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January 02, 2007

Holiday Update

Sorry about the lack of update throughout the holiday, here's a quick one...

Miniature game wise there hasn't been much. Freddy and I broke out my 25mm Sudan figures for a quick testdrive of Dave Waxtell's Sudan quick play rule (to be featured in one of the UK glossy mags). It's fast, and it plays like colonial. All in all I would term a "conventional set of rules that gives you pretty realistic results without a lot of fiddly bits".
I also sat in one of Chris' Lord of the Ring game where I control bands of Goblins trying to stop the Fellowship from reaching Rivendale. Since I am not an expert at these rules I let others do the general-ing, and I'll just stick to rolling to kill (and rolled badly).

BattleLore has been getting a lot of play lately (it's not strictly miniature gaming but a good argument can be made). It's the latest in the Richard Borg C&C lineage of games. The Lore (magic) system is especially elegant, and can be rationalized as "tactical advantage on a battlefield" if one doesn't ask too many questions. Basically the Lore system consists of a player building up Lore Points (or tactical advantage, or Mana). One can gain Lore Points either through a regular schedule (one gets 1 or 2 every turn), or through the vagaries of fate (rolling certain symbols on a die during a battle, this part it a bit more dodgy in my mind). One can then use these build up lore points to cast spells (ahem, strategems), where each spell has a cost in lore points (the more expensive the spell in terms of lore points, the more powerful it is). A simple and elegant system to add some unpredictability to your IGO-UGO predictable game.

My latest rules project (there's always one on the burner) is to adapt the BattleLore system to the colonial period. Stay tuned for more info.

On the miniature painting front I finally finished my 1500 pts. US Armor company for Flames of War. The bad news is that all of my FoW opponents are out for the holidays so it's likely that I won't see any action until later this Jan. I'll try to upload some photos here soon. I am currently working on my first unit of Perry Sudan figures (trying to look like these here). I haven't painted any Perry figures in a long while, and I have to say that they have improved a lot (if that can be imagined) since the last time my brush touched one of their figures (I think was their Chasseur D'Afrique from the Franco-Prussian war from Foundry). They probably have the best "balance" of any figures out there, and by balance I mean between the "ultra-realistic but hard to paint" style (such as Tom Meier's current THunderbolt Mountain stuff), and the "easy to paint but highly stylized/caricatured" style (Copplestone being the best of that lot). They aren't cheap, but given that I do not have THAT MANY Dervishes and almost no Brits dressed for the Sudan, (besides a unit of Castaway Art Camel Corps unit) I'll be slowly building up this range.

So in the near future: finishing my BattleLore Colonial rules variant, getting ready to play some FoW using my American Armor unit (their first performance will probably mirror the real American experience at Tunisia), and getting ready for out first play of Field of Battle using Freddies' 25mm ACW figures...

Posted by msoong at January 2, 2007 04:18 PM

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