Welcome,
Guest
. Please
login
or
register
.
1 Hour
1 Day
1 Week
1 Month
Forever
Login with username, password and session length
News:
Donate to the Lead Adventure Forum to keep it alive!
Home
Help
TinyPortal
Search
Calendar
Gallery
Search
Stats
Donations
Login
Register
Lead Adventure Forum
»
Forum
»
Miniatures Adventure
»
Fantasy Adventures
(Moderators:
white knight
,
Elk101
) »
Red Book of the Elf King project
User
Welcome,
Guest
. Please
login
or
register
.
April 27, 2024, 06:32:46 AM
1 Hour
1 Day
1 Week
1 Month
Forever
Login with username, password and session length
Donate
We Appreciate Your Support
Search
Advanced search
stats
Members
Total Members: 10450
Latest:
Kosta The Greek
Stats
Total Posts: 1690833
Total Topics: 118354
Online Today: 861
Online Ever: 2235
(October 29, 2023, 01:32:45 AM)
Users Online
Users: 13
Guests: 813
Total: 826
MM
brunei35
Stärn vo Buebebärg
Garder
FifteensAway
Charlie_
bergschotten
giorgio
Pattus Magnus
Will Bailie
Tolemykus
infelix
Recent
Deano's Fantasy Figures (...
by
Deano
[
Today
at 06:11:29 AM]
Psyber's Super-Duper Dung...
by
Elbows
[
Today
at 06:10:04 AM]
Boshin War Skirmish Rules...
by
SJWi
[
Today
at 06:00:22 AM]
Question about Sherden Gu...
by
ithoriel
[
Today
at 05:36:45 AM]
Ogrob's medievals for SAG...
by
NTM
[
Today
at 05:30:02 AM]
Hostile Space - Space Mec...
by
Grimmnar
[
Today
at 04:09:32 AM]
CapnJim's Modern Stuff (A...
by
carlos marighela
[
Today
at 03:52:58 AM]
Paper wargaming - Fights ...
by
Dubbya
[
Today
at 03:31:38 AM]
Mark's Little Soldiers
by
fusilierdan
[
Today
at 01:34:23 AM]
(WANTED) Langton Galleys
by
bigredbat
[
Today
at 12:23:28 AM]
TV Sci-Fi in 28mm
by
HESH
[April 26, 2024, 11:54:54 PM]
Wellyn Shaftesbury
by
marianas_gamer
[April 26, 2024, 11:00:53 PM]
"quotNever trust anyone on t...
by
Mad Guru
[April 26, 2024, 10:57:04 PM]
Re: The Last Hurrah Proje...
by
FramFramson
[April 26, 2024, 10:55:59 PM]
SAND WARS 2024, Mesa, Ari...
by
Mad Guru
[April 26, 2024, 10:51:52 PM]
« previous
next »
Print
Pages: [
1
]
2
Go Down
Author
Topic: Red Book of the Elf King project (Read 5591 times)
Chris Abbey
Mastermind
Posts: 1805
Red Book of the Elf King project
«
on:
July 10, 2018, 10:16:35 AM »
Over the last couple of weeks I have been busy painting up some of the excellent Red Book of the Elf King miniatures.
So far I have painted up one of each of the six packs of Elf Companions and three heroes. Sally 4th are the official show stockists for Lucid Eye, so we have been making a demo board and painting demo armies so that we can have them on show on our stand at shows. The next couple we are going to are Claymore on 4th August and The Other Partizan on 19th August so if you're at either show do come over and have a look and a chat.
If you have not seen Red Book of the Elf King, it is the new set of rules written by Rick Priestly, you can check it out @
http://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/The-Red-Book-of-The-Elf-King
Logged
Chris Abbey
Www.sally4th.co.uk
beefcake
Galactic Brain
Posts: 7425
Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
«
Reply #1 on:
July 10, 2018, 11:08:32 AM »
Those boards are absolutely amazing. Any closeups?
Logged
Chris Abbey
Mastermind
Posts: 1805
Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
«
Reply #2 on:
July 10, 2018, 12:39:38 PM »
We only finished the board last night, so I just took a snap on my phone on the way to work this morning!
I'll take some proper photos over next couple of days and update the thread.
Logged
Ethelred the Almost Ready
Mastermind
Posts: 1092
Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
«
Reply #3 on:
July 10, 2018, 08:37:39 PM »
Those are amazing boards. I am rather envious.
