Some other (weird?) ideas

[darquebus]

Continuing from the VSF water table ...I thought I show some other stuff I did with the water.

How about a Whale Hunt?
Was great fun to play. We used pins and stuck them in the styrofoam whale I modeled.

[Vanvlak]

Poor whale, though.   Where's Moby Dick when you need him?

Says a lot about my strange ideas that the death of a styrofoam whale saddens me more than that of a lead or plastic human.

Nice idea, though - and very nice whalers too.

[xeoran]

That is just excellent. Great idea.

[PeteMurray]

Nice work. Great sculpting on the whale.

I like to see people run the odd non-skirmish game.

[Hammers]

The whale boats are from Eureka, correct?

[SirAlban]

great idea, and great work!

[darquebus]

Yepp the boats are from eureka (it's just around the corner)
The big sailing ship is a Mega Blocks Pirates of the Caribbean I converted
when the movie craze was over they were sold cheap at a local toy store

[Jase]

Says a lot about my strange ideas that the death of a styrofoam whale saddens me more than that of a lead or plastic human.

That's probably because the whale has such a friendly face, you'll just have to feel sorry for it ;P

Seriously, very nice idea and models!!

[Golgotha]

Love it... However is hunting still wargaming? 

Would like to see a set of rules and scenarios for hunting games such as this - could include all periods as well as sci-fi and fantasy. Which brings me to the next question what game mechanics did you use?

[Red Orc]

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Says a lot about my strange ideas that the death of a styrofoam whale saddens me more than that of a lead or plastic human...

Ahh. where's Douglas Adams when you need him?


Very nicely done Darquebus!

[FramFramson]

Nice paintjob on the ship too!

[earthdog]

However is hunting still wargaming? 

Depends on what you're hunting and how fast you can run if the prey turns around I guess...

[fastolfrus]

There are quite a few hunting rhemed games around.
"Tusk" - mammoth hunting cavemen is probably the only commercial set I can recall.

I seem to recall Wargames Illustrated had simple rules for British Light Cavalry fox-hunting in the Penninsular War, also tiger hunting in India, and I think they had whaling too.

[Red Orc]

About a year ago I was working on a dino-herding game (not really hunting, but close) to play with my then-seven-year-old. The idea was the Morlocks (LotR Uruk-hai with pikes) would try to corral the escaping dinosaurs (plastic dinosaurs...).

I think it was a 'wargame'. Given a fairly wide definition of war anyway (are 'quest' or 'treasure-hunting' games strictly 'wargames'?)