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Miniatures Adventure => VSF Adventures => Topic started by: Froggy the Great on 21 July 2011, 03:37:54 PM

Title: Battle Report: Atlantis, 20 July 1891
Post by: Froggy the Great on 21 July 2011, 03:37:54 PM
The game was played using FUBAR 4th edition(link) (http://www.reapermini.com/~froggy/Documents/FUBAR/FUBAR-CoreRules-V4.pdf), with the VSF supplement(link) (http://www.reapermini.com/~froggy/Documents/FUBAR/VictorianSciFi_FUBAR.pdf).

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Title: Re: Battle Report: Atlantis, 20 July 1891
Post by: Mancha on 21 July 2011, 04:23:25 PM
Quote from: Froggy the Great on 21 July 2011, 03:37:54 PM
(http://www.reapermini.com/~froggy/Images/GamePics/VSF_2011-07-20/VSF_2011-07-20_13.jpg)

As always, I enjoyed the report.  It always hurts to see finely-painted miniatures lying on their sides, but especially when they're Hinterland ladies.  :'(  Surely there's some way to avoid this in gaming?   
Title: Re: Battle Report: Atlantis, 20 July 1891
Post by: Okarn on 21 July 2011, 05:17:32 PM
A truely fun game! The detail Froggy puts into all his work really brings life to the game.

Those poor Lizards sure did a number on the CSA Rocketmen, made them retreat in the first contact the CSA had. Being on the other side from them makes seeing them taking a break for "lunch" in the middle of a fight a good thing!
Title: Re: Battle Report: Atlantis, 20 July 1891
Post by: Froggy the Great on 21 July 2011, 06:10:03 PM
Quote from: Mancha on 21 July 2011, 04:23:25 PM
As always, I enjoyed the report.  It always hurts to see finely-painted miniatures lying on their sides, but especially when they're Hinterland ladies.  :'(  Surely there's some way to avoid this in gaming?   
Those Hinterland ladies are actually some of my more robust figures for that sort of thing.  I did paint them as gaming figures, granted, but the biggest problem I've had with them is the penny-bases coming unglued, not anything with the paint.
Title: Re: Battle Report: Atlantis, 20 July 1891
Post by: Ray Rivers on 21 July 2011, 06:30:27 PM
Quote from: Mancha on 21 July 2011, 04:23:25 PM
It always hurts to see finely-painted miniatures lying on their sides, but especially when they're Hinterland ladies.  :'(   

Bloody unsporting.  What!   ;)
Title: Re: Battle Report: Atlantis, 20 July 1891
Post by: Chairface on 22 July 2011, 03:07:16 AM
Beautiful game Froggy.
Title: Re: Battle Report: Atlantis, 20 July 1891
Post by: FeederOfRavens on 22 July 2011, 04:44:41 PM
Excellent photography, as always. Hopefully my Prussians will make a better showing for themselves next time. Also, hopefully I'll have more of them painted...sigh...
Title: Re: Battle Report: Atlantis, 20 July 1891
Post by: Doomsdave on 25 July 2011, 07:28:33 AM
Awesome looking game.  How did you like Fubar compared to the other rulesets out there?  I'm itching to try it with my sons.
Title: Re: Battle Report: Atlantis, 20 July 1891
Post by: General M@yhem on 25 July 2011, 11:39:16 AM
Quote from: Doomsdave on 25 July 2011, 07:28:33 AM
Awesome looking game.  How did you like Fubar compared to the other rulesets out there?  I'm itching to try it with my sons.

Go for it! we've played in a few times now in different theatres of war and it's so great in its simplicity, yet you are rewarded with careful tactics.
Title: Re: Battle Report: Atlantis, 20 July 1891
Post by: Froggy the Great on 25 July 2011, 01:01:51 PM
It also rewards aggressive tactics, if you do them right.  Aggressive tactics done wrong mean that you get shot up really fast.  I've seen the same army unstoppable on the field (played by Okarn) with a ten-man squad pouring volley after volley into the withering enemy, and I've seen the same army shot to pieces in the hands of someone less tactically astute (me).

Plus, free is good. One page (plus 1pg genre supplement if you like) means that you can hand one sheet-protector page to a bystander and say "this is what we're playing.  Want to join?" and they'll run away less fast than if you have a Mighty Tome to which to refer.
Title: Re: Battle Report: Atlantis, 20 July 1891
Post by: fergal on 25 July 2011, 03:26:39 PM
Great looking event!  You don't happen to have a thread around where you show how you built those sky ships do you?

Title: Re: Battle Report: Atlantis, 20 July 1891
Post by: Froggy the Great on 25 July 2011, 04:08:42 PM
All I can find is the WIP for the large Confederate 'nef:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=21705
and
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=21548.0

I do not appear to have one for any of the British ships.