Fred’s 2022 Painting and Gaming Diary

Started by fred., 03 January 2022, 10:00:23 PM

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Steve J

Cracking game there! One of those sets of rules that I feel you need to play often to really get the nuances to allow you to get the most out of the game.

fred.

Thanks Steve. Yes SP does feel it needs some playing, and then re-reading of the rules to get on top of it.

Still not sure how much more it offers over the simpler Rebels and Patriots - but will continue with SP for now, as we have the hang of the core mechanics. It is the effective use of the command cards which feels harder for the French player, for the British player using them in pairs for Sharp Practice (free reload) is the obvious use.
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fsn

Just shows the range of the Napoleonic period. You have 30-40 figures and a great game; my latest had about 900 figures per side and as a game has a totally different feel.

   
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fred.

Very true - I might have scraped 80 figures on the table - but its still a tiny fraction of your game!

I've avoid Napoleonics as a period for several decades - not really sure why - as way back when I was still just playing with toy soldiers (rather than using rules to play with toy soldiers, a subtle but important distinction) I had Napoleonic Britains figures and a friend's dad had a big collection of Napoleonic Ospreys and figures (I have no idea if he gamed with them or just painted - they always seemed rather off limits to us kids). But once I started gaming, it was Fantasy and WWII that interested me. 


So its only recently that I've started buying and painting Naps (largely on the back of the Pendraken Peninsular range) and I'm enjoying painting small units of around 15 to 30 figures - not least as this lets me paint different units, and I'm not getting bogged down in 100s of line infantry that need painting. 

But I do like a big game - tends to be Fantasy ones with our group where we all have very large collections of figures. But WWII and Sci Fi can also let us get a lot of models on the table. 
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fred.


QuotePendraken order dispatch email  :D :D 8)
Order arrived today! Yeah!!


Forgot to take an unboxing photo - so some organising gone on already 



And a WIP photo

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Leon

Excellent, always good to see a package arrive safely!
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Blimey that's fast work Fred - looks like 6 painting sticks worth of stuff largely painted up on the day it arrives  ;)

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QuoteExcellent, always good to see a package arrive safely!
Indeed was a bit worried with the postal strikes - even survived the postie putting it through the letter box, as daughter was later to college today so hadn't unlocked the porch



QuoteBlimey that's fast work Fred - looks like 6 painting sticks worth of stuff largely painted up on the day it arrives  ;)


;D What's the phrase - 'here's one I prepared earlier'
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fred.

Got a good number of figures based this afternoon- it is a time consuming process - it's taken around 2 hrs to do these (around 125 figures)

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Ithoriel

Harfoots and Istari? :)

Or Old West and Peninsular War?

Very nice, whatever.
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fred.

QuoteHarfoots and Istari? :)

Or Old West and Peninsular War?

Very nice, whatever.
Much as the first idea appeals, the second is much closer (along with a few Zulus who were painted an age ago but not based)
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fred.

Peninsular Portuguese and Spanish

Got some photos taken this afternoon, first up Spanish Guerrillas  







Portuguese Cacadores 



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fsn

Dammit! I can see me wanting to get some Portuguese now.  >:(  I have a weakness for a well turned Cacadore.  :-[ 

Very nice figures.
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