¡Viva la muerte! Playtest

 I have a decent collection of 28mm Spanish Civil War figures (and terrain) and have been wanting to get them to the table more. Unfortunately, I haven't found a set of rules that worked for the numbers of figures I have and also gave me the flavour of the Spanish Civil War I was looking for.  So I have decided to write my own.

¡Viva la muerte! are based around six 28mm representing a unit and use both event cards and the Fudge (or Fate as you prefer) dice (size sided dice with 2+, 2- and 2 blank sides). Each faction has differing victory conditions in order to create a semi-cooperative game.

So after having worked away at them for a few months I decided to give them a proper playlets at the club. 

The scenario saw a small town held by three factions of Republicans (with the Communists being the only well supplied) being assaulted by elements from a Nationalist column - again three factions (with the Army of Africa bing the only well supplied).

Here are a few photos from the game:

The general consensus was that the rules worked (phew!) but needed some tweaking in a few areas - combat factors, armour (the least mature element anyway) and some of the initial supply conditions. So I have a few amendments to make and then have another game later in the year.

Wargame Weekend

 I visited my friend Lenin (no, not that one - he's dead! It's his online moniker). We played a couple of figure games and some board games, the latter including War Story: Occupied France and SAS: Rogue Regiment which were all lots of fun. Here are a few photos.

Midgard: Heroic Battles

Some fantasy action using the latest rules from Reisswitz Press:

Mortal Gods: Skirmish Games in Ancient Greece

Some Greek heroics using the Mortal Gods rules:

Ambush Valley

 Here are some photos from a 28mm Vietnam game we played at the club last month. The game saw us moving up the river to try to rescue some hostages from the far end.

The rules were Ambush Alley and the figures and terrain are from someone else's lovely collection

Judge Dredd

 This is a long overdue post about the Christmas game we played at the club. It was a Judge Dredd miniatures game with appropriate Christmas touches (including exploding parcels and fairy lights inside the buildings). Here are some photos: