Boots and Saddles - BLAM Report

[Bugsda]

Butteful 

[Tom Reed]

As to the stagecoach station, you may want to look at adding some sort of small building with a forge for shoeing horses and making repairs to stagecoaches.

[Mason]

Looking good so far, sir.
The buttes fit in splendidly, and they do not look too big at all.
 

[Malamute]

She wore a yellow ribbon is my favourite of the trilogy. I think you will do it justice with this. I guess you’ve got a well or western style water trough covered?
I Think it needs an outbuilding or two. The forge is a good idea too.

[Andym]

What a cracking board! I don’t remember seeing such a good representation of the West before!

[Elk101]

Bloody hell Gary that's excellent. Andy's spot on with his comment, it's a beautifuly realised board.

[Hu Rhu]

Well!!! This terrain is E-VO-CA-TI-VE 
And a well chosen scenario theme!
It will be a hit for sure! Cheers!

Butteful 

Looking good so far, sir.
The buttes fit in splendidly, and they do not look too big at all.
 

Thanks for the kind comments especially about my Buttes.  I'm glad they don't look to big. 

As to the stagecoach station, you may want to look at adding some sort of small building with a forge for shoeing horses and making repairs to stagecoaches.

She wore a yellow ribbon is my favourite of the trilogy. I think you will do it justice with this. I guess you’ve got a well or western style water trough covered?
I Think it needs an outbuilding or two. The forge is a good idea too.

Great idea about the forge and water trough.  I will add them to the list.

What a cracking board! I don’t remember seeing such a good representation of the West before!

Bloody hell Gary that's excellent. Andy's spot on with his comment, it's a beautifuly realised board.

Thanks very much.  I hope that it will do it justice.

[rumacara]

Lovelly board.

Try this western - Ride Lonesome
It may give you an idea for a trading post.

[Vagabond]

Thanks for posting the overall pictures it all hangs together extremely well.

Look forward to seeing the buildings.
Cheers

[Hu Rhu]

The terrain of Sudrose Wells is still very WIP but I will be posting some shots later.  In the meantime I wanted to test out the scenario so I mocked up the stagecoach station and we ran the game.

The game as it looked at the start.



The station employees were holed up in the buildings and had been reinforced by half troop of cavalry who occupied the corral.  The Indian forces emerged from the east and north at dawn -  7 bands of Sioux led by Warchief Two Dogs supported by Medicine Man Crazy Calf.







The redskins swept forward towards the corral,  undaunted by the fire of the troopers who emptied many a saddle but were slowly whittled down by repeated charges by the braves.  A final charge by a band of Youndbloods sealed their fate and the corral had been taken.



However the settlers in the house had held off the other half of the redskins forces and the rest of the cavalry arrived (in the nick of time?). 

C Troop charged the redskins around the corall driving them back, whilst B Troop dismounted and kept at bay the Akacita driving them back across the river.





However B Troop had not reckoned on the intervention of Medicine Man Crazy Calf.  On the drawing of the 'Hoka Hey' card he managed to successfully inspire 3 bands on successive turns enabling them to re-enter the fight and destroy most of B Troop leaving a small section in a 'Last Stand' which was overrun by a concerted charge of Braves and Youngbloods. However this had cost them badly with many an empty saddle in their bands.




Meanwhile C Troop, supported by the fire from the cabin had seen off the right wing of the redskins and could now mount up and move forward. The remaining redskins who by now had lost many warriors were not strong enough to hold them back and Two Dogs realising that he could not prevail gave the order for the bands to break off the attack.  Sudrose Wells had been saved.

After the game we reviewed the rules and made some minor tweaks to the rules regarding Redskin charges but overall we were happy with the results.  The game re-emphasised the importance of long range fire by the dismounted cavalry, whilst the Indians benefitted from getting into hand to hand contact.  It also emphasised the importance to the Indian player of having his bands in control as they failed to charge home on the cabin once they had cleared the corral of the troopers, which might have won them the game.

Overall another great game, with the advantage switching from side to side as the game played out.

[DintheDin]

Nail biting game and a cinematic spectacle!
Really great!!!  Cheers!

[Jeff965]

Really impressive table that Gary, I want one You may have said so already but what was the painting recipe for that lovely rich colour, it really is the dogs doodahs.

[Malamute]

Splendid stuff, it looks very cinematic 

[Hu Rhu]

Nail biting game and a cinematic spectacle!
Really great!!!  Cheers!

Thank you.

Really impressive table that Gary, I want one You may have said so already but what was the painting recipe for that lovely rich colour, it really is the dogs doodahs.

I used craft acryllics throughout - mostly from the Decoart range with a few colours from Graduate acrylics.

The whole board was painted in Burnt Sienna and then given a heavy dry brush of 50:50 mix of Burnt Sienna/Venetian Red followed by a dry brush of Venetian Red to give it a good dark reddish base. 

Thereafter it was series of dry brushes getting lighter as the colours got lighter in this order: Pure Pumpkin, Squash Blossom (both oranges), Goldenrod, Bright Yellow (both yellows) finished off by Tan and finally Sandstone.   Hope that helps.

[OSHIROmodels]

Nicely done Gary