Logged
Chris Abbey
Mastermind
Posts: 1805
Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
«
Reply #4 on:
July 12, 2018, 06:47:57 PM »
I have started taking some proper photos of the Red Book of the Elf King miniatures & terrain and putting them in our custom terrain gallery @
http://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/Custom-Terrain-Gallery
Logged
Bloggard
Scatterbrained Genius
Posts: 3462
Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
«
Reply #5 on:
July 14, 2018, 12:54:25 PM »
yes, fabulous board. Your terra-forming system is excellent.
Logged
PhilB
Scientist
Posts: 431
Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
«
Reply #6 on:
July 14, 2018, 02:57:35 PM »
Really brilliant terrain!
Do those trees have their own bases, but fit into pre-placed divots in the terrain board? Looks like a brilliant system, and a way to better store the boards when not in service. And re-use the trees on future boards. Without the trees' bases looking like they are hovering over the underlying terrain.
Great stuff!
Logged
Pirates and Plunder, One Night at the Crooked Hand
A short adventure for PF2.
James Morris
Mastermind
Posts: 1591
Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
«
Reply #7 on:
July 14, 2018, 09:46:20 PM »
Some lovely work there - thanks for sharing.
Logged
https://mogsymakes.net/
Chris Abbey
Mastermind
Posts: 1805
Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
«
Reply #8 on:
July 15, 2018, 05:26:46 PM »
Yes, the trees are mounted on 40mm round bases. We then set a ring with a 40mm diameter internal hole into the terrain, plaster up over the ring which leaves a recess to drop trees into so that they are flush with terrain, but can be removed for storage. We can also swap out the pine trees for a deciduous forest or even jungle trees, increasing versatility of the boards.
Logged
gibby64
Mad Scientist
Posts: 879
Temple of the West
Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
«
Reply #9 on:
July 16, 2018, 04:18:03 PM »
Those boards are FANTASTIC!!... close ups of the painted minis please... !
Logged
Owner, Temple of the West
www.TempleWest.co
Chris Abbey
Mastermind
Posts: 1805
Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
«
Reply #10 on:
July 16, 2018, 05:59:27 PM »
OK, will take camera home and see what I can do.
Logged
Chris Abbey
Mastermind
Posts: 1805
Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
«
Reply #11 on:
July 17, 2018, 05:39:22 PM »
OK, took some more photos last night, and Thursday night I have a game scheduled in the evening with Doug so I've decided to add a page to my Hobby Blog to collect together photos of terrain, miniatures and games.
Here's a link :
http://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/Red-Book-of-the-Elf-King
Here's an image of Alloysian of the Marshes surveying the battlefield.
Logged
mweaver
Scatterbrained Genius
Posts: 2684
Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
«
Reply #12 on:
July 18, 2018, 01:58:17 PM »
I will join the chorus of praise for those terrain boards!
-Michael
Logged
Chris Abbey
Mastermind
Posts: 1805
Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
«
Reply #13 on:
July 20, 2018, 05:43:31 PM »
Last night we got to try the terrain boards out!
First trial game of Red Book of the Elf King.
I'm glad to be able to report that the game played very smoothly. I was a little concerned that there would not be enough in the game (other than the back story off course) to make it unique, but I need not have worried.
We really liked the activation system, interplay of magic and combat and the way that casualties interacted with activation to show units hesitating and being harder to activate once exhausted.
If added a stack of new photos together with a description of some of the key mechanisms we used last night to my hobby blog @
http://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/Red-Book-of-the-Elf-King
Logged
Chris Abbey
Mastermind
Posts: 1805
Re: Red Book of the Elf King project
«
Reply #14 on:
July 27, 2018, 11:34:43 AM »
On Wednesday evening, Doug and I played our first game of Red Book of the Elf King with complete seven unit armies, i.e Thane plus six groups of three companions.
We played the second scenario in the Red Book of the Elf King rulebook. Both sides deployed on to the table with the intent of destroying the opposing Thane. If neither side achieved this victory went to the side that had caused the most casualties.
Dougs force was based around Meksant Farseer so was very magical, my force was based on Vachel Goldenhand so was based on close combat ability.
We had an exciting game, victory was in the balance right up to the last activation of the last turn.
I've added a right up of the game with lots of photos and descriptions of rule mechanics to my hobby blog @
http://wargamesbuildings.co.uk/Red-Book-of-the-Elf-King
Logged
Print
Pages: [
1
]
2
Go Up
« previous
next »
Lead Adventure Forum
»
Forum
»
Miniatures Adventure
»
Fantasy Adventures
(Moderators:
white knight
,
Elk101
) »
Red Book of the Elf King project