev on May 21, 2020, 12:18:36 PM
If it’s as cunning as Baldrick, I may have spotted it. Welcome! Membership seems to have gone up since the weekend.

I think may have just possibly seen through my clever disguise.  :D  There is tons of good stuff on there.  I really like Jake Hallam's Orc conversions.  Very Angus McBride.  I'm going to have to try copying those.
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: Belgian on May 21, 2020, 02:04:00 PM
Cool miniatures, very much like the conversions and paintjob. The scenery looks very good too!
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: James Morris on May 21, 2020, 02:19:15 PM
Cool miniatures, very much like the conversions and paintjob. The scenery looks very good too!

Thank you!  I’d really like to get it to a wargames show in the future.
Title: Re: Silmarillion for Partizan in the cloud
Post by: James Morris on May 21, 2020, 02:20:55 PM
I think may have just possibly seen through my clever disguise.  :D  There is tons of good stuff on there.  I really like Jake Hallam's Orc conversions.  Very Angus McBride.  I'm going to have to try copying those.

Yes, it’s a fertile ground of kit bashing in there in the quest for the perfect Tolkien minis! I’m thoroughly enjoying it.