Reply To: Hobby Weekender 17/08/18

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@mage that GW terrain set looks pretty cool – the board is really detailed and only slightly smaller than the mythical 6×4 foot gaming surface previously mandated for WHFB games – actually I’d suggest it ‘is’ effectively a 6×4 with a then slight reduction in size to allow for war scroll cards to sit on the edge of the table rather than on top of the pretty playing surface to avoid it getting cluttered… If it was me I’d probably go for the desert side and do a quick paint-up of the terrain by base coating in a cream/skeleton bone, picking out some details on the columns and windows and then just giving a quick wash and a highlight drybrush if required before finally stippling or light dry brushing something close to the dirt colour from the board on the very bottom edges of the buildings to try and tie it back in with the tabletop. End result should be similar enough to the stonework on the path so that it blends in a little, but still with enough contrast from the gaming surface to make it obvious that there is a ruin there.  From the sounds of things you have enough terrain as it is to make the game interesting – temple in the centre and depending on how you divide up the ruins and arcane ruins a good 4-6 other pieces (or more?) to scatter about the tabletop for interest.  I don’t know that I’d personally add too much more for an intro game, if the other players are new to the game you probably don’t want to go over complicating too heavily with regard to movement penalties etc. You should have enough to block line of sight a little to make sure that the shooting armies don’t just walk over everyone else, and given you will have 4 armies on the tabletop you want to leave some room to move around. BTW, great work on getting 4 armies up to tabletop standard on your own 🙂

Third war for Armageddon was indeed circa 2000 – I remember reading a battle report hat was done over 4 gaming tables (the biggest of which was a 12×6 foot table if I recall) with artillery from one table being dropped onto another etc. Have been keen to try something equally ambitious for years. My mate and I were going to give it a go with Robotech before that KS turned in to a bit of a train wreck… Anyhow… No doubt other gaming opportunities will present themselves 🙂

Heh, historicals were staggered over a few months – I get nasty buyers regret so not likely to drop that much on shiny toys in one hit. Picked up the Waterloo starter on sale,  then got the Sharp Practice rules and then sort of went into slow grow mode from there as stuff became available, To be honest when they are on sale I probably will try and pick up historicals from other periods and set them aside from now on (love the flexibility of Sharp Practice to work with so many periods). I can see myself wanting to mess around with French Indian War or ACW in the future. And I do have some highland clansmen on the way so can use those for a Jacobite Rebellion force. In the meantime though, plenty of other bits to get through on the workbench 🙂