SPACE 1889

[The_Beast]

Does your friend have a worktable post anywhere of the ship builds?

Crackin'!

Doug

[Tas]

Does your friend have a worktable post anywhere of the ship builds?

Crackin'!

Doug

Sorry Doug, he does not.
He scratches them out of foamcore and card, then paints over the top

[The_Beast]

More info than I had before. 

Thanks!

Doug

[DivisMal]

Bloody awesome! Love the table, the minis and the mix between John Carter and Space 1889. more, please!

[Menelduir]

Really inspirational stuff here, so inspirational it made me revive my old VSF thread and to update my VSF blog! Also I have now downloaded the paper Sky Galleons of Mars ships, thanks, I am sure they will be fun to build....
Nice to see the Bronze age figures, I have been sorely tempted by the humans in that range (already have some of the creatures)
Must be nice to have some VSF gamers near enough to you to game with.

[Menelduir]

Thought I would post this here as well, maybe get some other suggestions too.

Quote from: VonAkers on March 23, 2022, 09:26:09 PM

    Menelduir , and Gang.

    I am preparing my Siege game for Space 1889.
    Got the walls sorted , and have some very nice TM Terrain Buildings to go with them..
    However I am after a bit of Ďnspiration , on how to customise said buildings to give them a "Martian "feel.
    Any ideas ??
    Let me know when you have a moment.
    Cheers


Off the top of my head and not knowing the look of the buildings I would suggest

1) Mars coloured ground terrain around the building, Martian plants, vines climbing up the buildings
2) Add-ons, shrines, coral with Gashants, odd shaped wall decorations, odd shaped architectural add-ons
3) Strange markings on the walls, I see circular shapes, spirals, odd looking letters
4) Netting to protect against flying blue High Martians
5) Humans go home signs...either in Earth language or Martian

[Tas]

Played our latest game today
More pics at my blog here:

https://pauljamesog.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-men-who-would-be-warlords-of-mars.html

[OSHIROmodels]

Great stuff 

[Grumpy Gnome]

Loving it all, looks brilliant! 👍

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Very nice Aphid.

[Just noticed the flag - not an Aphid]

[Rabbitz]

It's all so nice, please share more images.

[Redshank]

I really like your blog, great to see a new post. It's been inspirational to me in my own VSF efforts. Especially the Tharks!

I am still hunting for the "perfect" ruleset (a quest that will never end I fear)... I still prefer Soldier's Companion to anything else I've tried, including MWWBK.

[Furt]

Very cool!

So sorry I missed the chance to play in this Tas and to push the beautiful nef James' built around. Next time...

[VonAkers]

Redshank
Mate we played with MWWBK last Game
Trying to keep to the SPACE 1889 theme.
The French were Regulars , the French Askaris had inferior rifles

So we ran the Canal Martians in companies, and as Irregulars ., the French were Regulars , the French Askaris had inferior rifles .
Each company had 2 half companies of shooters (12 figs) and Cutters( 12 figs)
The shooters were downgraded to Antiquated Muskets , but boosted by better morale , total 4 Points .
The cutters were downgraded to only hand weapons , but had there morale pumped up  Total 3 points 
We also added 3 shield gunners to several units , they had an improvised rule that casualties come off them first  ( 2 cas per fig ) and only 2 hits kill , the incomplete hit is discarded., this makes them a fair bit tuffer and able to take more punishment at range  ) plus another point per group of 3 .
This worked ok , but made the cutters a bit slow, because they had to test to move ...
One of the other guys suggested using them as Tribals .. i was not so sure yet ..maybe.

Lastly and most importantly we used a different activation system that worked a treat .
Ie a Bolt action like ,chit per unit in a bag , and draw blind , ( obviously the unit must still pass a activation test if appliacable .. worked great !!
Huzzah !!!!

[Redshank]

You're making me think again about MWWBK! I think the game would really benefit from more random unit activation, creating a more dynamic situation for the players to deal with. I found games started to feel a bit samey quite quickly. Although that was also probably because we had limited playing space and not enough familiarity with the rules to place terrain well, which is important to stop the Europeans blasting the natives off the board...

Anyway your exploits continue to inspire and entertain, well done sir!