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Offline Jeff965

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Re: (NEW) Post a picture of the last game you played! 7/01/2017+
« Reply #450 on: January 13, 2018, 08:58:22 PM »
Big Chain of Command game at Emmscon Abergaveny, great day to celebrate a friends birthday.

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Re: (NEW) Post a picture of the last game you played! 7/01/2017+
« Reply #451 on: January 13, 2018, 09:10:44 PM »
Looks like a great set up,is that one of the new range of gaming mats by Dunelm I spy  ;) :)


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Re: (NEW) Post a picture of the last game you played! 7/01/2017+
« Reply #452 on: January 13, 2018, 09:25:52 PM »
Yes and EWM roads and Ham and Jam buildings :)

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Re: (NEW) Post a picture of the last game you played! 7/01/2017+
« Reply #453 on: January 13, 2018, 09:37:23 PM »
I second the BEAR necessities making this even more awesome.  Where did the bear come from?
As dinohunterpoa previously mentioned this is D&D Cave Bear and I bought him  here: https://www.hoardobits.com/ for a princely sum of 3$. :)

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Again: AWESOME table! You should post some AARs here on LAF!  Wink
I do post AAR`s sometimes, this time however I was just too lazy  to translate the whole report as the game had a way too many assorted events and plot twists involved to describe it in a few words. :)

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Re: (NEW) Post a picture of the last game you played! 7/01/2017+
« Reply #454 on: January 13, 2018, 11:10:45 PM »
I do post AAR`s sometimes, this time however I was just too lazy  to translate the whole report as the game had a way too many assorted events and plot twists involved to describe it in a few words. :)

Even as I've used Google Translator, I've found your write up very nice!  ;)
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Re: (NEW) Post a picture of the last game you played! 7/01/2017+
« Reply #455 on: January 14, 2018, 03:47:06 AM »

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Re: (NEW) Post a picture of the last game you played! 7/01/2017+
« Reply #456 on: January 15, 2018, 11:05:40 AM »
6mm Team Yankee

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Re: (NEW) Post a picture of the last game you played! 7/01/2017+
« Reply #457 on: January 15, 2018, 03:14:13 PM »
It was one of those below-zero (F) weekends, so set up a battle to use some winter figs I got last year.
Chain of Command - Shrinking the Bulge, Jan 45.  German defense of farm in delaying mission.
Force composition was out-of-the-box, with the Germans given a roadblock and entrenchments to help their sparse numbers.
The impact of the vehicles (again: what came with the figs) was limited by having the M8 get stuck easily (which it did...twice) and the Stug run out of fuel if it rolled a '1' while moving...which it did (but not before knocking out the M8).

The table from the German side:


The American advance from the woods:


The Germans managed to hold out longer than the Americans, whose force morale dropped to 'We don't need this sort of trouble' when the Stug appeared and took out the M8 (they didn't know it was of gas).

Offline von Lucky

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Re: (NEW) Post a picture of the last game you played! 7/01/2017+
« Reply #458 on: January 16, 2018, 08:48:57 AM »
I can't repeat enough how much I love this thread. Thanks all for posting.
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Re: (NEW) Post a picture of the last game you played! 7/01/2017+
« Reply #459 on: January 16, 2018, 08:56:35 PM »
gweirda - I really like the look of your game, looks very realistic, and different from most other games (it also looks very cold!). What scale are the figures?

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Re: (NEW) Post a picture of the last game you played! 7/01/2017+
« Reply #460 on: January 16, 2018, 08:58:10 PM »
Played more epic the other week - Squats vs Orks
This is right at the start - "drivers start your engines" comes to mind

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Offline gweirda

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Re: (NEW) Post a picture of the last game you played! 7/01/2017+
« Reply #462 on: January 17, 2018, 01:09:37 PM »
gweirda - I really like the look of your game, looks very realistic, and different from most other games (it also looks very cold!). What scale are the figures?

Thanks - bad photos help to make it look better! ;)  I use a (thrift store)cloth over foam boards (8mm in this case, built up to show contours) that allows me to pin stuff instead of having bases* (haven't gotten around to the fir trees yet...) and lots of scatter that either gets swept up into an appropriate bag (eg: road ballast) or just gathered/dumped into a generic pile of 'landscape greeblies' to be used in the future.  Fields are  a (thrift store again!)shower curtain - I sometimes take the trouble to iron them so the edges lie down a bit better, but as you said: it was cold (50-deg F in the cellar) so I didn't bother this time.

A view from the farmhouse towards the American left flank:


The figs are 15mm - In 1:1 / fig:man games I like to keep the ground and figure scales as close as possible to reduce the amount of (what I call) visual translation players need to do in order to interpret the tabletop.


* done by many, but seen by me locally at   http://warartisan.com/galleries/land_battles
« Last Edit: January 17, 2018, 01:25:14 PM by gweirda »

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Re: (NEW) Post a picture of the last game you played! 7/01/2017+
« Reply #463 on: January 17, 2018, 09:53:45 PM »
Thanks - I too have liked playing CoC with small scale figures, we used 10mm ones, which are a little small for this, 15mm would have been better. But it does really give you a much better feel for the size of the battlefield.

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