1750 New France & Osage Nation Skirmish Project (New Pics 24 Jul 2023)

[WillPhillips]

WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!

Nice to have a small footprint for this project! All the player warband figures in one 1.75l Really Useful Box, and the wild beasts that may appear as a random encounter in another of the same size.

Now the hex-based terrain is growing in size, BUT there's nothing saying I can't go all-in on cardboard tiles, either.

May be something to consider!

[WillPhillips]

Progress continues with the 18th century New France micro-sized skirmish project.

Got all the assorted critters painted (somewhat hastily and poorly, but painted nontheless!) and based with aquarium sands and covered with a mix of Modge Podge and craft glue.

Plants and grasses await, then I'll have the following good-sized menagerie for my roving parties to bump into:

- 2 bears
- 2 mountain lions
- 3 boars
- 3 buffalo
- 2 deer (plus one fawn)
- 2 bull elk
- 2 wolves (one of whom being a repurposed Reaper undead zombie wolf... sssshhh)

[Inkpaduta]

Your work so far makes me REALLY want to play that game! Good job.

[mikedemana]

Keep it up - very inspiring work! The skin tone issue could probably be argued by many. I say go with what feels right to you. Just remember the "formula" you used (and buy extra pots of that paint!). Over the years of painting my French & Indian War figures, I saw my base color disappear from production more than once.

Mike Demana

[WillPhillips]

Your work so far makes me REALLY want to play that game! Good job.

Thanks! The plan is for a VERY lightweight, beer and pretzels game. Inspired in part by GW's Warhammer Underworlds and Mantic's Riot Quest in complexity, but ported and adapted to this historical context. Something I can easily pick up and travel with to play with friends.

[WillPhillips]

Keep it up - very inspiring work! The skin tone issue could probably be argued by many. I say go with what feels right to you. Just remember the "formula" you used (and buy extra pots of that paint!). Over the years of painting my French & Indian War figures, I saw my base color disappear from production more than once.

Mike Demana

Good points and a lesson I've already had to learn the hard way, haha! I'm keeping recipes jotted down in a master project log document.

[WillPhillips]

Tonight's tabletop gaming project: making a hex grid on felt, followed by some terrain work (not shown here) for my c. 1750s New France + Osage Nation skirmish project.

[WillPhillips]

And a close up:

[RichBliss]

Pretty cool.  The Wild Boar are probably an anachronism, but the look good so…

[Stryder]

Great Job on the project so far! Found you on instagram and am following as well.

[ffrum]

I am quite impressed with your results on these figures and especially the animals.  I have a variety of skin tones among the large numbers of F&IW, Apachees, etc. Indians/Native Americans I have painted and accumulated over the years.  A little variety is good as long as they look good in games!  I look forward to seeing more on your project and games.  Thank you!

[marco55]

The French in North America have always been interesting to me. Those guys really got around.
Mark

[BillK]

Wonderful project, really nice work on the figures.
Have to keep an eye on this thread.

[WillPhillips]

It's been months and months, but have recently been returning to this project.

Most of my updates have been going

but here are some photo updates.

Work on my c. 1750 New France & Osage Nation skirmish homage continues. Lots of the focus has been on terrain, lately, but the rules are starting to coalesce as well.

As I’ve been writing them, it’s become clear that they could be broadly applicable to wider European colonial contacts from the late 17th century through the early 19th.

So I’ve given them a working title of “Far from Old Europe” and plan on getting them to a playtest-able state later this year.

No big hurry, as I don’t plan any sort of marketing hustle or push.

But for personal reasons? It will be nice to have a super-lightweight game I can set up and play when even I’m not feeling something as middle-of-the-road as Frostgrave.

With that said, here’s some recent photos.

As mentioned, the game is designed to be played on a roughly 18 x 24″ space using a (again, roughly) two-inch hex grid.

Terrain rules are deliberately simple: there’s Rough Ground, Cover, and impassible Obstacles. No elevation changes or deep water here.

Here’s a setup approximating a forest.







I’m still uncertain why some of my Pixel 4 phone photos turn out with this strange, painterly affect, and other’s don’t. That said, my apologies!

(If any of you have ideas, I'm all ears!)









More available on my blog or my Instagram.

https://tabletop.willphillips.org/2023/07/new-france-terrain-update/

https://www.instagram.com/tabletop.will.phillips/

[Grumpy Gnome]

Looking good!