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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Paul Baker on January 27, 2011, 02:04:00 PM
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Hi All newby here.
I have been persuaded to post some pictures of a game played at my club last friday on your forum.
The rules were mainly/losely based around LOTOW
The scenario was that the British were returning from an expedition inland and were trying to board their transport, but the natives were not going to let them.
McG and Paul York both had squads of 8 men each and the Chinese numbers were randomly generated, quite heavily at the beginning of the game then to a trickle towards the end.
Although the British gained a couple of Victoria Crosses (Officers) and several other medals of gallentry they did not fulfil their objective. They did however kill 29 of the natives but lost 11 of their own. The British shooting as you would expect was outstanding causing several panic tests amongst the natives and keeping them at a distance.Once the Chinese closed into hand to hand combat the tide turned in their favour because of superior numbers and musket butts
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That is beautiful! Are those planks on the game board actually made from wood, or a cast tile (the overall effect is rather regular, but the individual squares seem to be quite different, so I can't decide from the pics...)?
The water is very nice and effective, too.
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Hi All newby here.
I have been persuaded to post some pictures of a game played at my club last friday on your forum.
Glad you've honoured us, Paul! It's a beautiful set up. Congratulations and welcome. I hope you have a look around at the other incredible colonial games which are posted here.
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Great job and looks like a fun game. by the first pictures I thought this was a huge game board, but I see it wasn't. Congrats on a beautiful board!
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Thanks for sharing that. What a beautiful collection! Sounds like the game was very fun.
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I am very pleased you have posted the photos here because its a gorgeous board. I love all the small details and the trees look suitably oriental too. Wonderful stuff ;D
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Are those planks on the game board actually made from wood, or a cast tile
Hi Chris
The wooden planks are made from the stirers you get at costa coffee and other coffee shops.The squares are roughly 40mm square. It took a long time to do and a heck of a lot of tapers but it all worked out in the end. The base was given a stain and any broken slats were given a green pastel wipe.
Paul
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Hi Chris
The wooden planks are made from the stirers you get at costa coffee and other coffee shops.The squares are roughly 40mm square. It took a long time to do and a heck of a lot of tapers but it all worked out in the end. The base was given a stain and any broken slats were given a green pastel wipe.
Paul
Bet you grew an ulcer drinking all that coffee.
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Lovely eye-candy! :-* Thanks for sharing.
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Bet you grew an ulcer drinking all that coffee.
I'd buy the stirrers, but if he's like most gamers, he nicks twenty for every cup he drinks. ;->=
Sorry, my mate directed me to this thread, but I spend most of my time on VSF forum. I kept quashing the thought 'where's the dinosaurs? where's Fu Manchu...' lol
Obviously, there was plenty going on without them. Can't put it better than Randy "Looks like this was a pretty fun game."
It's a compact but lovely setup; where is your club located?
Doug
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Lovely board, very nice figures, and as noted, deceptively compact set-up.
Great to look at, and looks fun too. Thanks for posting.
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WOW :-* :-* :-*
That's a great idea for a table.
Some very, very nice figures.
Are the houses bought or built?
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Now that is a gorgeous board! Welcome to the forum
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Now that is a gorgeous board and great minis too. Glad you shared.
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Excellent looking game Paul. You will find no shortage of enthusiasts here for games, figures and tables that look as good as that :)
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Spiffing stuff Paul, always wondered where all the stirrers go to.
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Paul - Looks simply wonderful old chap! Absolutely Spiffing as Phil observed. 8)
May I enquire?
- Is the Gunboat one from the UK Chaps on EBay who also do the big long cargo paddle-steamers and little motor boats? I ask as I have one of them too and yours looks very heavily modified and detailed as a friend of mine observed?
- I would very much appreciate knowing where you got the large cargo items (especially the tarpaulin wrapped cargo objects and the long crates), and the lovely looking individual barrels of various types and the piles of junk/goods (e.g. in photo 3) - I suppose you are going to tell me you hand-made them all yourself? :o
Jolly good show!
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Are the houses bought or built?
The buildings were purchased from Oshiro from his stock items but he made us some seperate ones aswell. We have 20 and can place them anywhere on the board for a different look.
- Is the Gunboat one from the UK Chaps on EBay who also do the big long cargo paddle-steamers and little motor boats? YES I ask as I have one of them too and yours looks very heavily modified and detailed as a friend of mine observed?
CORRECT- I would very much appreciate knowing where you got the large cargo items (especially the tarpaulin wrapped cargo objects and the long crates), and the lovely looking individual barrels of various types and the piles of junk/goods (e.g. in photo 3) - I suppose you are going to tell me you hand-made them all yourself? :o
OH NO[/list] The majority of the items we think are from a firm called Ainsty and the barrels are a mix of Rackham/GW (seige defenders) etc.
Hope that helps
Thanks for all the kind comments I will post on here again :)
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Games like this are what wargaming is all about IMHO.
Gotta have good company too.
Brilliant stuff :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*.
Darrell.
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- Is the Gunboat one from the UK Chaps on EBay who also do the big long cargo paddle-steamers and little motor boats? I ask as I have one of them too and yours looks very heavily modified and detailed as a friend of mine observed?
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I thought I recognised it! I have one in my 3-vessel Nile gunboat fleet - and a friend of mine who is on here (6mmfan) is helping me out with my backlog of terrain and stuff, and is painting it up my gunboats for me including 1 like yours (the other 2 being the John Jenkins African River Steamer & the Old Glory Safieh) - so it's given us some extra ideas about detailing. ;)
- I would very much appreciate knowing where you got the large cargo items (especially the tarpaulin wrapped cargo objects and the long crates), and the lovely looking individual barrels of various types and the piles of junk/goods (e.g. in photo 3) - I suppose you are going to tell me you hand-made them all yourself? :o
OH NO - The majority of the items we think are from a firm called Ainsty and the barrels are a mix of Rackham/GW (seige defenders) etc.
Cool - Thanks Mate - I shall investigate... :)
BTW - have you posted a game using this terrain pictured somewhere else previously (last year or so)? I could have sworn I've seen the town/village with the wood surface before somewhere?
Anyway Jolly Good Effort Mate, Jolly Good! 8)
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Beautiful game. Great photos.
Thank you for sharing.
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Most impressive for such a small board but fitting in well with the board sizes that LOTOW recommends/alludes to. Gives me thoughts on what to do with the ever growing group of Chinese Pirates I have. On Wed I got the Chinese Tong group from the former West Winds Cowboy Wars range, now OG I believe. :P
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The buildings were purchased from Oshiro from his stock items but he made us some seperate ones aswell. We have 20 and can place them anywhere on the board for a different look.
I am surprised Jimbibbly has not been to comment on this thread, he is Oshiro.[/list]
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Brilliant, a joy to behold. 8)
www.gallopingmajorwargames.com
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Great looking game & board. I just love seeing anything with 19th century Chinese. I think that is probably my favorite period & theme. Like your avatar too BTW.