Another Scibor Bear

   Scibor has made another sort of bear riders. It's probably been out there for a while - I haven't been to their site in ages (shame on me). However, I found them today and knew I had to share the bear. They even have more than one version...

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   They are in the 28mm Celtic SF Warrior line. You can go see them here.

Closeup T-800s

   My buddy Zach finally finished up a few things, including his 15mm Terminators and some Soviet trucks (also 15mm). He thought I needed some more content for the blog (which, honestly, is probably true - I've been quiet) so he passed them along for me to post. Here they are:

Rebel Minis "The Scourge" 21 to a pack.

Sprayed Krylon black.

Dry brush Vallejo Game Color silver, red eyes.

Black ink wash.

Second drybrush of silver.

Bases are 5/8" fender washers. A bit of grit, painted black, then drybrush some black grey.

Makes a nice ash-waste/post-apoc base.

Soviet trucks, Battlefront

Krylon black undercoat, Vallejo Russian Green.

GW Agrax Earthshade wash.

Drybrush lightly in Russian Green again.

   Some nice looking models there. We are still tweaking the T-800s for Gruntz, but we are pretty close, I think.

Photos of Ligny in 15mm

   This game was played on Saturday, September 18th. However, thanks to certain technical difficulties, I am just now able to post these photos.

The town of Ligny.

French advance through Ligny

Prussian defense of the center

French cavalry on the bridge about to have a bad day.

A fierce defense of the wood, with charge and counter-charge.

Three times the Prussians cleared the woods of the French before being forced back.

French skirmishers keep up a galling fire (and screen)

Those dratted skirmishers!

I'm not entirely familiar with the rules, so on advice of the author,

I didn't advance my own formed infantry to scatter the skirmishers.

Probably should have brought up some cavalry to do it for me.

Prussian dragoons and hussars advance on the flank!

   The Clear Lake Area Wargamers' Society is playing out the Waterloo campaign in 15mm this fall, in honor of the 200th anniversary. It will consist of four battles. Success or failure at any previous battle may have consequences for future battles.

   Thankfully, I believe this one came out a draw, with a close to historical result. For the Allied side (mine), that means we don't lose anything later in the campaign. Sadly, it also means that we didn't harm the French too badly yet.

For rules, we used Honor and Courage. The rules have been 25 years in the writing, in large part by a member of our group, Tom Lytle.

Second Gruntz Game

The Defense of Garmin Farm on Tau Ceti IV

Initial T-800 Deployment

Terminator Objective: Kill all Humans!

Initial Deployment of FedArms Forces

Objective: Defend the Farm

First turn: Terminators advance. 

Taken under fire by Havelock suit and mortar, killing two.

Brave FedArms troopers advance and fire - to little effect.

 In return, T-800s cause three critical damages to the armoured car with only one hit.

Armoured Car pops smoke canisters to protect itself 

from the T-800s lurking by the bridge.

Sheep in foreground.

Armoured Car Brews Up under intense fire on the FedArms right; 

one squad of infantry also wiped out in a single turn on the flank by concentrated

fire from 40W phased plasma rifles.

   In the end, the Terminators were again defeated. It was much closer this time. I lost an entire sad of infantry in one blaze of plasma fire, and half of another, plus my armoured car blown to bits. My infantry rifles just can't do much to them at long range. Area of effect was far less powerful in this game, as the T-800s were spread more widely and we used the 2" diameter, not radius, like we should have done the first time (my bad). Also, the fusillade of fire that each T-800 now produces is really scary. You want to fight Termies? Use heavy weapons. It was luck that the rifles and SAWs took down any. May need to upgrade with some missile teams in place of SAWs.

The Fence

   I guess I never got around to posting photos of my fences that I made... so here I will remedy that omission! All I have handy is the gate section, but you can see what it looks like!

Torii-style gate. The gate section raises.

Gate up.