Second World War in 15mm a Recap of previus games since 2007

  Second World War in 15mm which supplanted 6mm and 20mm in my geographic area as the most popular scale for this time period.  I have used  various rules including: Micro Armor the Game (MATG), Flames of War (FoW I, II or III), Battlefront (2017) or Battlegroup in 20mm (November 2018). I am planning to play in a 15mm Stalingrad campaign in early 2019.

Eastern Front game mid-war  Soviets  FoW 2007

The History of the Doctor Who Games I Have Run 2006 -2018.

This  is a list  with pictures of most of the 28mm Doctor Who Games I have run using Doctor Who the Miniatures Game (DWMG) by Graeme Dawson, the first edition of which was published in 2006 and the second edition came out in late 2008. But first some background.

The first Doctor game I ever ran was in December of 2006 and with a different set of rules.  This  was the result of my old high school friend Lee visiting from Ireland in July of 2007 and kindly bringing me a copy of a set of rules entitled "Doctor Who Skirmish Wargames" he picked up in a shop in Ireland. He had no idea of the seed he had just planted!  The rule book had no author, date or publisher listed, a bit of a mystery.

My first set of  Doctor Who rules

These rules weren't very good and only really covered the 1970s but they inspired me to try a Doctor Who based miniature game as Doctor Who was one of my favourite TV Science Fiction shows that I had first started watching on TV Ontario (Public Television) in the 1970s beginning with the Third Doctor - Jon Pertwee.

The 2019-20 Games To Play List and Highlights of past games 2004-2018

 A List of Games to be played from 2019 to 2029

New Years is a time for reflection of things past and future as well as a time for  lists.  So I started to write a list of many of the games I would like to run or play in 2019-20, it is very ambitious and I will be lucky to get through half of them!  I think it might better be described as a list of what I hope to play in the next decade (so I changed the title)!   Other than the first three they are not in any order of priority.  I have included pictures of work in progress or previous games for each listing.  The inclusion of the previous games have turned this list into a history of the games I have played since 2004, when I first bought a digital camera.  As a result it has become very lengthy with lots of pictures and it spawned a few separate blogs for some of the games.   I have added the approximate date in brackets when I last played the rule system or genre.  Those with no dates have yet to be played.

1.    Doctor Who Miniatures Games (DWMG) by Graeme Dawson in 28mm: a Christmas game planned for January 2019. Read on for pictures of  "Terror at Devil’s Bay" planned for May 2019 (Test game May 2018), plus pictures from some of my early DWMG game dating back to 2006 including the games I have run at Cangames.

Santa with AK47 by WSD  in 28mm, for a Holiday themed game in 2019

Merry 28mm Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone

I am working on figures and scenery for my 2018 Doctor Who Christmas game.

Santa's Workshop, Characters and Christmas Trees

The image above includes a Michael's metal Christmas farm house and some Dollarama Christmas trees.  The two trees on the left are lit with LED red lights in the base and on small rods, and are not very satisfactory.  On the right is a non-lit Christmas tree that I wrapped a string of LED micro dot lights around which creates a much better effect.  Unfortunately the picture does not do the lights justice.  More pictures below.

AAR Pulp Alley Halloween Game - Lord Carnarvan's Mansion

Halloween Game- Lord Carnarvan's Mansion

This was a Pulp Alley game played on November 4, 2018 inspired by the Tomb of the Serpent campaign booklet, Haunted Hall scenario.  It is set in 1930s England at the mansion of the  late Lord Carnarvan which is filed with Egyptian artifacts.  The scenario was based on the lost keys template - the leagues needed to find a minor plot point on the main floor of the mansion that was a key which would allow them access to the second floor to gain the major plot point:  the Eye of the Serpent Jewel. Various horrific creates (Servants of Apostis)  would appear during the scenario to foil the treasure seekers. The scenario was  designed for 3 to 4 people but we ended up playing with just 2 players.  The 2 leagues were a Werewolf League and an SS She Wolf League:

The setting: First floor of Mansion plus grounds

Bargain priced 28mm scale vintage tanks

Yesterday I bought this LS Laboratory kit of a Type 1 Japanese Medium Tank (aka Type 1 Chi-He tank) at a local Hobby shop for $1 on the discount table.  The kit was first released in 1964 and appears to have an oversized gun  that can fire a projectile.  At 1/50 scale it will work with 28mm figures, maybe for a pulp game or a skirmish level Second World War game. It will be a challenging build as the instructions are missing.

Japanese 1/50 Type 1 Chi-He Tank by LS Laboratory from 1964

Read further to see pictures of some other discount tank kits I found

New Purchase: Plast Craft Post Apocalyptic New Haven state prison

Just purchased the Plast Craft Games Post Apocalyptic New Haven state prison (28mm to 32mm). It requires assembly but comes per-painted.  I think it will work well for a number of potential genres: Pulp, Superhero, Walking Dead/ zombie and a Doctor Who. It would be ideal for a Doctor Who prison escape scenario involving villains like: Davros, the original Master, or Harold Saxon and Lucy Saxon.  Alternatively for a Super hero game the prisoner could be the: Joker, Penguin, King Pin, Electro or any number of other Comic villains.

Arab Irregulars on Camels

Preparation Cangames 2018, Terror at Devil's Bay

My Cangames prep is well underway, lots of MDF buildings to construct and paint.

Thanks to Mark for the inspiration and DWMG (Graeme Dawson)

http://level2-wardy-la.blogspot.ca/2015/06/doctor-who-terror-at-devils-bay.html


Overview, 29 April 2018

One  more large barracks to add plus: mast / flag pole, two wheeled probes, larger Quonset hut (if it makes it in time via the post), some more fencing, plus a lot of painting. 

Armoured Sea Devil

TerraClips: Buildings of Malifaux Mansion

Building a Mansion

A little late posting this review. Over the Christmas Holiday I put together this TerraClips: Buildings of Malifaux  Mansion for use in a Pulp Alley game from the Tomb of the Serpent Campaign.

With two levels

Coconuts for making African huts

Thanks to a tip from Menelduir @  http://menelduir.blogspot.ca/2018/03/latest-finds.html#more I found some of these plastic coconuts suitable for making Zulu huts at the local Dollar Tree store, they are intended as cocktail glasses / cups.

Ive Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts

How can we discuss coconuts without the Coconut song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldmVaO-IfIU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf670orHKcA

Of course as Monty Python has noted there are other uses for coconuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHFXG3r_0B8

Battlefront Game Eastern Front 1944

Introduction

This was a test game of the Fire and Furry Battlefront rules in 15mm scale on a 6'x 4' hill with fields, two forests, one hill and a village in the centre.  It was a encounter engagement set on the Eastern Front in the Spring of 1944, played over two days (March 30 and April 2, 2018).  The Germans had a two companies of Panzer Grenadiers on one company of Panzer IVH versus the Soviets with a rifle company, SMG company and a tank company.

overview