Zac v Jason & the Argonauts

 

After my busy terrain building day with Lee, last Saturday, on the Sunday, my nephew Zac came over for his first ever Wargame.

Zac loves anything to do with Greek Mythology, so for Christmas last year I bought and painted up some Jason and the Argonauts figures from Foundry, see here.

We only have 11 figures at the moment, 6 Argonauts and 5 Skeletons (Children of the Hydra), so I made up a very, very simple set of rules, to try and get Zac into gaming.

It worked!!

He absolutely loved playing the game.

We played 10 short games and the little tyke beat me in 8 of the games!!!

His dice rolling was absolutely ridiculous, he is certainly a son of Zeus and been been touched by the dice gods!!

I might ask him to pick this weeks lottery numbers for me???

After a couple of games Zac, was realising about tactics, not going for the full frontal assault but going around the flanks, which quite amazed me to be honest.

He seemed to really be getting he rules so, I kept adding more details to the rules, to flesh them out.

He said " You're only changing the rules, because I keep beating you!!"

Little sod!

It was 6's to kill on a D6, but Jason had a D10, to make him more heroic. Zac's Jason went on a rampage for the first few games, mauling my Skeleton's time after time.

Zac felt sorry for me keep losing so, HE, let me play the Argonauts, so I went on a rampage with Jason and Zac killed him in the first melee!

Sigh.......

Zac laughed his head off

The Dice Monster

At the end, of the day, I asked him if he'd enjoyed the games and does he want to come again.

His answer was simple....

"Yes, tomorrow!"

I think there'll be many more fights for Jason and the Dice Monster to come, which is brilliant.

Now I better paint up the rest of the figures, before he beats me up again.

Terrain Day 2

 

What the hell is in that tub? I hear you ask?

Lee came round on Saturday for another terrain building day, for our now, two Winter periods.

We started on our tracks, you can't really call them roads. I bought 2 plastic mats a while ago from one of the pound shops, cut them into stripes, then added the brown goo all over them. Which is actually flexible builders caulk, with a good squeeze of brown paint in it. We did these first as they're gonna take a while to dry.

We'll paint over them an earth brown colour when dry and add snow and grass.

Lee was the No1 muck spreader....

While I had the hard job, cutting out the second mat.

Next was the trees, these were our favourites, from The Tree Guy

I also bought various Christmas type trees from pound shops and Hobby Craft

Some of the trees had a round block base, which I cut off, we had to drill into the MDF bases, then hot glued them in place.

Just look at the concentration on his face.

A spray can of white paint really give the trees a frosty snowy look.

Before...

And after

Then we ruined my luvvly paintjob i did on the buildings by dusting them with white spray and with some snow.

Lee said I was eating too many Wine Gums, so took a photo as evidence.

Exhibit A

We did the same white spray on the burnt our buildings and again added more snow.

Nice n Icey

Our last job was ice.

How best to make ice on our river sections??

Plexi Glass was the answer,

1. Buy an expensive sheet (hence my face)

2. Smash it up (hence my face)

3. Try to avoid flying Plexi Glass

4. Give it a rub one side on some sandpaper or a sanding block

5. We now have ice

Hopefully enough to fill in all of our rivers?

And that was the end of the day, as we were both very tired chaps!

AHPC16 - Retreat from Moscow - 72e Régiment d’Infanterie de Ligne

 

I'm quite enjoying trying to paint up 4 projects at once.....he says!!

Its back to last years first love, my and Lee's Retreat from Moscow project with this post, my 5th of Challenge 16.

The 72nd French line was part of Mashal Ney's Third Army Corps, They were in the 10th Division under Ledru, they joined their fellow Frenchmen of the 129th Line in Bruney's Brigade

Prior to the Retreat, the 72nd fought at the Battle of Borodino on the 7th September 1812, where it suffered severe losses but survived as an organized unit.

The regiment was involved in rearguard and defensive actions, helping to shield the retreating columns from Russian regular forces, Cossacks, and partisans as the army struggled toward Smolensk and beyond.

Their recorded battle honours show that they were present during the critical engagements of the retreat, notably Krasnoe in mid-November and the crossing of the Berezina River at the end of November 1812. (Hence the pics on a bridge.) At Krasnoe, French infantry units were repeatedly attacked by Russian forces under Kutuzov, suffering heavy losses and disorganization. At the Berezina, the shattered remnants of the Grande Armée fought desperately to cross the river under intense pressure.

The figures are from Perry Miniatures and I chose a drab earth brown coat this time, quite different from the last regts grey-blue coats.

Points wise, there are 8 figures@5 points each giving me a total of 40pts!