Wednesday 26 September 2012

New War band for SoBH - Green Dragon Clan


With the new version of Song of Blades and Heroes available and a bargain find on e-bay I thought I would create a new war band based on feudal Japan. These guys who only cost £1.00 will form my Green Dragon Clan.


They are 10mm Pendraken figures and the detail is very good. I really like the seated Warlord; I am looking forward to basing and painting these guys. I also have somewhere a small dragon which may or may not form part of this war band. It depends if I can squeeze it in to 500 points.

I am going to base the infantry figures on M6 washers backed with magnetic sheet and the mounted figure on a once pence piece.
The colour scheme will be green, obviously.

The war band lists:
300pts
Green Dragon Samurai Leader
3+
3
Leader
60
1
60
Ashigaru Teppo
4+
3
Shooter (M)
29
3
87
Ashigaru- spear
4+
3
Shield wall
24
2
48
Ashigura - Archer
4+
3
Shooter (L)
33
3
99
294 pts
500 pts
Green Dragon Shogun
3+
4
Leader, Dashing, Fearless, Heavy Armour
88
1
88
Ashigaru Teppo
4+
3
Shooter (M)
29
3
87
Ashigaru- spear
4+
3
Shield wall
24
2
48
Ashigura - Archer
4+
3
Shooter (L)
33
3
99
Samurai
3+
4
Mounted, Heavy Armour
62
1
62
Green Dragon
3+
4
Top oFlying, Huge, Savage, Shooter: Short, Tailslap, ToughBottom of Form
116
1
116
500

 

Saturday 22 September 2012

Small size skirmish packs

I was thinking the other day, why don't more manufactures make small size skirmish packs?
There are a lot of out there that don't have the  time, space or spare pocket change for huge armies and get our kicks for skirmish gaming.
I like the smaller scales but it is extremely difficult to find a good mix of troops in over a few packs without having loads of 'spare' lead afterwards.
Does anyone know of manufacturers who will do custom packs in 6mm, 10mm or 15mm?

Friday 14 September 2012

Home coming welcome – My first Hellfire scenario


I have put this scenario together mainly to get use to the rules and add a loose frame work for a campaign at a future date. It pits the Independent Colonies against a mega Corporation, who are part of the Galactic Core Union. As things develop I can add other factions and even different aliens. Think of it like 2000AD type of future setting.

It will also give me some focus on buying and getting things ready for the table top, instead of my usual magpie approach to gaming ;-)


Introduction

The small terra like planet of Regina VI has come to the attention of ‘Widdows Interstellar Mining Corp’ due to an orbital scan that identified large mineral rich deposits in the Northern hemisphere, in the region that is known locally as the ‘Ariel Plateau’.

Normally WIM Corp would file for mining rights, bribe a few officials and then begin to extract whatever they have found, refine the raw product and then make a huge margin selling it on, however, Regina VI isn’t in the Galactic Core Union it is part of the Independent Colonies. Tensions between these two rival factions have increased over the past few decades, with open hostilities only being shown on the boarders between the two. Striking at Regina VI, might provoke the IC into a full blown conflict situation which the GCU can ill afford at the moment, however WIM Corp want these resources.





Objectives

 Widdows Interstellar Mining Corporation has hired a small mercenary taskforce to accompany their “survey team” while they extract some mineral samples from an IC mining outpost.
The mercenaries need to protect the survey team for 4 turns while they take samples and then proceed to the extraction point, due South of Outpost Griffon.

The IC forces will protect themselves and also try and raise the alarm to call for reinforcements which will arrive on turn 5 from Crosby Junction.

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Mining station ‘Griffon’

Mining station Griffon is located to the North West on the Ariel Plateau and is regularly supplied from the nearest local frontier outpost 12 km away at Crosby Junction.

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