I have run a fair number of Fantastic Battles Games, but it has been about 9 months since the last one and this was the first one I have run at the Ottawa Centre Point Public Library. The game ran fairly smoothly, other than a minor hiccups, involving refreshing my memory on some rules.
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This years Cangames game (May 19, 2024) will be another Doctor Who game, based on the TV episode the Shakespeare Code. The game will be set in London England in 1599 with the Tenth Doctor, Martha and a variety of Elizabethan
characters attempting to foil or expedite the
scheme of six witch-like Carrionites to rewrite the ending Shakespeare’s play
Love's Labour's Won rewording it to cast a spell to free the rest of the Carrionite
race from imprisonment bring destruction to the world. The scenario is based on a two player scenario created for the Doctor Who the Miniature Games Rules (DWMG).
Unlike previous years when I used the DWMG rules, this time I plan to use Pulp Alley rules as I think these rules are better suited to represent this multi-player scenario. Those of you who have read some of my earlier blogs will know I have used these rules for other genres in the past. A short introductory video on the rules by the author Dave, can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBraL7mwXgM
Those of you who just watched the video will have heard Dave say that the rules are designed for up to four players and I will likely have 5 to 7 players, so some adjustments will have to be made. This includes drawing coloured tiles to determine who moves to speed up the game. Additionally I have kept the leagues small, 3 figures per player.
This will be an "evergreen" post as it will get updated as I progress preparing.
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| Promo picture from TV episode the Shakespeare Code. |
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| Some of the potential figures I may use in the game from my existing collection as of March 1, 2024. |
On March 17, 2024 (St. Patrick's Day) at the Ottawa Miniatures Game Club Nick and I had our first Fantastic Battles mass fantasy battle game, with 1,000 points per side with his UNDEAD versus my WOOD ELVES in 28mm scale.
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Pictures and maps of my preparations for a Battle of the Bulge game, specifically the Battle of Foy-Notre-Damme-Celles involving British, American and German forces on December 25, 1944. I started working on this in January- February 2024 but other projects like Cangames 2024 took priority in March and the game did not happen in 2024, but maybe it will in the winter of 2025.
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Making slow but steady progress getting my 28mm sailors in white tropical / Pacific uniforms painted, including two
versions of Vera Lynn, all for Menelduir's the Pulp Alley China Station campaign.
Along with them some RN sailors in blue (Atlantic) uniforms and a Humber
Scout Car, all for Bolt Action.
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| Figures by Warlord, Pulp Figures and Bad Squido |
