Totengräber's Workpläce

Joel is potentially going to a tournament this weeknd, so I offered to play him in a game of Flames of War to help him practice. I’m no great opponent, but I thought it would help. We played with the same armies as last ime, but we played the Breakthrough mission. I ended up being the attacker and he the defender. He chose his deployment quarters and I chose to deploy on my side of the table in the right-hand quarter. Because of the mission rules, Joel was in Prepared Positions which allowed me, being British, to use the Nightfighting rules.

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Over the weekend I was able to get a lot of things done:

Primered all my assembled War of the Ring minis. (24 High Elf Warriors, 24 High Elf Archers, 24 High Elf Spearmen, 24 Wood Elves, Glorfindel, Ent and a number of characters)

Made bases for my Flames of War Churchill Crocodiles since when I pinned the trailers on, the joint seemed finda flimsy.

Painted two Flames of War British M10C SP (17 pdr) tanks. Man, FoW stuff paints up super-quick!

Painted my two HQ stands for my Flames of War British army. They only need dullcoated now.

Applied a basecoat of Trollblood Highlight on my Ent. My sexy/awesome and honest critic wife commented that she wasn’t sure about the base color, but I think some washes will make it look more like a tree.

Worked some more on Nuke and Hellsmith. The toxic glow effect still needs work according to the amazing critic-wife, “It looks like a bunch of green worms on top of yellow goop”.

All in all, a lot of progress made.

Since the Star Wars RPG didn’t happen, Joel and I played a game of Flames of War instead. He had recently finished painting a large chunk of my army, so I was eager to get them on the table and play.  He’d also built me a custom objective marker using the extra pieces from my Tom Stanley box and some extra models he had lying around. The army looks really good on the table. The only problem I had with my models was identifying which stands went with which platoon. I fixed that just this morning by putting a stripe of color on the back of the base. I used some primary and somewhat bright colors so that they are easily idenifiable from just about anywhere on the table.

Here’s my army list:

• HQ
• Rifle Platoon (3 sections, PIAT, light mortar)
• Rifle Platoon (3 sections, PIAT, light mortar)
• Machine Gun Platoon (2 sections in MMG Carriers)
• Mortar Platoon (2 sections, 2 Observer teams)
• Universal Carrier Patrol (3 UCs)
• Wasp Carrier Patrol (3 Wasps)
• M10 17pdr SP (1 section)
• Churchill Crocodiles (3 tanks with trailers)
• Anti-Tank Guns (2 sections of 6pdrs)

I am honestly not sure what Joel’s army list consists of.

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On the heels of not being able to play D&D this week, Thursday’s gaming got messed up as well. I got a call from work at about 5:30pm last night, which ended up making me late for a Pulp City game I’d scheduled with Brian. I finally got done with my work, packed up my stuff and trudged out through the pouring rain to my car. I got about halfway there when I realized I’d left my Pulp City cards at home. The traffic was terrible, so I decided I wasn’t going to go back for them. I did end up at the store, so I just hung out and talked with Joel and Brian and then watched some Flames of War games.

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