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Title: Photos of Italo-Ethiopian War 1936 game from Partizan
Post by: James Morris on 06 September 2009, 06:39:52 PM: Here's a link to photos and a brief report of the game I ran at the Other Partizan today.

http://wabforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=6348 (http://wabforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=6348)

Also bought Triumph and Tragedy, so looking forward to trying that later this week!
Title: Re: Photos of Italo-Ethiopian War 1936 game from Partizan
Post by: Plynkes on 06 September 2009, 06:45:34 PM: Champion! Gorgeous scenery, and great figures. I won't ever be able to put on a game that looks as snazzy as that, but it certainly will inspire me to continue with my own Ethiopia project.

Love the little vignettes. Are they just for fun or some kind of status markers?
Title: Re: Photos of Italo-Ethiopian War 1936 game from Partizan
Post by: Driscoles on 06 September 2009, 07:01:20 PM: absolutely stunning table. The scenery looks very realistic. I would like to see more pictures.
Björn
Title: Re: Photos of Italo-Ethiopian War 1936 game from Partizan
Post by: Saya on 06 September 2009, 08:09:27 PM: Yeap more pictures please!!!!! really nice table!!!!!! :-* :-*
Title: Re: Photos of Italo-Ethiopian War 1936 game from Partizan
Post by: chicklewis on 06 September 2009, 08:11:31 PM: Gorgeous table ! Best job of painting hyenas I've seen yet !

Chick
Title: Re: Photos of Italo-Ethiopian War 1936 game from Partizan
Post by: Ignatieff on 06 September 2009, 08:44:29 PM: Great looking game, I saw it today. Who won by the way? Those Italians had a good looking position!
Title: Re: Photos of Italo-Ethiopian War 1936 game from Partizan
Post by: fastolfrus on 06 September 2009, 09:44:57 PM: Certainly looked good this afternoon.

Were you the chap in green shirt and glasses ?
Title: Re: Photos of Italo-Ethiopian War 1936 game from Partizan
Post by: Keith on 06 September 2009, 10:04:03 PM: This was a great game - I really enjoyed having a good look at this today.
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Post by: commissarmoody on 06 September 2009, 11:12:41 PM: A Vary nice game, to bad there wasnt a play by play
Title: Re: Photos of Italo-Ethiopian War 1936 game from Partizan
Post by: former user on 07 September 2009, 12:16:14 AM: absolutely exquisite
I am a little bit spoiled in my club but this scenery is outstanding
and the figs too
the 2 hyaenas.... gorgeous
Title: Re: Photos of Italo-Ethiopian War 1936 game from Partizan
Post by: Ray Rivers on 07 September 2009, 02:02:56 AM: Very nice!

Looking forward to seeing more of your stuff in the future!
Title: Re: Photos of Italo-Ethiopian War 1936 game from Partizan
Post by: Paul @ Empress Miniatures on 07 September 2009, 02:16:23 PM: Fantastic looking game.

There were some beautiful little cameo groups dotted about. 8)
Title: Re: Photos of Italo-Ethiopian War 1936 game from Partizan
Post by: Shikari Sahib on 07 September 2009, 02:53:09 PM: Thanks James for sharing that superb terrain,
very nice the ienas :D

Piero
Title: Re: Photos of Italo-Ethiopian War 1936 game from Partizan
Post by: Admiral Benbow on 07 September 2009, 03:18:13 PM: That's the way it should be: nice miniatures, splendid terrain, good game.
Inspirational!
Title: Re: Photos of Italo-Ethiopian War 1936 game from Partizan
Post by: James Morris on 07 September 2009, 08:02:43 PM: Thanks for all the very flattering comments. I just hope I inspired someone else to game this crazy period! :)

In response to a few of those questions...

Some of the vignettes are status markers - round bases with a casualty are Pinned markers, ammo boxes indicate Low On Ammo, shell cases indicate Weapon Jammed. Others are pure scene-setting frivolity, like the hyenas. (Having done a few demo games over the years, I've discovered that vignettes are well worth the time spent in entertaining conversation value. And I love making them).

The Italians narrowly won the first game (Bitwoded Makonnen was gunned down after single-handedly taking a machine gun post) and lost the second (overrun by warriors after too much awful shooting and jammed guns).

Yes, I was the chap in the green t shirt and glasses.

More pics - I only took a few on the day, there wasn't a chance to take 'turn by turn' shots as the primary purpose of being there was to demonstrate playing the game and chat to interested folk. Also the lighting in Kelham Hall was pretty poor. However, I've got a pair of linked articles about the war going into Wargames Illustrated (probably in Oct and Nov editions, TBC) - we did a photo shoot two weeks ago with super lighting and a much better camera, so I'm expecting those to turn out much better! Also there are two scenarios (one accompanying each article) - Danny took turn-by-turn photos of those, so hopefully some of that will make it into the final magazine.

Cheers

James
Title: Re: Photos of Italo-Ethiopian War 1936 game from Partizan
Post by: Wirelizard on 08 September 2009, 02:19:24 AM: That's a spectacular table, and those vingettes are great - very inspiring, I shall squirrel the idea away for future reference!