Reply To: Hobby Weekender 31/08/2018 Thank you very much.

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Some more responses –

I like some peoples’ more serious responses to “gaming opponent” – well, more serious than mine.  I like @mage ‘s idea of Steven King GM’ing an RPG and @evilstu wanting to wargame against HG Welles.

@biggabum – more great Batman narrative, and this is coming from someone who’s not even really a comics guy.  If I was, though, I prefer comic characters who are more grounded, no supernatural powers, like Batman or the Punisher.

@sundancer – I love the scratch built terrain.  did something similar for Battetech a while ago, it was a lot of fun (even if I did impale myself on a broken razor blade).  Gotta suffer for your art! 😀

@woldenspoons – thanks for hosting this week.  Epic work on the Deathguard!  Those minis look extremely intricate, are they terribly fragile?

Patton as your opponent?  He’d be easier to beat than you think.  A little overrated in my humble opinion, at least among American historians / collective memory.  The only real trick would be making sure you were playing on defense.  Patton is very good in attack but also quite predictable, easily goaded, and not terribly imaginative.  His one real shining moment as a true commander is right before the Battle of the Bulge.

If we could play with / against Patton in a wargame, I’d like to put him on sustained, operational defense … i..e, in Manstein’s boots on the Eastern Front, Feb 43-March 44.  It’s the kind of battle Patton never had to fight, I’d be genuinely interested to see how he’d do.  Aggression is a big part of it, he might honestly do awesome!

@evilstu – that’s an awesome table!  Regarding the roads, I find that some scatter terrain like carefully-laid aquarium pebbles laid along the side can help blend them with the table.  Little bits of scrap green moss, etc (left over from making trees, etc).  Also, fences.  The fence “excuses” the sharpness of the transition, and makes the sharp transition look natural and logical.