Orc's Drift - The Grand Finale

[generulpoleaxe]

    wish my mates and myself as kids had had scenery like that for when we played the orcs drift scenarios.

[Thantsants]

Cheers all!

Which lucky gitz are playing then?

Actually its some of the lads from the Explorer unit I'm a leader with - which is why I'm thinking of running another LAF game as a lot of them will be first time gamers! No offense to them but it'd be nice to run the game with some more experienced hands as well! 

SO the lack of a narrative to accompany the photos isn't necessarily a negative point. BEAUTIFUL STUFF!

Cheers Deafnala - should remedy the lack of narrative soon! KIachas Pass, Ashak Rise  and possibly Linden Way to play through tomorrow... 

Anyways - I'd best be off soon - I've got a little bit of setting up to do!

[thebinmann]

Cheers all!

Actually its some of the lads from the Explorer unit I'm a leader with - which is why I'm thinking of running another LAF game as a lot of them will be first time gamers! No offense to them but it'd be nice to run the game with some more experienced hands as well! 

Yeah you should do it in France too 

[Thantsants]

I seem to remember calls for a World Tour some time back! 

[thebinmann]

I seem to remember calls for a World Tour some time back! 

Yeah kicking of in Tours France!

[FramFramson]

Just tumbled on this thread and oh my goodness how did I not see it before? What a treat. 

[nicknorthstar]

Being a new guy to LAF this is the first time I've seen this as well. Brilliant. Really impressed you stuck to the project.

All this stuff takes me back. I had Orcs Drift when it came out, never played it but passed it on at some time, so it was the game that never was for me. Looking forward to the battle reports.

Kept hold of McDeath, looked at it the other day when I dug out my White Dwarfs to sell on.

[phreedh]

The day we've been waiting on for a year and a half. Best of luck, and have fun today Steve!

[Thantsants]

Thanks for all the kind words folks!

Well - there it is. After 21 months of hard toil (and some fairly inactive weeks as well!) I have finally played all four games of Orc's Drift. 

Tha lads and lass who played enjoyed themselves muchly, even though it was a pretty intensive weekend of gaming - the three initial engagements being fought pretty much back to back on Saturday and final showdown at Orc's Drift taking place yesterday... 

I'm now in the process of trying to make head or tail of the scribbled notes I made and unfocussed battlefield photos I took for reference!

... so should have the write-ups done some time next year then! 

Only joking - re-photographing Kachas Pass tonight in "studio" conditions! 

[Mason]

WELL DONE!

All that time and effort that you have put in has finally paid off!

I, for one, have really enjoyed watching this come to fruition since I have joined the forum.
I kinow what it is like to take on a time consuming project, so when you finally see the effort pay off it is very rewarding.
I hope your next project will be something a little less monumental.
I think you deserve something nice and easy after all this work.

Well done again, and very much looking forward to seeing the photos!

[dijit]

More than looking forwards to seeing the report and pictures.
Well done for the hard slog to get a project to completion like you have.
Duncan

[Thantsants]

Cheers fellas - but its not over yet!

Hit a new snag in re-taking the pics under better conditions - my set-up isn't big enough to do it justice!

As my table usually sits nicely in the corner I've been able to get away with blu-taccing the backdrop to the wall. However, I need to add the other fold down leaf of the table to fit everything on, and now the table no longer fits in the corner, against te wall...

Solution - pull it out and build a stand-alone frame for the backdrop that will now stand on the table edge itself!  





Promise I'll get some pics taken tomorrow and the first battle posted by the weekend!

I hope your next project will be something a little less monumental.
I think you deserve something nice and easy after all this work.

Yeah I'm thinking that a bit of R and R wouldn't go amiss - so I think I'll just rap a few loose ends up - got the champion and another trooper to paint to finish off my 2nd ed. Golgfag's Ogres and nearly finsihed hoovering up all the minis for the Dungeon Adventurers starter pack so they might be nice as a bit of a break too.

Mind you, after that I have big plans for continuing the Magnificent Sven's adventures in Lustria...  

Not to mention a 1:3000 recreation of the battle of British and French battle lines at Trafalgar for my Dad's 60th in January! 

[Blackwolf]

Nice pics Thantsants,always like your set ups,brilliant

[Mason]

You call that R and R?
 

You are quite mad, you know?
 

[Argonor]

You call that R and R?

You both completely lost me here... What's R and R??

The Trafalgar project sounds intrigueing - I just purchased the Trafalgar rules from WH and need some inspiration as to which scale I should go for (I think I'll just try out the rules with my Pirates of the Spanish Main ships, first, but eventually, eventually...    ).