Last of the Vikings

Finally finished my Vikings today. Here is the last 16 of them. These are all Crusader miniatures.

So what am I going to start off 2012 with? Hmm, I've agreed to paint up a 15mm DBA army to be sold at MayDay so I'll probably get on to that next.

Boxing Day

The arrival of Boxing Day heralds the punishing of my bank account. This year was no exception. Between the sale at my local Wizards and at Mission Games, my wallet is a fair bit lighter.

So I picked up Tannhauser, the Dunwich Horror expansion for Arkham Horror, Elder Signs, Dominant Species and a couple books for the Deathwatch RPG. I also picked up 3 game expansions (not shown) for a friend of mine.

I'm still trying to get my remaining 16 Vikings done before the end of the year. I should be able to get them done.

More Vikings

I finished a handful of Vikings a few days ago and just got around to posting it today. These minis are all Crusader. First batch is a command unit.

Next up is a unit of Berserkers.

I've got 16 more Vikings to finish and they're already under way. I want to try and get these done before the end of the year, but I'm doubting I'm going to have time, we'll see.

I also finished up 11 base of trees for my 15mm sci-fi gaming. Unfortunately I don't have pics of them. I took a lot from Kevin's tutorial:

http://mageknightkevin.blogspot.com/2011/06/tutorial-making-forest.html so thanks to Kevin for that.

Agricola

Went over to a friend's place last night and got in a few games. We played one game of Castle Ravenloft (geez is that game not easy to win) and we also finally got in a couple games of Agricola.

The object of this game is basically to make the best farm in the time alotted. The options of what to do and build are huge and the game has endless replayability. The downside to it, is the rules are not written very good at all. Initially we had a tough time figuring out how to even start. Once you get going it's a breeze, it's just the initial start is a problem. Once we got the hang of it, we knocked off our second game in an hour. I'm expecting this game to get played a lot.

Vikings

Been a bit of a slow month or so, but I finally got some Vikings done for SAGA. Here is a unit of archers. These figs are Crusader.

Next up is a unit of armoured warriors and the general. These figs are all Crusader with the exception of the general who is from Gripping Beast and is the fig they gave you when you bought the rules.

On my table is a couple small groups of Vikings. It was my original intention to get my Vikings all done in December but it's not looking too good so far. We'll see.

Also last night I had a couple friends over for a some boardgaming action. First up was Civilization with the new Fame and Fortune expansion. We have yet to play with more than 3 players so I'm looking forward to that.

We also played a game of Ad Astra. I picked this up in Fantasy Flight's Black Friday sale. It's a simple resource gathering game and is pretty simple. I look forward to playing it again.

FAD 4 - Battle 1

Bit of a slow month for painting, as RL has been keeping me quite busy. Last night I finally got in my first game of FAD 4. The battle pitted my US forces against my Chinese forces. Here's the initial setup.

Chinese forces (me) are on the left and the US (Chris) is dug in on the right. My mission was to occupy the green token that's sitting right behind a crater on the right. Chris' mission was simply to prevent me from accomplishing mine. You can see the problem with my setup immediately. Let's just say I need more terrain! Chris' first action was to call in off board artillery and drop a round right into the middle of my middle squad. And it pretty much went downhill from there. Cover is hugely important.

I'm going to have to do some tweaking on the Chinese vehicles and infantry squads as they have a rather noticeable problem when dealing with infantry. This game was a 750 pt game and took us about 4 hours to play, although this was the first time we had played. The Chinese had 30 infantry and 2 vehicles and the US had 30 infantry and 3 vehicles.

On my table right now are my trees that I need to build and for painting I have 2 units of Vikings.

Vikings

Been a while since I posted, I've been playing Civilization on Facebook and it's pretty much like crack. Regardless tonight I finished the first batch of minis for my SAGA Viking army. These are Crusader miniatures and I have to say I love Crusader. Their minis are really clean, simple and to the point. Great sculpts. Transfers are from Little Big Men Studios.

Up next is a couple more batches of Vikings and also a bunch of terrain for my 15mm sci-fi. I'm aiming to have my Viking SAGA force done by the end of the year, I think it's a doable goal.