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Miniatures Adventure => Back of Beyond => Topic started by: Ignatieff on 11 October 2009, 03:40:26 PM

Title: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: Ignatieff on 11 October 2009, 03:40:26 PM
This was the traditional big Saturday night battle, where things, as always, were not what they seemed......

The unlikely allies of Der Baron, The Chinese, The Beast of Bukhara, The British, The Italians, Texas Ted's expeditionary force, Von Stauffenberg and the Tibetans, had uncovered the real plot in the campaign: that of renegade German scientist and eugenics 'expert' Dr.Isaacs (anyone recall which film he was a baddy in??) who had built an alternative scientific research station some hundreds of miles to the north west, in a carefully disguised location on the banks of Lake Sarez, where he practised his abominable black arts........

(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh164/defoix/DSC00458.jpg)
Dr. Isaacs and friends: meet the zombies!

(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh164/defoix/DSC00446.jpg)
In addition to the secret underground zombie factory, Dr. Isaacs had also recruited a crack Baltic White Freikorps battalion to guard his secret observatory facility and his real terror weapon - an early form of rocket weapon.  Note also he has managed to secret enough U-boat parts to build his own lake side flotilla.

Word had got out to the players that there might be something unwholesome and undead at the Lake Sarez facility, and so uniquely they had all decided to band together, storm the facility, and then work out their differences afterwards....

(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh164/defoix/Picture623.jpg)
A Tibetan zeppelin was first on the scene....

(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh164/defoix/Picture626-1.jpg)
whilst everything was strangely quiet, in fact too quiet, at the facility.  Note the blast doors in the hillside

(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh164/defoix/Picture637.jpg)
Der Baron, the Bukharians and Von Stauffenberg.  Unlikely bedfellows.  (apologies for the blurred pic)

(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh164/defoix/Picture638.jpg)
British and US combined air ops against the defenders in the port region
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: answer_is_42 on 11 October 2009, 03:48:30 PM
Awesome. Where's the aiship from (I assume it isn't scratchbuilt?)? And how the devil did the Tibetians get their hands on it?
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: former user on 11 October 2009, 03:49:08 PM
unbelievable
congratulations!

why do I not get to play such games?

what zeppelin is that? it looks so huge
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: Ignatieff on 11 October 2009, 04:11:52 PM
I've asked The Dalai Soapy where he got the kit from.  It was a cracker, even had lights that went on in the gondola.  As to why they have it, well its a result of the eight campaigns we have been running.  In 1918 a German zeppelin disappeared over the Himalayas, and the Tibetans captured it.  The crew 'joined the cause', and with the aid of newly developed Yak dung technology, produced a new safe form of gas which allowed the development of Yak Air, the Tibetan national airline.......well you did ask!  lol
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: OSHIROmodels on 11 October 2009, 05:02:46 PM
Wonderful stuff there Steve, A pleasure to see  :-*  :-*

cheers

James
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: redzed on 11 October 2009, 05:50:11 PM
the observatory is rather nifty :)
not a building you usually see.
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: Ignatieff on 11 October 2009, 05:57:23 PM
the observatory is rather nifty :)
not a building you usually see.

scratch built by one of our number, Cameron Thomson (aka Von Stauffenberg).  I tried my hand at it, but gave up in the end.  The roof swivels and comes off to reveal the usual fiendish workings inside.
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: Ignatieff on 11 October 2009, 07:27:36 PM


what zeppelin is that? it looks so huge

Zep is from Hannants.  Here's the link: http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=LI70816
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: Bako on 11 October 2009, 10:38:11 PM
Wow, that's a biggun' of a zeppelin.
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: Admiral Benbow on 12 October 2009, 04:18:11 PM
Brilliant setup as usual, I'm speechless ...  :o
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: former user on 12 October 2009, 04:29:35 PM
You think we could do something like that too? 8)
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: d phipps on 14 October 2009, 10:11:14 AM
Awesome!  :-* :-*
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: gamer Mac on 14 October 2009, 01:50:46 PM
Unbelievable  :o :o :o
Is there anything not involved in this game?
Excellent set up, great looking game. :-* :-* :-*
Now on to read parts 2 & 3 :D
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: Leapsnbounds on 17 October 2009, 02:51:20 AM
Now along with the Pulp Pistol survey, this is the stuff I am talking about.  The set-up is fantastic.  I can only aspire to such heights.
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: leadfool on 21 October 2009, 07:31:51 AM
Looks great.

What are you using to hold up the Zeppelin???? 
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: postal on 21 October 2009, 12:49:05 PM
OMG  :onow thats some awsome looking game
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: Ignatieff on 22 October 2009, 05:19:59 PM
My guess is the sheer willpower of the participants.

I have scoured all the photos but I do not see it. I know it must be there. So...where is the kitchen sink?

I am in awe!

The stand.  Now that's a saga in itself.  Pete Martin (aka The Dalai Soapy) scoured the DIY stores of Inverness for something suitable, but everything - and I mean everything - fell over.  In the end he chanced upon a music store and ended up by a microphone boom, which cost nearly twice as much as the zeppelin.  Ah well, he's a single guy and lives with his mum, so what else has he got to spend his money on!!
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: former user on 22 October 2009, 05:53:38 PM
screwing some hooks into the ceiling and attaching a cable would have been too complicated?

oh, forget that

I just checked it is the living room, not the basement...
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: Captain Blood on 22 October 2009, 08:54:53 PM
Ah well, he's a single guy and lives with his mum, so what else has he got to spend his money on!!

Porn?

 ;)
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: Ignatieff on 22 October 2009, 10:06:51 PM
Porn?

 ;)

Nah, he's done that.....
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: leadfool on 23 October 2009, 06:55:59 AM
A microphone boom, wow, I would never have thought of that!!!  Thanks,
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: former user on 23 October 2009, 09:16:30 AM
You can use a microphone boom for porn too...
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: Westfalia Chris on 23 October 2009, 09:25:41 AM
You can use a microphone boom for porn too...

I´d have bet you a German would suggest that one. lol  :-X
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: Westfalia Chris on 23 October 2009, 09:31:51 AM
Porn versus Wargaming = no contest
Lead beats wood.

Now that´s just EWWWWW! lol
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: former user on 23 October 2009, 11:38:09 AM
I´d have bet you a German would suggest that one. lol  :-X

don't know about Your heritage, but I would guess You are more german than I am  ;),
but anyway, being technical, looking for synergystic effects and seeing the economic aspect of something would describe some of my traits, german or not  ;)
Title: Re: End of Empires: Battle of nine armies - Lake Sarez Part 1
Post by: Ignatieff on 23 October 2009, 06:46:20 PM
 lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol