Die Deutsche Emin Pasha Expedition

[scotty]

excellent looking game, I particularily like your Masai.

Alos what rules are you using as I am just starting out gaming in Africa

scotty

[Plynkes]

The rules we used were "Triumph and Tragedy" by forum members Björn and Christian, with a sprinkling of home-brew additional rules tailored to the scenario.

Those of our gang who hadn't played them before gave them an enthusiastic thumbs up. I was GMing, and to start with it was sort of slow and cumbersome. But they very quickly picked it up and were soon quickly running the game themselves, leaving me to arbitrate rules questions from my umpire's chair, and sit on the sidelines making sarcastic comments.

[Admiral Benbow]

As always: nicely painted miniatures (speedpainted   ), inspiring game pics and a good dose of humour to my liking!

  

[Hammers]

Lovely. Lovelylovelylovely. Just lovely.

[Malamute]

Beautiful stuff. Most excellent speed painting too

[Paul E]

Jaw droppingly superb figures.

Can you tell me who makes the cows?

[Plynkes]

Let's not get carried away here with the term speed-painting. All things are relative. They were painted in rush by my normally quite slow standards. I imagine it would be regular speed for most people.


The cows are Foundry African cattle. I bought them as part of the Masai collection, which contained all the warriors (the moran that is, didn't include the archers), the civilians, and in those days you got the Masai Prince and the chap blowing his horn as part of the deal too. Not sure if you still do, as there is no longer any mention of those two figures on their website.

[Argonor]

Was in a hurry to get these done for this week's game, so I cut some corners compared to my usual efforts, in an attempt at speed-painting.
But to be honest they don't look that different to my usual painstaking efforts.
So maybe I shouldn't bother to do that any more, and always paint like this. That's a little disconcerting really. Not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

A good thing, of course. If I could speed-paint to this standard, I'd be considering playing battle-games, and not only skirmish-games 

[argsilverson]

Another good inspiration.

I need to paint up my Masai Army, which stands atop my Lead mountain!

[Rabbitz]

Looks awesome.   Any advice on where to get the rules from and an indication of how they play would be great.   

[dodge]

That looked like a great game.

Your finish and blending on those figures is nice and smooth. I will try to emulate myself. Its always a bit hit and miss with me.

Good stuff.

Dodge

[argsilverson]

Looks awesome.   Any advice on where to get the rules from and an indication of how they play would be great.  

Try: www.miniaturicum.de.

I bought mine from him. Nice and friendly service

[thejammedgatling]

I'd hate to see misbehaving dullcoat droppings at 1:1 scale.

You show a real attention to detail and I loved the narrative. Do you have plans for more East Africa battles...will this build into a campaign? Can't wait to see more.

[Plynkes]

Ah, the elephant poo isn't a case of misbehaving Dullcote for once. I deliberately made them like that by painting them with Superglue, for that "Just out of the elephant" shine.


As far as campaigns go, I was thinking about that today, actually. Explorers and Masai are taken care of (though a few more Masai wouldn't hurt), and with another couple of surges like the one I did this week, my Ruga-Ruga and Ngoni skirmish forces would be brought up to a playable level too, and then we could do a four-way campaign.

But then of course, my Great War stuff would have to be put on hold for a bit. Decisions, decisions...

[Plynkes]

Your finish and blending on those figures is nice and smooth.

Dodge

There's no blending on any of the African figures, mate. Blending is something I struggle with, and only tend to use occasionally on European flesh, when my normal Dallimore-esque efforts fail me (just doesn't seem to work on pale skin). It's merely successive layers of highlights that are not blended at all. Even when I'm not trying to paint quickly I don't usually blend much. Those Masai were done with highlights straight onto a black undercoat. Normally I undercoat white, then mix up an African flesh tone, and highlight. The quick method takes much less time, and they end up looking exactly the same. Grrr, what an idiot I am! 

Looks awesome.   Any advice on where to get the rules from and an indication of how they play would be great.   

Rabbitz, I think they are available from Pardulon, too. My copy was a freebie one that Björn sent me, nice fellow that he is. There is a whole section here at LAF about T&T, and it also has its own site:

http://www.triumph-tragedy.de/index.html
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?board=25.0

Might give you some idea what its like.